Arash Kaman-Gir

There are some ossified bits of Iran analysis that seem totally impervious to reassessment, and they're coming out again after Larijani's reported assassination From 'the system is bigger than one man, it was designed to handle losses' (surely it didn't anticipate the scale of losses we've seen since June) To 'this will empower more hardline figures' (they were already calling the shots, and analysis of what the hardliners *want* to do often fails to consider what they *can* do with Iran's greatly diminished capacity) I don't know what will happen to the Islamic republic after the war, none of us do, but there's too much analysis that applies a rigid pre-2023 view of the regime and fails to account for the truly unprecedented events that have happened since

What’s wrong with this guy? No seriously. Everyday he comes out with a random message then goes about his day, pats himself on the back, his worshippers in the diaspora drool, Iranians inside the country have no clue what he said, then nothing happens. The craziest part? He calls on people to do what they were already going to do only to claim he told them to do it. “Stay inside” — duh “Celebrate this” — yea they do every year “Protect cultural and natural heritage” — ordinary people are not going to go around and destroy their history His daily empty messages to remain relevant is actually having the opposite effect, he’s now a broken record. But not only that, he’s insulting the people inside Iran as if they have no mind of their own to do their daily routines without one of Reza’s weird speeches. This guy is no “king.”

On behalf of 90 million Iranians most of whom have lost a friend or family member, FUCK YOU Javier Bardem, you're a terrorist supporter.

Regime change merchants in 1979: We have to centre Iranians! Who are you to disagree with those who want an Islamic revolution? Or to say that Khomeini’s face isn’t actually on the moon?! How dare you!

More and more reports of drive-by shooting attacks against Basij militia checkpoints in Iran. The regime is under pressure and more and more Basij militia members are refusing to show up for work in the morning.