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“It said the ceasefire did not include Lebanon, where its targeting Iranian backed Hezbollah fighters" Disgusting dog whistle framing from BBC News (UK) to justify I$rael’s attacks on a civilian population striking emergency workers, killing kids, journalists, shopkeepers, destroying mosques and raining down hell across the country.

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74,745 views • 4 months ago

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‼️ Lebanon Under “Eternal Darkness”: Massive Israeli Coordinated Strikes Across the Country Lebanon witnessed a massive, coordinated wave of Israeli strikes today, including direct hits in central Beirut. This appears to be one of the largest single waves of attacks on the country in decades. Strikes have hit multiple areas across: •Beirut and its southern suburbs •Southern Lebanon •The Bekaa Valley and Baalbek region Locations in the capital include densely populated neighbourhoods such as Corniche al-Mazraa, Musaytbeh, Basta, Ain el-Tineh, Hay el-Lija , Manara, & others, alongside additional strikes in surrounding areas including Choueifat, Aramoun, & Bchamoun. Across the south & Bekaa, dozens of towns & cities have also been targeted in a wide geographic spread. The scale, simultaneity, and distribution of these strikes point to a highly coordinated operation carried out across multiple fronts at once. Lebanon’s Health Minister says hospitals are overwhelmed, with over 350 casualties reported across the country, including both killed & injured. Let that sink in over 350 within a spate of 10 minutes. Israeli media reports the operation has been named “Eternal Darkness,” & military leadership has confirmed that strikes against Hezbollah will continue under this campaign. At the same time, conflicting signals are emerging around the ceasefire. Israeli officials say there will be no halt to operations in Lebanon, while Iran, despite agreeing to a two-week pause with the United States, has warned it may respond if attacks on Lebanon continue. This suggests the ceasefire may be partial, not comprehensive, with the risk of escalation still very much present.

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40,458 views • 3 months ago

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🇱🇧 BREAKING — Israeli Strikes Across Lebanon Israeli warplanes carried out new attacks across southern and eastern Lebanon, killing at least four people and wounding several others, according to local authorities, and a journalist on the ground who spoke with Drop Site News. In Arabsalim, Israeli missiles struck a room containing bulldozing equipment near the municipality building, killing Zeinab Moussa, 80, and Maher Younes, a local butcher, 43, and injuring three others. Residents said the blast destroyed the structure, damaged nearby homes, and fits Israel’s wider pattern of striking storage sites for reconstruction equipment – sites it calls “Hezbollah depots” and “warehouses.” Further east, a wave of airstrikes hit Janta and Shmastar in the eastern Bekaa Valley, killing two people and wounding several others. Windows shattered at a nearby school, and students were treated for injuries and shock. Lebanese officials condemned the attacks as renewed violations of sovereignty, noting they mark another serious escalation despite a ceasefire signed in late 2024. (Information from Drop Site sources and L’Orient Today, NNA, Anadolu Agency) —— 🎥 1: Israeli aircraft launched a wave of airstrikes on hills surrounding the town of Shmastar in Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa region. 🎥 2: Israeli warplanes struck the town of Arabsalim in southern Lebanon. 📷 1: Zeinab Moussa, 80, killed in Israeli airstrike on Arabsalim, southern Lebanon. Moussa had previously lost two grandsons in Israel’s 2023–24 war. 📷 2: Windows shattered at Shmastar Secondary School amid Israeli airstrikes on the area, leaving several students with minor injuries and others fainting

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22,406 views • 9 months ago

Video shows a U.S. fighter jet crashing in Kuwait as a pilot is seen parachuting down on Monday. The American F-15 fighter jet and two others were shot down over Kuwait in what the U.S. Central Command called "an apparently friendly fire incident" during an Iranian attack on the Gulf country. The aircraft were "mistakenly shot down by Kuwaiti air defenses," CENTCOM said in a statement Monday, adding that "all six aircrew ejected safely, have been safely recovered, and are in stable condition." The F-15s came down amid attacks on Kuwait from Iranian aircraft, missiles and drones, according to CENTCOM, which the U.S. and its regional allies have been trying to intercept. People watching in Kuwait as the U.S. pilot parachuted from the crippled jet initially thought it was an Iranian pilot.

