Ari ♛ ✡︎

a bit of math and low latency.

[Ari ♛ ✡︎ @ramaxpert]

ما یک هدف بیشتر نداریم، و اون نابودی کامل شماهاست. یه جوری که خودتون، دینتون، و خداتون نیست و نابود شین کص کشای بیابونی✌🏼

[Reza Behrouz @RBehrouzDO]

At the request of Pakistan, President @realDonaldTrump announced a two-week ceasefire on April 7, 2026 to pursue diplomacy with the terrorist regime in Iran, culminating in the talks in Islamabad, which were inconclusive April 11). On the eve of the expiration of the two-week ceasefire (April 21), again at the request of Pakistan, Trump extended the ceasefire indefinitely. On the same day, Witkoff, Vance and Kushner were preparing to travel to Islamabad for another round of talks. The Islamic regime’s delegation failed to show, and the U.S. delegation’s trip was canceled.

On May 3, Trump announced “Project Freedom” to facilitate movement across the Strait of Hormuz. Less than 48 hours later, at the request of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, the operation was halted.

On May 18, Trump again made the announcement that while he was preparing imminent resumption of military operations against the regime in Iran, he had decided to “pause” the operation (ostensibly for 2 to 3 days) and give the negotiations “one last chance,” at the request of Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and UAE.

Nearly 60 days after the initial ceasefire that was predicated on opening the Strait of Hormuz, the so-called negotiations have gone nowhere and the Strait remains under IRGC siege. Over the past 2 months since the ceasefire, the regime has extricated it ballistic missiles from under the rubble, opened the collapsed entrances to subterranean missile depots, reinforced its grip on the Strait of Hormuz, and more importantly, executed dozens of innocent Iranians. The regime’s leadership continues to reside in bunkers. At this juncture, resumption of military operations has lost its utility and deterrence capacity. This signifies a monumental political defeat, as well as a military defeat for Trump. Unless Islamic Republic officials are eliminated entirely in a limited operation (allowing the Iranian people to pursue their destiny), the situation is not salvageable and will mark Trump’s legacy in the Middle East.

[Saeed Ghasseminejad @SGhasseminejad]

در مسئله رفراندوم جمهوری اسلامی با یک قیچی دولبه به سراغ نیروی ملی و پادشاهیخواه آمد تا به قول باقر گازانبری آن را از کار بیندازد که با درایت شاهزاده رضا پهلوی کاری از پیش نبرد.
لبه اول جریانی است که به اسم دموکراسی فشار می‌آورد حق مردم برای انتخاب گزینه پادشاهی حذف شود. این فشار تا همین امروز از جهات مختلف وجود دارد و ‌شاهزاده هرگز زیر بار آن نرفته است.
لبه دوم‌جریانیست که به اسم پادشاهیخواهی فشار می‌آورد شاهزاده زیر میز انتخابات آزاد بزند و حق مردم برای انتخاب نظام‌سیاسی آینده کشور را منکر شود.
شاهزاده با هوشیاری می‌گوید نظام سیاسی آینده کشور را ملت ایران در یک انتخابات آزاد تعیین خواهد کرد و همه کسانی که به چهار اصل کلیدی انقلاب شیروخورشید باور دارند تا پیروزی بر جمهوری اسلامی کنار هم خواهند ایستادند و اختلافشان درباره شکل نظام سیاسی آینده را پس از پیروزی بر سر صندوق رای حل خواهند کرد و ایشان به عنوان رهبر انقلاب شیروخورشید و دوران گذار در این مسئله بیطرف خواهد بود.

[Pink4IRAN ♛ ✡︎ @pink4iran]

‼️Before accusing Iranian users based on X’s new “Based in Iran” label, we need to pause.

Over the past few days, many users have treated the appearance of “Based in Iran” or the disappearance of the VPN shield as proof that an account is connected directly through Iran’s filtered internet or using a privileged “white SIM card.”

The available evidence does not justify that conclusion.

After reviewing dozens of examples, a different technical explanation appears more plausible.

1/

Several patterns repeatedly appear among affected accounts:

• Many users are on Android devices.
• Many have used X from inside Iran for years.
• Their accounts have likely been observed at different times through Iranian mobile or home-internet IP addresses.
• Their displayed location recently changed to Iran, or the VPN indicator disappeared.

