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A US Army M142 HIMARS system firing ATACMS ballistic missiles at Iran from Bahraini territory. #Iran

This is the type of infrastructure destroyed in Iraq that was not repaired for decades after the war, if ever. Power plants, hospitals, cement factories. The stuff of basic production and life.

There is no way to attack a regime without destroying a country.

We are quantifying this exact pattern and find:

Israelis double as likely to be described using humanizing frames. Palestinians overwhelmingly described wrt infrastructure damage.

Palestinians 6X more likely to be discussed in relation to their govt. Israelis paired with govt 5% of the time.

The asymmetry of the value placed on human life is so striking. Israel has a goal to recover 40-year-old remains; to do so, it invades a sovereign country, and the lives of 26 Lebanese are an afterthought. Their names not even worth printing in the New York Times.

Iran International editor Ali Ghazizadeh, who called for foreign intervention, insists the next leader of Iran will be chosen by the Iranian people.

That’s not what foreign intervention means. The foreigners don’t neatly pack their bags and guns and go home.

They seem familiar. Amazing how their bodies may die, only for their spirits to linger seemingly in the form of today‘s ghouls.

چی شد چی شد؟
تا دیروز آویزون اسرائیل و آمریکا واسه نجات و آزادی و اومدن شازده بودین، حالا ترامپ منجی حق نداره؟ اسرائیل حق داره همچنان البته لابد‌.
اون موقع که داد می‌زدیم با جنگ مسیر دموکراسی و آزادی‌خواهی و صف ضد ج‌ا رو خراب نکنین، عین بسیجی دهن‌گشاد می‌تازوندی، حالا واسه من ژست ملی گرفتی؟ گمشو کثافت.

I haven’t. I was very young then, though the name Fouad Ajami is familiar. Have been reading Shatz’s more recent works on Gaza. Will read, thanks!

Well, my mum has now become a war refugee at the age of 78, I guess! She is fleeing Tehran with friends to a city 1000 kms away. After years of living in the UK, Switzerland, and the US, she decided to go back to Iran a few years ago, & now she is displaced from her hometown, thanks to T-rump!

The disdain so many Europeans & Americans have toward prosperous ME cities like Dubai, Muscat, Tehran, or Riyadh is quite jarring. One cannot dismiss that this might have something to do w the current policy of creating regional chaos & destroying trade… + the glee & the boasting people express

He served voluntarily in another country's army and not only that he served at the largest prison in that country which was used to brutalize thousands of Palestinians ,including Palestinian children, during the First Intifada.

Lindsey Graham’s Quest to Sell Trump on Striking Iran Few others in the president’s ear argued for the attack as effectively as South Carolina’s senior senator.

Netanyahu's American sidekick on Iran: "Few people lobbied Trump to undertake the riskiest gambit of his presidency as effectively as the hawkish and persistent Graham." www.wsj.com/politics/pol... via @WSJ

Israel/US are trying to destroy Iran’s food supply because for them starvation is an acceptable tool of war. x.com/sunpadh/stat...

As an unwilling connoisseur of agitprop, Iran really hit it out of the park with "we're fighting the Epstein Class that either rapes children or kills them"

Another vital point: many Iranians even inside the country viewed their own govt as more of an enemy than Israel. Hell, some even believed Israel was on their side. The 12 day war degraded those assumptions. This one will annihilate them completely x.com/mashabani/st...

I think it comes from a good place but it also relies on assumptions like “all brown people are victims and we must listen to their voices.”

No! Some of us are victims, yes, but can also act harmfully. And some are barely victims at all.

Non-Iranians: People like Omid honestly believe in fascism and force—they’re just mad that the Islamic Republic is now doing it instead of Reza Pahlavi.

You don’t listen to the average Trump voter or right-wing Israeli, though many may be ”authentic” voices. Don’t do this with us.

I can’t even begin to imagine the amount of devastation in my beloved Iran. On Twitter there are little glimpses, but because of the internet blackout it’s so hard to tell what’s happening. Just makes these numbers all the more terrifying.

airwars.org/record-pace-...

You don’t actually have to act like this if you’re Iranian. Many of us don‘t.

Opinion | The Mistake That Iranians Make About America

Good piece by Reza Aslan, and good to remember Howard Baskerville in these times.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/o...

There is no moral alibi for such violence. This war is burning the guilty and the innocent alike. There is no freedom or democracy waiting at the end of this hellish road.

A harrowing image from tonight’s bombing of Tehran’s Mehrabad Airport. This devastating and inhuman assault seeks to violate a nation’s sovereignty, shatter its infrastructure, and pummel its dignity. #Iran

From what little I know of northwestern Iran, home to Kurds, Azerbaijanis, Assyrians, Armenians, etc., I’d guess that any foreign-backed Kurdish uprising will end extremely poorly. Azerbaijanis will not take this well. This really could produce stronger rally round flag than anything so far.

the cheapest and most abundant and utile political resource for the american ruling class is muslim life. this has been true my entire life. you can never go wrong slaughtering muslims

I think even they know an openly pro-MEK demonstration in LA isn’t a good idea. I’ve seen them in DC though and was always shocked they could do it so openly. And yes the two I knew were both in that age range.

As Andrew says, please don’t legitimize our fascists.

You’ve met MEK supporters?! I’ve met 2 in my entire life. Which is nothing considering probably at least 50% of everyone I’ve ever known has been Iranian.

This is the quiet part out loud though. Women are either sexual objects or might as well be dead.

Dovetails nicely with @diplomatofnight.com calling out people like Lipstadt saying it’s not enough to say ”Israel has a right to exist.” You must now say “Israel has a right to dominate” at least the entire region.