We have been watching Washington oscillate between tough talk and last‑minute retreats, between “no compromise” and “maybe we can live with this,” while the regime uses that inconsistency to dig in deeper. When you keep sending mixed signals, when you draw lines and then repeatedly step back from them, you don’t weaken a regime like this. You train it to wait you out.
It’s that simple. @POTUS@marklevinshow
I’ve been thinking about how everyone is gaming out a “potential” Iran deal. President Trump calls it “largely negotiated” and Don Jr, (shamelessly) is already hyping it as an absolute win, but nowhere in their victory lap are the Iranian people themselves. If the U.S. Navy has Iran blockaded and Tehran has no real air force or navy left, why are we talking about showering this regime with concessions at all? When you hold all the cards and still feel the need to bribe a terror state to act human, it does not look like America is the side that is winning. Meanwhile the IRGC is hanging protesters and political prisoners like Milad Armon, Mohammad‑Mehdi Hosseini, Navid Najaran and Mehdi Imani, young men who were told help was on the way and are instead walking to the gallows. @marklevinshow@LindseyGrahamSC
President Trump keeps proudly talking about “eight women” he says he just saved from execution. A couple months ago he said he spoke to the Islamic Republic, asked them not to hang 800 people on death row, and that out of respect for him they agreed. He is being sincere. The story is not.
While he repeats that line, the same regime has already executed close to 1000 people since that time. They just killed Sasan Azadvar, a 21‑year‑old karate champion from Isfahan, arrested in the January uprising and hanged after torture and a fake trial. They tortured and killed Hesam Ghalaleddin, a mall owner whose “crime” was having Starlink and trying to give people uncensored internet.
Their blood is proof that the Islamic Republic is still killing right despite what @potus is being told. @marklevinshow@SecRubio
The United States restored internet to Egypt in 2011. We have Starlink. We fund the circumvention tools. The capability is right there.
So what is the problem? Why isn’t Washington putting real pressure on the companies that can connect Iran?
Ninety million people are disconnected from the internet and from the world, and we are acting like there is nothing we can do.
@marklevinshow@SenTomCotton
The United States restored internet to Egypt in 2011. We have Starlink. We fund the circumvention tools. The capability is right there.
So what is the problem? Why isn’t Washington putting real pressure on the companies that can connect Iran?
Ninety million people are disconnected from the internet and from the world, and we are acting like there is nothing we can do.
@marklevinshow@SenTomCotton
If the goal is to “protect Iranians” from the regime, why are IRGC backed Hashd al Shaabi death squads, already used to help crush protests inside Iran, still safe in Basra and inside Iraq? They kill Iranian civilians and serve Tehran’s terror machine, not any “resistance.” If you are serious about saving Iranians, stop bombing infrastructure and start going after the regime’s proxies. @CENTCOM@IDF
Targeting Iran’s civilian infrastructure is a grave strategic error. Obliterating power plants will not degrade the IRGC’s military capabilities or liberate the Iranian people; it will only punish the millions who have bravely stood as your greatest allies on the ground. For years, Iranians have lobbied the West, trusted you, and risked everything to oppose this regime.
To destroy the foundations of a post‑Islamic Republic economy is to sabotage the very vision of “Making Iran Great Again.” If the United States ever puts troops on the ground, success will hinge on the cooperation of the Iranian people. To eliminate the IRGC, you need Iranians to facilitate your objectives, or at the very least trust your intentions enough to yield the battlespace.
If that trust is shattered by the destruction of hospitals, water systems, and power, the mission is lost. Never underestimate the power of Iranian patriotism. When the West attacks a nation’s lifelines, it does not break the regime; it gifts it the oxygen of nationalism to survive. Do not hand a dying terrorist cartel a lifeline at the expense of its own victims. @POTUS@marklevinshow@SecRubio@LindseyGrahamSC
Targeting Iran’s civilian infrastructure is a grave strategic error. Obliterating power plants will not degrade the IRGC’s military capabilities or liberate the Iranian people; it will only punish the millions who have bravely stood as your greatest allies on the ground. For years, Iranians have lobbied the West, trusted you, and risked everything to oppose this regime.
To destroy the foundations of a post‑Islamic Republic economy is to sabotage the very vision of “Making Iran Great Again.” If the United States ever puts troops on the ground, success will hinge on the cooperation of the Iranian people. To eliminate the IRGC, you need Iranians to facilitate your objectives, or at the very least trust your intentions enough to yield the battlespace.