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CBS News

87,794 views • 5 months ago

$BREAKING: The ceasefire just ate itself. The Head of Iran’s Parliamentary National Security and Foreign Policy Committee just stated: after the Israeli aggression on Lebanon, all plans to open the Strait of Hormuz must immediately cease until there are assurances that Lebanon is included in the ceasefire. There is either a ceasefire on all fronts, or a ceasefire nowhere at all. The entire premise of the deal was Hormuz reopening. Trump’s condition was complete, immediate, and safe opening of the strait. Iran accepted. The ceasefire was built on that single exchange: pause the bombs, open the water. Brent crashed 13 percent. The S&P surged. The market priced peace. Now Iran is threatening to reverse the only thing the ceasefire achieved because of something the ceasefire never included. Three contradictions in 24 hours. Pakistan announced the ceasefire covers everywhere including Lebanon. Netanyahu said it does not include Lebanon and launched the largest IDF strike since Roaring Lion began: 100 Hezbollah targets in 10 minutes. Now Iran says Hormuz stays closed unless Lebanon is covered. The deal’s architect says it includes Lebanon. The deal’s beneficiary says it excludes Lebanon. And now the deal’s other signatory says the core deliverable is revoked unless the excluded front is reinstated. This is what happens when a ceasefire is brokered through intermediaries who need both sides to say yes more than they need both sides to agree. Pakistan shuttled drafts between Washington and Tehran through five mediating channels in one chaotic day. Egypt bridged language. Turkey provided backchannels. China urged an off-ramp. The framework was drafted with sufficient ambiguity that Iran could tell Hezbollah it was covered and Israel could tell its public it was not. That ambiguity held for exactly 18 hours before the IDF’s 100-target strike forced Iran to choose between Hezbollah solidarity and Hormuz revenue. Iran chose Hezbollah. The implications cascade immediately. If Iran follows through and halts Hormuz reopening, the 15 to 20 vessels currently transiting under IRGC clearance codes stop. The yuan toll revenue that was funding reconstruction stops. The ceasefire’s only tangible achievement, the strait reopening that crashed oil prices, reverses. And Trump’s conditional two-week suspension, which was explicitly revocable if Hormuz did not open immediately and safely, faces its trigger event on day one. Trump has three options. Accept Lebanon inclusion, which means pressuring Netanyahu to halt strikes against Hezbollah, which Israel has refused. Reject Lebanon inclusion, which means Iran re-closes Hormuz, which voids the ceasefire’s premise. Or ignore the threat and continue as if the 15 ships passing through a yuan toll booth constitute an open strait, which means the Islamabad talks on Friday begin over a deal that both parties are publicly threatening to revoke. The molecule crisis does not pause for diplomatic fractures. The crackers are rubble. The pipeline bypass just took a drone. The fertiliser is trapped behind the gate. The centrifuges are spinning. And the strait that was supposed to reopen as the war’s first peace dividend is now being held hostage to a front that was never agreed upon, by a parliament that legislated tolls on March 31, in a country whose supreme leader has not been seen in 39 days. One ceasefire. Three interpretations. Zero days before collapse. Full analysis on Substack.$