The crucial point is that X itself says its public account-location label is inferred from aggregated IP addresses.

This means the label is not necessarily determined by the IP address visible at the exact moment someone checks the account.

2/

A reasonable hypothesis is that X evaluates an account’s connection history over time.

During periods of severe internet disruption in Iran, an account may repeatedly appear through IP ranges associated with Iranian internet providers. If this pattern is observed often enough, X may classify the account as “Based in Iran” even when the user later connects through a VPN or advanced tunnelling protocol such as VLESS, Reality, Hysteria, or WireGuard.

This is a hypothesis, not a confirmed explanation of X’s internal system. But it fits the available observations more closely than many of the claims currently circulating online.

3/

The absence of a VPN shield is not proof that someone is connecting directly through Iran’s domestic internet.

The presence of a VPN shield is also not proof that someone is outside Iran or that they are not using a privileged connection.

Both labels are outputs generated by a probabilistic detection system. They should be treated as indicators — not as evidence sufficient to publicly accuse someone.

4/

If the issue were caused only by IPv4 versus IPv6, a DNS leak, or a specific ISP, we would expect a more consistent pattern across users and platforms.

Instead, the cases reviewed so far appear more compatible with a change in X’s account-location model: one that may give greater weight to historical IP data than to a single active connection.

This would also explain why an account’s displayed location does not always change immediately when a user travels abroad.

5/

Iranian activists already operate under extraordinary pressure. A platform label should not become the basis for careless accusations against people who may have spent years using X from inside Iran under censorship, surveillance, and internet shutdowns.

I invite network engineers, cybersecurity specialists, VPN developers, and IT professionals to share technical observations and data beneath this thread.

The goal is not to defend a predetermined theory. It is to understand the system more accurately, reduce unnecessary hostility, and distinguish genuine activists from regime-linked accounts using evidence rather than assumptions.

[Ari ♛ ✡︎ @ramaxpert]

She’s got mental issues

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

“I would rape them to show them that I’m dominant.” - Graham Platner

[H E R 🕊️ @Raha_Azad_]

Calling Mojtaba a man with a "good reputation" is an insult to every Iranian imprisoned, tortured or executed by this regime.

What an embarrassment @POTUS 😒

This looks less like leadership and more like licking a terrorist’s ASS!

[Ari ♛ ✡︎ @ramaxpert]

@joekent16jan19 Shut the fuck up, NIAC lapdog.

[Eitan Fischberger @EFischberger]

Russia just told on itself this week, and almost nobody noticed.

At a Federation Council meeting, Deputy Justice Minister Oleg Sviridenko admitted that only 4% of the people and groups Russia designated as "foreign agents" in 2025 actually receive any foreign funding.

Before 2022, foreign money was a requirement for the label. His point, said out loud, was that money is no longer what they look for — because, in his words, it "isn't even needed anymore. There are other forms now."

That's a huge admission right there.

The state that spent a century perfecting political subversion is telling you, on the record, that funding is the least interesting part of the equation.

Now look at the conversation this past week. Candace Owens is in St. Petersburg right now, speaking on a panel at Putin's flagship economic forum, beside officials who sit under U.S. sanctions. And the question I keep seeing is some version of "how much is Russia paying her?"

I don't think Russia is paying her anything.

Same with Tucker and the endless speculation over how much Qatar or Iran is supposedly wiring him. I don't think there's a check.

And even if there were, you'd never find it — shell layers, cash, a relative's account, an "honorarium" for a speech, a consulting deal booked in a third country. If your case depends on producing a wire transfer, you've already lost it.

But the deeper mistake is the premise that influence runs on money. It doesn't.

The intelligence world has known this for decades, and it has a name for it: MICE.

🔸️Money
🔸️Ideology
🔸️Coercion
🔸️Ego

Money is one lever of four, and arguably the weakest. Yet our entire legal conversation behaves as if it's the only one on the list.

Ideology is the one we mistake for innocence — the sincere believer who pushes a foreign line because he holds it. We call him a "useful idiot," as if sincerity were a defense rather than the most valuable trait an asset can have.

