nazanin

PhDing, Marxism, culture, imperialism, and west Asia

[Rania Khalek @RaniaKhalek]

Trump has just announced that the US will be bombing Iran hard and the mission is theft of their oil.

In 2026 they declare their war crimes openly because this world is too backwards and cowardly to stop them.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨 Iran Strikes U.S. Fifth Fleet Base in Bahrain, Targets American Bases Across Region

The IRGC announced it launched drone strikes against the U.S. Fifth Fleet naval base in Bahrain at 2:30 AM local time, in direct response to U.S. strikes on Jask, Sirik, and Qeshm, according to Tasnim News.

🔸 IRGC statement:
➤ The IRGC confirmed U.S. strikes earlier in the night hit a telecommunications tower in Sirik and destroyed two water storage tanks in the Bamani area. In response, IRGC Navy forces launched drone strikes against the U.S. Fifth Fleet base in Bahrain. “Engagements are ongoing,” the statement said, warning of “heavier responses” if U.S. strikes continue.

🔸 Iranian Armed Forces statement:
➤ The Khatam al-Anbiya Central Command — the joint operational headquarters of Iran’s military — confirmed that multiple U.S. bases in the region were struck by Iranian army and IRGC forces in response to the U.S. attacks on southern Iran. “If the U.S. criminal army repeats its aggression against the Islamic Republic, massive and wider strikes will be carried out against designated targets across the region,” the statement warned, according to Tasnim.

[Davide Mastracci @DavideMastracci]

A much better question would be: Why is the entirety of Canada’s corporate media supporting a genocide?

[nazanin @onapittance]

So the globe is just doing canary mission work and passing it off as journalism now

[The Globe and Mail @globeandmail]

Opinion: Why is a Canadian literary magazine supporting ‘armed resistance’? https://t.co/C3G97JIlJV

[Mitch McEachern 🇵🇸🇨🇦 @Intifada4Life]

Toronto Mayoral Candidate Brad Bradford declares his allegiance to a foreign Nazi state currently committing a Holocaust in direct violation of Canadian treaties and criminal codes. He’s a traitor.

[MenchOsint @MenchOsint]

The rules of engagement are changing, the past 18 hours have been very interesting:

- Iran re-entered war with Israel just to defend Lebanon.
- Yemen spontaneously entered the war.
- US asks for an immediate ceasefire.
- Iran promises a response if any axis member is attacked.

[nazanin @onapittance]

Wholesale punishment of a people, the holding hostage of an entire people

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨BREAKING: Israel has closed all crossings into Gaza and halted the entry of humanitarian aid following Iran’s retaliatory strikes on Israel, cutting off supplies to roughly 2 million Palestinians in the territory.

Israel has imposed similar blanket closures during previous periods of regional escalation, including immediately after the outbreak of war in late February, collectively punishing Gaza’s civilian population.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨BREAKING: Israel has closed all crossings into Gaza and halted the entry of humanitarian aid following Iran’s retaliatory strikes on Israel, cutting off supplies to roughly 2 million Palestinians in the territory.

Israel has imposed similar blanket closures during previous periods of regional escalation, including immediately after the outbreak of war in late February, collectively punishing Gaza’s civilian population.

[Amal Saad @amalsaad_lb]

Iran’s opening of a Lebanon support front not only overturns the nonsensical “proxy” label routinely levelled against Hizbullah, but also demolishes the very premise of the Lebanese collaborationist government’s mantra that Hizbullah “dragged” Lebanon into a “war of others.”

But more importantly, Iran’s provision of this security umbrella to Lebanon demonstrates not merely the inextricability of Iran’s and Hizbullah’s strategic interests, nor just the depth of their ideological and religio-cultural ties, but their shared conception of sovereignty as regional self-determination--a substantive, lived sovereignty that must be continuously enacted and defended through struggle and solidarity, as opposed to the formal externally conferred sovereignty, which as the Lebanese government demonstrates, can be denied or surrendered entirely in practice.

[Kristiana Bruneau @GumptionAndCo]

This is absolutely revolting

[Dyab Abou Jahjah @Aboujahjah]

Iran is now striking the Zionist entity in defense of Lebanon. Whatever the collaborating Vichy regime in Beirut may say, this is what a true ally of the Lebanese people would do.

[Alireza Akbari @itsalireza_akb]

Iran Parliamnet Speaker:
They neither adhere to ceasefires nor believe in dialogue, and by imposing a naval blockade and violating agreements concerning Lebanon, they have shown that they only understand the language of force.

[nazanin @onapittance]

As a person who grew up in Ottawa, this is the most Ottawa shit ever

[RTN @RTNToronto]

#NEW: Justin Trudeau’s son, Xav, set to headline Ottawa’s Shawarma Fest tomorrow.

[Ochai Latte @nasimali]

there are sentences being formed that haven’t been formed before

[Tara @taraisredacted]

The sponsors of The Walk with ̷I̷s̷r̷a̷e̷l̷ Genocide in Toronto (this Sunday):

[Greg @GregGrandin]

For perspective, the East Germans over the course of nearly 3 decades, killed 140 trying to cross over the Berlin Wall.

[professional hobgoblin @SecretHobgoblin]

Like it's kind of frustrating that Boots Riley is allegedly communist but the furthest he goes in his surrealist class struggle fantasy movie is "strikes are cool and good"

[Amal Saad @amalsaad_lb]

Iran's decision to suspend talks and threaten full closure of the Strait of Hormuz in direct response to ongoing Israeli aggression against Lebanon is a major turning point in this war, and one of the clearest indications that the US-Israeli attempt to impose a surrender framework on Lebanon has collided with a regional logic it seems incapable of understanding. Its substance is the criminalisation of sovereignty, whereby Israel seeks to continue advancing its invasion in southern Lebanon and entrenching its occupation, while Beirut is taken hostage to prevent Hizbullah from mounting any defensive response to that occupation.

That the Lebanese government has attempted to convince Hizbullah of the reasonableness of this new equation, and insisted on proceeding with talks with Israel tomorrow, even as Iran suspends its own negotiations in rejection of this same equation, captures the depth of the divergence. The difference is not merely over values or political principles, but over the very meaning of rationality under the simultaneous conditions of imperial and colonial force. One side has internalised US-Israeli power as the permanent horizon of political reality, while the other treats that same power as contingent and contestable.

Iran's refusal is therefore not merely the product of religious solidarity, ideological affinity, or shared strategic culture with Hizbullah, but is better understood as a rejection of the defeatist rationality that presents imperial power as the invisible limit of the possible, the zero point beyond which politics cannot go. What Iran and Hizbullah share is a political ontology grounded in the refusal of this defeatism, and a conception of sovereignty not as formal recognition conferred by power, but as the substantive capacity to reject subordination, even when the cost is very high.

[B.M. @ireallyhateyou]

Minister Itzhak Wasserlauf, who called soldiers to smash Palestinian babies on rocks, led the Israel Day Parade in New York today, alongside some of the most deranged Israeli MKs and ministers who regularly call for genocide and ethnic cleansing. Mamdani's NYC is fully complicit.

[Majid Hosseini @m4h007]

Iran International is a place for Mossad to plant narratives and only idiots believe what they say. Here’s Barak Ravid confirming this