BREAKING: The ceasefire just ate itself. The Head of Iran’s Parliamentary National Security and Foreign Policy Committee just stated: after the Israeli aggression on Lebanon, all plans to open the Strait of Hormuz must immediately cease until there are assurances that Lebanon is included in the ceasefire. There is either a ceasefire on all fronts, or a ceasefire nowhere at all. The entire premise of the deal was Hormuz reopening. Trump’s condition was complete, immediate, and safe opening of the strait. Iran accepted. The ceasefire was built on that single exchange: pause the bombs, open the water. Brent crashed 13 percent. The S&P surged. The market priced peace. Now Iran is threatening to reverse the only thing the ceasefire achieved because of something the ceasefire never included. Three contradictions in 24 hours. Pakistan announced the ceasefire covers everywhere including Lebanon. Netanyahu said it does not include Lebanon and launched the largest IDF strike since Roaring Lion began: 100 Hezbollah targets in 10 minutes. Now Iran says Hormuz stays closed unless Lebanon is covered. The deal’s architect says it includes Lebanon. The deal’s beneficiary says it excludes Lebanon. And now the deal’s other signatory says the core deliverable is revoked unless the excluded front is reinstated. This is what happens when a ceasefire is brokered through intermediaries who need both sides to say yes more than they need both sides to agree. Pakistan shuttled drafts between Washington and Tehran through five mediating channels in one chaotic day. Egypt bridged language. Turkey provided backchannels. China urged an off-ramp. The framework was drafted with sufficient ambiguity that Iran could tell Hezbollah it was covered and Israel could tell its public it was not. That ambiguity held for exactly 18 hours before the IDF’s 100-target strike forced Iran to choose between Hezbollah solidarity and Hormuz revenue. Iran chose Hezbollah. The implications cascade immediately. If Iran follows through and halts Hormuz reopening, the 15 to 20 vessels currently transiting under IRGC clearance codes stop. The yuan toll revenue that was funding reconstruction stops. The ceasefire’s only tangible achievement, the strait reopening that crashed oil prices, reverses. And Trump’s conditional two-week suspension, which was explicitly revocable if Hormuz did not open immediately and safely, faces its trigger event on day one. Trump has three options. Accept Lebanon inclusion, which means pressuring Netanyahu to halt strikes against Hezbollah, which Israel has refused. Reject Lebanon inclusion, which means Iran re-closes Hormuz, which voids the ceasefire’s premise. Or ignore the threat and continue as if the 15 ships passing through a yuan toll booth constitute an open strait, which means the Islamabad talks on Friday begin over a deal that both parties are publicly threatening to revoke. The molecule crisis does not pause for diplomatic fractures. The crackers are rubble. The pipeline bypass just took a drone. The fertiliser is trapped behind the gate. The centrifuges are spinning. And the strait that was supposed to reopen as the war’s first peace dividend is now being held hostage to a front that was never agreed upon, by a parliament that legislated tolls on March 31, in a country whose supreme leader has not been seen in 39 days. One ceasefire. Three interpretations. Zero days before collapse. Full analysis on Substack.

Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡

495,462 views • 3 months ago

🇮🇷🇺🇸 The ceasefire is less than 24 hours old and it's already being torn apart over Lebanon... Here's the situation. Pakistan announced the ceasefire applied "everywhere, including Lebanon." Iran agreed on that basis. Then Netanyahu called Trump minutes before the announcement and got him to agree Lebanon was excluded. The White House never clarified publicly until it was too late. Vance called it a "legitimate misunderstanding." That's a generous way of describing what happened. Iran entered a ceasefire believing Lebanon was included. Israel entered knowing it wasn't. Someone either miscommunicated or deliberately let Iran sign a deal under false assumptions. The result: Israel launched its largest strike on Lebanon since the war began. Iran is now threatening to withdraw from Saturday's talks and close Hormuz again. Araghchi put it plainly: "The U.S. must choose. Ceasefire or continued war via Israel. It cannot have both." Egypt accused Israel of a "premeditated" attempt to undermine the truce. Iranian news agencies report oil tankers in Hormuz were stopped after the Lebanon strikes. Vance says Israel "offered to check themselves a little bit" going forward. If Iran pulls out over Lebanon, he said, "that would be dumb but that's their choice." This is exactly the pattern I've tracked for 44 days. Every time peace gets close, Israel fills the gap with bombs. The question has always been whether Trump controls Netanyahu or Netanyahu controls Trump. The phone call minutes before the ceasefire announcement answered that question. Source: Axios

🇮🇷🇺🇸 The ceasefire is less than 24 hours old and it's already being torn apart over Lebanon... Here's the situation. Pakistan announced the ceasefire applied "everywhere, including Lebanon." Iran agreed on that basis. Then Netanyahu called Trump minutes before the announcement and got him to agree Lebanon was excluded. The White House never clarified publicly until it was too late. Vance called it a "legitimate misunderstanding." That's a generous way of describing what happened. Iran entered a ceasefire believing Lebanon was included. Israel entered knowing it wasn't. Someone either miscommunicated or deliberately let Iran sign a deal under false assumptions. The result: Israel launched its largest strike on Lebanon since the war began. Iran is now threatening to withdraw from Saturday's talks and close Hormuz again. Araghchi put it plainly: "The U.S. must choose. Ceasefire or continued war via Israel. It cannot have both." Egypt accused Israel of a "premeditated" attempt to undermine the truce. Iranian news agencies report oil tankers in Hormuz were stopped after the Lebanon strikes. Vance says Israel "offered to check themselves a little bit" going forward. If Iran pulls out over Lebanon, he said, "that would be dumb but that's their choice." This is exactly the pattern I've tracked for 44 days. Every time peace gets close, Israel fills the gap with bombs. The question has always been whether Trump controls Netanyahu or Netanyahu controls Trump. The phone call minutes before the ceasefire announcement answered that question. Source: Axios

