Sometimes I’m convinced most lunatic Pahlavists are really IRGC agents who want to make the opposition look bad. The ways they choose to express their hate for Islam are so insane and cringe that they turn off even other anti Islam people to the point even ex Muslims from other countries see them as lunatics. No one has done more PR for the Islamic Republic than the Pahlavists have.
@abdulafandii Most of the castrated African slaves in the premodern Islamic world were already castrated when they were bought from non Muslim sources btw.
Well, this aged rather well. 👇
A new Haaretz investigation has uncovered a network of 1,653 X accounts posing as Iranians that mobilized to promote Netanyahu and his Likud party during Israel's recent election.
What's particularly revealing is that many of these same accounts had previously been identified in an influence operation promoting Reza Pahlavi, the son of Iran's last shah, and regime change in Iran.
The researchers found clear signs of coordinated, inauthentic activity: accounts posting identical messages, amplifying Netanyahu within minutes of one another, and suddenly switching from Persian-language messaging about Iran to Hebrew appeals urging Israelis to vote for Netanyahu.
Some claimed to speak on behalf of the Iranian people, telling Israelis that Netanyahu's reelection was essential to freeing Iran from the Islamic Republic.
After the election, the accounts largely abandoned Israeli politics and returned to promoting the shah and discussing regime change in Iran.
This didn't emerge out of nowhere.
Earlier Haaretz and other investigations exposed Israeli government-funded social media influence operations targeting Iranian audiences, including efforts to promote Reza Pahlavi and manufacture the appearance of grassroots support.
Separately, a major @citizenlab investigation following the June 2025 Israel-Iran war uncovered another coordinated network of fake Iranian accounts spreading AI-generated content to encourage an uprising in Iran. (source: https://t.co/Uoxal7iyZM)
Researchers assessed that the operation was most likely conducted by an Israeli government agency or a contractor working closely with it. Some of its messaging was synchronized with Israeli military strikes.
The latest Haaretz investigation does not establish who operates the 1,653 accounts, and Netanyahu's office and Likud deny involvement.
But the documented overlap is striking: accounts presenting themselves as ordinary Iranians promoting Pahlavi and regime change were also mobilized to influence an Israeli election on Netanyahu's behalf.
This is definitely not organic or spontaneous Iranian public opinion. It's coordinated, inauthentic political manipulation masquerading as grassroots support. And it's not new. For years, especially since 2022, as Israel intensified its regime-change efforts toward Iran, these operations have sought to manufacture the appearance of Iranian support for an agenda that serves Israeli political interests.
Link to the Haaretz investigation:
https://t.co/7E2TUlje5j
Also I forgot to add this, but a lot of Pahlavist accounts on X are 100% fake. They were suddenly created on January 2026. When the news of Mahsa Amini’s death spread like wildfire, many Pahlavist WLF accounts were also suddenly created on September 2022, then went inactive on 2023, then suddenly became active again on January 2026. Social media is full of bots and fake accounts, it’s not organic.
Also, even Ali Karimi who burned the Quran ended up turning on Reza Pahlavi. Because of how Reza Pahlavi's movement has devolved into an insane cult that chooses such cringe and insane ways to express their hate for Islam to a point it even turns off even other anti Islam people, some of the people who were Reza Pahlavi's advisors in the 2000s and 2010s like Shahriar Ahy, Alireza Nader, Ahmad Ali Massoud Ansari ended up turning against Reza Pahlavi too.
Also, I forgot to add this, but many of Reza Pahlavi's own advisors have had ties to the Islamic Republic. Reza Pahlavi is an idiot, he doesn't even know how his entire movement has been so infiltrated by the Islamic Republic to the point many of his own advisors have ties to the Islamic Republic.
https://t.co/3jlLyE3XGc
Almost all of Reza Pahlavi’s advisers are linked to the Iranian regime, including individuals connected to the IRGC’s Intelligence Protection Organisation, such as:
1.Amir Hossein Etemadi — former adviser to Ali Fallahian (Iran’s former Minister of Intelligence).
2.Saeed Ghasseminejad — a writer for Tasnim News Agency, which is affiliated with the IRGC’s intelligence apparatus; author of the “Munich Booklet,” which Reza Pahlavi has presented as a manifesto for the transitional period.
3.Ahmad Batebi — described as an infiltrator linked to the Ministry of Intelligence.
4.Iraj Mesdaghi — described as a well-known Ministry of Intelligence informant who presents himself as a former political prisoner.
#No2ShahNo2Mullahs
@L0ngLiveTheShah@arrakeennn Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon despite having no oil and gas at the time had a far higher life expectancy and literacy rate than Iran at the time (despite the fact those countries have no oil and no gas, while Iran has an abundance of oil and gas).
Iran under the Shah was far behind even most non oil countries of the Middle East like Turkey, Jordan or Lebanon in key developmental metrics like life expectancy and literacy despite Iran having an abundance of oil and gas… That’s how much of an incompetent ruler the Shah was, despite being secular. The Shah and SAVAK also jailed and killed most of the secular Iranian opposition while refusing to do the same to Khomeini which is why Khomeini ended up becoming the main face of opposition against the Shah.
Muslim Levantine laymen weirdly mix Shafi’i and Hanafi rulings/practices, that’s why some say Palestinians and Syrians and Lebanese Sunnis are majority Shafi’i and some say they are majority Hanafi but the truth is the laymen in those countries weirdly mix Shafi’i and Hanafi rulings/practices. The Levant’s Islamic scholars were mostly Shafi’i (and a bit Hanbali) before the Ottomans, and Hanafi was largely introduced to the Levant by the Ottomans.
@UStreaming99647@merth_tr@Texas_Frog_3 His Husseini Sayyid lineage is probably forged. Most Sayyids from Iran (and South Asia) in general lie about their lineage.
I have studied genetics.
The Y-DNA haplogroup subclade of Imam Hussein is J-FGC30416. The Y-DNA haplogroup subclade of Imam Hassan is J-FGC8702.
Note: Not all people descended from Ali are Sayyids because after Fatima's death, Ali took other wives who were not Muhammad's daughters and also had many children with them. So to find out who is a real Sayyid, we look at those whose Y-DNA haplogroups are or are from the specific subclades of Imam Hussein and Imam Hassan.
Only 0.8% of Iranians belong to J-FGC30416, meaning only 0.8% of Iranians are real Husseini Sayyids. J-FGC8702 (the Hassani Sayyid lineage) doesn't appear among any Iranians at all.
This means less than 15% of Sayyid claimants in Iran are really Sayyids (6 million Sayyid claimants in Iran means almost 7% of Iranians claim to be Sayyids).
It’s not being ex Muslims or ex Shia that makes them annoying. It’s specifically the insane and cringe ways Pahlavists choose to express their hate for Islam that make them so insufferable that they turn off even other anti Islam people and even make anti Islam Western white supremacists praise the Mullahs.
These stupid people don’t understand that when Turks, Balkan Muslims, Lebanese Muslims, or Tunisians say they don’t want “Sharia rule”, they often mean they don’t want Iranian, Afghan or pre MBS Saudi level insane restrictions on basic social freedom, not that they are anti Islam. The majority of Turks, Tunisians and Lebanese Muslims are still at least somewhat religious practicing Muslims. And a lot of the insane restrictions of Iran, Afghanistan or Pre MBS Saudi have no basis in the Quran, hadith or even medieval Islamic jurisprudence.
@4miirx@iranilegend 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I told you, most deranged lunatic Pahlavists are IRGC agents whose purpose is to make the Iranian opposition look bad. The ways they choose to express their hate for Islam are so cringe and insane that they turn off even other anti Islam people…