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نیازی نیست تا نابغه بود و به نخبه بودن صاحب این سخنان #نجمه_امینی پیبرد.
وقتی میگوییم که ایران کشوری اشغالیست، یعنی همین جنایاتی که در حق زندانیان سیاسی اعمال میشود.
چرا قضات دستگاه اهریمنی قضای رژیم جمهوری جانیان اسلامی نباید از صدور این احکام اعدام دلنگران باشند!؟!؟
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La réunion de crise d’hier à l’initiative du Président me fait penser à la Syrie. Pourquoi?
La Syrie est un exemple dont il faudrait beaucoup apprendre.
L’Iran et la Russie ont mené la guerre ensemble dans ce conflit.
Leur force? Au-delà des armes, partage d’intelligence et répression sanguinaire; la Propagande.
Et on voit cette propagande essaimer en Europe et en France.
Ils sont prêts à créer des monstres, à faire déraper les débats, à dresser les banlieues contre les villes et les villes contre les banlieues.
De nombreux exemples de relayeurs de propagande existent et parfois pour polariser, quelques agents de Téhéran ou de la Russie ou idéologues tout simplement disséminent des discours complotistes ou islamophobes radicaux, par exemple. (Et c’est quelqu’un qui se bat contre l’islamisme qui vous le dit).
Étonnant? Non. C’est leur style.
Un exemple pour illustrer mon propos: Zineb Razoui qui s’est fait beaucoup connaître avec ses critiques de l’islamisme, le voile et l’EI qui dit après le 7 octobre qu’ « Israël est un Daech qui a réussi ».
La Russie joue sur cette fibre, en a joué en Syrie et sa propagande a atteint la France. Beaucoup de souverainistes ont cru que le « vaillant Poutine » protégeait les « chrétiens d’Orient ».
Dangers hybrides, guerre directe ou indirecte; il ne faut pas oublier que ces deux pays manœuvrent ensemble contre nous.
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Here Taghi Rahmani, Narges Mohammadi’s husband, constructs a victim-blaming narrative in which protesters initiated the danger and the forces slaughtering them fired defensively. He offers no evidence in this clip for his claim that protesters were selecting people as “legitimate targets.”
During the largest two-day industrial scale massacre in modern Iranian history, Rahmani’s instinct was not to place unequivocal responsibility on the armed regime. It was to supply its killers with a mitigating narrative that needs further “analysis”!!
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Manufacturing an Opposition Iranians Did Not Choose
CNN is once again promoting Narges Mohammadi as the face of Iranian resistance. But Mohammadi emerged from Iran’s Islamist-Marxist milieu—not from the secular national movement now demanding the complete removal of the Islamic Republic.
Nor should her political partnership with her Sharia-loving husband, Taghi Rahmani, be ignored. Rahmani went so far as to blame protesters themselves for being killed, instead of placing responsibility on the regime that massacred them.
Mohammadi possesses international awards and extraordinary Western media access, but no demonstrated popular mandate or social capital inside Iran. She is a media-manufactured figure being presented as the representative of a nation that never chose her.
Her interview with Angelina Jolie, the documentary produced from inside prison, the videos of her singing and dancing with access to a smartphone, and her live international interviews during medical furlough are dead giveaways to Iranians.
Iranians know how genuine political prisoners are treated: isolation, torture, forced confessions, denial of medical care and months without contact with their families. They recognize the difference between merciless repression and carefully managed visibility.
This campaign extends beyond Mohammadi. While CNN promotes her, Christiane Amanpour rehabilitates former Islamic Republic president Mohammad Khatami. The formula is obvious: repackage the Islamist-reformist oligarchy, manufacture acceptable opposition figures around it and sell the same mafia back to Iranians as “democratic change.”
After the massacres, executions, torture and blood spilled in Iran’s streets, this is not merely misguided. It is shameful.
What are these Western gatekeepers thinking? That Iranians are stupid? That a Nobel Prize, a memoir and repeated CNN appearances can erase political history? That people who have lived under this regime for nearly half a century cannot recognize the same Islamist oligarchy in new packaging?