Mario Nawfal

1,275,580 views • 3 months ago

Humanitarians and the life-saving aid they distribute are not a target. A UNHCR truck carrying emergency shelter kits was hit by a drone in North Darfur, Sudan. It was on its way to Tawila, where hundreds of thousands of people have fled for safety. The driver survived. The supplies did not. More than 1,300 families are now left without the shelter they urgently needed. Attacks like this are unacceptable. They put lives at risk and deepen an already devastating crisis. Civilians must be protected. Humanitarian workers must be protected.

Humanitarians and the life-saving aid they distribute are not a target. A UNHCR truck carrying emergency shelter kits was hit by a drone in North Darfur, Sudan. It was on its way to Tawila, where hundreds of thousands of people have fled for safety. The driver survived. The supplies did not. More than 1,300 families are now left without the shelter they urgently needed. Attacks like this are unacceptable. They put lives at risk and deepen an already devastating crisis. Civilians must be protected. Humanitarian workers must be protected.

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency

40,140 views • 3 months ago

JUST IN: The intelligence unit that detonated Hezbollah’s pagers in 2024 just dropped thousands of leaflets over Beirut asking Lebanese civilians to disarm Hezbollah themselves. Israeli jets flew over Verdun, Hamra, Ain al-Mreisseh, and the southern suburbs on 13 March and released paper. Not bombs. Paper. Each leaflet carried the logo of Unit 504, the IDF Military Intelligence Directorate’s human intelligence division, a QR code linking to WhatsApp and Facebook channels, and a message: “You must disarm Hezbollah, Iran’s shield. Lebanon is your decision, not someone else’s. Unit 504 is working to ensure the future of Lebanon. If you want to be part of real change, we are here to listen.” Another leaflet referenced Gaza: “remarkable success” and the threat that Beirut faces the same if Hezbollah is not removed. Another quoted an Arabic proverb: “If your neighbour is well, you are well.” This is the same unit that coordinated the September 2024 pager operation that detonated thousands of Hezbollah communication devices simultaneously, the most devastating intelligence operation against the organisation in its history. The same unit that assassinated Islamic Jihad commander Baha Abu al-Ata in 2019. The same unit commended with the IDF’s second-highest award for clandestine operations in Syria and Lebanon between 2013 and 2018. Unit 504 does not do publicity. It does recruitment. The QR codes are not information campaigns. They are intake forms for the most effective human intelligence operation Israel has ever run against Hezbollah. Lebanese cyber security experts immediately warned the public not to scan the codes. The Lebanese Army issued advisories. Hezbollah’s deputy secretary-general Naim Qassem gave a defiant speech declaring readiness for a “long battle.” The warnings reveal the fear: not that civilians will scan the codes out of curiosity, but that some of them will scan them out of conviction. Lebanon has buried nearly 800 dead since the escalation began. Eight hundred thousand are displaced. The southern suburbs have been bombed repeatedly. The 2024 ceasefire collapsed in hours when Hezbollah launched 100 rockets at Israel to avenge Khamenei’s assassination. The Lebanese government banned the military operation. Hezbollah ignored the ban. The army with 80,000 troops watched a militia with 100,000 fighters and $700 million to $1 billion in annual Iranian funding drag the country into a war it did not choose, cannot stop, and does not control. The leaflets are addressed to that helplessness. Israel is asking Lebanese civilians to do what their own government, their own army, and the United Nations have failed to do since Resolution 1701 in 2006: disarm the militia that holds the country hostage. The request is absurd on its face. A population under bombardment being asked by the country bombing it to rise up against the militia the country is bombing. The circularity is the point. Israel cannot disarm Hezbollah from the air. Hezbollah cannot be disarmed from within without civilian willingness that does not exist at scale. And the leaflets acknowledge both impossibilities by offering a third path: intelligence cooperation, one informant at a time, one QR code at a time, one person who decides that the militia that dragged their country into war deserves to be reported rather than protected. The leaflets will not disarm Hezbollah. But they do not need to. They need to produce doubt. Doubt in Hezbollah’s ranks about who scanned. Doubt in commanders about which neighbour is reporting. Doubt in the organisation’s internal security about whether the unit that turned their pagers into bombs can turn their neighbours into informants. Unit 504 does not need Lebanon to rise up. It needs Lebanon to whisper.

Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡

52,060 views • 4 months ago

🚨🇮🇱 🇵🇸 12 HOUR NEWS RECAP: ISRAEL–GAZA 1. Israel confirmed the recovery of the remains of two hostages -Sahar Baruch (25) and Amiram Cooper (84)- through the Red Cross, only hours after launching air and tank strikes near Khan Younis and eastern Gaza City, despite reiterating its commitment to a ceasefire. 2. Israel bombs Lebanon: Overnight, Israeli jets hit Hezbollah positions near Tyre and Baalbek after rocket fire from southern Lebanon. At least six people, including civilians, were reported killed. 3. Intelligence reports suggest Hezbollah has repositioned several missile batteries and radar systems closer to the Israeli border, prompting heightened alerts within the IDF and fears of a broader northern escalation. 4. Israel’s security cabinet and the heads of its security establishment convened with Netanyahu to discuss the strengthening of Hezbollah, described by an Israeli official as “a significant discussion in light of Hezbollah’s actions on the ground.” 5. Since the ceasefire began, more than 200 Palestinians have been killed and over 600 wounded in Gaza by renewed Israeli strikes. Many of the victims are children. 6. The attacks -primarily Israeli air and artillery strikes targeting suspected Hamas positions across central and southern Gaza- further strain the fragile ceasefire declared on October 10, with both Israel and Hamas accusing each other of repeated violations. 7. The IDF described the Gaza operations as “precise strikes” on terrorist infrastructure that allegedly threatened Israeli troops. No confirmed casualties were reported. 8. In the West Bank, Israel has erected nearly 1,000 new roadblocks and barriers since the war began, severely restricting Palestinian movement and access to basic services. 9. Under the ongoing hostage-remains exchange, Israel has recovered 17 hostages’ remains, while 11 are still missing. Israel has returned 195 Palestinian bodies, with many still unidentified. 10. The U.S. administration reaffirmed support for the ceasefire framework but stressed that Israel retains the right to respond to attacks from Gaza or Lebanon. Trump restated Washington’s backing of Israel’s security operations.

🚨🇮🇱 🇵🇸 12 HOUR NEWS RECAP: ISRAEL–GAZA 1. Israel confirmed the recovery of the remains of two hostages -Sahar Baruch (25) and Amiram Cooper (84)- through the Red Cross, only hours after launching air and tank strikes near Khan Younis and eastern Gaza City, despite reiterating its commitment to a ceasefire. 2. Israel bombs Lebanon: Overnight, Israeli jets hit Hezbollah positions near Tyre and Baalbek after rocket fire from southern Lebanon. At least six people, including civilians, were reported killed. 3. Intelligence reports suggest Hezbollah has repositioned several missile batteries and radar systems closer to the Israeli border, prompting heightened alerts within the IDF and fears of a broader northern escalation. 4. Israel’s security cabinet and the heads of its security establishment convened with Netanyahu to discuss the strengthening of Hezbollah, described by an Israeli official as “a significant discussion in light of Hezbollah’s actions on the ground.” 5. Since the ceasefire began, more than 200 Palestinians have been killed and over 600 wounded in Gaza by renewed Israeli strikes. Many of the victims are children. 6. The attacks -primarily Israeli air and artillery strikes targeting suspected Hamas positions across central and southern Gaza- further strain the fragile ceasefire declared on October 10, with both Israel and Hamas accusing each other of repeated violations. 7. The IDF described the Gaza operations as “precise strikes” on terrorist infrastructure that allegedly threatened Israeli troops. No confirmed casualties were reported. 8. In the West Bank, Israel has erected nearly 1,000 new roadblocks and barriers since the war began, severely restricting Palestinian movement and access to basic services. 9. Under the ongoing hostage-remains exchange, Israel has recovered 17 hostages’ remains, while 11 are still missing. Israel has returned 195 Palestinian bodies, with many still unidentified. 10. The U.S. administration reaffirmed support for the ceasefire framework but stressed that Israel retains the right to respond to attacks from Gaza or Lebanon. Trump restated Washington’s backing of Israel’s security operations.