Coercion is the one you can't see — leverage someone abroad quietly holds and never has to mention.

And Ego is the most underrated of all, because the targets already have money. What a state can hand them for free is the feeling of mattering. A seat at a table they'd never otherwise reach, proximity to power, the sense of being a serious geopolitical figure rather than a podcaster. People have burned down their lives for that.

This is why the binary everyone reaches for (money or ideology) is useless.

Because structurally, we only see the M.

FARA asks one question — did foreign money touch you, and were you acting at the direction of a foreign principal.

Prosecutors hunt for the payment because the payment is provable. So the people most openly advancing a foreign agenda, the ones running on ego or ideology, sit cleanly outside the law.

They're untouchable precisely because they're unpaid. The professionals — Russia, Iran, Qatar, Turkey, China — worked this out long ago.

The cleanest asset has no financial tie at all. No paper trail, no defector risk, nothing to subpoena.

We need to stop asking how much people are being paid. It's the wrong question, built to be unanswerable.

Rather, ask the question Sviridenko handed us for free: what does this person get out of the relationship that they couldn't get anywhere else?

Answer that, and the rest is surprisingly simple.

[Mitra Hejazipour @MitraHejazipour]

ترند جدید بعد از کوله پشتی‌ها 🎒
عکس : آریامهر + /- پرچم شیروخورشید
بیو : سلطنت طلب مشروطه‌خواه
محتوا : حمله به شاهزاده
کارفرما : مثل همیشه 📦

[Ari ♛ ✡︎ @ramaxpert]

@RepThomasMassie Fuck off, moron. NIAC lapdog

[Ronak Daneshmand @ronak_banoo]

I'm reading the testimony of New Jersey Democrat nominee for Congress Adam Hamawy in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing trial transcripts and...wow. This is jaw dropping that we're allowing someone like this to go to the House of Representatives with access to intelligence info. Here's the link to the trial transcript where Hamawy testifies. Judge for yourself. https://t.co/iFLOD0dIKt

[Pink4IRAN ♛ ✡︎ @pink4iran]

🇮🇷 LOS ANGELES, JUNE 7

Join the human chain at SoFi Stadium.

The Lion and Sun flag belongs to Iran.
It carries our history, our identity, and the voice of a nation refusing to be erased.

FIFA has no right to silence it.

📍 District Dr & Hardy Ave, Inglewood
🕑 2–4 PM

Bring your flag.
Stand with Iran.
Be seen.

[Sharbalaa / شربلا @SharOBalaa]

So people who call @PahlaviReza name and came into the streets in millions must remain unarmed so that her Kurd parties friends in collaboration with the MEK can get the weapons and get armed for the next round?

[Ari ♛ ✡︎ @ramaxpert]

یه مادرجندگی خاصی میخواد بیای به دنیا بگی بیشترین ترس رژیم از مردم غیر مسلحه. اونم بعد از کشتار دی ماه.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

Masih Alinejad: “The biggest fear to the Iranian Regime are unarmed civilians out in the streets who know that freedom is not free.”

[Ari ♛ ✡︎ @ramaxpert]

@patriot_apranik @Whoamithesedays 😂

[Ari ♛ ✡︎ @ramaxpert]

While the for the past 20 years the whole country was busy deporting Mexicans, these guys took over the country. Systematically.

[Amy Mek @AmyMek]

NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT IN NEW JERSEY - WE ARE BEING CONQUERED!

Jihadi Adam Hamawy just seized the Democratic primary in NJ-12 - and terrorists + their defenders are celebrating.

We are watching our country fall in real time.

The radicals showed up in force to cheer this victory:

Linda Sarsour - the activist who praises convicted terrorists, tells Muslims not to assimilate, and unleashes incendiary hate on non-Muslims.

Imam Mohammad Qatanani - convicted in Israel in 1993 for Hamas membership. His mosque's founder, Mohammad El-Mezain, was a founding board member of the Holy Land Foundation and convicted of funneling millions to Hamas in the terror-financing trial.

