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اگه دیگه آنلاین نشدم ، منو هم فراموش نکنید ! بدونید من مفت نمردم .. توی جشن آزادی اسم منو هم بیارید

شما در تاریخ سربلند نخواهید بود، اگر برای اعدام کُردها سکوت کنید! اپوزوسیون نباید با اسم رمز «تجزیه‌طلبی» کار سپاه و جمهوری اسلامی را برای اعدام کُردها و بلوچ‌ها آسان و بی‌هزینه کند.

Good news: U.S. efforts targeting the families of Iran’s ruling class are now going global. The government of Dominica has revoked the citizenship of Abolfazl Shamkhani, son of Ali Shamkhani, after reports revealed he and his brother used Caribbean identities to acquire $29 million in luxury real estate in Dubai. This follows a sweeping U.S. action: Washington sanctioned 115 individuals, entities, and vessels tied to a shipping network linked to Mohammad Hossein Shamkhani, described as one of the largest sanctions packages since 2018. While ordinary Iranians face poverty and repression, regime insiders lived in extreme luxury, sparking outrage across the country. The world is catching up with the hypocrisy of Iran’s regime, oppression at home, luxury for their children abroad. Iranians are still living under a total #DigitalBlackout, and they are still executing, innocent protesters. Please don’t stop talking about #Iran.

Douglas Murray on the current state of the UK: “I don’t recognize our country anymore. I don’t understand why we have given in to Islamists who parade in London, calling for jihad and praising Hamas. They hate Britain just as much as they hate Israel.”

HORROR FROM TEHRAN: A young Iranian films foreign Arab-Islamist militias flooding her streets. Hashd al-Sha’bi. Fatemiyoun. Door to door. Hauling Iranians onto trucks for owning a Starlink dish. Torture. A rope in the morning. They are NOT our people. They do NOT speak our language. This is ISLAMIC OCCUPATION. When streets echo with “Shukran al-Lubnan… Shukran al-Yemen” — the message is written in blood. This morning, 50 European nations launched a “FREEDOM” initiative. Not for 90 million Iranian hostages. For their merchandise moving through Iranian waters. Europe didn’t buy passage through a strait. It bought them time.

The West loves to credit "Irish and Benedictine monks" for saving Classical Latin literature. Let's look at where those monks actually got their material and methods from. Cassiodorus, Byzantine Greek from Italy who spent 15 years in Constantinople, modelled his monastery on the Byzantine School of Nisibis, founded Vivarium on Byzantine soil in Calabria after Justinian's reconquest, and invented the idea that monks ought to systematically copy manuscripts. No such idea before him. Every Western scriptorium descends from this Byzantine template. Montecassino under Desiderius (1058-87) imported Byzantine scribes, artists, mosaicists, and craftsmen from Constantinople. Its liturgical tradition was a blend of Byzantine and Latin. The Beneventan script shows massive Greek influence. The sole surviving manuscript of Tacitus' Annals 11-16 and Histories was copied here — in this Byzantine-saturated environment. Ravenna was the capital of the Byzantine Exarchate in Italy for 170 years (584-751). Its legal, scribal, and administrative culture provided the bulk of extant Latin manuscripts. Calabria, Sicily, Apulia were Byzantine for 500 years. Basilian monks fleeing Arab invasions built hundreds of monasteries dedicated to transcription. This is where Barlaam — Petrarch's teacher — came from. The Carolingian Renaissance employed resident Byzantine artists and scholars. Charlemagne's manuscripts were written in gold on purple vellum imitating Byzantine imperial models. Bobbio, the poster child of "Western" preservation held 700 volumes but the key classical Latin texts (Tacitus, Apuleius, Varro) survived not there but in southern Italy, in Beneventan manuscripts from the Byzantine cultural sphere. Half of all known scientific classical manuscripts from the Byzantine 9th/10th century renaissance were preserved via the Norman-Staufer court library in Sicily which spent most of its life at the time under Byzantine control well into the Middle-Ages.

