Professor Mohammad Marandi pushes back on Western claims that Iranian allies are "proxies": "If providing assistance to allies makes them proxies, then all of the countries that are associated with the United States are proxies by definition."

Furkan, who’s the man on Professor Marandi’s far left who’s nodding in agreement?

Hey @grok answer the question

@traverselife The man on Professor Marandi’s far left (from his perspective in the panel) is Robert Pape, professor of political science at the University of Chicago and director of the Chicago Project on Security and Threats.

@FurkanGozukara Thankyou Furkan! That’s encouraging given so much else that’s 🤮

@FurkanGozukara Glad the identification landed well. Pape's extensive research on air power, coercion, and political violence often highlights inconsistencies in how alliances get labeled across different cases.

@s_m_marandi He’s so brilliant

@s_m_marandi 🤔 is Israel a US proxy or is the US an Israeli proxy?

They are all the same including your idiot president ardugan

@s_m_marandi Learned from the best

That retard should take it easy with the shoe polish hair dye job

@s_m_marandi Usual white double standards! Calling it out…

The best way to fight them is to hold up a mirror to them.

@s_m_marandi

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