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@DJavid6160 @diana_bloom_ @NiohBerg @oliverkonradt Not just possible, very likely. Didn’t know this guy till yesterday when his vid popped on my IG. Thought it was a cool story but my gut felt off. Now seeing who he is + who he works with, it’s obvious he’s a regime prop

@diana_bloom_ @NiohBerg @oliverkonradt Is it possible that this person is being propped up by the islamic regime lobby for future "projects"? That would also explain how he managed to learn Persian (Farsi) so fluently. If they provide you with money, time, and resources, it's actually not that difficult. 🤔

You’re not homesick for a country that’s not your home. And your CMEG is the German version of NIAC - the regime’s lobby machine in the US. You speak Persian, but block our voices fighting for freedom when they call you out. That’s not love for Iran, that’s protecting self-interests that are aligned with the regime. Shame on you. And unblock @diana_bloom_ if you dare to stand for the org you’re working for.

🚨 Do not trust Farnaz Fassihi’s reporting on Iran for The New York Times. Farnaz Fassihi has reported numerous stories about Iran for The New York Times that have later been disputed, contradicted, or proven false. Her latest bizarre and false claim is that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was being positioned to take power as part of an alleged U.S.-Israeli plan. That narrative has already collapsed. Ahmadinejad appeared openly at Ali Khamenei’s memorial, not under house arrest and plainly not acting as a Mossad-backed alternative to the regime. Another major credibility failure in Fassihi’s reporting on Iran.

@ada_mash Kann ich über ihn nicht beurteilen. Aber bei Mansour hatte ich schon immer (seit Jahren) ein merkwürdiges Bauchgefühl. Einerseits spricht er Dinge an, die in Deutschland keiner anfassen will, andererseits traue ich ihm irgendwie nicht. Ich kann nicht einmal genau sagen warum 🤔

@HardyTrvke Das muss immer eine Abwägung sein und nur dann, wenn es wirklich notwendig ist, veröffentlicht werden. Mansour macht es eher für Klicks und um anzustacheln.

Weiß Ahmad Mansour nicht, dass Farnaz Fassihi zum Lobby-Netzwerk (NIAC) der Islamischen Republik gehört und gerne antisemitische Propaganda verbreitet? Ich würde ihn fragen, aber ich bin blockiert (*von beiden, Fassihi und Mansour).

Many Iranians are celebrating the UK's IRGC move as if Britain just did what the US did in 2019. It didn't. Here's the actual legal picture - no spin, just the documents. What happened (documented): On 13 July, the Home Secretary designated the IRGC - alongside IMCR (Hayi) and Russia's GRU Volunteer Corps - as the first bodies under the National Security (State Threats) Act 2026. Pending parliamentary approval this week. What it is NOT: This is not proscription under the Terrorism Act 2000. The government's own statement confirms the designation is legally separate from terrorism proscription. And it is not the equivalent of the US move: in 2019 Washington designated the IRGC a Foreign Terrorist Organization - a formal terrorist listing. The UK has designated it a *state threat*. Different statute, different label, different legal consequences. What it actually does (documented): • Supporting the IRGC - including expressing a supportive opinion - becomes an offence: up to 14 years • Assisting its UK activities or taking material benefit from it: criminalised • Sabotage (incl. arson) on its behalf: up to life imprisonment What it doesn't do (expert assessment, contested): Unlike Terrorism Act proscription, it doesn't automatically trigger the terrorist-financing offences, charity-law consequences or Prevent coverage that apply to groups like Hezbollah or ISIS. Critics - including IRGC researchers who've pushed for proscription for years - argue this leaves the radicalisation and propaganda ecosystem largely untouched. The government disputes the "weaker" framing; the penalties are comparable. Bottom line: a real step, with real criminal offences attached. But if you're telling people "the UK just proscribed the IRGC like America did" - that's not what the documents say. Sources: Home Office statement to Parliament (13 Jul 2026); National Security (State Threats) Act 2026; US State Dept FTO designation (Apr 2019).

@ada_mash Es gibt definierte Grenzen für illegale/verherrlichende Gewaltdarstellung. Unterhalb dieser Grenze ist es mMn manchmal unerlässlich Gewalt offen zu zeigen, gerade um darüber aufzuklären. Wie hätte man sonst der Öffentlichkeit den Horror von okt7 und jan8/9 verdeutlichen können?

