The Ir☫n Desk 🇺🇸💔🇮🇷 میز تحریر ایران

Swashbuckling dispatches eyeing US-#Iran politics/policy, shadow war/intrigue. Real issues (occasionally) surreally framed. Not approved by POTUS or the SL.

[The Ir☫n Desk 🇺🇸💔🇮🇷 میز تحریر ایران @TheIranDesk]

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.” - #Rumi

[The Ir☫n Desk 🇺🇸💔🇮🇷 میز تحریر ایران @TheIranDesk]

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[Olga Bazova @OlgaBazova]

Washington Post: Diesel in California has reached a price of $8.39 per gallon, and it has run out at some gas stations in several states.

[The Ir☫n Desk 🇺🇸💔🇮🇷 میز تحریر ایران @TheIranDesk]

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[S. Rifai @THE_47th]

Hizbollah right now

[Vali Nasr @vali_nasr]

This is the pivotal moment. China finally playing its cards as a global power. The outcome will be a game changer for the Middle East and U.S. China relations.

[The Ir☫n Desk 🇺🇸💔🇮🇷 میز تحریر ایران @TheIranDesk]

Signals in the noise

[Sohrab Ahmari 🇺🇸 @SohrabAhmari]

Have immersed myself in Iranian official media as well as X, TikTok, Instagram, etc. Broad observations:

1) The religious feel they've lost control of the veil issue. And yes, in upscale urban cores, you see clothes so tight and revealing, you can't believe this is Islamic Iran.

[The Ir☫n Desk 🇺🇸💔🇮🇷 میز تحریر ایران @TheIranDesk]

Oil lines and red lines

Not much reading needed between the lines

[محمدباقر قالیباف | MB Ghalibaf @mb_ghalibaf]

It’s simple: the oil and gas production chain here is sprawling, accessible, and exposed. American oil and gas companies across these waters and facilities share that exposure. Strike our assets and you get struck. We’ve already proven it. Ask the bases that are no longer viable.

[The Ir☫n Desk 🇺🇸💔🇮🇷 میز تحریر ایران @TheIranDesk]

EPIC FURY or epic own goal.

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

The attack on Iran may go down in history as the greatest geopolitical mistake in U.S. history.
https://t.co/wPCAIXEHzm

[The Ir☫n Desk 🇺🇸💔🇮🇷 میز تحریر ایران @TheIranDesk]

LEGO MAGA has entered the chat

[Ryan Rozbiani @RyanRozbiani]

Iran’s Lego Video MOCKS How Trump Thinks He Can Rename His Way Out of The War on Iran 😂🤦‍♂️

[The Ir☫n Desk 🇺🇸💔🇮🇷 میز تحریر ایران @TheIranDesk]

I found Iran’s wmd

[Iran in Mumbai @IRANinMumbai]

Iranian ballistics: where “long-range relationship” isn’t a metaphor.

#Iran #Trump #War

[barry with the NED @bonzerbarry]

NBC: Iranian missile and drone attacks have inflicted unprecedented damage on U.S. intelligence posts and surveillance hardware in the Middle East that is more extensive than any destruction America’s spy agencies have endured and will cost billions of dollars to repair, according to four people with knowledge of the matter.

[The Ir☫n Desk 🇺🇸💔🇮🇷 میز تحریر ایران @TheIranDesk]

Geopolitical collab you didn’t see coming

[Bill Bramhall @BillBramhall]

Cartoon

[The Ir☫n Desk 🇺🇸💔🇮🇷 میز تحریر ایران @TheIranDesk]

A break from your regularly scheduled programming

[WANA Visuals @wana_visualss]

🇮🇷 Tehran, Iran, 2005

[Nick Anderson/Political Cartoonist @Nick_Anderson_]

Negotiations Continue
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[ayatrollah @ayatr0llah]

what the hell is even going on man

[The Ir☫n Desk 🇺🇸💔🇮🇷 میز تحریر ایران @TheIranDesk]

When Iran waxes Dostoevsky

[Esmaeil Baqaei @IRIMFA_SPOX]

This passage from Dostoevsky’s "The Brothers Karamazov" aptly describes the situation in which the U.S. system of governance & foreign policy regarding Iran and the region finds itself due to its extreme reliance on 'lies':

"The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others."
The Brothers Karamazov,
Fyodor Dostoevsky

[Ryan Rozbiani @RyanRozbiani]

Iran is MOCKING Trump’s Catering Cart escape from Air Force One 😂

[Brett Erickson @BrettErickson28]

It’s worth noting that multiple Emirati government planes have flown into Iran, and subsequently departed shortly thereafter.

The UAE notoriously paid Iran $3B to be protected from future missile and drone strikes earlier in the war.

While there is currently no evidence to support the claim that the UAE is flying more cash to Iran… this is certainly a viable hypothesis for what is taking place.

[Tehran Times @TehranTimes79]

Yemeni cartoonist @kamalsharf

[Theo Moudakis @TheoMoudakis]

Please enjoy my cartoon for Tuesday's @TorontoStar