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@IBetancourtCol Iran deserves better than a transition from one radical system to an Islamic Marxist cult. This organization does NOT represent the people and has no place in Iran’s future

This woman leads Iran’s resistance. She calls for ending tyranny and for unity with Iranians suffering. The regime threatens the world, but first its own people. The January 2026 bloodshed marked a point of no return. Iran must move toward democracy; Rajavi’s call is a first step toward national unity. Message from Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of… maryam-rajavi.com/en/message-tra…

Thank you for presenting historical fact and contrasting those countries to Iran. The agreements signed after WWI created nation states of multi ethnic and religious groups that never operated under 1 unit ever in history let alone being led by a non-native (Hachemite) who was only put in power as a favor returned for helping the British in the war.

“Regime change doesn’t work” Iraq: Fake country created by Sykes / Pichot. 60/30/10 split between Shia, Sunni and Kurd. Oil in Shia and Kurdish areas but not Sunni. Initial ruling family was Hashemite from Hejaz (ie not Iraq), imposed by British. Sunni dictator ran country for 30+ years before regime change. During Ottoman period, it was governed by 5+ different administrative regions Syria: Fake country created by Sykes / Pichot. 75% Sunni. Little oil. Initial ruling family was Hashemite from Hejaz (ie not Syria), imposed by French. Run by various Sunni dictators until Assad regime took control. They are part of 10% Alawite minority. During Ottoman period was principally split between two major provinces (Aleppo and Damascus). Libya: Fake country. Tribal society that wasn’t post colonial until 1950s. Iran (Persia): One of the oldest civilizations in the world. While religious makeup has evolved, Persian is a 2,500 year old language.

@Doranimated @EldarMamedov4 chime in to get the message clearly communicated to @Doranimated

@Doranimated Your point about borders being products of conquest and contingency is true in the abstract for ALL states — this is a universal characteristic of every major nation state. Borders do change over time in every region of the world. First — saying there’s “nothing ancient, natural, or durable” about Iran’s borders is a lazy half-truth. Iran’s core frontiers show real continuity. The western boundary with the Ottomans was fixed in 1555 and reaffirmed in 1639, and it still largely defines Iran’s border with Iraq and Turkey today. That’s ~400 years of persistence(1.6x the life of the USA and 5x the life of Israel). Geography, settlement patterns, and long-standing state institutions matter. Second — the modern contours of Iran were shaped through long historical processes, not random accidents: Treaties of Gulistan (1813) and Turkmenchay (1828). In other words, Iran’s borders—LIKE ALL BORDERS—are contingent, but they are also historically coherent, geographically grounded, and unusually durable. Pretending otherwise is erasure dressed up as analysis and introduces a fragmentation argument which is archaic and proven to have failed time and time again.

This is what “Iran” looked like around the year 1000. For the next five centuries, the Iranian plateau existed in shifting, fragmented forms under competing dynasties. What we now call modern Iran was unified only in the early 1500s—by the Safavids, an Azerbaijani Turkic dynasty. Shah Ismail was from Ardabil. Azerbaijanis built the "Persian" state. There is nothing ancient, natural, or inevitable about Iran’s current borders—which, like all borders, are a product of power, conquest, and historical contingency.

This framing is a relic of 1920s colonial thinking—the same logic used to justify carving up societies from afar. That experiment produced a century of chaos, war, and authoritarianism across the region. Treating fragmentation as a policy option isn’t prudence; it’s recycling a demonstrated failure. It should be retired from serious discourse, not revived under a new label.

"For U.S. policymakers, betting on a stable, centralized Iran may prove as risky as betting on fragmentation," @Doranimated writes. wapo.st/4q6Pne0

Fragmented Iran” isn’t an analytical insight—it’s a speculative fantasy with no serious historical grounding. Iran is a multi-ethnic nation with a shared civilizational identity, language continuum, and Persian tradition that has held for centuries—often under far worse conditions than today. There is a reason Iran is one of the few non Arab speaking nations in the Middle East…these countries all had their own languages in the past before Islam and Arabic dominated the region. Treating disintegration as a serious policy baseline isn’t realism; it’s importing external anxieties onto a society that has repeatedly demonstrated cohesion under pressure.

I appeared in the WashPost today. Is Iran a multiethnic nation or a Persian dominated empire? No one knows. No one can know. The unity of the country is not inevitable. Nor is fragmentation. President Trump should plan for uncertainty, consult broadly across Iran’s ethnic spectrum and with key neighbors—especially Azerbaijan—and resist choosing Iran’s future leadership from afar. Turbulence is coming regardless.

@melkaylan Get your facts straight before putting an article like this out there. This is a staggeringly bad idea. A fragmented Iran would be a disaster for the region—civil war, refugee waves, militia rule, and nonstop proxy conflict from the Caucasus to the Gulf. And the claim that Iran’s borders are “artificial” doesn’t hold up to historical facts. Iran is one of the few states in the region that preserved its territorial borders through modern history. Unlike post-Ottoman states—Jordan, Syria, Israel, Iraq, Kuwait—whose borders were carved up by outsiders under Sykes-Picot and related agreements, Iran’s borders predate and outlast imperial map-drawing. Breaking up a coherent historical state doesn’t weaken chaos; it creates it.