Das sehe ich anders. Ich denke, man muss in social media nicht sehen, wie jemand geschlagen oder getötet wird. Einige Menschen sind von der Gewalt fasziniert und neigen zur Nachahmung. Solche Beträge können zur Radikalisierung und Desensibilisierung betragen. Von einem Psychologen, der staatliche Kohle zur Völkerverständigung kassiert, erwarte ich, dass keine gewaltverherrlichenden Inhalte gepostet werden.

I laugh whenever someone says: "Don't worry, the Islamists are a tiny minority, they will never takeover the West..." Right. Islamists are also a tiny minority in Iran - they just happen to be in power. Why are they in power? For two reasons: 1️⃣ Conspiring of the Marxist left and the Islamists against a secular constitutional monarchy 2️⃣ Enabling and facilitation from Western governments for the Islamists to prevail in supremacy Now ask yourself, is that same phenomenon taking place in the West?

@ada_mash Berechtigte Frage. Ich hätte dir darauf geantwortet, dass harte Gewalt eine Realität ist, die sichtbar gemacht werden muss, um sie korrekt zu adressieren. Social Media ist der einzige Ort an dem man sowas nicht weg ignorieren kann. Aber jemanden deswegen gleich zu blocken?? 🤔

@HardyTrvke Ich hatte ihn mal gefragt, wie es sein kann, dass ein Psychologe ständig Videos mit harten Gewaltinhalten in social media teilt. Das passt für mich nicht zusammen. Daraufhin wurde ich blockiert.

This guy pushes outdated WWII carpet bombing fantasy: smash grids, oil, bridges to “paralyze” in 24h, ignoring it’d kill & starve civilians way more than the regime, which can bunker, smuggle, spin propaganda. cherry-picked polls, cope, zero realism. pure strategic masturbation.

@aligreenandwild No. Too late. Damage the woke right already did is as bad as Islam's & the Left's, can't be reversed. ANYONE who didn't wake up even after Jan 8/9 is irredeemably complicit & should STAY OUT of Iran except as a lifelong prisoner. Don't even want them as tourists.

Dear retard woke right, Once Iran is free from Islamic ocupation, the Iranian people will gladly accept you with love and open arms should you wish to seek asylum–since western civilisation is on the brink of being devoured by Islamic ideology. Why? Because you and your mates thought it'd be productive to point your finger at 'da joos 🧃' for whatever childish reason, instead of addressing the avalanche right infront of you - Islam. You fail to keep your eyes on the wolf at the door, instead of the leak in the floor. But keep in mind, children, we will only accept you on one condition–you leave your Nazi shit back at home. You know who you are.

@Ofer_binshtok Correct except your last paragraph. A supportive stance toward the regime isn’t ACTIVE support, let alone participation or armed defense. You’re too smart not to know that! Your constant shilling for bombing the country into stone age makes me wonder what agenda you’re pushing.

According to the most credible independent surveys, only about 20 percent of Iranians support keeping the Islamic Republic going in its current form. Iran's population sits at roughly 92-93 million as of 2026, so that translates to around 18-19 million people. The GAMAAN institute's June 2024 survey, which pulled responses from over 77,000 people inside Iran and applied statistical weighting, found that about 70 percent oppose continuing the regime as it exists. Support for the core principles of the 1979 revolution and the Supreme Leader has fallen to just 11 percent. Opposition runs especially high among younger people, urban residents, and the better educated. These polls rely on online sampling with adjustments to reflect Iran's literate adult population. Polling inside an authoritarian system always carries some uncertainty, but the consistent results across multiple waves point in the same direction. Leaked official Iranian government polls tell a similar story. They show around 73 percent of respondents favoring separation of religion and state, along with widespread opposition to mandatory hijab rules and other religious mandates. Earlier Gallup polling put approval for the country's leadership at only 43 percent. Regime support clusters more among rural conservatives, devout religious groups, and families tied to the security forces like the Basij and Revolutionary Guards. Among the young, city dwellers, and educated classes, backing drops sharply. In short, the best available data puts the number of people who actively back continuing the Islamic Republic at about 18-20 million. Strong ideological support sits even lower, and the trend has been downward in recent years.

