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Young leftist women in 1979, holding up a picture of Ayatollah Khomeini, calling for the modern-day version of the intifada. Here’s the difference. They won. At the time, women in Iran had unparalleled rights, beyond anywhere else in the Middle East. They had full suffrage, could hold high office, freedom of dress, and were present in parliament, courts, ministries, and diplomacy. They were widely educated and professionally active in law, medicine, engineering, academia, and the arts. In terms of civil and legal rights, they were equal to—and in some cases ahead of—western women in the 1970’s. Yet, it wasn’t enough. They wanted revolution. They had been seduced by the false promises. They wanted the Islamist figure who swore to free the oppressed from the oppressor and bring about heaven on earth, a utopia in Iran. We all know how this story ends. Lynchings, eye gauging, amputations, and mass graves. Now, westerners are falling about themselves in the same giddy delirium, hungry for a glimpse of the nightmare Iranians still haven’t woken up from. I guess that’s why they say those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.

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It looks more and more like that Israel will mostly handle that. We hope they have in place a plan to arm Iranians.

Trump is losing trust among people inside, they see the recent bombings affect civilian infrastructure and start believing the regime propaganda. They see Iraqi militia coming with zero reaction from US, they start believing theories of US throwing them to the wolves. Trump shooting himself in the foot.

اولین واکنش از ایران رسید: این جنگ و کاری که امریکا داره میکنه و چیزایی که ترامپ داره میگه و تهدیداش واسه حمله به جاهای غیرنظامی مردم رو تو ایران خیلی ناراحت کرده…حتی اونایی که اولش طرفدار این جنگ بودنو لحظه شماری میکردن براش… چرا دارن پل هارو میزنن…. امروز یه پل رو توی کرج دوبار زدن 🤦‍♀️… اخه این چه کمکی به رفتن ج.ا میکنه…به علاوه صنایع غیرنظامیِ دیگه توی شهرا .. البته که دیگه فکر نکنم کاری از دست کسی بربیاد… جنگ انگار از کنترل خارج شده… بی منطق شده… جنگ زده شدیم… میدونی خیلی ناراحت کنندس چیزی که بهش امید داشتی که وضع رو درست کنه الان تبدیل شده به یه چیز بدتر که فقط وضع رو بدتر میکنه و احساس فریب خوردن کنی.. معلومه که ج.ا منافع ایرانو به گا میده… چون براش ایران و مردمش مهم نیستن… بعد اونوقت ترامپ داره با چیزی تهدید میکنه ج.ا رو که براش مهم نیس تازه خوششم میاد .. امیدوارم حداقل نتیجه داشته باشه… مردم امریکا موافقن با جنگ ترامپ ؟ صابخونه‌مون چند روز پیش ۲۱۰ میلیون رهن خونمون رو افزایش داد… داریم پولش رو جمع میکنیم.. و وقتی پولش رو بدیم تقریبا بی پولِ بی‌پول میشیم.. این یه گیگ وی‌پی‌ان که الان دارم تست رایگانه، این تموم بشه دیگه نمیتونم بخرم ... اگه روزی ۵۰ مِگ استفاده کنم میتونم ۲۰ روز این یه گیگ رو نگه دارم.. اما الان فقط با چت اینجا ۶۵ مگ مصرف شد … واقعا فکر نمیکردم یه روز به چنان بدبختی ای بیوفتم که دونه تعداد مگ های مصرفیمو حساب کنم