A fractured Iran might not be so bad. Its borders are artificial, and a breakup would frustrate the interests of Russia, China and others, writes @melkaylan on.wsj.com/4qSuHac

History reality check — even as new forms of energy have arrived, usage of the existing ones has continued to increase. Europe burns 3x as much wood as it did at the start of the 20th century, and global coal production is at record highs.

Speculative capex doesn’t magically guarantee margins. Who’s picking up the tab if the lights go off?

@joechalom $ETH utility being recognized and integrated into the core financial plumbing

JP Morgan permitting Bitcoin and Ethereum as loan collateral for institutions is a big leap forward for digital assets. The largest US bank is signaling that digital assets are mature enough to sit alongside treasuries and equities as institutional-grade collateral. While the impact on Bitcoin is high, the implications for $ETH are even more profound. $ETH isn’t just a store of value - it’s a productive asset. Having worked at BlackRock, I’ve seen how these incremental steps from the launch of $ETH ETFs to the use of $ETH as collateral steadily build institutional confidence. Each layer of adoption makes the next one inevitable. The message is clear: high-quality digital assets like $ETH are becoming integral to the modern financial system.

The institutionalization of $ETH accelerates.⁦@jpmorgan⁩ now let institutional clients pledge $BTC and $ETH as collateral for loans. Pivotal moment for integrating digital assets into traditional finance. #ETH #JPMorgan #TradFi #DigitalAssets bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

@TheDavidPiv @grok are these stats accurate ?

This is one of the best indicators of impending economic disaster there is.

@Louis_Tellier @swiftcommunity Legacy rails won’t disappear overnight — they’ll integrate. SWIFT testing on Ethereum shows where institutional trust is headed. #Ethereum #DigitalAssets #Blockchain

🚨 Just in: After its blockchain pilot, @swiftcommunity has introduced a tokenization platform by deploying a tokenized bond on Sepolia, Ethereum’s testnet👇 The live demo took place during Sibos, the event organized by Swift in Frankfurt, Germany 🇩🇪 , running since Monday and concluding today. The showcase involved the tokenization of a eurobond, just days after Clearstream and Euroclear announced they had developed a standard to digitize the eurobond market. The tokenized asset was deployed on Sepolia, Ethereum’s testnet. Transaction address: 0x9912AC4dfd70E220038D59AdEC35f1D89E396E95 Even though the demo took place on a testnet, it is technically already fully possible on live blockchains. 🎯 How does the platform work? → It enables the definition of a common standard for any tokenized asset (e.g., eurobond, stablecoin, fund). → Each standard is linked to an implementation through modular smart contracts compatible with all EVM blockchains (L1, L2). → Once defined, the smart contracts can be deployed onchain. The platform then manages the full lifecycle of the asset (issuance, secondary trading, delivery-versus-payment settlement) in order to meet the required compliance levels. → Issuance is designed to be compatible with existing financial standards (ISO 20022, ICMA) as well as traditional infrastructures (custodians, dealers, ICSD). 🎯 Even more interesting… → Participants (banks, fintechs, Web3 developers) can contribute their own modules to a community hub. These modules (audited and standardized) can then be reused by other institutions. “For now, the platform is limited to partners, but it will soon open up to all institutions,” we were told on site. 👉 The core technology was developed by @FeverTokens, a French 🇫🇷 start-up specializing in smart contract libraries. 📺 Video of the demo here👇 We’ll be following this topic at @block_stories. To subscribe, check the first comment on this post👇

@naval Not quite. Stablecoins monetize trust; CBDCs monetize control. Stablecoins are market-driven, opt-in, and programmable — the opposite of state-controlled CBDCs. #Crypto #DeFi #Stablecoins

Stablecoins are just CBDCs with extra steps.

@Ashcryptoreal Regulatory clarity + tax alignment = institutional green light. This is how adoption scales. #Crypto #Bitcoin #Ethereum

BREAKING: 🇺🇸 US TREASURY EXEMPTS BITCOIN & CRYPTO FROM 15% CORPORATE MINIMUM TAX. BULLISH 🚀

1 % of @Walmart 2025 sales = $6.5 B. Put that on-chain → ~13k #ETH burned / yr (~35 per day assuming a consumer spends on average $100 per transaction) That’s ~¼ of all ETH burned today. Now imagine @amazon, @Costco, @Shopify. Stablecoins = #Ethereum demand engine

Tokenization of assets is a ‘freight train’ coming to major markets cnbc.com/2025/10/02/tok…

Every industrial revolution feels like a bubble at first. The question isn’t if this lasts, but how long. Usually longer than anyone thinks — and it always changes the world as we know it.

@pickeringenergy One of the best performing SPAC outcomes we’ve seen — $OKLO. Markets are clearly rewarding the SMR story for now @pickeringenergy

After today's +30% move, nuclear SMR player $OKLO has a $20B market cap (bigger than $HAL, about the size of $DVN). Next week will bring sellsiders finding ways to justify price target increases. And if they're smart, $OKLO will sell a lot of stock. What a market...