@Ofer_binshtok Not correct. You’re mixing regime profiteurs + passive sympathizers w/ actual diehard loyalists. Those are few, proven by IR importing jihadists to prop up repression. If the West did the bare minimum (cut ties, seize assets, enforce IRGC terror label), it’d be game changing.

It’s a nice dream, but the way things are going today, the Iranian opposition has zero chance of breaking free from the regime’s stranglehold. They kill anyone they even think poses a threat to them, and they have millions of weapons, over a million armed regular forces, and roughly 10 to 20 million regime loyalists. In this reality, where they also control the country and have freedom of movement, the opposition has zero chance, as I wrote.

On This Day — July 13, 1942 The Nazis were coming to finish what they started in Europe — and the Jews of the Middle East were next. On this day, in utmost secrecy, the Reich formed a special SS killing squad — the Walther Rauff Kommando — tasked with organizing the mass murder of Jewish communities in Libya, Egypt, and above all, Mandate Palestine. Twenty-four SS officers and NCOs, led by the inventor of the mobile gas van, were sent to Athens. They were waiting for Rommel’s signal to begin the slaughter. As Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps blazed across North Africa, terror gripped the Yishuv. The “Desert Fox” had captured Tobruk and was driving toward El Alamein, Alexandria, the Suez Canal, and then Mandatory Palestine. Half a million Jews in Eretz Yisrael and 75,000 in Egypt faced annihilation. Horrifying reports of Nazi atrocities had already reached them. Arabs marked Jewish homes with chalk, openly fighting over who would claim which property once Rommel arrived. The Mufti of Jerusalem had begged Hitler for an Arab legion to join the extermination. Berlin counted on local Arab support — and they were right. Families gathered in fear. One father told his young son the Germans were coming and Arabs were preparing knives as a “gift.” A woman recalled looking at the sky and thinking how bitter it would be to leave this world so young. But the slaughter never came. At El Alamein, British and Allied forces stopped Rommel cold in one of the most decisive turning points of the war. The planned Einsatzkommando deployment never happened. The Jews of the Yishuv were spared — by what many called a miracle. The Nazis had intended to bring the Holocaust to the Middle East. They were stopped at the desert’s edge. We remember July 13, 1942, as the day the countdown to another genocide began … and was miraculously interrupted. Some histories record only one side’s suffering. The full record shows how close the Jews of the Middle East came to sharing Europe’s fate.

A lot of the men who crossed into Israel on October 7 made it back home and tried to return to normal life. They went back to their neighborhoods, their families, and whatever passed for a routine. Some of them probably told themselves that the worst was over. After all, they had survived the raid, the fighting, and the initial wave of retaliation. In their minds, time was now on their side. The world would move on, the headlines would fade, and eventually they could just be regular people again. That was the mistake. Israel didn’t treat October 7 like a regular wartime event that eventually gets archived. They treated it like a crime scene with thousands of pieces of evidence and an extremely long memory. While some of these men were busy trying to blend back into civilian life, Israel was busy matching faces from bodycam footage, cross-referencing names from captured phones, and following the trails that came out of interrogations. They weren’t in a rush. They were building files. There’s something almost darkly funny about watching men who participated in that level of barbarism try to go back to being husbands, mechanics, or neighbors, as if the footage of what they did would eventually expire like old milk. They really believed that if they just kept their heads down long enough, the whole thing would become yesterday’s news. It didn’t. Israel kept the receipts. And unlike most governments, they’ve shown zero interest in letting the statute of limitations run out on mass murder and rape. The slow, steady announcements of individual deaths aren’t random. They’re the result of patient, methodical work on men who made the critical error of assuming they could commit atrocities and then simply return to ordinary life like nothing happened. Some mistakes don’t get smaller with time. They just get documented. (article below)

@diana_bloom_ Great analysis, as always! It's important to repeatedly point out that history didn't start in 1979. The Left-Islamic (anti-west) alliance is at least as old as the inception of the Soviet Union. It never seized to exist but rather morphed into the complex hydra that we see today