Your recent rhetoric, talking in extreme terms and threatening catastrophic destruction, probably won’t have the effect you’re aiming for. Authoritarian regimes tend to turn that kind of language into propaganda, using it to reinforce a “we’re under attack” narrative and rally people around them. Comments like “sending Iran back to the Stone Age” can actually help them justify repression and shift attention away from their own internal problems. It can also backfire politically, both internationally and inside the US, where these kinds of threats are often seen as disproportionate and harmful to civilians. That kind of backlash can make it harder to build support for any broader strategy. A more effective approach is to clearly separate the regime from the population. Focus on the IRGC’s leadership, its mid-level operators, and the financial/logistical networks that keep it running. At the same time, civilian infrastructure, especially electricity and water, should be treated as off-limits and as clear red lines. Targeting the coercive core while protecting everyday life is more likely to weaken the regime without strengthening its grip or pushing the population further into its narrative. Example: Many Iranians see Iraqi militias crossing the border and operating alongside the IRGC with little to no visible response, and they’re questioning it. That’s exactly the kind of pressure point where enforcement would have the most impact, yet it’s being left unaddressed. When clearly defined redlines aren’t acted on, it raises doubts about whether there’s real intent to support the outcome people are hoping for.

Back to the Stone Age.

رهبران اپوزیسیون باید این پیام را به کاخ سفید برسانند: "مشروعیتِ ضربه نظامی شما، تنها در صورتی حفظ می‌شود که جاده‌صاف‌کنِ اراده مردم ایران باشد، نه بولدوزر تخریب خانه‌هایشان." تاریخ معاصر ایران هرگز تا این حد با معادلات پیچیده قدرت‌های جهانی گره نخورده بود. امروز در حالی که صدای طبل جنگ و تهدیدهای بی‌سابقه از واشینگتن به گوش می‌رسد ایران نه تنها در آستانه یک تغییر سیاسی بلکه در خطر ورود به یک چرخه ویرانگر قرار گرفته است که می‌توان آن را فرسایش مدیریت شده نامید. در تئوری‌های کلاسیک امنیت فرض بر این است که قدرت‌های بزرگ به دنبال سرنگونی دشمنان خود هستند اما نگاهی سرد و واقع‌گرایانه نشان می‌دهد که برای برخی بازیگران جهانی یک ایران ضعیف و منزوی گزینه‌ای امن‌تر از یک ایران دموکراتیک و مستقل است. فرسایش طولانی مدت به معنای خروج دائمی سرمایه و فرار مغزها و تبدیل شدن یک قدرت تاریخی به یک فضای مسئله است که به راحتی قابل مدیریت و مهار باشد. در مقابل یک ایران بازسازی شده که نفوذ خود را بر پایه منافع ملی اعمال کند توازن قوای منطقه را به شکلی پیش‌بینی‌ناپذیر تغییر می‌دهد که لزوما برای همه خوشایند نیست. تهدیدهای اخیر دونالد ترامپ مبنی بر حملات سنگین و بازگرداندن ایران به عصر حجر پارادوکسی عمیق ایجاد کرده است. مشروعیت هرگونه اقدام بین‌المللی علیه ساختار فعلی وام‌دار