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Professor Marandi:
More information on a crowdfunding campaign to kidnap me. The X profile “Terror Alarm” is behind it, now documented by TjekDet as run by a Danish association. Terror Alarm says that I am on the Israeli regime’s hit list, so capturing me would be “less aggressive.”
https://www.tjekdet.dk/indsigt/danskere-staar-bag-dusoer-tilfangetagelse-af-kendt-iransk-debattoer
Prof Marandi’s tweet -> https://xcancel.com/s_m_marandi/status/2050214304192840110#m
The colonizers are so desperate to silence critics of their genocidal practices. Sick shit.
WTF he’s like the most amenable to the western media (the freelance/alt part anyways which is still securely controlled by their social media companies & publishing platforms) out of any of them, that’s not even something I hold against him he has clout
—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: After just one day, President Trump announces the suspension of ‘Project Freedom’
@Middle_East_Spectator
https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/31797
Yet another opportunity to be fucking embarrassed in front of the world.
Are they losing again? No way Trump says this and they are actually winning.
Yes, still very much losing.
My uninformed analysis of the whole debacle at this stage is that America pretended to be conducting a humanitarian movement to free stuck ships in the strait. Really they escorted out two US flagged ships in a risky heist, Came under fire, And lost a big part of the only oil field in the UAE that avoided Hormuz.
US tested Irans resolve and defense methods and freed a couple ships. Iran showed them what they use to deter military intervention. Missiles/fast boats/ shore munitions etc.
Looks like Iran showed they still have power to deter naval movements and significant escalation capabilities, as this was walked back in record time. Even for Trump. They’re just throwing shit at a wall to see what sticks at this point.
The tremendous success they had at getting their asses handed to them.
PressTV: Two missiles hit US Navy vessel after it ignored Iran’s warning: Report
So this just happened! Looks like this time around they ignored Iran’s warnings for just a little bit too long when playing chicken with the Hormuz defences and didn’t turn around in time.
CENTCOM is denying this but it’s being reported by Fars and Al-Jazeera as well, I imagine we’ll have more information soon. I’d love to find out what weapons were used and the circumstances of the strike - I’m assuming that this is an Arleigh Burke. Sending in a ship for this kind of high-risk political signaling must be really unpopular in US military circles, no faster way to tank morale than to take wild and unjustified risks with sailors’ lives for media stunts.
This could spark out of control fast unless the US decides to continue denying it to save face and then de-escalates. Let’s see.
Holy shit
Sounds like some more mysterious, spontaneous laundry fires
Iran’s proposal to the US to end the war, according to Al Mayadeen:
- Ending the blockade
- Freedom to export oil
- Ceasefire in Lebanon
- Removing US sanctions
- Iranian control of the Strait of Hormuz
- Unfreezing Iranian assets
https://t.me/FotrosResistancee/21576
⭐️French presidential candidate, Jean-Luc Mélenchon:
We will leave NATO. NATO is useless. It serves only one thing - putting us under American supervision.
Israel is the most dangerous country in the region today. It is Israel that attacks all its neighbors. It is Israel that starts wars. It is Israel that commits genocide. When I say Israel, I mean the Netanyahu government.
Breakdown of imperialist alliances is great, but I wonder how much this statement really means anything.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon is a trot/sucdem but he is fairly anti-imperialist (though I imagine he has shit takes of french colonialism) and has a reasonable shot at being president so him saying this is a good thing.
How can you be a trot or a social-democrat? That seems completely impossible.
You would think so but in Europe that’s fairly common. A lot of former Trotskyists transitioned to social-democracy after 1989. Most “Euro-communist” parties today are socdems with Trot origins.
🔴 Iran has created a power leverage against America’s greed by strategically controlling the Strait of Hormuz
🔹International experts emphasize that Iran’s control over the Strait of Hormuz, a vital passage for a quarter of the world’s maritime oil and a huge volume of gas and fertilizer, is not only a legitimate defensive right but also a powerful leverage against the maximum pressure exerted by the US.
🔹According to Al Jazeera, Iran, by smartly disrupting the passage of hostile ships without attacking neutral vessels, has been able to impose heavy costs on the economy of the US and its allies.
🔹This strategic move has placed Tehran in a position to resist Washington’s unreasonable demands, such as the complete halt of the nuclear program.