The Russian Empire benefited from the corrupt, weak Qajar dynasty. It hated the Pahlavi dynasty because the Pahlavis brought Iran's wealth back to the Iranian people. They then armed and ideologically trained several communist separatist terrorist groups in Iran and tried three times to separate (oil-rich) parts of Iran: - 1924 Khuzestan - 1945/1946 Azerbaijan - 1946 Mahabad The Pahlavis prevented the separatist movements from succeeding each time. After that, they armed and ideologically trained communist terrorist groups in central Iran (MEK, Tudeh, Fedai). In 1953, they tried to remove the monarchy and overthrow the Shah through a coup with Mossadegh. Without success - the Iranian people and the Iranian army prevented it. During Mossadegh's trial, it came out that 600 Tudeh officers had been placed during the two years Mossadegh was prime minister. Tudeh had backed and used Mossadegh for a coup, with a plan to assassinate him shortly after succeeding. Until 1979, these terrorist groups repeatedly tried to assassinate the Shah and carried out countless terrorist attacks in Iran in which many civilians were killed - including US citizens. By 1979, there were 40,000 communist spies spread throughout Iran, infiltrating every corner of Iranian society. Former spies testified about this, and Crown Prince @PahlaviReza mentioned it again in this interview: These groups, together with the Islamists who were armed and militarily trained (in part) by the PLO in Lebanon, Iraq, and elsewhere, successfully carried out the 1979 coup: x.com/diana_bloom_/s… x.com/diana_bloom_/s… Much of the money for the weapons, training, and logistics almost certainly came from the Soviet bloc. The Soviet Union always wanted the West out of Iran so it could exploit Iran's resources for its own benefit and geopolitical wars (not only militarily but also through propaganda). To this day, there is that unexplained RT clip claiming that Khamenei was trained at a Russian intelligence university 👇 The Islamic Republic and Russia are deeply intertwined. Russia wants to keep the regime alive. That's why the US/Israeli war was never only against the regime but also against Russia (and China, but that's another topic). I believe Russia provided much more assistance during the war (military support, rearmament, intelligence) than has been officially acknowledged by any side. I just think that even Russia is not interested in the regime ever getting a nuclear bomb because that would also change the balance of power between the two countries themselves. So whether the Islamic Republic or Russia ultimately killed Lindsey Graham almost doesn't matter to me. They are the right and left hand of one body. One carried it out, but both wanted it and planned it. Maybe they simply rolled the dice: whoever got the opportunity first would do it. Russia got the chance first. The regime would have done it if it had gotten the opportunity first. But of course, all of that is just a conspiracy theory.

@MsVeteranTeach @DanBurmawy I call him psychotic pedo warlord

@DanBurmawy We need to stop saying “The Prophet Mohammed.” He is not my prophet. We don’t say “The Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” in public discourse. Same concept. He is just Mohammed.

The West’s most powerful weapon against Islamic supremacism is not a missile or a ban. It is the cartoon. The stand-up comedy. The scholarly dissection of the Quran’s borrowings and contradictions. The film about Muhammad’s marriages that treats him with exactly the reverence Hollywood showed Jesus, which is to say, none. The university course that reads the hadith the way it reads Homer. Criticism, satire, and ridicule, applied to Allah, Muhammad, the Quran, the companions, and the conquests, industrially and without embarrassment, protected by the full force of Western law and celebrated by Western culture, this is the policy. Read the full piece- the link in the comments.

@Ofer_binshtok The regime doesn’t need national infrastructure to control ppl. It’s prepped for this for decades. It runs on decentralized militias + intel, using sheer violence + subversion. Bombing ppl back to the stone age just makes overthrowing it harder. Only fix: remove regime members.

I don’t get why the US keeps getting dragged into a war of attrition with Iran when it could destroy the regime’s ability to control the country in just 24 hours. Take out the electricity grid and communications infrastructure. Wipe out oil production capabilities and fuel reserves. Blow up every bridge and major transportation route so there’s no way to move forces around. That would strip the regime of most of its ability to govern the country. The US could do all of it in 24 hours.

I like that side effect. But my theory is: it's not the intended one. The intended effect is for the regime lobby to pick up the story and tell us - the Iranian opposition - not to trust Trump, and especially not to trust Israel, because they ignored the Crown Prince and chose a Holocaust denier over him. I've seen multiple stories from regime lobbyists using this story as the basis to push exactly that narrative - last time, and now again.