My latest The IRGC's Eschatological Gamble and the Arab World's Verdict How the Arab World Reads the IRGC In a certain sense, the Islamic Republic runs an eschatological project that happens to possess a government. What it actually builds toward, always, is Qiyamah, the Day of Judgment. For Khomeini, Karbala and Qiyamah formed a single continuous arc, a battlefield that time never closed, still accumulating its martyrs, still moving toward its predetermined conclusion. In ideologies centered on the end of the world, believers discover a profound certainty that removes all doubt about the future. This conviction serves as a divine promise. History does not remain truly open-ended, since God has already determined its final outcome. A normal Western politician carefully weighs risks and adapts to changing circumstances. But the true committed IRGC revolutionary, driven by this unshakable faith, inhabits an entirely different relationship with time. For him, the final victory is already secured. The present does not create the future, and merely confirms what was always destined to occur. But this orientation collides at every point with the mainstream Sunni worldview, which treats Judgment Day as a matter of divine concealment rather than political schedule. Sunni tradition forbids the forcing of providence and regards any state organized around accelerating the end of history as a deviation from Islam rather than its fulfillment. The Arab world reads the IRGC through this very lens, and what it sees is not a pious republic being tested, but a heterodox project masquerading as the fulfillment of faith, structurally incapable of assessing its strategic failures. zinebriboua.com/p/the-irgcs-es…

The Strait of Hormuz is IRGC’s last card and it was the most powerful one. They are officially cornered. open.substack.com/pub/zinebribou…

🔴 BREAKING Iran has reopened the Strait of Hormuz for the remaining period of the ceasefire

Egalitarianism, the root cause of the evils pestering the West today, has made it so that 99,99% of people in the West will see this video and think “why is he destroying that wall?”, when this question is wholly irrelevant. This migrant does not think like us. He doesn’t know why he does it, just as the migrants in Brussels don’t know why they destroyed and burnt down their new football field and playground less than a day after the inauguration. They are not like us. If we keep projecting our thought processes onto them, we will go extinct and our civilisation with us. It makes me think about the video where three African rapists are asked how they feel about their victims suffering. They are asked again and again, in a calm fashion, but as hard as they try, they can’t understand the question. It’s us, who’s at fault, for projecting our empathy-capability onto people that are _not_like_us.

@DVanLangenhove People assume other cultures carry Western values or accept aberrant behavior as ‘diversity.’ Holland’s description of Roman men illustrates the difference. Either a society educates migrants on its culture and enforces laws or it deteriorates. All suffer. x.com/biblicalbeauty…

They will destroy everything they touch. You think you’re safe in the countryside, but soon nowhere will be peaceful.

@ick_real Rachel

I'm looking for a ridiculously old-fashioned girl's name for our new born . Think great-grandma name. Very old and rare. Any suggestions asap pls?

We have video + testimony of a Minab resident that proves Minab school was used as a human shield by the IRGC. The testimony: "I just got connected to the internet after 46 days. God, does this look like a school or a military base? What the hell is an IRGC Navy watchtower doing inside the school courtyard? Why should they build a school inside a military base and use innocent girls as human shields?" This is the true face of the Islamic Republic and its terrorist guards. We still don’t even know whose missile actually hit it, but we now know for sure it was deliberately turned into a shield. This is their standard tactic — the same regime that recruits and sends child soldiers to die. Pure evil. The death of these school children is not really different that January massacre, the party responsible is still the Islamic Regime. #IranMassacre‌ #minab

The last time I visited Amsterdam was in June 2023. I ordered an Uber to take me from my hotel to Dam Square. The driver was a Dutch-born man of Turkish origin. We started talking about the immigration crisis in Europe. And with complete confidence, he looked at me and said: “By Allah, we will take over Europe.” I asked him, “But you were born here. You’re Dutch. How can you talk like this?” He said: “What unites us is Islam. The world must submit to Islam. We don’t see borders.” I tried to talk to him rationally about Islam, its historical violence, its authoritarianism, why it doesn't coexist in any modern society, and I shared with him that I was a former Muslim. He got visibly angry. God knows I’m not exaggerating, he threatened me. He told me, flat-out, that I deserve to die and he would do it himself. This wasn’t in Syria, Iraq, or Iran. This was in Amsterdam. A liberal, Western European city. Supposedly free. Supposedly safe. This is the consequence of importing ideology without accountability, Islam wrapped in Western citizenship. They may hold European passports, but their allegiance isn’t to Europe, it’s to a global Islamic identity that rejects your freedoms, your values, and your existence if you dare question it.

