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Media and Politics. Mostly about Iran. Expect sarcasm and some rudeness. Using Twitter to kill time. English & German

Katılım Mart 2012
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Martyrs never die, they pave the way for the future
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Mir Mohammad Alikhan
Mir Mohammad Alikhan@MirMAKOfficial·
A Tribute In Farsi To The Iranian Soldiers. I wish you understood Farsi because it would have touched the inner most part of your soul if you understand Farsi. Buy listen anyway.
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@pepepito1983 Wieso verzweifelt? Er ist ein Ehrenmann, im Gegensatz zu Exiliranern. Wann warst du zuletzt im Iran? Eben!
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@ChrisHelali The biggest sign that this woman is not intelligent is that she still cannot speak English after living in Britain since 2009
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Christopher Helali
Christopher Helali@ChrisHelali·
Another reason why the Nobel is no indication of wisdom or intelligence…
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@RezaNasri1 He would rather be eliminated by Iran than following their dictated conditions after the war
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Reza Nasri
Reza Nasri@RezaNasri1·
According to The New York Times, Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman has urged the United States to continue its attacks on Iran. This position is disturbingly reminiscent of Saudi Arabia’s — and other Arab countries’ — alignment with Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s. Back then, Riyadh and its Arab partners provided financial, logistical, and diplomatic support to Saddam’s regime as it waged a brutal eight-year conflict against Iran, resulting in immense regional instability and setting in motion dynamics that ultimately proved detrimental to them as well. History has a way of repeating its warnings. Today, they seem to be repeating the same miscalculations without having learned any lessons from the past. So far, out of nobility, honor, and prudence — ever mindful of the unity and well-being of the broader Islamic world — Iran has not openly confronted them. That, however, does not mean Iran has been unaware of these schemes, this duplicity, and these plots directed against it and the region. Tehran has long observed the maneuvers while exercising self-restraint. Until now, many in Iran even argued that such actions were largely the result of U.S. pressure on its Persian Gulf neighbors. But these latest revelations demonstrate that, alongside the obvious material complicity — such as permitting the U.S. to use their territory and airspace to launch attacks on Iran — there is also a clear *mens rea* at work. In other words, these are not merely passive or coerced decisions. Arab leaders are consciously and deliberately taking steps to harm Iran, fully aware that the United States seeks domination over Iran's resources and that Israel is poised to turn Iran into a failed state. Such shortsighted behavior — siding with the U.S. and Israel against a Muslim neighbor with deep civilizational ties — and participation in what Iran perceives as an existential threat risk igniting wider conflagrations that no one can contain.
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Nima Tavallaey Roodsari
Nima Tavallaey Roodsari@NimaTavRood·
Only you didn't oppose the war. You & rest of "Iranian" diaspora shitlib western/Zionist bootlickers, spent ALL of last Dec - Jan daily manufacturing consent for this war spewing demonstrably false color revolution talking points pushed by Mossad/CIA who also were behind the hijacking of the protests turning them into riots, as confirmed now by even the NYT. You're scared now, back-pedaling, cause you've realized your cuck-Prince wont EVER set foot in Iran again. And neither will you & your ilk cause you've ALL committed treason.
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Arnaud Bertrand
Arnaud Bertrand@RnaudBertrand·
I don't think people realize just how extraordinary what we're witnessing with Iran is. I was arguing with a dear journalist friend of mine yesterday who was telling me that Iran was winning, yes, but only on the strategic level, not tactically. The type of thing a skinny kid getting stuffed in lockers in highschool tells himself to make himself feel better: "These people will BEG to work for me in ten years. Everyone knows jocks peak in highschool. They'll literally beg." 😏 I think that's precisely wrong, and that's what makes the Iran war different. As of now, Iran is in fact holding its own tactically too. Think about other U.S. wars of aggression these past few decades. Take Vietnam, Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq, Serbia, etc. (the list is unfortunately very long). The pattern was roughly always the same with an immense power differential between aggressor and victim. These wars were, by and large, imperial: the empire attempting to crush a much weaker people whose only realistic recourse was guerrilla resistance. And that is when they actually had the will to resist: some - like Libya - barely even bothered, just resigning themselves to their fate (despite being, at the time, the richest country in Africa). As spectators of these wars, if you had any moral sense, the dominant emotion was a kind of helpless disgust: you were watching a giant stomp through someone else's house. Sure, the U.S. actually lost many - if not most - of these wars, famously replacing the Taliban with the Taliban or being expelled with their tail between their legs from Vietnam, but the power differential was no less real for it. It's just that power doesn't always guarantee victory: sometimes the giant can't kill everyone, and eventually tires of trying. But the “victories” won this way were always pyrrhic at best: the people endured, yes, but what they were left with was a country in ashes that takes decades to rebuild. Meanwhile, in the grand scheme of things, the giant walked away with little more than a bruised ego. Iran is - remarkably - proving to be an entirely different beast: when others were merely surviving a giant, Iran appears to be able to compete with one. What just happened over the past 48 hours is the best illustration of this. You had the President of the United States issue a formal ultimatum: reopen the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours or we "obliterate" your power grid. Iran's response was essentially: we dare you, if you do this we'll make all your Gulf allies uninhabitable within a week. And, as we saw, Trump backed down: pretexting non-existent "VERY GOOD AND PRODUCTIVE CONVERSATIONS" with Iran, he said his ultimatum no-longer applied (or, rather, became 5 days). Adding he now envisaged the Strait of Hormuz being “jointly controlled by me and the Ayatollah.” To the amusement of Iran’s diplomacy (x.com/IraninSA/statu…). That, folks, is a textbook tactical victory. It is, remarkably, Iran demonstrating in this instance that it had escalation dominance over the United States of America. That is, the ability to credibly threaten consequences so severe that the US - for perhaps the first time since the Cold War - found it preferable to stand down. That's no skinny kid being locked in a locker dreaming of revenge fantasies. That's the kid grabbing the bully's wrist mid-shove and watching his face change. And it's not the only tactical victory in this war so far. Take the episode over the Israeli attack on Iran's South Pars gas facility. Iran had warned that if that happened U.S. allies in the region - including Israel - would face a symmetrical response. And they delivered: famously devastating Qatar's Ras Laffan facility - which produced roughly 20% of global LNG supply - and leading, according to Qatar themselves, to a $20 billion loss of annual revenue for the next 5 years (oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-…). Not only that but they also managed to hit Israel's Haifa refinery (aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/19…), one of the country's most strategic and protected sites. The result was Trump distancing himself from the South Pars attack, saying that Israel had "violently lashed out" unilaterally and that "NO MORE ATTACKS WILL BE MADE BY ISRAEL pertaining to this extremely important and valuable South Pars Field." Israel then said it wouldn't strike Iran energy sites anymore (bloomberg.com/news/articles/…). From where I stand, that's another tactical victory. It is, at least, Iran demonstrating that is can fight back **symmetrically** against the U.S. and its allies. Not through asymmetric resistance with IEDs hidden in the roadside or traps hidden in the jungle, but eye for eye, and against some of the most heavily protected sites on the U.S.'s side. That's qualitatively different from any other adversaries the U.S. has directly fought in recent wars. There's plenty more, such as the pretty relevant fact that Iran has gained control of the single most strategic energy chokepoint on earth and the U.S. is finding it impossible to break that control. To the point where Trump has been reduced to publicly begging China - of all countries - for help, which given Trump's ego mustn't have been easy to do. Only to be told no. By China. And by everyone else he asked. This is the topic of my latest article: how this is, in fact, the first genuine "multipolar war." First, in the narrow sense: because Iran is revealing itself to be a genuine pole of power - not a superpower, but an actor that cannot be submitted, which is all multipolarity is. And second, because the war itself is accelerating multipolarity everywhere else: the U.S. has never been more isolated, never looked weaker and its security guarantees have never been more hollow. In my article I lay out the full scoreboard - military, economic, political - and explain why this war has already changed the world, regardless of how it ends. Enjoy the read here: open.substack.com/pub/arnaudbert…
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@zei_squirrel Chavoshi as a singer is a once in a lifetime phenomenon. His talent is unparalleled.
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☀️👀@zei_squirrel·
Mohsen Chavoshi is one of the most popular and celebrated Iranian artists. When the Israeli-US-Epstein regime launched its murderous war on Iran, he made this viral song capturing the Iranian spirit of resilience and defiance, and exposing the depravity of Zionists and traitors
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Shahak Shapira@ShahakShapira·
Bin nicht für diesen Krieg und wie er geführt wird, aber wie kann man nicht einmal das Massaker der IRGC an den Iranern erwähnen? Wo ist das fucking Völkerrecht da?? „Mitten in Verhandlungen wird der Iran angegriffen" - 35000+ Tote, was gibts zu verhandeln. Die Stiefelleckerei bei diesem fanatischen Regime ist so feige und ignorant. Wir wissen alle, dass man den Iran nicht in den Frieden bombardieren, es muss was anderes passieren, aber man kann die Menschen dort jetzt nicht einfach ihrem Schicksal überlassen. Common Linke L.
Nurder Koch@NurderK

