Ali Shariati

Under a pseudonym due to employment
Muslim (convert)
Commodities by trade, Liberation politics by nature

[Ali Shariati @williamwintergr]

@gbrew24 Iran-Oman control over Hormuz and american non interference in Iranian affairs was part of the MoU. So did the Iranians push their luck or was the MoU never going to be fulfilled anyway? Certainly not a miscalculation. if anything the miscalculation wasn't being assertive enough.

[Tarik Cyril Amar @TarikCyrilAmar]

Well, frankly, if you felt the Zelensky regime deserved solidarity, you only have yourself to blame. And if you want to be in solidarity with Ukraine, you need to be against Zelensky and the West's proxy war.

[Gharibabadi @Gharibabadi]

#اسکیزوفرنی نوعی اختلال روان پریشی پیچیده و حاد است که با اختلال در تفکر و درک تحریف شده از واقعیت متبلور می‌شود. شایع‌ترین علامت آن نیز #توهم و #هذیان است. روانشناسان توصیه می کنند چنین بیمارانی باید به‌صورت ۲۴ ساعته تحت نظر باشند و درمان شوند.

[Empire Of Lies @berningman16]

As the American people struggle to afford basic necessities, the corrupt regime continues to squander enormous sums abroad.

Instead of funneling billions of dollars to its terrorist proxies Ukraine and Israel, the regime should spend that money for its people.

[محمدباقر قالیباف | MB Ghalibaf @mb_ghalibaf]

Instead of funneling billions to its terrorist proxy, Israel, and 750 bases, this failing empire could spend that cash on its own people, but nah, that'd make too much sense for this regime.

Scotty, man [?], your credibility is on the line. Do something.

https://t.co/zz1x0VWKyQ

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

I was 100% right about this letter

Many of the signatories have since admitted they were too intellectually lazy to consider the ulterior agenda behind it, or the consequences of signing, and asked for their names to be removed

Others claimed they were deceived by the spook adjacent forces behind it, as they probably were

The signer standing most vehemently behind the letter is former US government asset Yasin Al-Haj Saleh, whose journal that no one reads is funded by the European Endowment for Democracy - the EU version of NED

[Majid Hosseini @m4h007]

I find it so strange that so many intelligent Iranians say they’re “anti-Islamic Republic.” What does that mean exactly? I presume almost all of them are talking about a change in the constitutional order, which is a change in state. But that raises two questions.

1) A change to what?

2) What is exactly the way to get to that point? Please explain in detail all the mechanics of it. It’s not like changing the state is like getting a new pair of pants or buying a bag of chips.

But let’s just entertain this idea for now, and assume for a minute that the leadership of the Islamic Republic, all chosen through a constitutional process that was voted on by people when adopted, decides that they’re just going to cancel the constitution, tell everyone in the military to stand down, and pack a bag of clothes and move to Indonesia.

Please describe what happens next. Let’s assume a new state arises through some majority voting mechanism.

The managers of the state arising from this process might even start with the best intentions of being what it was planned to be.

But why would the losers of the process, those who didn’t ascend to power, or those whose preferred system didn’t prevail, accept the results and simply live with it? Isn’t that exactly what happened with the 1979 revolution? Didn’t groups like Forghan and MEK, almost immediately start terror and assassinations? Why would Pahlavists, if and when they lose, not become exactly the same, in spite of all the evidence pointing to that? Why wouldn’t such a state become a security state as a result, as it did with every state that managed to survive after 1896? And every state that didn’t survive was the one that didn’t become one.

Every time a rupture has happened since 1896, the order emerging has vanished if it didn’t securitize.

What is a rupture? When who holds the sovereign authority is contested.

This is just assuming a power emerges that can keep the state unified, instead of multiple competing powers and a civil war. Iran literally fell into civil war and near breakup both times a powerful sovereign didn’t emerge.

Regardless of how peaceful (a complete fantasy obviously), this will be a rupture. When rupture happens, rules don’t bind anymore. Only power binds. And power consolidation is violent and lengthy. It’s a generational process, as we have seen repeatedly throughout Iranian history and elsewhere.

N.B. There will be single-cell organisms, many with advanced degrees, who will show up in replies and say something like “IRGC apologist”, or “What about xyz getting executed”, but anyone intelligent enough for whom this was written understands that this analysis has no normative components and would have been equally applicable at any rupture since 1896

[Maryam Jamshidi (msjamshidi.bsky.social) @MsJamshidi]

This is the mindset that ensures Iran's future will b a bloody one. The language of enemy vs friend, us vs them is the seed that blossom into internecine violence. Thank God Arash is no one's leader. Sadly, tho this view is prevalent among other Iranians https://t.co/tanUf1qWwt

[Nerdeen Kiswani @NerdeenKiswani]

Oh but it’s only an issue when I say it….

[Ajamu Baraka @ajamubaraka]

Why is anyone surprised that Angela Davis who characterized Obama as a radical would pledge her undying support to an undifferentiated prisoner class in Iran right at the moment the country is fighting for its life with millions demonstrating nightly in support of their process?

[𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘶𝘴 🥷🏿 @hoodg3nius]

Nigga tore his HDMI, ARC, CPU and RAM 💔✌️ speedy recovery robonigga

[Ali Shariati @williamwintergr]

@ChronicBabak @AryaG90 @MsJamshidi think we will just disagree on how to approach this issue and twitter is unfortunately not a great forum for communication. But nice to chat 🤝

[Ali Shariati @williamwintergr]

@ChronicBabak @AryaG90 @MsJamshidi staying out of the main debate that's going on doesn't seem like much of a principled stance.. it's up to you to remove important contexts from world ongoings. That the IR has many issues is salient. The context is that it's a newer state and has been under attack for decades.

[Ali Shariati @williamwintergr]

@ChronicBabak @AryaG90 @MsJamshidi There are inappropriate times, methods, and places for certain things. So 'principles don't have good and bad timing' falls quite flat unfortunately

[Ali Shariati @williamwintergr]

@ChronicBabak @AryaG90 @MsJamshidi it's not a principled stance to support imperialist propaganda posted in the guardian that was meant to push the Zionist viewpoint and manufacture consent. What's the principle behind it?

[Ali Shariati @williamwintergr]

@policytensor they have. Check Mohsen rezaei's Twitter. Whether it's a legitimate request they expect fulfilled is a separate matter.

[kamal sharaf كمال شرف @kamalsharf]

#كاريكاتير

[Nick Cruse 🥋 @SocialistMMA]

Zohran Mamdani endorsing Hakeem Jeffries, Hasan Piker condemning Hamas, AOC thirst trapping her way to the presidency while making Mama Bear proud, I told u guys these DSA liberals sound radical in the off season.

But the second midterms and elections come up the Democratic Party quickly and effortlessly reigns them in

[Stephen Wertheim @stephenwertheim]

Courage, in this account, is ordering subordinates to bomb a country for reasons you can't explain and might not know yourself, being surprised when the war goes exactly as predicted by people you ignored, claiming victory when you've lost, and settling in for a forever war because you lack the spine to make the kind of pragmatic deal that you had a ghost writer claim to be your forte.