My testimony from Tehran, 11 years ago today A Different Iranian Revolution

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In Franz Kafka’s letter to his father, he wrote “I know it is my father's first time on this Earth, too. And I know He had it worse when he was little. But I was little too��

The US government is so obviously laying the groundwork for a false flag attack against a large Iranian diaspora community to try and turn public opinion - in the US and around the world - against Iran. They're not even trying to hide it.

I mean come the fuck on

didn’t plan for the war but definitely planning for the false flag #WeAreAllDaeiJanNapoleonNow

Burial site (purported) of Esther and Mordechai, which I had a chance to visit in the before time

“This war hugely damages U.S. standing in the world, which means that China has much more scope to establish its own standing in the Middle East and the Global South generally,” said Steve Tsang, director of the SOAS China Institute in London. “Meanwhile, everyone is observing

It's a lot easier for Iran to bomb every water desalination plant in the Gulf states and Israel, effectively destroying those societies permanently since they rely on those plants for ~50%+ of drinking water, than it is for the U.S. and Israel to bomb all of Iran into rubble.

Trump, like a demented latter-day Nero, dancing to YMCA as the world's economy burns 👇 🇫🇷 24-hr news @LCI split-screen

I'm going to keep trumpeting this until my lungs give out: YOU CANNOT "JUST" INVADE THE IRANIAN COASTLINE BECAUSE IT IS 1000 MILES LONG AND DRONES CAN BE LAUNCHED FROM DEEP INLAND, THEREFORE SOLVING NOTHING

Just imagine if there was someone on Iranian or Arab television saying every US senator including Fetterman should be killed. What US politicians are proposing isn’t just a violation of international law and a reversion to the law of the jungle, but also a v dangerous precedent.

Armenians have lived in Iran for centuries. Maintaining their churches, language, and culture while shaping the country’s history in unexpected ways. A story most people never hear.

Friends from an Iranian think tank wrote an excellent piece on Iran’s strategy in blinding the enemy. I’ll give you a TL;DR but make sure to read the article on Al Jazeera yourself. The analysis writes about Iran’s strategic "blinding" campaign aimed at dismantling the United

Wow. Via FT… US & Israel have hit 17,000 “non-military targets” in Iran

“To those who perished in their innocence” Women's Quarter, Tehran (1966). Dir. Kamran Shirdel.

"We have to fight them there so that we don't have to fight them here" where have I heard that before?

Please circulate this internally and get this back to me asap @FDD @UANI

There's no question someone in the White House told Trump to call the war in Iran an "incursion," but he heard it as "excursion" and now he keeps calling it that - making the war sound like a holiday getaway - because no one around him ever corrects him when he makes a mistake.

will they layover in Hawaii?

Important story by my colleague @farnazfassihi on the cultural casualties of the war in Iran, the damage done to "living breathing monuments to beauty and creation."