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@AnitaAnandMP War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

Dear America, It’s an illegal war. You didn’t consult with allies before you Pearl Harbored Iran and now you want help to clear up your mess. NATO is a defensive alliance, not an agreement to provide cannon-fodder for your forever wars. Go fuck yourselves.

@Life_King23 @IraninBerlin There are no legitimate targets in illegal wars (which this is). Or have you forgotten that this shit started when the US and Israel did a Pearl Harbor on Iran?

@IraninBerlin It was a research Center for the IRGC Legitimate target

Apparently bunker-buster bombs were needed to strike Sharif University (Iran’s MIT). Because the real target was the foundation of knowledge. Where is the global outcry from the scientific community? #SHARIFUNIVERSITY #iran

@aenonea @IraninBerlin Sanctioned by whom? The mass murder regimes in Washington and Tel Aviv?

@IraninBerlin Oh, so much "knowledge" attacked . The targets were SANCTIONED military research facilities of the Mass Murder Regime. Legitimate targets. Learn the Rules of War.

Where are the howls of outrage and protest from Harvard and MIT, Oxford and Cambridge? They passed over Israel’s total destruction of Gaza’s universities in silence. Disgusting. This is the triumph of western barbarism.

Make no mistake: destroying world-class universities, like the US just did with Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, isn't just an attack on Iran but it's literally an attack on all of us, on all of humanity. It's not Iran that "won" when Maryam Mirzakhani made her discoveries that won her a Fields Medal: it's all of mathematics, and everything mathematics is used for. Human progress won, technology won, we all won. It's the same type of stuff the Mongols did during the sack of Baghdad and their destruction of the House of Wisdom: we ALL lost something irreplaceable back then, entire fields of human knowledge set back. That's what bombing a university does. It doesn't just destroy buildings. It destroys us, all of us.

Imagine a terrorist group put out a list of universities, bombed MIT first day, Harvard second and so on and so forth down the list. What would you think? The depths of barbarism? That’s what Israel and the US are doing in Iran

They actually miss Genocide Joe. Genocide Joe. No words.

China ain't never threatened to annex Canada...but your country did. I'd rather be friends with China than friends with y'all.

🚨The deliberate targeting of a #university in the heart of a densely populated residential area in #Tehran with a bunker-buster bomb is not just a #WarCrime —it is a demonic act of savagery. 🔸️This is madness weaponized, born from a deep-seated hatred for humanity, knowledge, and every value that defines civilization. 🔸️This is precisely what defines the followers of #Epstein—a cult of depraveds who despise humanity. ⚠️Note: On the evening of April 5, the American-Israeli evil coalition deliberately bombed #Sharif University of Technology, one of Iran’s greatest universities, and systematically destroyed parts of it. #StandWithIran #HandsOffIran

