Timurid

liberal, anti-fascist (anti all bigotry), support science, democracy, and human rights around the world. I distrust all politicians!

[Timurid @timuridtimurid]

@MarioNawfal True, but also true that Iran would have conquered the US had the US not had an army.

[Timurid @timuridtimurid]

@susanabulhawa "King David" wasn't even a real person, just a fictional character.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 DISGUSTING: RT exposes a sick Zionist policy.

After murdering children, IDF intentionally steals their bodies to torture grieving families.

While Israel destroys Gaza to retrieve its own, it maliciously denies Palestinians the right to a funeral.

Pure barbaric cruelty!

[ADAM @adamemedia1]

THE UNIPOLAR WORLD IS DEAD, THIS IS THE FUNERAL

Six months ago, when the first strikes hit Tehran, the working assumption in most Western capitals was simple: kill the man, break the state, and the Middle East snaps back into a US-Israeli-ordered column.

This week's funeral for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is the clearest evidence yet of how wrong that assumption was. It's exactly what I said would happen the day this war started.

WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED:

Khamenei was killed on February 28, in the strike that opened the war. His son Mojtaba was elevated to Supreme Leader within weeks. He hasn't been seen or heard from since, no video, no audio, only written statements and is widely believed to have been badly wounded in the same strike that killed his father, mother and wife.

This week, Iran held a six-day state funeral in Tehran, turnout has reached 20 million.

WHO SHOWED UP REVEALS EVERYTHING

For a funeral this size, for a leader killed by a foreign power, attendance is a public act of alignment. China sent representatives. So did Russia, Turkey, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Armenia, Georgia, Qatar, Oman. And, notably, so did Saudi Arabia's deputy foreign minister, Waleed Al-Khuraiji, in person, in Tehran, months after a war that was supposed to isolate Iran completely.

A war western media said Saudi would join. All lies. As I said.

Western governments sent NO ONE.

Wang Jin, who directs the Center for Strategic Studies at Northwest University in China, put it plainly:

“the turnout proves attempts to isolate Iran didn't work, and reflects a Tehran that can maintain real relationships entirely outside the Western bloc.”

SAUDI IS THE REAL HEADLINE

Riyadh didn't have to send anyone. Gulf states spent the opening months of this war not condemning Washington and not backing Tehran.

A senior Saudi official showing up mid-funeral is Riyadh cashing in the 2023 China-brokered rapprochement with Iran at the exact moment it costs the most politically to do so.

It's not Riyadh's only quiet hedge this year, either. Saudi Arabia has separately been functioning as an eleventh BRICS member in practice, without ever making a formal announcement.

The goal is the end of western dominance.

THE TIMING IS A 200IQ MOVE

This funeral isn't happening in a vacuum. It's landing on the 4th of July, in the middle of a fragile ceasefire, one where Iran has paused talks for the week of mourning.

Iran has also warned the UK and France against sending their own navies anywhere near Hormuz. A government supposedly broken by decapitation strikes is dictating terms to three Western militaries simultaneously, over both a peace deal and a strait.

Let that sink it. Because it shows the world we live in now.

THE EPSTEIN CLASS FAILED

Picture this from inside a Pentagon or Israeli briefing room. The strategic logic behind killing Khamenei was decapitation: remove the man, and either the regime cracks or a more pliable successor takes over.

Instead: a wounded, invisible successor running the state by memo, twenty million mourners in the streets, a eulogy openly calling for the deaths of the two leaders who ordered the strikes, and a foreign guest list that got WIDER, not narrower, since the war began.

If the goal was proving that defying Washington and Jerusalem carries a price nobody else wants to pay, the OPPOSITE has been shown. Maybe Greenland will start a war next? Jk.

THE REAL STORY

This isn't really a story about Iran's succession. It's a live test result of whether the old world, where if you cross the US or Israel the rest of the world quietly falls in line, still exists.

It doesn’t.

Not for the states that showed up and not for the domestic audience the funeral was staged for.

Put it next to BRICS Pay's rollout this year (the quiet financial revolution against the western system) alongside the broader de-dollarization already underway, and you see the real story.

The unipolar world is dead, this is the funeral.

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

A common sentiment at the funeral for Khamenei was incandescent rage at the American leadership that authorized his assassination, but a refusal to hold average Americans collectively responsible for the crime

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

After watching the size of Khamenei's funeral processions, I feel lied to about Iran

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

Leading zio parasites and their media stooges tried to convince the world that Iranians hated Imam Ali Khamenei. Now they're panicking, unable to spin the largest funeral turnout in human history for that same man—tens of millions of people pouring into the streets for several days straight, crying, mourning, uniting, calling to avenge his murder. At least 20% of the population came to pay their respects. The equivalent of that would be SEVENTY MILLION Americans pouring into the streets of DC at the same time.