Yet the mosque president, Ibrahim Fahmy (President of ICPC), who is at the victory party tonight, still calls this imam a "man of peace" - just like their prophet Muhammad - even after he preached anti-Jewish and anti-Christian sermons, called for a new intifada against Israel, and described life in Hamas-ruled Gaza as "beautiful and normal."

Terrorists are literally laughing at us as they celebrate this takeover.

And the man they're celebrating?

Thirty-one years ago, Adam Hamawy took the stand in the largest terrorism trial in American history and lied under oath to protect the Blind Sheikh, Omar Abdel-Rahman, the mastermind whose followers bombed the World Trade Center in 1993 and plotted to blow up the Lincoln and Holland Tunnels, the UN, the FBI's New York office, and more.

Hamawy didn't just know the Sheikh. He attended a jihad conference with him in Detroit in 1991. He heard the calls for holy war — jihad as "the pinnacle of Islam," conquering the land of the infidels, and the Sheikh branding Egypt's president America's "loyal dog" and calling for his murder.

Under oath?

Hamawy swore it was just an innocent "Islamic economy" conference. He denied facts, claimed convenient "memory lapses," and only admitted the truth when prosecutors slammed the transcript in his face.

This is the man who now wants classified intelligence briefings and a vote on America's counterterrorism funding?

Radicals are embedding themselves in Congress while the GOP has not figured out a single way to stop this takeover.

We are going to lose our country. Imagine what they'll do when they control the presidency and Congress.

[Ari ♛ ✡︎ @ramaxpert]

من موندم این تریاک رو از کجا گیر میاره تو آمریکا؟

[Asghar Sepehri @AsgharSepehri]

به نظر می‌رسد که ولیعهد گرامی، شاهدخت نور پهلوی، قانون اساسی مشروطه را به درستی مطالعه نکرده که طبق آن، ملت ایران صاحب تاج و تخت است که آن را به امانت به شاه سپرده‌اند (اصل ۳۵ متمم).
به عبارت دیگر، پهلوی وارث تاج و تخت است و مالک آن ملت ایران است که در ۱۳۵۷ از او دزدیده شد.
بنابراین مبارزه برای تاج و تخت، مبارزه برای حق مردم ایران است که این حق را با شعار #جاویدشاه فریاد می‌زنند.

[Ari ♛ ✡︎ @ramaxpert]

@patriot_apranik @Whoamithesedays با خشانت

[dan linnaeus @DanLinnaeus]

Not enough people understand how consequential this development is. The Quincy Institute is co-founded by Trita Parsi and Suzanne DiMaggio among other figures widely regarded as track-1.5/II (semi-official and unofficial diplomatic) channels for the Islamic Republic of Iran. The fact that Joe Kent, who served as director of the National Counterterrorism Center and quit over the launch of combat operations against Iran, is now writing for Quincy’s online magazine and platform Responsible Statecraft is significant.

This completes a pattern that appears to have begun in Kent’s personal life. His current wife, Heather Kaiser Kent, an Army veteran he married in 2023, has written for The Grayzone, the outlet founded and led by Max Blumenthal, where they have co-authored pieces. The Grayzone itself has ties to Iranian state media through its managing-chief editor, Wyatt Reed, who received payments from Press TV, Iran’s official English language state broadcaster and sanctioned subsidiary of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting Corporation.

Quincy and its contributors frame all of this as principled realism and restraint, opposing wars that they argue do not serve core U.S. interests. Critics view these overlapping personnel, marriages, and media ties as evidence of a cohesive ecosystem that effectively functions as (or lends legitimacy to) backchannel advocacy aligned with Tehran’s interests as part of its malign influence operations.

Ben Freeman, also writing for Quincy Institute, offered a similar piece distorting Sec 224 and lobbying to excise the section from the National Defense Authorization Act last week. This is Tehran’s agenda, not America’s. For a factual breakdown and the actual pp.40-44 text of Sec. 224 see: https://t.co/AXBmS2dx9L

[Legolas🇮🇷🇩🇪 @iranian_archers]

انتـقـــــــــــــــــــام و هیچ چیز دیگەای!
#IranMassacre‌

[Aurelian @Restitutor_Iran]

ضد پهلوى يعنى ضد ايران.