Mario Nawfal

57,165 views • 9 months ago

This mother is catching some flack because she said she sits on the opposite side of the parents on her son’s baseball team. Looks like the outfield. She said she can’t stand the constant chatter and lingo - “Good eye!” , “You got a piece of it.!” , etc. and all the talk in the bleachers. Many put her down saying she is not a team player as a parent. But some others said they agreed with her. I am with her. I usually sat down the line on first or third base. I want to watch the game and not chatter all night and listen to moms and dads coach their kids from the stands. Or all the gossip. I totally get it. Do you understand where this momma is coming from and feel like she does or do you think it’s rude of her to disassociate with the other parents during the game?

This mother is catching some flack because she said she sits on the opposite side of the parents on her son’s baseball team. Looks like the outfield. She said she can’t stand the constant chatter and lingo - “Good eye!” , “You got a piece of it.!” , etc. and all the talk in the bleachers. Many put her down saying she is not a team player as a parent. But some others said they agreed with her. I am with her. I usually sat down the line on first or third base. I want to watch the game and not chatter all night and listen to moms and dads coach their kids from the stands. Or all the gossip. I totally get it. Do you understand where this momma is coming from and feel like she does or do you think it’s rude of her to disassociate with the other parents during the game?

👉M-Û-R-Č-H👈

3,225,220 views • 2 months ago

Trump said "Right now their people are very hungry." Marco Rubio declared that he knows of "no other country where there's a bigger difference between the people who lead the country and the people who live there." Scott Bessent stood at Davos and boasted: "This is economic statecraft, no shots fired." Pete Hegseth thought he could send ground troops into Iranian soil. They all had a theory. Bomb their infrastructure. Collapse their currency. Starve them into desperation. And when they are broken enough, they will rise against their own government and deliver the country to Washington on a platter. Look at these images. These are not the images of a broken people. This is one of the largest human gatherings on earth. It's a civilization expressing itself in full, with all its grief, its pride, and its cohesion. These are millions who chose, freely and defiantly, to pour into the streets to mourn their leader on their own terms. The policy did not radicalize them against their government. It did not hollow them out. It did not manufacture the desperation Washington needed. Four decades of sanctions, two wars in the region, maximum pressure, currency warfare, and a Secretary of Defense openly threatening boots on the ground, and this is what it produced: a people more visibly unified than almost any nation on earth can claim to be. This is the bill coming due for decades of strategic arrogance; the assumption that Iranians were simply a pressure point to be managed, a population to be weaponized against its own state. Washington never understood what it was dealing with.

Trump said "Right now their people are very hungry." Marco Rubio declared that he knows of "no other country where there's a bigger difference between the people who lead the country and the people who live there." Scott Bessent stood at Davos and boasted: "This is economic statecraft, no shots fired." Pete Hegseth thought he could send ground troops into Iranian soil. They all had a theory. Bomb their infrastructure. Collapse their currency. Starve them into desperation. And when they are broken enough, they will rise against their own government and deliver the country to Washington on a platter. Look at these images. These are not the images of a broken people. This is one of the largest human gatherings on earth. It's a civilization expressing itself in full, with all its grief, its pride, and its cohesion. These are millions who chose, freely and defiantly, to pour into the streets to mourn their leader on their own terms. The policy did not radicalize them against their government. It did not hollow them out. It did not manufacture the desperation Washington needed. Four decades of sanctions, two wars in the region, maximum pressure, currency warfare, and a Secretary of Defense openly threatening boots on the ground, and this is what it produced: a people more visibly unified than almost any nation on earth can claim to be. This is the bill coming due for decades of strategic arrogance; the assumption that Iranians were simply a pressure point to be managed, a population to be weaponized against its own state. Washington never understood what it was dealing with.

Reza Nasri

130,656 views • 1 month ago