If Western institutions believe they can manufacture another revolutionary icon and install another Khomeini through celebrity interviews, international prizes and relentless media promotion, they have learned nothing from 1979.
CNN can manufacture celebrity. Amanpour can rehabilitate Khatami. Western institutions can promote an opposition convenient for themselves.
But they cannot manufacture legitimacy—and they cannot force Iranians to surrender their revolution to another foreign-manufactured political product.
Iranians see exactly what is happening.
It is insulting. It is disgraceful. And it will fail.
My old article: The Enigma of Narges Mohammadi ——Apadana Telegraph
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In one of her first interviews since being released from Iran's Evin prison on temporary medical leave, Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi tells @JomanaCNN about her new memoir, her years behind bars and why she continues to speak out despite the risks.
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Freedom Fighter Omid Goudarzvand Chegini Faces Imminent Execution.
The Islamic Republic’s judiciary has upheld the death sentence for Omid Goudarzvand Chegini, a 37-year-old former police officer who resigned from the force prior to his arrest during the January Uprising in Qazvin.
Condemned to death on fabricated charges of "destruction of government property", allegations he has consistently denied, Omid was subjected to 40 days of solitary confinement in IRGC Intelligence custody and denied chosen legal representation in a sham trial. Currently held in Qazvin’s Choobindar Prison, he faces imminent state murder.
Be his voice before the regime claims another innocent life.
#LastBreath
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پنج تن در خطر اعدام توسط جمهوری اسلامی
رژیم تبهکار جمهوری اسلامی پنج تن از فرزندان برومند ایران در لردگان استان چهارمحال بختیاری را در دادگاهی نمایشی و نامشروع به اعدام محکوم کرده؛ جان مهران بابامیر، احسان امیری، فرید خالدی، سعید نوروزی، و علی رحیمی ریگی، آزادیخواهان دلیر بازداشتشده در دی ۱۴۰۴ در خطر قتل حکومتی است.
این رژیم جنایتکار تا روزی که از صفحه روزگار زدوده شود، به دشمنی با ایرانیان ادامه خواهد داد و انتقام تحقیرهای بینالمللی خود را از مردم بیگناه ایران خواهد گرفت.
نام این شیران در زنجیر را فریاد بزنیم و نگذاریم جمهوری اسلامی در سکوت و بیخبری فرزندان ایران را به قتل برساند.
#آخرین_نفس
Five Freedom Fighters in Iran Face Imminent Execution
The Islamic Republic has sentenced five of Iran’s brave sons from Lordegan, in southwestern Iran, to death in a sham court. The lives of Mehran Babamir, Ehsan Amiri, Farid Khaledi, Saeid Nowrouzi, and Ali Rahimi Rigi, courageous freedom fighters detained during the January Uprising, are now at immediate risk of state murder.
Be their voice and leverage every international platform to pressure the criminal regime to stop these executions. Amplify the names of these captive heroes and do not let the regime execute Iran’s children in silence and darkness.
#LastBreath
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پسرعموی ترانه رحیمی که در ارتباط با شرکت در اعتراضات دیماه به اعدام محکوم شده است، به ایراناینترنشنال گفت او برای راه رفتن با مشکل مواجه است، اما با وجود اینکه پزشک زندان گفته بهطور فوری به امآرآی نیاز دارد، از انتقال او به بیمارستان برای درمان جلوگیری شده است.
ترانه رحیمی، ۲۰ ساله، به همراه رومینا، خواهر دوقلویش، در زندان دولتآباد اصفهان نگهداری میشود.
مسعود نورمحمدی، پسرعموی آنها، در گفتوگو با پادکست انگلیسی ایراناینترنشنال گفت وضعیت جسمانی ترانه وخیمتر شده است و وکلای او در تلاشاند هرچه سریعتر به حکم اعدامش اعتراض کنند.