فداکاری‌های بی‌شمار مردم ایران در خیابان‌ها و قیام‌هایی است که در آن هزاران نفر جان خود را فدا کردند تا پیامی روشن به جهان مخابره کنند. زمانی که رهبران جهانی مدعی حمایت از مردم ایران می‌شوند یک تعهد اخلاقی بزرگ ایجاد می‌کنند. تغییر لحن از حمایت از آزادی به تهدید زیرساخت‌های حیاتی مانند شبکه آب و برق نه تنها توهینی به تمدن ایران است بلکه نادیده گرفتن حقوق شهروندانی است که خود قربانی اصلی وضعیت موجود هستند. رهبران بزرگ برای ساختن تلاش می‌کنند نه برای ویران کردن. تخریب زیرساخت‌ها لزوما به تغییر رژیم منجر نمی‌شود بلکه کشوری نیمه‌ویران و جامعه‌ای خشمگین به جای می‌گذارد که درگیر تنازع بقا برای ابتدایی‌ترین نیازهای خود است. بزرگترین خطای محاسباتی واشینگتن می‌تواند در یکسان‌انگاری مراکز قدرت رژیم و زیرساخت‌های تمدنی ایران نهفته باشد. برای پایان دادن به سلطه استبداد نیازی به تخریب نیروگاه‌های برق یا تصفیه‌خانه‌های آب نیست. هدف باید قطع اعصاب مرکزی سیستم باشد نه قطع شریان‌های حیات مردم. اپوزیسیون ایران باید به دولت ترامپ تفهیم کند که نابودی زیرساخت‌های غیرنظامی نه‌تنها رژیم را ساقط نمی‌کند بلکه باعث می‌شود میلیون‌ها ایرانی که اکنون به دنبال تغییر هستند درگیر رنجی مضاعف شوند. استراتژی جایگزین باید بر حملات نقطه‌زن علیه سرمایه‌های اختصاصی سپاه و مجتمع‌های اقتصادی نهادهای امنیتی متمرکز باشد. حذف عملیاتی رأس هرم سرکوب فضای تنفسی لازم را به جامعه مدنی برای تعیین تکلیف نهایی می‌دهد بدون آنکه کشور را به ویرانه‌ای غیرقابل سکونت تبدیل کند. دونالد ترامپ به عنوان کسی که خود را معامله‌گر بزرگ می‌داند باید درک کند که یک ایران پسا جمهوری اسلامی با زیرساخت‌های سالم یک فرصت اقتصادی بی‌نظیر برای بازگشت به بازار جهانی و ثبات منطقه است. اگر ایران به عصر حجر بازگردد به جای آنکه شریکی برای صلح و تجارت باشد به یک سیاهچاله انسانی تبدیل می‌شود که دهه‌ها میلیاردها دلار هزینه روی دست جامعه جهانی خواهد گذاشت تا از بروز بحران پناهندگان و تروریسم ناشی از فقر جلوگیری کنند. رهبران اپوزیسیون باید این پیام را به کاخ سفید برسانند که مشروعیت ضربه نظامی تنها در صورتی حفظ می‌شود که جاده‌صاف‌کن اراده مردم ایران باشد نه بولدوزر تخریب خانه‌هایشان. تهدید به نابودی برق و آب اعتماد همان نسلی را می‌سوزاند که قرار است معماران ایران نوین و متحدان آینده جهان باشند. در این لحظه حساس نقش نیروهای سیاسی مخالف فراتر از اعتراض صرف است. آن‌ها باید به عنوان ضامن منافع ملی عمل کنند و با ارائه یک نقشه هدف‌گیری سیاسی دقیق بر اهدافی تأکید کنند که مستقیماً قدرت سرکوب را فلج می‌کند در حالی که شبکه برق و آب شهری را به عنوان خط قرمز ملی حفظ می‌نمایند. ایران در آستانه یک زایمان تاریخی است. ضربات نظامی اگر مانند جراحی برای خارج کردن تومور باشد می‌تواند نجات‌بخش باشد اما اگر مانند پتک بر پیکره تمدنی ایران فرود آید تنها به فرسایشی منجر می‌شود که در آن برنده اصلی نه مردم ایران و نه صلح جهانی بلکه هرج‌مرج خواهد بود. انتخاب میان عصر حجر یا عصر نوین آزمونی بزرگ برای رهبری در واشینگتن و سازماندهی در اپوزیسیون ایران است. جلوگیری از فرسایش ملی حاصل یک تصمیم و کنش آگاهانه است تا حفظ زیرساخت‌های تمدنی و انسجام ملی به عنوان خط قرمز هرگونه تغییر سیاسی تثبیت شود.

