Brigitte Khair-Mountain | بريجيت خير ماونتين

“Hope is a powerful thing.” “Sometimes it’s the only thing.” “Our numbers are few, our spirits are undiminished.” “If there are others out there we’ll find them. We will!” Michael Burnham and Aditya Sahli, year 3188. Star Trek Discovery #Lebanon #October17 #لبنان

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: “We Are Strangling the Regime” thisisbeirut.com.lb/a1333606 via @ThisIsBeirut_

In one more week Iran will most likely drop all conditions and bravado. Stay the course 👊🏼

"According to the sources, #Iran is proposing a "complete freeze" on uranium enrichment activity for a period of up to 15 years. After that period ends, it would be permitted to resume enriching uranium at a low civilian-grade level of 3.6%, under a principle of "zero stockpiling," meaning no enriched uranium inventory." If this is true, Iran's position is softening. Only a few weeks ago, Iran was offering only a complete freeze of uranium enrichment activity for 5 years. The blockade is working. Keep the pressure on. israelhayom.com/2026/05/03/ira…

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Whatever they’re trying to do, IRGC isn’t doing it fast enough. They are incapable of reversing the balance of power, the blockade is costing them millions every day.

"Several Iranian dual nationals told The Sunday Times on condition of anonymity that they had been approached in the past year by Iranian intelligence services, including the ministry of intelligence and security and the intelligence arm of the IRGC, both in the UK and while travelling in Europe, Turkey and #Iran. Some reported being threatened, while others said they were offered money in exchange for gathering information in the UK and, in some cases, for carrying out violent acts against targets on British soil." thetimes.com/article/c724d0…

The Turks and cats. An enduring love story 🤍🩷

I am connected through Starlink from Iran to warn the world about the evils of the Islamic Republic. As I have shown in my previous post, the regime has escalated Starlink hunts. The Islamic Republic is now openly offering 300 million toman — roughly $2,000 — to anyone who snitches on a Starlink user. Report the location, report the usage, and they will pay you blood money to help them hunt us down. They are desperate. They are terrified of our freedom. They are hunting people like me because the truth is leaking through these dishes and they know it will end them. This is the same regime that just beat an innocent father to death for using Starlink — just like I am right now. I sleep with one eye open every single night. The fear is suffocating. But I will not stop. And now an Iranian lawmaker openly admits the truth: the internet is still shut down because they are afraid of internal uprising. They said it out loud. They know if the Iranian people can see what is really happening in the world, if we can talk to each other freely, the whole rotten system will collapse. They are trying with everything they have — blackouts, bounties, torture, murder — to keep 90 million of us in the dark. While we live in this endless nightmare of neither war nor peace. While economic pressure is destroying every family. While their Chinese-style tiered internet and “White Simcard” loyalty system decides who is even allowed to breathe real air. For 47 years they have tortured, raped, executed and lied to us. We danced in the streets when Khamenei was removed because we finally tasted hope. That hope is still alive — and it terrifies them. We are willing to endure the arrests, the beatings, the blackouts, the hunger, the daily threats to our families. We have endured 47 years of hell. But only if the nightmare finally ends. But we will never accept that our suffering is in vain. #DigitalBlackOutIran‌ #IranMassacre‌ #KingRezaPahlavi‌ForIran

Iranian dad fatally beaten for using Starlink during web blackout; karate champ executed over protest trib.al/gOOGWOE

Why is it bad when President Trump does it? Do the Democrats, the UN and NATO allies hate President Trump or the Iranians, or both? In 2011, Obama launched a 7 month airstrike in Libya without congressional authorization, stating it was a limited humanitarian operation, not a war. He bypassed Congress entirely, claiming UN and NATO approval was enough. The conflict ended with Gaddafi’s death. He called 2000 deaths a massacre. But when Iranians are screaming through an Internet blackout after the regime slaughtered 45 thousand people in just a few days, with 1000s of videos to prove it, and when they execute protesters indiscriminately on a daily basis, the Democrats, the UN and NATO countries all side with the barbaric regime. And Iranians are even pro America and pro western values. So Why don’t Iranian lives matter to them? Why does President Trump have to go through so many hoops when the Islamic regime is also a threat to the U.S. and the world? @POTUS @marcorubio

We all care for humanity. We all support people fighting for freedom. But what is happening to ordinary people in Iran right now is beyond the pale. It has been for many years. As we enter day 64 of the regime enforced internet blackout disturbing news has emerged of a father, Hessam Alaeddin, beaten to death simply for having an @elonmusk made Starlink terminal. Please read below from inside Iran. Do share if you can ⬇️

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@JasonMBrodsky 2 million tomorrow?

