Mishy Elmpak

Change happens. Every day one step at a time. and

[Mishy Elmpak @MishyinToronto]

Exactly. The article is detailed and analytical, but also assumptive. It has no way of knowing what is currently exactly happening underground, especially as a Non-Iranian with no insider connections. It describes situations of past uprisings and extrapolates to the present. There is no mentioning of opposition movements in the diaspora and their connections to the inside.

[Green Beret Nap Time @GBNT1952]

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[Siaxares 🇮🇷 🇺🇸 @siaxares]

As an Iranian who stayed connected through Starlink during the total internet blackout, I want to wholeheartedly confirm what President Trump just said:

"The Iranian people want to be free. They have lived in a world that you know NOTHING about."

For 47 years, my people have endured systematic torture, rape, murder, humiliation, anxiety, suppression, and grief under the Islamic Republic. It’s been a long, grinding suffering — punctuated by brutal spikes like the January protests, mass executions, and now war. The world has no idea of the scale or depth of these horrors. Only when this evil regime finally falls will the full truth pour out — in quality and quantity that will shock humanity.

We have now reached a point where almost no cost is too great if it rids us of this regime. Because the cost of it staying in power is infinitely higher.

If you’re reading this and you can’t understand how any Iranian could feel relief at their own country losing a war and getting bombed… I envy you. You have never lived what we have lived. You have never watched your people, friends, family, and loved ones get tortured, raped, or killed almost daily and over half a century. You have never seen an entire nation slowly but brutally suffocated like this.

We tried every alternative imaginable: massive protests, dissent, peaceful reform, negotiations — everything. None of it worked. The regime’s answer has always been bullets, gallows, and more terror.

Now, less than 24 hours before Trump’s deadline, I write this with a heavy heart from inside Iran:
Whatever happens next — if there is still an Iran left to save and this regime is gone — the Iranian people will be happy with the result. No matter the cost. Because the cost of the regime remaining is higher, and for many of us, death itself is preferable to another day under this nightmare.

This is the true sentiment of the majority of Iranians — the voice of a people who often have no internet, no platform, and no way to be heard.

The world will soon understand why we say:
Anything to be free. Anything to end this evil.

#IranMassacre‌
#IranRevolution2026‌

[Mark R. Levin @marklevinshow]

ARM THE IRANIAN PEOPLE IMMEDIATELY!

I've been calling for this for weeks on radio.  One thing we can do, which Reagan did in Afghanistan, Angola, and Nicaragua, is ARM THE PEOPLE in Iran so they are no longer butchered by these monsters without the ability to fight back!  They will rise up as a real fighting force, but they need weapons!  And it must be done IMMEDIATELY, especially if we are talking about ending our military operation in a few weeks!

[UN Human Rights @UNHumanRights]

#Iran: @volker_turk says as if pain & suffering of war are not enough, Iranians are being arbitrarily rounded up, jailed, subjected to unfair trials & even executed by own Govt. This is outrageous. All executions must be halted immediately. The human rights of the Iranian people need to be the top priority.

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[Armin Navabi @ArminNavabi]

Any retard saying the joint military operations were a mistake because there was no imminent threat is completely blind to reality. If the threat is imminent, you are already too late. That is the entire point. You take action before an expansionist regime builds a nuclear bomb, not when they are holding the global economy hostage.

We had undeniable evidence they were rapidly moving toward becoming a nuclear power. If we just sit back and let them control the whole region, the destruction will be a thousand times worse. Do you really think they would not choke off the global energy supply once they had an atomic bomb? Once nobody could do regime change on them ever again? We are dealing with a regime that openly wants world domination, and you actually think they are going to show us mercy just because we did not attack them first? Send this to anyone repeating this nonsense.

🎖️ Come talk to me in our discussion group: https://t.co/ioZ3MrMWM4

[Apranik 🇮🇷🇮🇱 @patriot_apranik]

🚨A host went on live TV begging ordinary Iranians NOT to leak the hiding locations of regime officials to Israel! He literally cried that if the people expose their coordinates, “it's over” and they will be eliminated.

The Islamic Republic is terrified because they know the ultimate truth: millions of Iranians are acting as the eyes and ears of Israel on the ground.

The Iranian people are actively cooperating to hunt down their oppressors. We are allies in this fight. 🇮🇱🇮🇷

[Lisa Daftari @LisaDaftari]

I have been researching and reporting on Iran for over two decades. The question I keep hearing from Western media is whether anyone can say with confidence what Iranians want. I can.