The issue isn’t just when enrichment levels increased—it’s whether the regime ever intended to abide by its obligations in good faith in the first place. The nuclear restrictions under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action were only one layer. The deeper obligation comes from commitments to the International Atomic Energy Agency and the broader non-proliferation framework, where the regime has long claimed, on moral, religious, and political grounds, that it does not seek nuclear weapons at all. That claim is supposed to hold regardless of any one deal, any one president, any one timeline. So if particles enriched close to weapons-grade show up, the question isn’t “before or after 2018?” The real question is: why does this exist at all if they supposedly never wanted nuclear weapons in the first place? And this is where the pattern matters. This isn’t one data point, it’s a long trail of red flags. You have the archive of tens of thousands of nuclear documents seized by Israel, over 55,000 pages and files, showing structured weapons planning, including plans to build multiple nuclear warheads and prepare for underground testing. That’s not speculation, that’s documented intent. You have evidence of work on detonation systems, neutron triggers, and explosive diagnostics, things that have no civilian purpose. You have the steady development of advanced ballistic missile systems, including long-range and hypersonic capabilities, which make sense in a nuclear delivery contex. You have insiders and officials over the years openly talking about the need and the secrete plan to pursue nuclear weapons, only for those statements to be walked back later with “he doesn’t represent us” excuses, even when those individuals are clearly part of the system, or the previous insider. And then there’s the question of infrastructure: why build enrichment facilities deep inside fortified mountains, hardened and militarized, at enormous cost? That’s not how you design a civilian program for hospitals, research labs, or energy needs. That’s how you protect a strategic military capability from detection and attack. And look at the broader militarization of the country itself: thousands of missile silos, underground “missile cities,” automated launch systems buried beneath the earth. The whole country turned into a garrison, while a massive portion of the population (by now over half) lives under the poverty line, struggling for bread, meat, water, electricity, clean air, and basic survival. Infrastructure is collapsing, but resources (estimated $30 to $50 Billions) are poured into long-range strike systems. Projections suggest that if Iran had focused on its natural gas and oil infrastructure rather than nuclear enrichment, the economy could be $500 billion to $800 billion larger today. This represents nearly two generations of lost GDP growth. Why? What priority does that reflect? And let’s be blunt about it: this is a regime that has massacred over 40,000 of its own citizens in a matter of days! young, unarmed civilians, shot in the head and chest, in the streets protesting, some even targeted in hospital beds. Think about that number, over 40,000 young Iranians were murdered by the IRGC regime in span of 72 hours in January 2026. Think about what that says. A system that treats its own people like that, does anyone seriously believe it’s going to show restraint toward its enemies? What do people think “death to America” and “death to Israel” means when it’s been official rhetoric for 47 years? This isn’t a slogan you can just wave away. Did these slogans stop after Obama's JCPA was signed in 2015? No. Because it reflects an ideological commitment. When they say it, they mean it, that’s their official policy, that’s the direction, that’s their priority. And here’s another hard reality people ignore: even at 60% enrichment, you’re already dangerously close. Technical analyses show that material at that level can be used to construct a crude nuclear device with further processing or alternative design approaches. So the idea that everything hinges on crossing some neat “90% line” is misleading to begin with. And even if you accept the most charitable interpretation, that the regime only wanted to be a “threshold” nuclear state, sitting just weeks away from building a bomb, would you trust a regime like this with that kind of capability? Knowing its ideology, its brutality, its track record? That’s like asking whether you would have trusted Osama bin Laden to be just weeks away from a nuclear weapon before carrying out the September 11 attacks. How would you feel about that sitting in your cozy home in America? This isn’t behavior that suddenly appeared after 2018. This is continuity. The documents show intent going back decades. The infrastructure shows long-term planning. The rhetoric shows consistency. The behavior shows willingness. So no, this isn’t about whether one side “broke” a deal first. If the commitment were real, if the claim “we don’t seek nuclear weapons” actually meant something, then none of this activity would make sense under any circumstances. You don’t pivot into weapons-adjacent behavior just because a deal falls apart. That only happens if the intention was always there. You have to stop arguing over the timeline and start looking at the pattern. x.com/TheIranWatcher…

@spiralgazer @McFaul What is this BS you are spouting? The IAEA found those particles in 2023. Trump withdrew from the JCPOA in 2018. FIVE YEARS EARLIER! Yet you have the nerve to claim this reflects badly on the JCPOA? They stopped following the agreement after WE tore it up! 🤦🏻‍♂️

Do you remember what the enrichment cap was for Iran under the JCPOA before Trump tore it up? 3.67%.

