I tuned into Joe Rogan yesterday and heard Bernie Sanders' economics, Barack Obama's foreign policy, and Ro Khanna's conspiracy theories.
And then I realized JD Vance was talking.
I want a candidate in 2028 who doesn't mirror the Democrats -- and who can win.
Mr. VP, this is not the way.
https://t.co/VcoYxzy89K
Turns out if you had enough common sense to know negotiating with Islamic terrorists was never going to work, you’re part of an “Israeli influence operation”.
I feel like it would be easier to just admit you got played by a bunch of jihadis.
Mr. Vice President, @JDVance
If you don't support regime change in Iran, that's your political choice. You are entitled to your opinion, & no one is obliged to share it.
What is troubling, however, is your apparent #misunderstanding of the Islamic Republic. If you still believe that the so-called "reformists" [#Islamic_Left] represent a genuine alternative to the hardliners, or that either faction seeks to dismantle the Islamic Caliphate of #Shiite mullahs & its system of Islamist dictatorship & terrorism, then your assessment reflects a serious lack of knowledge & study.
They're merely 2 sides of the same coin, united in preserving the same ideological regime.
At the very least, you should distinguish between the #terrorist oligarchy of the Shiite mullahs & the Iranian #nation. It's the ruling regime that has built, financed, & exported terrorism for decades—not the Iranian people, who have been its first & greatest victims.
Don’t label a nation as terrorists when the terrorists are those who rule over it.
Finally, we have already seen your so-called human rights policy. You claimed that executions in Iran had stopped. That was simply #false. The executions continued. You should be ashamed of making such an unfounded claim. There's no #disgrace in admitting that you don’t know enough about a subject.
Sometimes, #silence is wiser than speaking without knowledge. We don’t need your #apology. We only ask that you study the subject & look at this malignant #cancer with an open mind—even if you lack the resolve or the political #will to operate on it.
@WhiteHouse@StateDept@ODNIgov@ODNI_NIC
Millions of Iranians took to the streets to free their country from the Islamic Republic. Around 40,000 of them never made it home. Now J.D. Vance claims that if the Islamic Republic falls, those very same people who risked everything to bring it down will flood Europe and US and strengthen the very forces of terrorism they fought against. He's clearly an idiot; but how about the man who picked him as Vice President?
While the Islamic Republic's warmongers hide in Tehran and their safe havens, they have abandoned conscript soldiers and young troops in defenseless garrisons, without even the means to protect them. This regime has once again shown that when forced to choose between the lives of Iran's sons and its own survival, it will always choose its own survival.
The Islamic Republic has imposed this war on the Iranian nation, and the responsibility for the lives of all its victims, including the soldiers at Bampur garrison, rests with this very regime. We all wish for peace, security, and tranquility for all Iranians, but as long as this regime remains in power, neither lasting security nor genuine peace is possible.
This criminal regime is more concerned with preserving Hezbollah in Lebanon and its other proxy forces in the region than with the safety of the Iranian people. For this regime, the survival of its terrorist arms matters more than the security and lives of the people of Ahvaz, Zahedan, Bandar Abbas, Bushehr, Chabahar, and all of Iran.
So I speak to Iran's soldiers, officers, and all patriotic forces: do not risk your lives for the survival of the Islamic Republic. Your oath is to Iran, not to a regime whose leaders flee in moments of danger and leave you defenseless and abandoned.
I extend my deepest condolences to the bereaved families of the conscript soldiers who lost their lives in the recent attacks on Islamic Republic military installations, and I ask the families of all conscripts to do everything in their power to prevent their children from being sent to serve under these dangerous conditions. No mother or father should send their child to garrisons that have today become killing fields rather than places of service and duty.
These young people are the children of this land, not human shields for the Islamic Republic. They should not pay with their lives for the survival of a failing government.
I also sincerely thank the noble people of Iranshahr and Zahedan who rushed to donate blood and assist the wounded soldiers of Bampur garrison. This national solidarity is a reminder of the truth that the Iranian people, even in their darkest days, do not abandon their own children.
Iran needs its children alive, to build a future that is free, prosperous, and proud.
Vance is a loser in every sense of the word. He fails miserably in talks the Islamic regime (as expected) and instead of owning his failure, he claims that ISRAEL pays to activate a smear campaign against him. 😂
Sure JD, sure. 🙄
یکسری از این روضههای "نه به جنگ" حال آدم رو بد میکنه. انگار که اگر این جنگ متوقف بشه، مشکلات مملکت هم حل میشه.
بذارید خیالتون رو راحت کنم؛
تنها راهِ رسیدن به صلح پایدار اینه که "هیچ نسخهای از ج.ا وجود نداشته باشد". مطلقا هیچ نسخهای.
راه دیگهای نیست.
هرکس بگه هست، دروغ گفته.
I want to thank the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Dutch House of Representatives for inviting me to speak today on behalf of millions of my compatriots fighting for liberty, justice, and democracy.
I am grateful to the Dutch police and parliamentary security services for their professionalism, assistance, and protection.
My heartfelt thanks also go to our Iranian compatriots who gathered respectfully outside Parliament to stand with the people of Iran.
The message I brought to The Hague was simple: the plight of the Iranian people must become the driving focus of international policy on Iran. Empowering them, not emboldening this regime, will bring lasting peace and stability.
Six months ago, tonight, Tehran went dark. All of Iran went dark. And into that darkness, millions of Iranians walked out of their homes anyway.
January 8th and 9th were not just two nights of protest. They were the night Iran's silence broke. Millions came into the streets, into the squares, onto their rooftops — but the regime answered them with bullets. Tens of thousands of my compatriots were killed in those forty-eight hours. Tens of thousands more have been arrested, tortured, and sentenced to die since.