The currency in #Iran is weakening even more as the day goes on. Today trading with the dollar hit 1,910,000 rials.

On Sunday, #Iran's rial further weakened, with the dollar trading at around 1.87 million rials.

In the UAE the laptop would never ever be touched. No place is safer and more secure. Once I was taking cash out of the ATM in a Dubai mall as my young daughter pulled me to look at a nearby store forgetting my card AND cash in the machine. I ran back five minutes later: my money and card still there in the buzzing machine with a line of people waiting to use the ATM and not one person had touched my cash. True story.

In Iran, one USD is now worth 1,910,000 Rials. Record breaking low.

1/ @vali_nasr says Trump is ditching the nuclear issue to "settle 47-year scores", and opening the door to Global South colonial revenge wars. That's not analysis. It's regime apologetics dressed in academic language. 2/ Iran sent a proposal to reopen Hormuz and end hostilities, while sidelining the nuclear file entirely. Trump rejected it. Why? Because the bill is real: 47 years of hostage-taking, terror financing, proxy wars, deal cheating, and direct attacks on US forces. Hormuz access alone doesn't cover that tab. 3/ The war opened on Feb 28 with strikes on nuclear and missile infrastructure because talks were Iran’s deflection preferred game. A regime that chants "Death to America" while racing toward the bomb is an ongoing security crisis, not a historical grievance. Colonialism is a settled chapter. Iran's behavior is today's headline. Nasr's equivalence collapses on contact with the calendar. 4/ "Most of humanity" doesn’t support Iran's nuclear sprint or its blockade of a waterway that moves 20% of global oil. Much of the world, quietly, wants this regime contained. Trump's position after military degradation: the era of weak deals that kick the can is over. Consequences, finally, have arrived. But Vali sadly prefers spin over facts.

🔴 BREAKING: Saudi Arabia supports the sovereign measures taken by Bahrain to protect its security and safeguard its sovereignty, the Kingdom’s foreign ministry says. More here: english.alarabiya.net/New

1/ A false binary is being sold as geopolitical realism: Gulf states must choose between absorption into Iran's sphere or subordination to Israel's. The Abraham Accords already answered this question, and the answer is no. 2/ UAE normalized with Israel in 2020. Bahrain followed. Morocco joined. None surrendered sovereignty or became an Israeli client state. All three retained full agency on Palestine, deepened Asian ties, and continued hedging between Washington, Beijing, and Riyadh simultaneously. Normalization produced transactions, not subordination. The evidence is in. 3/ The same logic applies to Iran. For 45 years, Gulf states have lived next to the Islamic Republic, absorbing its proxy pressure, its missile threats, its sectarian influence operations, and none has been absorbed. Geography is not an absolute destiny. Wealth, air defenses, and diplomatic sophistication are real variables. 4/ The question "does the Gulf need a hegemon?" assumes the answer is a convenient yes, while the GCC's actual record tells a different story. Qatar, up till recently, maintained serious channels with Tehran, while hosting the largest US air base in the region. Oman, mediated between enemies without joining any camp, before the Iran war. UAE projects military and economic power from the Horn of Africa to the Indian Ocean independently. These are not weak states waiting to be organized. They are sovereign actors already setting terms. 5/ Saudi Arabia carries genuine undismissable demographic, geographic, and religious weight. But weight is not hegemony, and hegemony is not consensus. The 2017 Qatar blockade, Riyadh's most explicit attempt to enforce GCC conformity, collapsed. Smaller states held, the U.S. didn't bless it, and Qatar emerged stronger. Consensus in the Gulf has to be earned, not declared. 6/ The actual Gulf model, forged through crisis, war, and acceleration, is strategic autonomy, not a single state organizer, or protector or a dominant revolutionary center. Multiple powers, would selectively engage without a permanent alignment, or enemy, with leverage as the operating system. The rest is gaslighting.

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