نورمحمدی گفت: «ترانه نمیتوانست راه برود. پزشک درمان او را فوری دانسته است، اما مسئولان زندان اجازه ندادند ترانه برای درمان به بیمارستان منتقل شود.
او گفت خانواده ترانه همچنین تجهیزات پزشکی و دارو برای او خریدند و آنها را به زندان بردند، اما مسئولان اجازه ندادند این اقلام به دست او برسد.
این اظهارات چند روز پس از آن مطرح میشود که نورمحمدی به ایراناینترنشنال گفت مسئولان زندان از دادن غذا به ترانه خودداری کردهاند و او ناچار شده است از غذای باقیمانده دیگر زندانیان استفاده کند.
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The Gatekeeper’s Straw Man
Kylie Moore-Gilbert’s attack on Reza Pahlavi begins by inventing a position he does not hold.
She writes that Pahlavi “is yet to explain why a democratic transition requires the restoration of the monarchy.” But he has never claimed that it does. His repeatedly stated position is that he seeks to lead a temporary transition to secular democracy, after which Iranians—not he, not foreign governments and certainly not Western commentators—must determine their country’s permanent system through a free vote.
Moore-Gilbert collapses two entirely separate questions into one: who can coordinate the transition, and whether Iran should ultimately become a constitutional monarchy or a republic. Pahlavi has offered an answer to the first while reserving the second for the Iranian people.
That is precisely what democratic self-determination means.
Her formulation is therefore not a misunderstanding around the edges. It is a straw man at the center of the article. She converts “Pahlavi as a transitional leader” into “Pahlavi demanding the restoration of monarchy,” then attacks the position she has manufactured.
The contradiction became even clearer within 24 hours. In her subsequent ABC appearance, Moore-Gilbert acknowledged Pahlavi’s “stated commitment to democracy” and attributed absolutist ambitions not to him, but to a supposedly fanatical minority among his supporters. The target had quietly shifted: in the column, Pahlavi himself was portrayed as advancing monarchical restoration; on radio, the problem became the conduct and beliefs of certain people around him.
These are not interchangeable arguments. The behavior of some supporters does not establish the intentions of the leader, the content of his transition plan or the character of the millions who support him.
Moore-Gilbert’s headline—“this prince is no messiah”—performs the same sleight of hand. Pahlavi has not presented himself as a messiah. He has presented himself as a politically recognizable figure capable of coordinating a transition. Replacing “transitional leader” with “messiah” transforms a practical political claim into a psychological disorder: support becomes worship, popularity becomes a cult, and national leadership becomes pathology.
Once that framing is established, no evidence of public support need be taken seriously. Iranians chanting Pahlavi’s name can be dismissed as irrational devotees. Those defending him can be labelled cultists. Those strongly challenging Moore-Gilbert’s analysis can be folded into the same category as people issuing criminal threats.
The article is constructed as a self-sealing argument. It opens by predicting death threats and closes with: “Still want to send me death threats? Go ahead, I rest my case.”
Threats against Moore-Gilbert are reprehensible. Anyone making them should be condemned and, where appropriate, prosecuted. But threats from individuals do not validate her political analysis. Nor do they entitle her to erase the distinction between criminals, abusive social-media accounts and ordinary Iranians exposing the inaccuracies in her argument.
Under her framework, threats prove that she is right, while forceful rebuttals can also be presented as proof that Pahlavi’s movement rejects debate. The actual substance of the rebuttal disappears. Her thesis becomes nearly impossible to falsify because every response can be recruited as evidence for it.
This brings us to the article’s real function: gatekeeping.
Moore-Gilbert is entitled to her opinion, but she writes from the position of a Western expert instructing Australian politicians which Iranian voices deserve recognition. She warns them against treating Pahlavi as the principal opposition leader and advises them to engage “all opposition groups”—without explaining which groups possess measurable support, democratic commitments, organizational capacity or legitimacy inside Iran. @hesamorouji @KMooreGilbert @PahlaviReza @TinaGhazimorad
I’ll be refuting the claims made by @KMooreGilbert in an extensive video, including the blatant inconsistencies in her characterisation of @PahlaviReza and the convenient timing of her 'criticism'.