„Das Völkerrecht stirbt nicht mit einem großen Knall. Es stirbt leise durch die Missachtung demokratischer Staaten, die Völkerrechtsverstöße relativieren, wenn die Täter Verbündete sind. Den Krieg beginnen die Mächtigen, sterben tun jene, die an diesen Entscheidungen nicht beteiligt werden.“ @_lea_li

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Zhao DaShuai 东北进修🇨🇳
General Wesley Clark's famous "7 country in 5 years" admission. The interview was from 2007. He stated that the US had planned to invade 7 countries including Iran. And back then have already started to support terrorist groups to infiltrate into Iran to launch attacks. It's fascinating how the policy momentum continues despite the change in political rhetoric and ideological landscape within the US. It's as if there's an invisible hand moving the US along irrespective of who's the president or what they believe in, once in office they all serve that invisible hand.
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Trump chickens out 😂😂😂 No US president is stronger than the stock market
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Iran Screenshot@iranscreenshot·
Martyr Ali Larijani Burial Site Holy Shrine, Lady Masumeh, Qom
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@TankerTrackers It is you who slept through geography classes. Transit passage happens within territorial waters of Iran and Oman.
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Iran has the most moral army in the world
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Setareh Sadeqi 𓂆 ☫
Best time in history to be Iranian ❤️❤️❤️ So proud of my beloved homeland ❤️❤️ And its resilient and chivalrous men and women.
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@richimedhurst Fars News cited IRGC mentioning the missile attack on Arad
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Richard Medhurst
Richard Medhurst@richimedhurst·
Are the Israelis sure Iran hit Arad? I'm quite certain it was an errant Likud rocket.
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The New Arab
The New Arab@The_NewArab·
How is the war against Iran being framed in German media? We speak to political communication researcher Daniel Weissmann to examine how the coverage has shifted alongside Germany's evolving official stance. [video by @RashadAlhindi]
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