🔹The reduction of oil tanker traffic from 129 vessels in February to nearly zero indicates the effectiveness of this defensive policy and the West’s vulnerability to energy shocks.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA THE FUCKING UAE ANALYSTS WERE TALKING ABOUT HOW THEIR PIPELINE WAS GOING TO CHANGE SHIT STILL LIKE YESYERDAY AAAAAAAAAAAAAAABGET FUUUCKED
I fucking love Iran dude I feel so electric when they make big money moves
It’s really been so cringe listening to UAE apologists talking about how mighty their military is, how diverse their economy is, and how their pipeline makes them immune.
Flying private with professional organ donors, fuckery in Sudan and Gaza, creating a playground for the world’s most sadistic depravity and calling it luxury… chickens are coming home to roost.
They got so fucking mad at people pointjng out the 2% of regional oil exports leaving OPEC freed up were 100% within range of bombing they werelike “but the ceasefire” okay for how long?? Well now we know! LAWYER BRAIN LAWYER BRAIN LAWYER BRAIN NONE OF YOU ARE FREE FROM IT
Lawyer brain?
They think they’re gonna win by vague appeals to authority and common norms. No sense of fundamentals.
Lawyer brain: Thinking that “the rules” are material and iron clad things and thinking you can use loopholes and semantics to be tricky when dealing in the real world without repercussions.
— 🇮🇱 It’s now 2026, a reality check for Israel after 3 years of war:
🇵🇸 Gaza front:
– Hamas has not been disarmed after almost three years of war.
– Tunnel infrastructure in Gaza is intact, rocket arrays being slowly rebuilt.
– Al-Qassam has approximately 25,000 fighters, the same amount as before Oct 7th.
– No sign of an interim government, Hamas is still politically in control of Gaza.
🇱🇧 Lebanon front:
– Hezbollah has not been disarmed, neither North nor South of the Litani.
– Hezbollah’s leadership has successfully reorganized and decentralized, and is now more resistant to assassination strikes than before.
– Hezbollah retains the capability to launch long-range and medium-range rockets, drones and missiles into Israel.
– The increasing use of FPV drones has rendered northern Israeli settlements into ghost towns, and significantly degraded the IDF’s freedom of movement in southern Lebanon.
🇮🇷 Iran front:
– The Islamic Republic is still firmly in power, and perhaps even more entrenched than before.
– Iran’s ballistic missile program, drone force, and conventional capabilities are almost entirely intact and capable of threatening Israel.
– Iran still possesses a large stockpile of highly-enriched uranium, nuclear breakout time is still at ~6 months to a year.
– The Strait of Hormuz is now under Iranian control.
– Most U.S. bases in the region have been rendered unusable and Israel’s Gulf allies are in the weakest position they’ve ever found themselves.
🇾🇪 Yemen front:
– Ansarallah (Houthis) still control the majority of Yemen.
– Houthis still possess hundreds of ballistic missiles and thousands of drones, capable of targeting Israel.
– The Bab Al-Mandab can be closed at any moment.
In strategic terms, Israel has achieved nothing in all these three years.
Except the destruction of Gaza’s civilian population and infrastructure.
It’s nice to read this reality check after just a barriage of news on the damn Zionists commiting atrocities without any reprisal. Obviously, things are still horrid in Palestine and Southern Lebanon but it’s nice to see some aspects of their failures while everywhere on the internet moves to slience their critics and failures.
It’s important to remember that atrocities aren’t victories. More often they signal impotence and defeat.
Iran still possesses a large stockpile of highly-enriched uranium, nuclear breakout time is still at ~6 months to a year.
Ted Postol puts it at weeks or months and he knows this stuff.
💠 Geopolitical analyst and former U.S. Army officer:
🔹 It is unlikely that Trump will restart the “Freedom Project,” as on Monday three U.S. Navy destroyers, just like the Abraham Lincoln carrier on the first day of the war, were heavily attacked by Iranian subsonic cruise missiles and had to use their Phalanx point-defense systems to shoot them down at close range.
🔹 What most people don’t realize is that Iran has not yet deployed its supersonic and hypersonic anti-ship missiles, and if they wanted to, they could have easily sunk our three destroyers in the Persian Gulf.
🔹 Iranian leaders are by no means crazy; rather, they act with restraint and demonstrate that they have maintained their dominance over the United States without escalating real tensions.
