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For years, Iran was buried under a narrative so total and so hostile that no amount of explaining could move public opinion. Every act of self-defense was recast as aggression, every refusal to kneel as proof of bad faith. The case was closed before it was ever heard.
But you do not need to relitigate decades of history to understand why Iran held the line. You only need to look at Canada and watch what Washington asked of it. Then the valor of Iran's resistance stops being a mystery and becomes the only rational response.
They asked Canada, a close ally, G7 partner and neighbor, to weaken protections for the French language as the price of a trade deal. This was not about a border dispute or a security threat. It was about the language Canadians speak. And when Canada offered concessions, the demands did not ease. They expanded: now touch your culture, now limit who else you can trade with.
@MarkJCarney called it what it was: a power play, a question of sovereignty.
For those who keep asking why Iran will not surrender its rights, this is the answer, laid out in plain sight by Washington’s own conduct toward a friend.
First, give up enrichment. Then give up the entire nuclear program. Then give up nuclear energy altogether. Then surrender your missiles. Cut their range. Cut their number. Open the sites. Then dismantle the army. Then sever your ties with these allies, and those. Then, then, then.
There is no point at which they say, enough. Each concession is not a destination. It is a receipt, proof that pressure works, and an invitation to make the next demand. Give up the first right and you have not bought safety. You have taught them that the price of the next one is zero.
Ask Canada, which was asked to trade away part of its own linguistic identity by a supposed friend and ally.
A nation that surrenders one right does not secure the others. It moves to the front of the line to lose them.
Iran is not fighting this war only for Iran.
Understand that first. Absorb it. Because until you understand it, nothing else about this conflict makes sense.
Iran is fighting for the right of any nation on earth to exist outside the permission structure of Washington and Tel Aviv.
It is fighting for the principle that sovereignty is not something granted by empire, it is something inherent. And if it must be defended with blood, then blood is what gets spent.
Every country that has been sanctioned into poverty for daring to disagree.
Every government that has been coup'd out of existence for nationalizing its own resources.
Every leader who has been assassinated by a drone because he refused to make himself useful to someone else's agenda.
Every people told that their choices are submission or destruction.
Iran is fighting for all of them.
You don't have to like the Iranian government to understand what's at stake.
You don't have to agree with every policy, every ideology, every internal decision.
That's not the point.
The point is that a country of 90 million people has looked at the most powerful military and financial empire in human history, and said: no.
Said it for forty-seven years.
Said it under sanctions that would have broken most nations.
Said it while being threatened with annihilation on a weekly basis by countries with actual nuclear weapons.
The question this war is really asking is not whether Iran survives.
The question is whether any country is allowed to survive on its own terms.
That question belongs to all of us.
In 1982 The Soviet Union produced a film of 67 minutes exposing Zionism, its goals, the Rothschild family, and the Israeli lobby in the United States
It was suppressed and hidden for decades!
Titled : Сионизм перед судом ис��ории» English: Zionism Before the Court of History.
BREAKING:
Iran has developed a new cancer treatment method for the first time in the world, prominent Iranian oncologist professor Esmaeil Akbari says.
He says the method targets FAP, a protein produced by cells surrounding tumors, using a radioactive isotope called 'Ruthenium-2268' produced by Iran's atomic energy organization.
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The most chilling confession in modern U.S. foreign policy wasn't made in a courtroom. It was made in a magazine interview.
It were generally accepted that the Soviet Union was the unprovoked aggressor in Afghanistan, and the U.S. stepped in to defend a sovereign nation.
But the architects of the empire have already admitted the truth: The invasion was deliberately provoked.
Former CIA Director Robert Gates and National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski confirmed what history books hide: The U.S. didn’t arm the Mujahideen after the Soviets invaded in December 1979. They armed them six months before.
Why? Brzezinski wrote to President Carter on the very day the aid began: "We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam War."
It was a calculated trap. And the Afghan people were the bait.
Years later, when asked if he regretted arming the extremists who would eventually become the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, Brzezinski’s answer exposed the pure, sociopathic calculus of hegemony:
"What is more important in world history? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire?"
To the imperial mind, 1.8 million dead Afghans, 2.6 million refugees, and a country littered with 10 million landmines were not tragedies. They were acceptable line-item expenses.
But the lie didn't end in the 1980s. The U.S. didn't "liberate" Afghanistan by funding the Mujahideen, and it certainly didn't "liberate" it during the 20-year occupation after 9/11.
Remember Barack Obama’s famously eloquent promise to "destroy, dismantle, and eliminate" the Taliban and Al Qaeda? It was a masterclass in using beautiful, wise-sounding words to mask a catastrophic reality.
When the U.S. finally "withdrew" in 2021, it didn't leave behind a liberated democracy. It handed the keys of the country right back to the exact same Taliban it swore to eradicate.
The Afghan people were never allies; they were cannon fodder. First for the Cold War, and then for two decades of military-industrial profit.
