johncarvill

Chilling

They want the planet.

Anecdotally, none of this gibes with my albeit limited) experience here, which is that Gen Z be holding their end up just fine.

Look for peace in the year 2073.

Inevitably Mojtaba’s appointment, already denounced by regime opponents including some in Evin jail as a disgraceful IRGC puppet show, will be seen as a sign that they were desperate to install their man, regardless of his health. The IRGC is not just an army, it is a business empire with investments spread through the economy Maryam Alemzadeh, associate professor in history and politics of Iran at St Antony’s College, Oxford, argues the system is robust, having been intentionally designed to have a very easily replaceable leadership. “The resilience has relied on this semi-formal network of IRGC, Basij and other state services that have fulfilled multiple roles, including service provision, surveillance and repression. Decapitation does close to nothing to affect this network. If anything it creates a limited rally round the flag effect amongst this particular group, but not the larger population,” Alemzadeh said. [with photo of Iranian crowd revering a billboard of the coutry's leader]

Sadly rare today, a Grauniad article recommendation

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Wise up

Minab school bombing: what evidence is there that the US was responsible? Trump has blamed Iran for the mass killing at Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school but geolocation, videos and satellite imagery indicate otherwise

@tessairini.bsky.social Nice framing in that headline.

Would it be couched as a question if this were an Israeli school?

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

I wonder what sort of a mood he’ll be in, day one?

And always - always - with the bitch and cuck obsession.

Bye

Sure, fine. I was not aware of their pronouns when I replied.

I'm making no assumptions. There was false equivalance in what THEY said.

He literally said both sides.

'Both sides'? Iran is the victim here, Israel and the US are the agressors.

>Many Americans and Israelis deplore their leaders’ crazed behaviour.

Not true in the case of Israel.

For context, the BBC did the same thing for Boris Johnson when he rocked up pissed at the Cenotaph.

Fuck him

The BBC is so rabidly Zionist I reckon even Netanyahu must occasionally raise an eyebrow.

No you didn’t

Sociopath

It’s what the US has done too: Israel is in control of US, UK, majority of western politicians and 100% of media.

An adult war criminal.

Can't believe this grubby, one trick pony fascist has-been can sell out the 02, but there we are.

Sarah Kendzior Sounds Alarm on Trump’s Calculated Iran Move YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show

Also discussed: Jared Kushner, Bill Barr, the Kahanists and Meir Kahane, "Greater Israel", what kind of blackmail would actually control a shameless man like Trump, more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zobD...

>They are lost. Doomed.

Yep. And, as a consequence, so are we.

The Iran War Is Unfathomably Depraved Our media’s sanitized coverage obscures the human toll. Are we able to confront the full sickening evil of what the U.S. is doing?

*Our media’s sanitized coverage obscures the human toll. Are we able to confront the full sickening evil of what the U.S. is doing?*

by @nathanjrobinson.bsky.social

www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-ira...

LOL. To be fair, I have sometimes pondered whether the CIA may have been behind Dance Music. That and Pepsi.

One faction of viziers spent 13 months saying "no forever wars" and babying their isolationist Nazi base and feeding them dog whistle content

And then another faction sold the mad king a war and then went on TV and basically said, "we did it because Israel told us we had to"

Incredible

So you condone it?

"The litmus test of whether the US is an entrenched mafia state has always been Kushner."

Full article: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-end-of...