@growing_daniel Useful to remember we don’t really know what is going on. This is not a war game with option for ‘regime removal.’ What do you recommend to accomplish that? For substance, follow @zriboua .

it really is crazy to go into Iran, kill their king and half their cabinet, and be like okay now let's talk peace. Not removing this regime is an insane failure given how far we've gone

This Saturday marks exactly one hundred days since the slaughter of January 8th & 9th. Whether this broader war continues or ends, whether a geopolitical deal is signed or not, none of that noise matters down here in the dirt. While the world panics over its diplomatic theater, staring at the sky, here in Iran there is only one frequency left in our minds: the total destruction of the terrorist Islamic regime occupying our soil. After that massacre, it is the only thought left. Every single morning I wake up, the very first thought forged into my head is this: This goddamn regime is still breathing on my homeland. And every night, when I close my eyes, my mind drops right back into the wasteland of those nights. I remember the exact taste of the tear gas choking out the air, thick with fire and smoke. I remember the heavy metallic smell of fresh blood on the cold asphalt. And I remember him. That one young man, unarmed, defenseless, yet entirely defiant. When their thugs rushed him on their motorbikes, he did not flinch. He stood his ground and threw a bare knuckle punch straight into the jaw of the first coward who tried to take him. So they shot him in the leg. They shattered his bone just so they could drag him down into the absolute abyss of their prisons. But the streets were just the beginning. We remember how the terrorist regime loaded the butchered bodies of our youth into trailers like meat, hauling them away in the dark to the slaughterhouse of Kahrizak. They took corpses as hostages. They looked grieving mothers in the eye and extorted blood money just to let them bury the bones. They pointed guns at broken families, forcing them to look at cameras and falsely declare their murdered children as loyal Basiji. They stole their lives, and then they tried to hijack their ghosts. They walked right into the hospital wards, looked down at the bleeding, and executed them point blank on their stretchers just to silence the witnesses. They even gunned down the firefighter who ran into the inferno with nothing but the instinct to save his people. And when the Chehellom came, when the fortieth day arrived and families gathered in the dirt just to weep over the graves, they showed up with batons and handcuffs to beat the grief out of them. They think a hundred days washes the blood away. They think a distracted world means they are safe. But they fundamentally misunderstand the mechanics of the monster they have awakened. Every stolen body, every executed witness, and every boy they dragged into the dark is another blade forged directly into our psyche. My mind is an armory built from these memories. We are a graveyard that decided to march. We will not forgive. We will not forget. We will simply keep moving forward until every single trace of this occupying death cult disappears from our land. #IranMassacre‌

@coNora05 @DanBurmawy Yes. Maronite Christians in Lebanon and Israel primarily use Arabic (Levantine dialect), while using Syrian Aramaic in church services.

@DanBurmawy @Udyclan Did you meet any Lebanese Christians who call the God of Christianity "Allah"? That threw me for a sec the first time I met a Lebanese who primarily worshipped in Arabic.

I lived in Lebanon for 15 years, and during that time I visited southern Lebanon more times than I can remember. The first few times I went to the Israeli-Lebanese border, there was just a fence. You could see the beautiful farms on the Israeli side. Sometimes you’d notice people going about their work, and every now and then an Israeli patrol passing between the double fence. On the Lebanese side, I saw the Shia villages, people immersed in a culture of sacred violence. Flags everywhere. Images of Khamenei, Hassan Nasrallah, and Hezbollah fighters. Slogans on buildings that made everything feel heavy and ugly. A few years later, Israel reinforced the fence. There had been harassment of soldiers, and more security was needed. Still, you could catch glimpses of the other side, the contrast remained. A couple of years later, I was sad when I went to the usual spot and found a massive wall. All I could see was the ugliness on our side. Israel never initiated aggression against us. It was pushed to build checkpoints, fences, and walls, and when necessary, to come in and deal with those who know nothing but death. Mario frames his post as if Israel wants to occupy and control Lebanon, when in reality Israel is doing what the incompetent Lebanese government failed to do for decades. Israel wants to live in peace with its neighbors. It is the neighbors, driven by a divine mandate to erase Israel, who keep bringing out the worst in it.

A global inequality panel inspired by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is being proposed, because allegedly rising "inequality is now a systemic global risk." But in reality, global inequality is falling across many dimensions. #income-inequality" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">cato.org/policy-analysi…

Very disturbing. Another Chinese student has been caught sneaking dangerous pathogens into the US. This time at Indiana University. This follows multiple cases at the University of Michigan and dangerous labs in California and Nevada. justice.gov/usao-sdin/pr/i…