When a US empire spends 40 years and trillions of dollars, sacrifices millions of lives, only to return a country to the exact same rulers it went to war to overthrow, we must ask:
Is this a foreign policy of liberation, or just a perpetual motion machine designed to feed the war economy?
@Jakepor21 You're trying to shift the goalpost, many Nigerians including yourself, were better off in Buhari's tenure than this present drug dealer govt.
The funniest argument I keep hearing is that Tinubu's greatest achievement is the fact that Governors now receive more money.
Lol.
Some of you are still naive about what President Tinubu did.
Tinubu simply removed wealth from the hands of the masses he is not sure of being able to control at his beck and call, and placed it in the hands of a few elites he could control anyway.
Research indicates that a low-income Nigerian who neither owns a car nor a generator still sacrifices an average of ₦30,000 to ₦50,000 every month in indirect costs linked to the removal of the fuel subsidy.
Even without buying fuel directly, this demographic absorbs the financial shock through a reported 73.8% increase in the general cost of living, driven mainly by skyrocketing transportation fares and food inflation.
While President Tinubu's government will tell you they saved roughly ₦15.8 trillion from subsidy removal, they won't tell you how much of that financial burden was transferred to the poorest citizens.
I don't even want to talk about rent, because the money most of you have sacrificed paying in rent since Tinubu came into power could have built a house during Buhari's time, and maybe two houses during Jonathan's time.
Pathetic!!!!
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In 1987 America refused to sell India a supercomputer.
It then offered a weaker model instead, with conditions. Civilian use only. No technology transfer. No re-export. And an American official would be posted in India to monitor how the machine was used.
India said no, and handed the job to a man who had never seen a supercomputer in his life.
His name is Vijay Bhatkar.
He was born on 11th October 1946 in Muramba, a village in Akola district in Maharashtra. He started school directly in class 4. He took his engineering degree at Nagpur, a master's at Baroda and a doctorate at IIT Delhi.
India had wanted the machine for a very ordinary reason. Weather forecasting, which for a country of farmers is not a luxury. The Indian Institute of Science wanted one for research.
The Americans classed supercomputers as dual use technology, meaning it could also help a nuclear or missile programme. So the export was blocked.
In March 1988 the government set up the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing in Pune, and made Bhatkar its founder and executive director.
Before that, the Prime Minister asked him 3 questions.
Can we do it. Bhatkar said he had never seen a supercomputer, only a photograph of the Cray, and that yes, they could.
How long will it take. He said less time than it would take to keep trying to import one.
How much will it cost. He said the entire effort, including building the institution, would cost less than buying the Cray.
He was given about 30 crore rupees and 3 years.
The start was not glamorous. He has said that for the first 6 months he could not recruit a single person, including his own secretary, because of bureaucratic delays.
His team took a different route from the Americans. Instead of building 1 enormous processor, they linked many ordinary processors together to work in parallel, using parts that could be bought off the shelf.
The prototype was ready in 1990. They called it Param, which in Sanskrit means supreme.
Then came the part he did not expect. Nobody believed it was a supercomputer. It did not look like a Cray. He has said even his own computer science professors doubted it.
So he took it abroad, to a major international supercomputing conference, and had it demonstrated and benchmarked in public. It was formally recognised there as a supercomputer.
In 1991 they completed PARAM 8000.
An American newspaper carried the story under a headline that has stayed famous in India. Denied supercomputer, angry India does it.
Versions of the machine were later exported to Germany, the United Kingdom and Russia. India went from being refused the technology to selling it.
He has one line he repeats.
Great nations are not built on borrowed technology.
Subsidy: You do not build a federation by impoverishing citizens so that Abuja can send bigger cheques to governors, That is robbing households to subsidise governments - Atiku tackles Tinubu
Former Vice President and 2027 presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Atiku Abubakar, has criticised President Bola Tinubu’s fuel subsidy policy, arguing that Nigerians should not be made poorer simply to increase the funds available to state governments.
Atiku’s latest position comes amid the growing political debate over his promise to reconsider the fuel subsidy regime if elected president in 2027.
In a statement, the former vice president argued that a federation should prioritise the welfare of citizens rather than policies that place greater financial pressure on households.
He said: “You do not build a federation by impoverishing citizens so that Abuja can send bigger cheques to governors. That is robbing households to subsidise governments.”
Atiku’s remarks are likely to further intensify the political clash between him and the Tinubu administration over the removal of fuel subsidy and its impact on Nigerians.
Supporters of the government have defended the subsidy removal as a necessary reform to reduce the financial burden on the Federal Government, while critics argue that the policy has contributed significantly to the rising cost of living.
The issue is expected to remain a major campaign subject ahead of the 2027 presidential election, with opposition parties seeking to present alternative approaches to managing the economy and reducing pressure on households.
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Jerk my school fees from 20k that i can easily afford to 200k that I can't afford
If I complain, give me loan.
And pay people to tell me to celebrate
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