🇮🇷| The IRGC Navy announced in its official statement that from now on, any attack on Iranian oil tankers will be responded to with an attack on US military bases.
@FotrosResistancee
https://t.me/FotrosResistancee/21554
US comrades really have demonic people as gov’t representatives.
That’s shockingly actually shocking. It seems every day I see the depravity go deeper than I expected the day before.
The cult like fixation for US imperialist politicians have on defending Israel is, in my opinion, the most significant factor as to why reactionary narratives regarding Israel’s role as some puppet master are so easily fueled.
Like, I really can’t blame the average politically miseducated American for coming to those conclusions. Just another hurdle of propaganda we need to dismantle.
Its kinda impressive how the ruling class can take something like opposition to genocide and twist it so that instead of class consciousness people fall into reactionary nationalism.
I try to do that sort of move to get people to class awareness instead of reaction but I am doing it one by one and it almost never works. The imperial machine can do it with like 90% success on a mass scale and you barely even see the move until its over.
When people finally have distance from this whole period of history, it’s going to be difficult explaining to later generations just how sophisticated the psyops of Zionism and American fascism were. From popular media, to weaponization of the Holocaust, to the right latching onto antisemitic conspiracy theories in order to alienate people from the left, etc.
Like a 14 year old girl having touched their favourite pop singer
Do the US really have comrades? There’s no true left in the USA.
There are dozens of us.
Dozens!No doubt. But they’re picking on me for generalizing. I think it’s a valid tool of discourse. Just a lil bit of irony and hyperbole, people. I’m living under the Evil Empire’s hammer, but those don’t escape me yet. In collectivism-geared societies, people talk like this. The US needs a Cultural Revolution ASAP.
There are very few but this (Lemmy) is the place you are most likely to find them
I guess fuck everyone that’s on this site from the US then? Just because all the official parties are co-opted and neutered doesn’t mean there aren’t communists here.
Which are some theory and praxis those proverbial communists are providing? Chomsky’s inocuos verbiage?
6 day old account in here being decisive and shitty. Color me surprised.
⭕️ Even the dead are not spared: Israeli settlers force Palestinian family to exhume father hours after burial near re-established Sa-Nur settlement
In one of the most disturbing incidents reported in the occupied West Bank in recent months, a Palestinian family from the village of al-Asasa near Jenin says Israeli settlers forced them to dig up and rebury their 80-year-old father just hours after his funeral on Friday.
The burial had been coordinated in advance with Israeli forces and took place in a long-standing cemetery on privately owned Palestinian land.
Roughly an hour after the funeral, settlers from the recently re-established, illegal Sa-Nur settlement arrived carrying shovels and began digging around the fresh grave, shouting that the body had to be removed because it was allegedly “too close” to the settlement.
Israeli occupation forces were present and confiscated some of the tools, but did not remove the settlers or stop the harassment. Fearing that their father’s remains would be desecrated, the grieving family was forced to exhume the body themselves and transport it to another village for reburial.
The cemetery lies outside the settlement’s official boundaries, but the area is now under increasing pressure following Israel’s re-establishment of Sa-Nur, one of four settlements evacuated in 2005.
Israeli ministers and settler leaders have openly celebrated Sa-Nur’s return as part of a broader drive to expand settlements across the occupied West Bank and eliminate the possibility of a Palestinian state.
The UN human rights office condemned the incident as part of a wider pattern of the “dehumanization of Palestinians.” For many Palestinians, the message was unmistakable: under occupation, not even the dead are allowed to remain in peace.
🇮🇷| Iran is considering to treat undersea internet cables passing through the Strait of Hormoz as a strategic asset.
According to Fars, the authority Iran is establishing in the Strait of Hormoz will also include global internet cables deep down in the Strait.
These cables carry global internet traffic and financial data. Iran is looking to require permits, charge fees, and have Iranian laws applied to foreign companies, and give Iranian firms technical control over cable management and repairs.
📸 Iran’s Mission to the UN says that a permanent end to the war and the lifting of the maritime blockade is the only viable solution in the Strait of Hormuz.
🔹 Iran calls on UN member states to act on the basis of logic, fairness and principle, not pressure, reject the US’s politically motivated UNSC draft resolution, and refrain from supporting or co-sponsoring it.