Iran has won the world's hearts in every way. Their dignity, strategy, steadfastness, and civilizational beauty—whether ordinary people, their football team, their spokespeople, broadcasters, or leaders—is changing the world by changing the story the world has been force fed by zionist thugs for too long.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Do you realize that the Zionist modus operandi, since the Nakba has been to control information?

Now these had 15M views. Just think a bit how things can fall apart.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

BREAKING (bones)
Why does "Bring Them Home" exist only for some hostages?
Because in Apartheid Israel, where only Jewish lives matter, brutalising the Palestinians isn't an anomaly - it is the system. And the silence around it is the exact measure of our collective hypocrisy.

[Timurid @timuridtimurid]

@MattWallace888 The husband may finally be seeing light at the end of the tunnel

[Timurid @timuridtimurid]

@FilosofiaStoica Sound like she had earned the money.

[liam cunningham @liamcunningham1]

This is Zionism

[yusuf kaplan @yenisafakwriter]

Lübnan’ı yok edecekler!
Haritadan silecekler!

İ’srail Savunma Bakanı I’srael Katz, açık açık itiraf etti bunu:

“Lübnan köylerinin ilk hattı tamamen yıkıldı. Tüm evleri yıkıyoruz. Sakinler onları bir daha asla ayakta göremeyecekler.”

Barbar bunlar!
Kanun nizam tanımıyorlar!
İnsanlığın başbelası!
Yazıklar olsun!

İ’srail durdurulmalı mutlaka!
Dünya ayağa kalkmalı!
NATO Zirvesi’nde Türkiye bu konuda ön almalı!

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

Colonos sionistas asaltaron una aldea de la zona de Masafer Yatta (Cisjordania), asesinaron a los animales de las granjas y luego los tiraron en los pozos de agua potable de las familias palestinas para contaminarlos.

Pura maldad medieval, esto es el sionismo... pero luego en Occidente dicen que estos sionistas son "progresistas" porque en "Israel" organizan desfiles del orgullo para precisamente blanquear sus brutales crímenes diarios.

[Ethan Levins 🇺🇸 @EthanLevins2]

They went to sleep in Lebanon.

Israel decided to drop bombs on both of their homes.

They never woke up.

Israel did this, TODAY!

[Gaza Notifications @gazanotice]

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🚨BREAKING: Two sisters, Zeina Al-Safadi, 4, and Lana Al-Safadi, 14, were killed along with their father in an Israeli strike on Gaza City last night.

Their mother is fighting for her life in critical condition.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

BREAKING: Israeli forces have killed journalist and cameraman Ahmad Samir Washah in an airstrike on Al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, according to Palestinian media reports.

Washah worked for Al Jazeera Mubasher. His brother, journalist Mohammed Samir Washah, was killed by an Israeli drone strike on his car on April 8.

The two brothers were killed 73 days apart.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

Anyone wondering why I'm criticizing Israel a lot today...

Your Defense Minister just said this:

"We have flattened the entire first line of villages in southern Lebanon, all the houses have been destroyed. The residents will never see them standing ever again. The 200,000 Lebanese residents who were in the 'security zone' are never returning again. Not one of them will ever return to southern Lebanon"

Your Minister of National Security said this:

"For every tear of an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers must weep. All of Lebanon must burn."

And that's just today. You think this is normal?

[Timurid @timuridtimurid]

@SamanAhsan @tparsi @PaliNewsNetwork @BNetanyahood True, but what if Israel controls 95% of the US Congress through AIPAC, controls the media, the banks, and has blackmail on many politicians and billionaires? Soon the US military and intelligence will be put at Israel's control through the latest moves in Congress.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

Not every day I find myself in support of Trump, but here we go.

To examine the Memorandum of Understanding and ask “Was the war worth it?” is nonsensical.

Of course it wasn’t. How could it have been? The premise itself is deeply flawed: that a failed war of choice would somehow strengthen Washington’s hand at the negotiating table and produce more favorable terms.

The question is also flawed in another, more consequential way. It implies that a war should not be brought to an end until it has produced better terms—even when the war itself is failing.

Taken seriously, that logic leads to a dangerous conclusion: that a failed war must continue until the battlefield fortunes somehow improve and a more favorable outcome becomes attainable. Perhaps that day will come. Perhaps it never will. In the meantime, the costs—in lives, treasure, regional stability, and strategic credibility—are treated as secondary considerations.

This is how endless wars are born.

Full analysis at Substack: https://t.co/wS0jOWxubD