They came out, determined and brave. I think of them every day. On those two nights I lost countrymen I will never get to meet. I do not hear a statistic when I hear the number 40,000. I see a son who did not come home to his mother. A daughter who will not sit at her family's table again. I think of each of them the way I would think of my own child, my own brother, my own sister. I carry the weight of every one of those names. But the families of the fallen I meet with, week after week, hearten our nation's will to carry on. Their children did not die in vain. They died for freedom, and they died with pride.
History will remember what these men and women did; I will make sure of it. Like the resistance who stood against tyranny in occupied Europe, and like the revolutionaries who fought for liberty in America. But theirs was a particular bravery. They had no army, no air cover, nothing but the belief in what they stood for. They stood anyway. A united nation choosing to face the guns together rather than live one more day in fear. The men and women of the 8th and 9th of January will be remembered in Iran's history as the greatest generation that preferred to die free and standing than to live cowered on their knees.
To the international community, I ask this: do not let a negotiating table in Geneva or Islamabad erase what happened in the streets of Tehran, Mashhad, and Kermanshah. They died for freedom. And when they are free, the Strait of Hormuz will open. The nuclear threat will end. And we will have true peace.
I have told my compatriots: what you did on January 8th and 9th cannot be undone. Together, we will reclaim our country’s rightful place in the world, our national dignity, and honor the lives of our heroes. Now is the time to reassess, regroup, and rededicate ourselves to victory.
We honor the fallen by finishing what they started. A free Iran is no longer a matter of hope. It is a matter of fact.
And know that my brave compatriots are not just fighting for their own liberation but for the peace and stability of the world.
شش ماه از مرگبارترین کشتار تاریخ ایران میگذرد.
بیش از ۴۰ هزار ایرانی، تنها برای مطالبه آزادی، کرامت، و حق انتخاب آینده خود، به دست جمهوری اسلامی قتلعام شدند.
در کنار مردم ایران بایستید.
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Report from Tehran, written from April 18 to April 25
Tehran does not look like the city I once knew.
It looks like a city under occupation.
17 days after the ceasefire, the mood is not simple hope or simple despair. It is confusion, distrust, exhaustion, and a silence full of questions no one can answer.
The subway is free now, apparently. A cheap little bribe from the same terrorist Islamic Regime occupying Iran that spills our blood, breaks our economy, cuts our internet, then throws crumbs at us as if a free ticket can buy forgiveness.
And of course, even the free subway is late.
That is their whole empire in one image:
ruin your life,
offer you a discount,
fail to deliver that too.
The streets are not alive the way they should be. People move because they have to, not because the city calls them out. Public life has become functional, not social. Daytime is for errands, clinics, work, survival. Night belongs more and more to fear, checkpoints, and the regime’s staged little circuses.
You see fewer faces buried in phones now, because what is there to check when the regime has strangled the internet for weeks? Instead, almost everyone wears headphones, as if the whole city is trying to shut reality out before it crushes them.
Because the thought is unbearable:
that after all this blood,
after January,
after the arrests,
after the torture,
after the gallows,
this mafia might still survive.
Every major intersection, every square, every main four way carries the same sickness. Men in green and black, guns and batons in hand, military vehicles behind them, walking over our streets like they conquered a foreign land.
For one second, you feel like you have been dropped into a Metal Gear game.
Then you remember:
no, this is my city.
Do you know what it feels like to be a third rate citizen in your own homeland?
It has nothing to do with success, education, money, or work. Under this occupation, if you are not part of the mafia, you are disposable. Everything you have can be taken from you. Your job. Your home. Your phone. Your name. Your loved ones. Your life.
So you learn to walk carefully in the city where you were born.
I played in these streets.
I made friends here.
I rode my bike through half of this city.
I know Tehran like the back of my own hand.
I found love and got my heart broken in these streets.
I went on dates in cafés all over this city.
I worked in some of them too.
I have been part of the startup system of this city.
I have been to most of the bookstores.
I know these people. And do you want to know the interesting part?
We all feel it.
Being a Tehran kid is like being a New Yorker. It is more than an address. It is a rhythm, a wound, a language, a map written under your skin.
And now I have to move through it like a spy.
In my own city.
In my own homeland.
I have two phones, because one has to stay clean for the street. If they stop me and search the wrong one, I am not the only one who pays. My loved ones pay too.
That is what life becomes under a regime that treats truth like contraband.
The information space is broken beyond words. Rumors move faster than facts. Verification feels almost impossible. Trust in official sources is dead, and even unofficial news arrives wounded by blackout, fear, and delay.
People are not only uncertain.
They are trapped inside uncertainty.
I see the negotiations with Iran are really going well.
Attendees of Khamenei’s funeral were holding signs that called for the assassination of President Trump on the eve of America’s 250th Independence Day Celebration.
Muslims gonna Muslim.
No.
This is not regime change.
This is the receipt proving it has not happened yet.
Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi asked Americans to imagine an Iran that goes from “Death to America” to “God Bless America.”
That Iran exists.
I am writing from inside it.
It exists in the homes where people curse this regime under their breath.
In the phones people hide from checkpoints.
In the prisoners who refused to break.
In the mothers who buried children killed for wanting a normal country.
In the young Iranians who know the West is not our enemy.
But that Iran does not own the microphones yet.
The terrorist Islamic Regime occupying Iran does.
So when you see crowds chanting “Death to America,” understand what you are watching:
not Iran reborn,
not regime change,
not national will.
You are watching the prison guards scream from inside a prison they still control.
A free Iran will not export chants of death.
It will export talent, energy, friendship, trade, art, science, and peace.
That is the Iran waiting behind the guns.
Do not confuse the occupier’s noise with the nation’s soul.
Help us finish this.