Suman Khanal

We the citizens of Nepal DESERVE so much better! But we are groomed by politicians and bureaucrats to get comfortable with, and get adjusted to #mediocrity, #incompetency and lies. [Taken from one of the statuses of @theliverdoc and modified for Nepali context.]

It's fine for the US to close Cuba's and Venezuela's waters, and it's fine for Israel to close Gaza's waters, but if Iran blocks the countries that waged war against it from the Strait of Hormuz, that's unacceptable?

Education can't teach this level of humanity.

Any media that says “Hormuz toll is illegal” without also saying “US-Israel War on Iran is illegal” is selectively applying international law in service of US imperialism—and is not a credible source of information.

So Americans need to see people eating outside, wearing western clothes and having nice cars to believe they're humans enough to not bomb them? I see.

"Never take your geographical luck for granted. The safety, freedom and comfort you live in are luxuries denied to millions. Not because they deserve any less, but because the world is unjust."

Palestinian child in Gaza: ‘The Israeli soldiers killed my mom, then took my dad away’

Nepali nurses and doctors are filling gaps in wealthier countries' health systems every day. The @WHO has a global framework to ensure source countries like Nepal get fair benefits in return. Worth using!

Forty days on, in memory of #168 students in #Minab, victims of a brutal terrorist attack by the #US and #Israel against a school, the Minab commemorative badge is worn by Iranian diplomats in #Geneva at every meeting, so the world never forgets those little angels . #Minab #NeverForget

@s_m_marandi @jaccocharite Why do you think they will have outrage? Read this ⬇️

There was zero outrage in the West for the slaughter of 254 people by Zionists in Lebanon yesterday, just as there was indifference about the 168 schoolgirls slaughtered by Americans in Iran 40 days ago. They slaughter every day, and the rest look away. youtu.be/vztPqEuiJ1Y?is…

@RnaudBertrand I am not yet convinced although I am on Iran’s side on this unprovoked and unnecessary aggression against a civilization where brutal aggressors killed so many innocent kids. I think it’s a trap. They are buying time for themselves and their GCC muppets to rearm.

The war with Iran will doubtlessly be studied for decades but what's already pretty clear at this stage is how much of a strategic defeat it is for the U.S. and Israel, perhaps the worst ever in their history (which is actually what former Israeli PM Yair Lapid already called it: x.com/yairlapid/stat…). I mean, how crazy is this: JP Morgan calculated (jpost.com/middle-east/ir…) that, as per the new Hormuz toll arrangement, Iran may get as much as $70-90 billion in additional annual revenue, representing a stunning 20% of its GDP, in extra revenue. Hilariously, Trump commented on Truth Social that the arrangement means “big money will be made” and “Iran can start the reconstruction process” (@realDonaldTrump/116367088879643074" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTru…). Damn right: they gained the single most valuable geographic rent on earth, by a huge margin. For comparison, the Suez Canal earns Egypt “only” $9-10B/year, and the Panama Canal about $5B. Stunning. Make no mistake, this establishes Iran as the new dominant power in the Middle-East. When you're a country that others need to effectively pay to do business in a region - which is what having a toll booth on Hormuz means in practice - you're no longer shut out of the global economy: you're the one charging admission. It's a phoenix rising from the ashes story if there ever was one (an apt metaphor since it comes from Persian mythology): after 47 years of sanctions, being the target of every trick in the book, and ultimately a war aimed at finishing them off, Iran is coming out the other end stronger than at any point in modern history. Above all, though, the most dramatic consequence of this war is what it means about U.S. power. As I argued in my previous article (open.substack.com/pub/arnaudbert…), this war is qualitatively different from other U.S. wars in the past few decades, such as Vietnam, Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq, Serbia, etc. (the list is unfortunately very long). In those wars the pattern was roughly always the same, with an immense power differential between aggressor and victim. These were imperial wars, the empire attempting to crush a much weaker people whose only realistic recourse was guerrilla resistance. As I wrote, 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. This war wasn’t at all like that: stunningly, Iran managed to hold its own symmetrically and tactically against the United States and Israel. This is an absolutely crucial difference because it changes what losing means. When the U.S. lost in Vietnam or Afghanistan, it was embarrassing but ultimately manageable - the giant walked away with a bruised ego, and the world shrugged. Empires lose to guerrillas sometimes, it doesn’t say much about the empire's ability to fight a real war. But losing symmetrically - losing when your most advanced stealth fighters get shot down from the sky, your military bases are neutered across an entire theater (x.com/RnaudBertrand/…), your most advanced missile defense systems get destroyed, your enemy seizes control of the world’s most strategic waterway, your navy can’t reopen it, and your “allies” get bombed unforgivingly despite your “protection” - that's a different kind of losing entirely. That tells the world the giant isn't such a giant anymore. This is the topic of my latest article: what the war revealed, what it destroyed, and what may come next. I titled the article "Don't bluff someone who can't fold." You'll understand why when you read the article here: open.substack.com/pub/arnaudbert…

