Pats in AZ
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Pats in AZ
@Pats8686
Human with brain, self-respect, empathy, and endless love for animals, freedom and justice.





As an Iranian inside Iran, still connected through Starlink in the middle of the blackout, I just saw President Trump’s latest post and the message is crystal clear:“Iran can’t get their act together… NO MORE MR. NICE GUY!” Mr. President, on behalf of the vast majority of Iranians, thank you. We are living in this exhausting limbo — neither war nor peace. The anxiety is crushing. Economic pressure is mounting on everyone: ordinary people who have already been suffocated for 47 years, and even the Islamic regime itself is starting to crack under the weight. We are willing to endure it all. We have endured worse. But this time we need to know the regime will fall and that our suffering will not be in vain.President Trump, we have been begging the free world for this exact stance for decades: stop treating the Islamic Republic nicely. You are finally doing what we always asked for. The celebrations we had in the streets after you removed Khamenei were unlike anything seen in Iran for 47 years. People danced, cried, hugged strangers — pure joy mixed with relief. We welcomed the removal of every regime leader and agent that followed. That moment proved to us: the world is finally listening. For 47 years we have lived under systematic torture, rape, murder, executions, humiliation and grief. We tried protests, reform, negotiation — everything. The regime’s only answer was bullets and gallows. Now we say it again, louder than ever: Anything to be free. Anything to end this evil. The Iranian people want to be free. We have lived in a world the outside barely understands. Whatever comes next — if it ends the Islamic Republic — we will accept the cost.Because the cost of this regime staying in power is infinitely higher. Thank you, President Trump. The Lion and Sun is rising. 🦁☀️ #IranMassacre #IranRevolution2026 #KingRezaPahlaviForIran





I don’t think most Americans have any real sense of just how sophisticated and massive this whole operation against the Islamic regime has been. Even a lot of Trump supporters, probably picture it as some straightforward military thing. But for those of us who have lived under this system, it’s on another level entirely. However, we are understandably exhausted and hyper-focused, worrying about basic safety that it’s hard for us to step back and appreciate the bigger picture. We don’t talk much, but it doesn’t mean we don’t see it. We Iranians know war. My mother’s generation lived for 8 horrific years in the shadow of Saddam, a madman even crazier and more brutal than this regime in many ways. They endured constant bombings, cities turned to rubble, chemical attacks, families ripped apart, and massive displacement. For my generation, those years left childhood nightmares that never fully went away. We know amputated fathers, martyred neighbors, streets full of mourning, endless death, and helplessness. We know what real war is. This operation was nothing like that. Unlike the Iran-Iraq war, where civilians were deliberately targeted to create maximum death, suffering, and destruction, this was meticulously designed to separate the regime and its military machine from the Iranian people. It was remarkably successful in that regard. The vast majority of the hardship ordinary Iranians faced didn’t come from the strikes themselves. It came from the regime’s own incompetence, sabotage, and desperation. They cut the internet for days to control the narrative abroad, wrecked businesses and the economy with their chaotic responses, and kept their own people in the dark. That part was all them. There is another thing, we Iranians know this regime like the back of our hand. It’s not some abstract evil. It’s like stage-four cancer: incompetent at actually running a country, ugly and corrupt to its core, yet incredibly strong in spreading fear, hatred, and pulling out the worst in human nature. Removing something this entrenched, in a country as vast and regionally complicated as Iran, required an intelligence and planning effort that is honestly mind-blowing. What blows my mind is the Israeli intelligence work. We’re not talking just names and addresses. They’ve mapped behaviors, personalities, decision-making patterns, the whole human side of that rotten system. It’s like they know it inside out. The planning was deeply coordinated with US, with Israel leading on the technical, intelligence, and precision execution level, while the U.S. directed the overall strategy and brought the power and coordination to make it happen. The precision was unreal: cutting-edge, top-notch technology, the best specialists in the world, and targeting that actually feels more like a surgical rescue mission than old-school war. From where I sit, Trump directed the overall strategy and brought the raw power: choking off the regime’s money, isolating it internationally, cutting the lifelines from Europe and some Arab states. That created the conditions for this to actually land. On the psychological side and negotiations, it feels like Trump played the big-picture game, timing the pressure, the deterrence, and the right mix of fear and openings to get maximum results with as little unnecessary cost as possible. I really hope Americans come to recognize the courage, professionalism, and skill of their military and the patriots in the administration in this. Right now, it feels like we’re nowhere close to giving them the credit this level of work has earned. For us Iranians who have suffered so long, this wasn’t about destruction. It was about finally creating a chance for something better. We will be forever grateful. #ThankYouTrump #miga





@MSAlmalik We love Christian Iran!



🚨 BREAKING: TRUMP SAYS HE’S BEEN “SCREAMING AT IRAN ALL DAY” 😳🔥 “They DON’T understand NICE… NO DEAL? BOMBS AWAY!” 💣 NAVY Destroyers are “ARMED TO THE TEETH” and the PENTAGON says they’re “LOCKED AND LOADED” 🔥 THE CORE OF IRAN’S ECONOMY HAS ALREADY BEEN BLOWN TO PIECES…. NOW THE U.S. BLOCKADE IS GOING GLOBAL 🚢📉 IRAN is GIVING UP… POTUS says they’re HANDING OVER THEIR “NUCLEAR DUST” 🔥