If that trust is shattered by the destruction of hospitals, water systems, and power, the mission is lost. Never underestimate the power of Iranian patriotism. When the West attacks a nation’s lifelines, it does not break the regime; it gifts it the oxygen of nationalism to survive. Do not hand a dying terrorist cartel a lifeline at the expense of its own victims. @POTUS@marklevinshow@SecRubio@LindseyGrahamSC
The terrorist regime of the Islamic Republic has cut off internet access for 90 million people since the start of the war, putting an entire nation at risk. Without internet access, people cannot receive evacuation warnings, emergency information, or critical updates during wartime.
Meanwhile, Abbas Araghchi, the foreign minister of the Islamic Republic, appears on Western media via Zoom claiming to be the voice of 90 million Iranians and saying he wants to defend their rights.
Defend them from who? You are the ones cutting off their internet — not the U.S. and not Israel.
Once again, you are showing the world exactly what this regime is: a textbook dictatorship. Shameless, oppressive, and responsible for the suffering and deaths of its own people.
The Iranian people cannot wait to see you held accountable for what you have done.
#DigitalBlackOutIran
#IranRevolution2026
#RezaPahlaviForIran
@elonmusk
Dear Elon,
In these critical days, the people of Iran need internet access. Please help them stay connected as they struggle to reclaim their country from the rule of the mullahs. Stand with the Iranian people. Iran will not forget its friends.
@elonmusk
Dear Elon,
In these critical days, the people of Iran need internet access. Please help them stay connected as they struggle to reclaim their country from the rule of the mullahs. Stand with the Iranian people. Iran will not forget its friends.
I need everyone to start talking about the internet blackouts happening now.
The IRGC has plunged Iran into an internet blackout, turning millions into blind targets just as Israeli warnings tell civilians which areas to evacuate and where to go.
With the internet cut, families cannot receive evacuation maps, real time strike alerts or updates from relatives on the ground, while the IRGC embeds itself in mosques, schools and homes.
If you are shouting about civilian casualties but silent about the blackout that blocks warnings and traps those civilians in the line of fire, your “anti war” stance is helping the regime, not its victims.
@Janefonda@MarkRuffalo@AOC@RepThomasMassie@RoKhanna
#Iran #IranWar
I'm an Iranian
We are super happy that Khamenei is dead
We don't want MEK (a religious terrorist cult)
We want secular democracy
We want @PahlaviReza as our leader
Thank you.
#RezaPahlavi#MEKterrorrist
What “women led resistance” are you talking about exactly @newtgingrich ?
Iran’s uprising is not a branded project. It is a natural revolt with women and men standing next to each other inside Iran and risking everything.
Politicians who are still stuck on the 2022 “woman life freedom” slogan and on photo ops with exile groups like MEK are not speaking for the Iranian people. Stop using our struggle as a talking point and start listening to the people on the ground. We already have a transitional leader in @PahlaviReza
I saw someone ask, ‘Why must WE do it? Why do American taxpayers always shoulder the cost of being the world’s policeman?’
Because this is not charity for Iranians. It is self defense for Americans. The same regime that robs and massacres its own people is arming proxies, rebuilding, and working on longer range missiles that can eventually reach American bases and even the East Coast. If they do this to their own, imagine what they will do when they are strong again and we have turned our backs.
And remember, brave Iranians with bare hands are already fighting this terror regime that is terrorizing the whole world. They are shot, jailed, massacred, yet they keep rising. They are standing on the front line for a safer world. You are not doing them a favor. They are doing you a favor by confronting the same Islamist jihad that is spreading everywhere. Americans should be very afraid of what happens if this regime is allowed to recover. @POTUS@marklevinshow@PahlaviReza@LindseyGrahamSC@JDVance@SecRubio #iranmassacre
I can’t believe what I just heard. @SteveWitkoff is interviewing with @LaraLeaTrump saying @POTUS is ‘curious’ why Iran hasn’t surrendered with all this US naval power around them. You’re dealing with jihadist Islamists who glorify death and martyrdom, and your mindset is, ‘we parked some ships there, why aren’t they scared yet?’ This is not a Fortune 500 company you’re negotiating with; this is one of the biggest terrorist cartels in the world, and they can’t wait to get long‑range missiles and blast them all the way to the East Coast. This is exactly that Western way of thinking that has no clue what it’s up against. I need a Tylenol. #IranMassacre
Reagan said “we don’t negotiate with terrorists.” Obama said “engagement” would moderate them. Today @POTUS is in Geneva with a regime that is massacring people in Abdanan and executing protesters right now, after assuring him they would not touch the prisoners. @AOC and the Democrats demand more “diplomacy,” the MAGA non intervention crowd demands “no consequences” no matter what. You really trust men who break their word while the ink is still wet? This is not just Iran’s tragedy, it is a direct threat to American security.
Make no mistake about it.
Iranian -Americans will not forget nor forgive those who chose to look away.
@marklevinshow@TomCottonAR@tedcruz@CAgovernor@RepYassAnsari