The Facepalmed

I am 28 years old, and I have lived my entire life suffocating under the Islamic Republic. I am writing this from the streets of Tehran, nearly a month into a war, and let me tell you a truth that the outside world cannot seem to comprehend: My biggest fear right now is not the missiles. My paralyzing, everyday terror is walking out my front door and hitting an IRGC checkpoint. It is the sickening knot in my stomach when the people I love step outside, knowing they might get dragged away by these monsters. Nothing is, was, or ever will be worse than this regime. You cannot convince me otherwise. I am bleeding myself dry. I spend every ounce of my energy and money fighting this digital blackout, buying VPN after VPN just to force a connection through so I can be the voice of my people. And what do I see when I finally get online? Analysts sitting safely abroad telling us, *"You haven't tried all the paths yet!"* Are you out of your minds? The last "path" we took, over 40,000 of us didn't come home. On that path, a live bullet flew centimeters past my ear and right past the head of the most precious person in my life. I almost lost my best friend forever on that asphalt. What goddamn path is left to take? Why do you trample on the spilled blood of my compatriots? Why do you spend your time fighting Crown Prince @PahlaviReza instead of listening to a crushed, bleeding nation? Last night, I watched his speech. Do you know what I felt? Relief. The profound relief of hearing an honorable man echo the exact pain and demands of his people, with more precision than anyone else. And I felt pride. I felt absolute pride in the truth, structure, and beauty of his words. Do you know how heartbreaking it is that pride is a foreign, alien emotion for an Iranian today? He gave that back to us. We screamed his name with all our might. 40,000 of our fallen heroes signed his leadership with their own blood. Stop fighting our choice. Listen to us.

نادان را به از خاموشی نیست.

Why is that?

How can you possibly support Israel? Westerners who adopt the Palestinian cause from a place of distance and comfort struggle to understand people like me; people who come from the Arab world and have walked away from it. Some of us didn’t just walk away. We chose a side. I am the daughter of a Lebanese mother and a Syrian father. My mother is a child of the Lebanese Civil War—a war in which militias, backed and fueled in the name of the Palestinian cause, tore Lebanon apart. Lebanese killed Lebanese. A country was destroyed, not to save Lebanon, but to serve a broader ideological project. My father is Syrian. I grew up watching what regimes and militias did in Syria and Lebanon while constantly hearing that all of it was Israel’s fault. That was the story. But it didn’t match reality. We lived humiliation, corruption, fear. We stood for hours at checkpoints, bribed officials for basic rights, feared prisons where people disappeared. We watched regimes claim to fight for Palestine while crushing their own people without mercy. And still, we were told to sacrifice more. For Palestine. At our expense. So yes, let me be clear: Do I stand with Israel against those who destroyed our countries in the name of that cause? Any day. Anytime. Because I have seen what they did to us. And when I went to Israel, I saw something I was never supposed to see: a functioning country—a society with rights, accountability, and dignity—something my own region denied us. That doesn’t mean Israel is perfect. It means the story I was told was incomplete—and dangerously so. So when you ask, “How can you possibly support Israel?” Understand this: Some of us are not speaking from ideology. We are speaking from experience. And no, we were not paid or manipulated. We changed our minds when we finally saw the full picture. #Israël #lebanon #israel #FreeIranNow

True.

🚨 🚨 🚨 HAPPENING NOW: Iran and their Lebanese proxy Hezbollah firing simultaneous missiles at northern Israel.

YO ESTOY CON IRÁN 🇮🇷🫡❤️

Well, your ships and your airforce don’t.

❤️🇾🇪🇮🇷 I STAND WITH IRAN & YEMEN

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The Iranian regime is deliberately aiming at Israeli civilians. Targeting and firing at schools, homes, residential neighborhoods. Putting entire communities in harms way.

We don’t want a weak Iran. We don’t want a broken or fractured Iran. We don’t want a resourceless Iran. We want a free Iran — without the Islamic regime, reflecting the will of the people. That is how we make Iran great again….and the entire region.

I’m Persian I’m not Muslim

@gidonsaar @sanchezcastejon

When Iranian missile struck near to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, @sanchezcastejon had nothing to say. Sánchez — who won’t even wish Spanish citizens with a “Merry Christmas” — never misses an opportunity to incite against Israel. Israel is committed to freedom of religion and worship and will continue to uphold it, unlike the Iranian regime — that openly supports Sánchez.

❤️🇾🇪🇮🇷 AMERICAN PATRIOTS STAND WITH YEMEN & IRAN!

Same guy, same shirt, different scenes. straight Islamic Republic propaganda. Nobody buys your pathetic lies anymore.

@EYakoby Coward and fucking liars.... No one will help you now that you attack Catholic priests, burn same way you burn people

Mi admiración al pueblo persa 🇮🇷 por su coraje, valentía y dignidad 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Are you agree

@HananyaNaftali Bla bla and more bla ...

BREAKING: Iranian missile hits Israeli factory in Beersheba. Massive damage as Iran targets civilians.