Shia PMF & Iraqi Army Counter-Terrorism Units raise a wooden cross made by their own hands,
Ontop of the Churches during liberation operations in Mosul, 2016.
This is called humanity.
@FourSkinners@gayest_tone Vassal, was too nice a word. The UK, as one of many dingleberry's on the festering American asshole (including your precious EU), is also downstream of that waiting 35 trillion debt disaster you fucking genius.
@DesmondCole@TankieRiel You live in a country deeply subverted by the fascist children of Ukranian Nazis who love Israel and are helping it carry out a genocide. The media apparatus you work in is an extension of that. Thanks for your opinion but your credibility is in the trash pal.
@doctor_rahmeh@MokhtarYaz Look up Operation Timber Sycamore, if your position aligns with Israels here why not stop and think a bit more deeply. The institutions of the Ahl al Sunnah have been corrupted by Saudi $. The martyr Sinwar said the same after he rid Gaza of ISIS cells. Dont dishonor his memory.
@NightJourney98@KevorkAlmassian Because the same people who took Assad out are trying to eradicate the Palestinian people. Apparently she can't seem to grasp this basic fact.
@Yassinhs Helping destroy Syria wasn't enough for you to hide in shame for the rest of your life. You want Iran to suffer the same fate as well. Real sickening shit.
@ChrisWhiteside3 Aint gonna happen, Europe is fucked without Russian energy, US cannot makeup the shortfall even charging three times the price because they simply don't have it. Better get on your knees and start learning how to beg in either Russian or Farsi.
@themildperil@ProfHall1955 He did just that in Istanbul in March of 2022, and everyones favorite blonde Etonian Prime Minister went and told Zelensky to walk out while giving everyone the finger. I dont believe Putin has any appetite to suffer fools gladly.
Moving beyond the critique of the letter itself which has been already addressed by colleagues/friends, what has become visible over the past few days goes beyond the failure of one letter or the outrage surrounding it. It reveals something deeper about the political and intellectual order that produced it.
I. The decay of western left intellectual authority
For decades, prominent Western left intellectuals have spoken with an authority that assumed their analyses could shape movements and political/public consciousness. The extensive scrutiny and rejection this letter has received shows how such authority is eroding.
The Guardian and the wider mainstream media, even when furnished with left cover, increasingly struggle to manufacture the moral consensus they once could. Humanitarian language, progressive/abolitionist credentials, calibrated condemnations and declarations of solidarity remain available, but their power to confuse or persuade the masses is diminishing.
The empire is experiencing a crisis of hegemony (owed to historic defeat of US by Iran and Resistance by anti-colonial forces in West Asia) and its intellectual institutions are decaying with it.
II. Condemnation is not politics
There is also a question for those, including comrades, who have rightly condemned the letter: what does condemnation actually accomplish?
It can provide the feeling of opposition without confronting the structures producing the violence. It allows people to distinguish themselves from the most vulgar representatives of imperial power while remaining embedded in the society that sustains and benefits from it.
Thinking, analyzing and denouncing matter. But they cannot become substitutes for political transformation.
The harder question is therefore: what kind of movement continues to reproduce intellectual authorities so detached from the material anti-colonial struggles of the people they claim to stand beside?
And how have Western left intellectuals who took disastrous positions on Syria retained legitimacy and institutional authority with so little accountability for the violence to which they contributed?
III. The letter’s irrelevance to Iranian political life
Perhaps the most revealing fact is what has *not* happened.
I have been closely following Iranian spaces from inside Iran; universities, classrooms, women’s collectives, labour spaces and political discussions. I have seen no meaningful engagement with this letter.
Its circulation has been overwhelmingly concentrated in English-language media and Western political spaces. A letter that appears enormously important in the West has little discernible significance among the people whose lives it claims to address.
That gap exposes the distance between the political imagination of the imperial centre and the material reality of those living under its consequences.
Western subjects may be surprised to discover how irrelevant they have become to the anti-colonial and anti-imperial struggles unfolding beyond the imperial centre.
Finally
After everything i have lived through over the past two years, and specially after talking to Minab families, I refuse to extend the language of “good intentions” to those who signed this letter. They had decades of history, scholarship, testimony, war, sanctions, intervention and resistance from which to learn.
The future is being made by those who have proved capable of changing the balance of power in fav of the masses of the periphery. History is being made by the Resistance forces across West Asia led by the Islamic Republic of Iran, not through the increasingly irrelevant/saviour takes of the imperial intellectual class.
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Let Iran’s beauty bless your day
@land_apostle@frommontenegro@RedGuard_Milo https://t.co/7z11dpTWB8
lol, you're so cool bro. Hormuz Strait is still closed, I guess resistance isn't so futile after all.
@frommontenegro@RedGuard_Milo One of these groups has never met a Jew who didn't want to kill them and drew a swastika to insult their genocidal oppressors, the other group wave it because they believe they are Aryans in the vain of Bandera. If you think these two are the same then you're kinda need help. lol
@IntelGeoPol@MenkoiiKawaii@sopjap They said this publicly, you're downplaying energy aspect, current pressure Iran applies to energy markets already causing considerable damage to global markeets. If they decided to go scorched earth on all Gulf energy infrastructure then it would suck exponentially more.
@kelme_lb@BlackveilVeil@ShiaphobiaLB Okay great, they made whole documentaries about these battles where the Church leaders thanked Hizb which I'm sure makes you seethe. Your framing is disingenuous and I pity you.
@kelme_lb@BlackveilVeil@ShiaphobiaLB If it was up to you Lebanon would become an Israeli appendage. Luckily its not so you sit in America and rant and rave online like a fucking lunatic about a rosary.
@BlackveilVeil@kelme_lb@ShiaphobiaLB This account is a miserable Lebanese who lives in the US that has had a lifelong identity crisis. Don't bother engaging lol.