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[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

Again the Iran deal is not the “defeat,” it’s **an acknowledgement of defeat**, the defeat already happened and was decided on the battlefield because the US attempted regime change/civil war and failed. The MOU is simply acknowledging reality and thus a necessary and good step.

[İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي @iyad_elbaghdadi]

Lindsey Graham is a dangerous idiot and a piece of shit. This man has no shame, no strategic sense, no core, and no conscience. A pathetic shell of a human being.

If you ever feel down about something in your life, you can at least feel grateful that you're not Lindsey Graham.

[JD @jayd1322]

@sharghzadeh avoid Tandis. got food poisoning from their jujeh kabob once.

[Policy Tensor @policytensor]

Ultimately, it all goes back to the issue that even the sharpest minds in the West are unwilling to face the fact that Iran is a great power. What is the reason for this near-universal failure?

Is it residual racialism? Is it the GDP fetish? Is it just that people are not used to thinking carefully about what constitutes suggestive evidence (economic size, industrial strength, etc) and what constitutes diagnostic proof (the test of the battlefield)?

I suppose different logics apply to different sorts of minds. But underlying it all is a lack of respect for empirical reality. A sort of Brahminism that privileges theory over empirical reality; that insists on the map when the territory has been revealed.

When the strongest military power in the system launches an all-out attack on a state, attempts to decapitate and disarm it and fails, and that power destroys most of its bases and denies it military access to the region, and establishes firm control over a region of vital strategic importance — that is a strategic and operational military defeat.

And the defeat of the strongest power in the system proves—beyond reasonable doubt for any serious empiricist—that the state is a great power. Special pleading is for losers. It has no place is serious analysis.

Western strategic thought has decayed to such an extend that demonstrable facts simply fail to dislodge defunct pictures of the world that people have in their skulls.

[JD @jayd1322]

why stop there when you could go for sharks with frickin laser beams attached to their heads? credulous morons.

[Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins]

"To give you a sign of the desperate measures [Iran is] contemplating, the Wall Street Journal reported today that they're contemplating suicide dolphins, you know, dolphins equipped with mines to try to go after U.S. ships," @ksadjadpour says.

"That's not a that's not a measure which projects real strength."

[JD @jayd1322]

"real regime change has never been tried" smfh it never ends

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

BIG: Israel’s plan to take down the Iranian regime was never executed.

Mossad was reportedly prepared to help ignite the takedown, but President Trump halted the move just hours before it was set to begin. -YNET

[Borzou Daragahi 🖊🗒 @borzou]

Someone needs to tell this guy the days when Western countries spell out what countries of the global south “must” do are over.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

God does not bless any conflict. Anyone who is a disciple of Christ, the Prince of Peace, is never on the side of those who once wielded the sword and today drop bombs. Military action will not create space for freedom or times of #Peace, which comes only from the patient promotion of coexistence and dialogue among peoples.

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

US/Israel bombed at least “763 schools & 316 health care facilities" and many in our ostensibly liberal party and decrying Hormuz tolls without offering a credible mechanism for reparations. The US attacked Iran without provocation, killed 3K+, caused $100s of billions in damages

[kev joon @never_oppressed]

Today is the 40th day (chehelom) since the slaughter of 168 schoolchildren in Minab by a US double-tap strike. May their memories forever be a blessing to their families and may the misery that these families were subjected to forever haunt those who murdered their children.

[DEI speedwagon (all eyes on Cuba) 🌹🇵🇸 〽️ @uhshanti]

I truly cannot believe any Dem senator is trying to TACO taunt Donald Trump right now mere hours after he threatened to genocide 90 million people. Jesus Christ

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

Murphy explicitly lobbies against the tentative ceasefire deal. Pray tell Chris what terms do you think Iran will accept after the US sneak attacked them, killed their leaders, did an OKC bombing on a girls schools and killed 4K+ more? Some version of this is the only way it ends

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

Good. The entire world needs to restrain Trump and Israel. Threatening to destroy a civilization after an unwarranted sneak attack is the essence of evil.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Callings schools and universities “talent pipelines” for the military is genocidal language

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Make no mistake: destroying world-class universities, like the US just did with Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, isn't just an attack on Iran but it's literally an attack on all of us, on all of humanity.

It's not Iran that "won" when Maryam Mirzakhani made her discoveries that won her a Fields Medal: it's all of mathematics, and everything mathematics is used for. Human progress won, technology won, we all won.

It's the same type of stuff the Mongols did during the sack of Baghdad and their destruction of the House of Wisdom: we ALL lost something irreplaceable back then, entire fields of human knowledge set back.

That's what bombing a university does. It doesn't just destroy buildings. It destroys us, all of us.

[Bruno Maçães @MacaesBruno]

Imagine a terrorist group put out a list of universities, bombed MIT first day, Harvard second and so on and so forth down the list. What would you think? The depths of barbarism? That’s what Israel and the US are doing in Iran

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

Obviously this would be a giant crime and anyone involved should be put on trial.

[Amir @AmirAminiMD]

So not only is the US admitting to having armed separatist groups in Iran months ago, confirming what Iranian officials have been saying, but indirectly also that, despite all the meddling, decapitstions and bombings, it has not led to civil war.

What a dumpster fire of a coup.

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

question: is it “authoritarian” when the US bombs a school and kills 150 kids? Is it “authoritarian” when the US wages siege warfare and destroys the economies of Iran, Cuba, Gaza, Venezuela etc with blockades resulting in starvation, blackouts and spikes in preventable deaths?

[beecier @UdsiAsli]

He spread fake propaganda to incite the genocide in Palestine. Now Economist editor @shashj is doing it for Iran