These are the only U.S. options with the Islamic Republic: ❌ Leave: IRGC rebuilds, retaliates, and chaos triggers migration and militias. Politically unsustainable. ❌ Strike + seize oil and Leave: Afghanistan 2.0. Long occupation, steady casualties, eventual withdrawal, instability remains. ❌ Limited deal (uranium + missiles) and Leave. Temporary fix. Iran shifts deeper toward China and Russia, long-term problem stays. ✅ TOTAL Regime change. (ONLY success solution) Remove top IRGC and the core suppression apparatus, then create conditions for internal change. People will come out. Future Iran will be: - A pro-peace Iran - End of terrorist proxies - Reduced reliance on costly NATO commitments - A major U.S. political and strategic win - Elimination of Israel’s primary regional adversary - A foundation for new alliances and geopolitical realignment - Stabilization of global energy markets - Removal of a major source of regional instability - Reduced risk of nuclear escalation - Economic opening of Iran to global markets - Strategic shift away from China/Russia influence - Stronger regional balance of power - Increased security for global trade routes - Restoration of deterrence credibility - Reduced long-term military spending in the region - A decisive break from decades of failed policy - Last not least, Iranians finally achieve their goal after 47 years of struggle US does not need europe. Milddle east is where the future will be happening. #JavidShah‌‌‌‌‌ #KingRezaPahlavi‌ForIran #DigitalBlackOutIran‌

They are bombing the city but we are good.

What Iranian people are most afraid of is a ceasefire without ending this regime.

@jabdi This was few days ago in DC, a sample of Iranian Americans support for President Trump. That's why you need fake polls. x.com/i/status/20383…

Iranian Americans now overwhelmingly oppose the war on Iran: 66% opposed - 33% support.

@seanmdav You learned nothing from 9/11 and you still don't have a clue you are being invaded by Islamists

These people learned nothing from the last 30 years. Nothing. It’s genuinely shocking.

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The IRGC is recruiting kids at their checkpoints and using them as human shields.

This is exactly what Iranian people have been warning about for decades: the problem was never the JCPOA or any agreement on paper, it’s the nature of the regime itself; you cannot build trust with it, and the only real path forward is to recognize and engage with a true representative of the Iranian people, one that seeks normal relations, rejects war, and has no ambition to build weapons to use against others. And more than that, stop giving them legitimacy they do not have, this is not a sovereign, representative government but a hostage-taking apparatus that has held an entire nation captive for decades; every time you sit across from them as a "respectable" counterpart, every time you sign deals and celebrate them, you’re not solving the problem, you’re giving them legitimacy and the means to keep suppressing their own people and holding them hostage, enabling a criminal regime

Added to all of this is a point that Western policymakers almost willfully ignore: if this regime is determined to get a nuclear weapon, enrichment isn’t the only way to do it. When you’ve already pushed uranium way past civilian levels of 60%, even flirting with weapons-grade, you’ve already shown both intent and capability. But even beyond making it yourself, there’s the obvious option nobody wants to talk about: you can just buy it! Nothing really stops a regime like this from getting its hands on a finished warhead through outside channels: whether that’s from North Korea, elements inside Pakistan, black-market networks, or even actors tied to Russia. If the goal is simply to cross that nuclear line, then obsessing over enrichment levels isn’t strategy, it’s just a failure of imagination. And this is exactly why deals like the Obama's JCPOA were so fundamentally misguided. They treated this like a technical problem: centrifuges, stockpiles, inspections, like you’re managing a lab. But that’s not what this is. This is a political and ideological problem. You can put cameras wherever you want, run inspections all day long, it doesn’t matter if the system you’re dealing with is built on deception and has no problem lying, hiding things, and breaking commitments whenever it feels like it.

@Gabbar0099 you are white washing the criminal regime in Tehran

This is Tehran, Iran — no Visa cards, their own banking system, clean streets, no beggars, no robbers, and self-reliant in everything from medicine to industry. Every 3rd person owns a car. A nation free, dignified, and 200 years ahead in living standards.