in this post Bikrum Gill says that the position I expressed is Eurocentric, ignorant of Shia Islam, the strategy of the Axis of Resistance, anti-imperialism generally and also deterrence. He is being enthusiastically retweeted by all the Western pseudo-radical sloganeers. There is just one problem: My position is the same as the one expressed by what are smeared in the West as "hardliners" in Iran, who form the core mass revolutionary base of the Islamic Republic, and have devoted their lives to protecting it. They were the ones who first began pouring out on the streets when this phase of the war started, and stayed there for 40 days. They were the ones who did the same to smash the CIA-Mossad terrorist operation in January, and all the months and years before. And many of them have been martyred in defense of their nation and the axis of resistance more broadly, and happily so, as they see it as their religious and national duty and honor to fight and die for their people. They are the ones who have continuously said, all the way back to the JCPOA and before, that the actually Eurocentric Western collaborator Zionist faction in Iranian politics, the "reformists" as represented by Rouhani-Zarif, are traitors who will only bring disaster with their policy of cowardice, weakness, "strategic patience" in response to Israeli-US aggression. Bikrum Gill and those who are gleefully sharing his deranged actually Eurocentric rant masquerading as serious radical materialist analysis, are erasing the core mass revolutionary base of the Islamic Republic from existence, casting them as idiotic, ignorant, extremist fools who do not even understand their own religion of Shia Islam, let alone the intricacies of deterrence, anti-imperialism and the true meaning of the axis of resistance. They are too stupid. They need Cardiff University's Bikrum Gill to tell them about all this. Yes sure they were mass-murdered and maimed, but Gill, who sits in his ivory tower office calling them ignorant fools, is the one who really knows about the true nature of Shia Islam and resistance. And by extension, the faction that Gill represents and launders, the "reformists" Rouhani-Zarif. They are the true genius understanders of anti-imperialism and resistance and Shia Islam. Not the dirty idiotic foolish uneducated "hardliners". Ewww. They're gross and stupid. Bikrum Gill told us this, and he is at Cardiff University so he must know. No, it's actually the "reformists" who are the true revolutionaries in Iran, the ones whose entire existence is based on nothing but economic plunder of the nation and its sabotage to eagerly sell it out to the US-Israeli regime, so they can continue plundering even more. I understand why those who are in the West and don't know or bother to read anything about Iranian domestic politics find this kind of pseudo-radical larp to be attractive. I get it, you get to mindlessly cheerleader what you think is the official position of the Iranian state and the IRGC, and that's easy and simple and it coheres with your desire for a clear easy binary understanding of geopolitics. This side bad, that side good, and that's it. I don't need to know anything more, just hit retweet on Gill giving me the easy answer. I'm sorry, I just find that depraved and shameful myself. I'm not going to spout pseudo-radical sloganeering trash that means that I am smearing those very Iranians who are the primary material basis and soul of the Iranian nation, state, the IRGC, as ignorant fools who just need to shut up and listen to what the Bikrum Gills of the world, sitting in their Cardiff University armchairs, tells them is the True Path of Liberation. I just think that's vile and disgusting, to dishonor the memory of these people who have been martyred so I can larp as a radical online for likes and retweets. So I'm not going to do that. What I will do instead is what I've been doing all along, and expressing the view of what again are disgustingly smeared as "hardliners" in Iran, who are actually the most astute, intelligent, brilliant and devout people you can find anywhere on earth. I respect them. Unlike Bikrum Gill who hates and despises them and erases them from existence because he is a disgusting depraved hack, I venerate them. And they have been proven right about everything they have said for decades. They knew the JCPOA was a betrayal and would lead to disaster, while Zarif lied and said that actually it would save Iran and there was no way the US would not abide by it, and even was not able to if it wanted. They knew the war that was coming to their own land as the Gaza genocide commenced and they began targeting and bombing Iranians in Syria and Lebanon, and expanding the war further to Lebanon. And they gave analyses and proscriptions of what was to be done that if it had been followed, a lot of bloodshed and destruction would have been avoided. So I listen to them not just because they are the Iranians who represent the actual mass base of the Revolution, because that just leads you down the path of liberal standpoint epistemology of the variety employed by the Gills of the world, who are too lazy and stupid to engage in actual analysis. No, I listen to them because they are also correct. They have been vindicated. If you don't like that and you just want to the easy ra ra ra sloganeering shit, that's what you get from the Gills. They just do that. They don't do any actual analysis, they don't expose any propaganda, they don't do any actual meaningful work on anything, they just spout slogans and preen on podcasts that 10 people watch about how radical they really are.

Ali Zandvakili, a famous Iranian singer, sings alongside Iran's national railway lines in defense of his country's infrastructure.

@araghchi Could be a trap ! You need a very capable airforce and very efficient air defenses. Without these you are vulnerable. Get these if Iran is to prevail. They will attack again for sure. This is temporary pause for their rearmament.

Statement on behalf of the Supreme National Security Council of the Islamic Republic of Iran:

Let it be remembered in history We have never started a war. We have never invaded anyone. We have not killed children. We have protected our homeland, dearer to us than our lives.

US self-righteousness is insufferable. The "American people" played no role in this — other than as complicit beneficiaries of the imperialist system. All credit to Iran and the regional resistance for dealing a historic, humiliating, and permanent blow to US hegemony.

Trump’ın yok etmek istediği medeniyet .

You started the war, but Iran will set the conditions for its end. Iran's 10-point conditions that the US has accepted as "workable": The US is fundamentally committed to: 🔹 Non-aggression 🔹 Continuation of Iran's control over the Strait of Hormuz 🔹 Acceptance of enrichment 🔹 Lifting all primary sanctions 🔹 Lifting all secondary sanctions 🔹 Termination of all UN Security Council resolutions 🔹 Termination of all IAEA Board of Governors resolutions 🔹 Payment of compensation to Iran 🔹 Withdrawal of US combat forces from the region 🔹 Cessation of war on all fronts, including against the heroic Islamic Resistance of Lebanon.

In the history of the 21st century, Iran will be remembered as the bravest and most honourable country on the map. It has stood up against the most powerful nations in the world and held its ground with unmatched courage. Glory to Iran!

“If a father bathes his children, both will laugh, and if a son bathes his father, both will cry.” - Turkish Proverb

On the second day of popular Iranian composer Ali Ghamsari's sit-in protest at the Damavand Power Plant amid Trump's threats to attack Iran's energy infrastructure... He plays My Homeland.