Despite Internet blackouts, isolation, and the very real threat of death for speaking out, the Iranian people have told their story clearly and repeatedly, at enormous personal cost.

What is striking is how confidently those who have never spoken to a single Iranian are now speaking for them: that Iranians don’t want this war, that they are content to live under this regime, that they have no capacity to reclaim their country.

The evidence across multiple cycles of protest, from the Green Movement through Woman Life Freedom through the deadly January protests, tells a different story.

Iranians want the end of the Islamic Republic, not its reform. They have said so clearly and repeatedly.

Read more: https://t.co/cI4IKfLWUk

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

NEW 🔴

Harvard Harris Poll: Key Takeaways on Iran & the War:

•76% say the U.S. is currently winning the war against Iran

•64% say Iran violated its nuclear deal

•62% view Iran as a direct U.S. national security threat

•67% say Iran is a leading source of instability, terrorism, and war

•68% believe the Iranian people do not support the regime

•73% support Israel over Hamas

•51% support U.S. Israel strikes on Iran, 54% say the campaign is justified

Support for the war is heavily split politically, Republicans strongly back it, Democrats largely oppose

[Emily Schrader - אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر @emilykschrader]

Shia Iraqi proxy terror proxy of the regime shown entering Iran. Iranians report these forces are used to suppress protesters along with the Basij

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

Basij forces in Tehran going out of their way pretending to be polite, when there is a drone overhead 👇

[Tom Quiggin @TomTSEC]

Premier Doug Ford removed Ontario MPP Goldie Ghamari (@gghamari) from the Conservative caucus because of her ongoing criticism of the Islamists and her association with those who thought the same way. This happened on June 28, 2024.

Now, the US Department of Justice has revealed that the Islamists in Iran had a $250,000 contract out to have her killed. The killing was to have been done by the Jalisco Cartel.

She was right.

Doug Ford is a numpty.

[UANI @UANI]

Internal documents from 2023 that were obtained by @KasraAarabi and Saeid Golkar, of @UANI, detail a regime five-year plan to “organise at least four million people into 800,000 small groups across all cultural and societal fields”, and to have 5 per cent of each neighbourhood ready to enter the “domestic battlefront” during times of popular unrest.
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[Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47]

.@SecScottBessent: "We are seeing defections at all levels as they're starting to sense what's going on with the regime... The regime will probably collapse within itself. At @USTreasury, we've seen where they've wired their money out of the country. We're coming for that. We're going to get it back to the Iranian people."

@POTUS: "There's a lot of military defections also... I don't blame them."

[Mishy Elmpak @MishyinToronto]

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[Bahar Bahari @Bahar__Bahari]

It’s been 24 hours — honestly I’m still in shock… I still can’t believe @CanBorder a government agency would leave a threatening comment. My question still stands: what type of visas are being issued to these regimes thugs?
#FreedomOfSpeech

[Diane Mantouvalos @AndoniaPR]

@borzou @asteris Um

[PatriotJosh @Patriot_Josh11]

Mario's take is as usual strategically illiterate.

The Strait of Hormuz is not some hidden code proving this war was “always about energy control.” It is a global maritime chokepoint through which a major share of seaborne oil and LNG flows. Any serious disruption there detonates shipping insurance, reroutes tanker traffic, spikes freight costs, and shocks import-dependent economies, especially in Asia and Europe, not the United States. The U.S. does not materially depend on Gulf crude transiting Hormuz for its own survival. Europe and Asian importers do. That alone destroys the fantasy that Washington’s core motive is to “seize the oil.”

What actually follows from a warning to NATO is burden-shifting, not confession. It means: if Europe wants uninterrupted access to Gulf energy, then Europe can stop free-riding on American naval supremacy and start paying, in hulls, escorts, logistics, ISR, minesweeping, and air defense. That is not imperial plunder. That is alliance arithmetic. If your economy is exposed, your navy should be too.

And the “not regime change, not nuclear weapons” line is especially moronic. Maritime security operations and strategic war aims are not mutually exclusive. Securing sea lanes is a contingency requirement in any Gulf conflict, whether the trigger is nuclear escalation, proxy warfare, missile attacks, mining, or direct state aggression. Keeping Hormuz open is a defensive operational necessity, not proof of some cartoonish oil conspiracy.

So no, this is not evidence the war “was always about energy control.” It is evidence that geography exists, chokepoints matter, and Europe has spent decades pretending the U.S. taxpayer should permanently subsidize its energy vulnerability. If they want their tankers safe, they can bring steel, sailors, and money.

[Bella 🇮🇷 @BellaNotes_]

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