So, if I got that right, here's the narrative: - A US F-15E fighter jet got shot down over Iran, despite Trump saying 2 days beforehand in his nationwide address that Iran has "no anti-aircraft equipment. Their radar is 100% annihilated." (apnews.com/article/donald…) - The plane's weapons systems officer - a "highly respected Colonel," according to Trump - ejected from the plane and got "seriously wounded" (still according to Trump: @realDonaldTrump/116351956955900185" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTru…) - He still managed to "hike up a 7,000-foot [2.1km] mountain ridgeline and hide in a crevice" in the Zagros Mountains, despite his wounds (time.com/article/2026/0…) - U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drones started killing all "Iranian military-aged males believed to be a threat who got within three kilometers of [the American's location]" (x.com/ByChrisGordon/…) - To retrieve him the U.S. managed to seize an "abandoned airport," 200 miles deep inside Iran, near Isfahan (bbc.com/news/articles/…), which happens to be where Iran's largest atomic scientific center is located (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isfahan_N…) - They landed two MC-130 military transport planes in that airport (theaviationist.com/2026/04/05/u-s…) in an operation involving "hundreds of special forces troops and military personnel" (time.com/article/2026/0…) - Both MC-130 planes got "stuck in the sand" and the U.S. destroyed them themselves "to prevent them from falling into Iranian hands" (theaviationist.com/2026/04/05/u-s…) - They deployed "three new aircraft to extract all the U.S. personnel" on the ground (theaviationist.com/2026/04/05/u-s…) - There are videos circulating online of "heavy clashes" with presumably Iranian missiles raining down in Kohgiluyeh County, in the Zagros Mountains during that night (x.com/Afshin_Ismaeli…) - Iran sent pictures of the aftermath at the "abandoned airport" and it's a sight of utter destruction, with US plane and MH-6 helicopter parts scattered all over the ground, still smoking (turkiyetoday.com/region/wreckag…). Iran claims they are the ones who in fact destroyed all the aircraft. - Meanwhile a second U.S. plane, an A-10 Warthog, also crashed on Friday near the Strait of Hormuz according to two U.S. officials speaking to the NYT (#47863db0-d61e-51bf-b7e1-6c4a9dc988e7" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">nytimes.com/live/2026/04/0…). In that instance too the lone pilot was apparently "safely rescued." - In all this, after the multiple planes and helicopters destroyed or shot down, the documented heavy clashes, the "hundreds of special forces troops and military personnel" operating deep inside Iran, not a single US soldier was reported killed "or even wounded" (according to Trump: @realDonaldTrump/116350133044957842" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTru…). - And the 'highly respected Colonel' this was all for? No name. No photo. No interview. Nobody has spoken to him nor knows who he is. So to sum up: anti-aircraft equipment that supposedly didn't exist shot down an F-15 (and, apparently, an A-10 Warthog the same day). A seriously wounded man climbed a 2.1km mountain. The US seized an airfield 200 miles inside a country it's at war with, next to one of its most strategic nuclear sites, and deployed hundreds of troops all apparently unimpeded. Lost two planes to "sand" and destroyed their own helicopters. Videos show heavy clashes, missiles raining down - but not a single person got "even wounded". And the man at the center of it all? Nobody knows who he is, completely anonymous, zero pictures, but Trump says he is "SAFE and SOUND." And so is the rescued A-10 Warthog pilot, who also remains anonymous. Trump concludes this all proves the US has "achieved overwhelming Air Dominance and Superiority over the Iranian skies" (@realDonaldTrump/116350133044957842" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTru…), despite the whole episode only happening because Iran shot his planes out of the sky. Basically, the only thing that's "overwhelming" here is the audacity of the storytelling...

@mmpadellan Bullshit. Biden was deeply complicit in war crimes up to and including genocide by his “ironclad” support for Israel’s war on Gaza, even where that support broke both international and US law. This paved the way for Trump. Stop rewriting history.

It bears mentioning that nobody ever lost sleep wondering if President Biden was going to commit war crimes or drop nukes on another country. They called him Sleepy Joe because we could sleep peacefully.

Disgraceful. Millions of Europeans with a conscience condemn the US & Israel’s war crimes against Iran, the EU’s top official can’t even say the word “Israel”and instead blames Iran. This isn’t diplomacy; this is moral bankruptcy and hypocrisy. Forget international law, justice, and ethics, this is sheer absurdity. Europe’s leadership has hit rock bottom. That’s a shame.

Media is accepting it as a fact what Trump claims about successful rescue of downed airman in Iran without any question. But, when Iran brings out video and photo of destroyed plane and helicopters in the rescue operation, media is not reporting it.

@AZ_Brittney No. We’ve just exchanged one vicious, genocidal, and possibly senile old man for another. It’s amazing what shit America dumps on the world these days.

Yes or No? ✋

@MartinE06059900 @BowesChay Lost in Vietnam. Lost in Afghanistan. Gotta love America.

Actually, right now they’re flying over anywhere they want for the very thing you just said. Nobody’s gonna shoot them down. Nobody stops the United States from doing anything. We are the most powerful nation on the planet, and we will do whatever we want and the rest of the world can just suck it!!!

As US military Aircraft are forced to "fly around" European airspace to Iran- What would those European countries (and NATO Allies") do exactly, if the Americans just flew over them anyway? Think about it.

@BowesChay Oh I don’t know. Maybe cut of water, fuel and power supplies to your bases?

@SethAbramson @GarciaRosalind What makes you think Vance would be an improvement?

I'm not saying this rhetorically—I'm speaking literally here. At what point do Republicans admit that Trump has lost his mind and replace him with Vance through the 25th Amendment? Never? Do we need to see a nuclear weapon dropped on a city of 10 million innocent civilians first?