But for now, consider this:
In her yesterday's Sydney Morning Herald column, Moore-Gilbert argues that Pahlavi has yet to explain why a "democratic transition requires the restoration of the monarchy."
Yet in her appearance on ABC’s Radio National Breakfast this morning, she described Pahlavi’s objective in terms of establishing democracy - which is the truth.
Within 24 hours, the contradictions are flying around like a fire fueled by water.
Given the current heightened geopolitical sensitivity surrounding Iran's future, and the Iranian people having explicitly chosen the Crown Prince to represent them as their transitional leader, @KMooreGilbert's motives ought to be questioned.
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In late 2022, a young Iranian girl stepped into a fresh new field of life, just shy of starting university to pursue a degree in biology, with dreams of becoming a doctor.
This young girl was Mahsa Amini. And today, she would have been 26-years-old. She could’ve earned that biology degree by now, and maybe would’ve begun her medical career. But today, exactly four years later, we'll never know what would have become of Mahsa due to the deadly Islamic Republic. Similar to how we’ll never know how far Nika Shakarami would have been able to take her musical talents. Or how beautifully Sarina Esmailzadeh could’ve developed her poetry and social media skills.
Despite the Islamic Republic trying to hold these girls prisoner under a bloodied sheet of oppression and crushed dreams, they woke up everyday and chose freedom. So for Mahsa, Nika, Sarina, and countless others, may we honor their lives by chasing after that freedom, and taking it back. With their spirits, full of fire, passion, and the unrelenting desire for liberation fueling us, our efforts cannot be stopped.
Below are Mahsa’s parents, in sheer horror and despair at what the Islamic Republic had done to their daughter.
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🛑ساعت شناسایی:
نام: آریا بهرامی
شغل: بسیجی عرزشی جنایتکار
محل زندگی: تهران، بولوار آیت الله کاشانی، بولوار ابوذر- غرب تهران
تو شهسوار ویلا دارن
نامبرده در کشتار میهن پرستان تهران در آریاشهر ، کاشانی، پونک، مرزداران و طرشت، ستارخان نقش مستقیم داشته
#جاویدشاه
#همكارى_ملى
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جمهوری اسلامی حتی از مادربزرگهای ایرانی هم برآشفته میشود! این رژیم اخیراً به رستورانی در تهران با نام «دستپخت بیبی» دستور داده است حسابهایش در شبکههای اجتماعی را تعطیل کند؛ دلیلش هم پستی بوده که در آن نوشته شده بود: «هیچی کتلت بیبی نمیشه.»😂
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This is an exceptionally insightful article written by my friend @ElhamSNajafi1 .
My friend puts her finger on something we have almost forgotten how to recognize: terrorism that has become so routine, we discuss it as if it were normal diplomacy. Tehran lights the fire, fans the flames, blocks the exits—and then walks in wearing a firefighter’s helmet, asking what the world will offer for its help. It creates instability, arms proxies, threatens ships, terrifies insurers, and raises the cost of passage. Then everyone politely asks, “How can we persuade Tehran to solve this?” Excuse me, but who created the crisis? A terrorist can block a highway; that does not make him the highway authority. We are being terrorized, yet we barely recognize it because we have accepted the terror as part of the furniture.
And then there is Washington’s “Captured Table.” Imagine misreading Iran in December 2025, watching January overturn your assumptions weeks later—and then returning with another confident report without explaining what you got wrong. The same experts, political networks, and approved Iranian voices keep interpreting Iran through the same old filter, producing very sophisticated analyses of an Iran that exists mainly in Washington. January should have forced an honest reassessment of Iranian society, its rejection of the Islamic Republic, and Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi’s influence. Before these institutions tell us once again what Iranians supposedly want—or what must be offered to Tehran—show us what you learned. Perhaps Iran was never impossible to understand. Perhaps the problem was always who had a seat at the table. @CliffordDMay @dansenor @Dan_Diker @jconricus @LauraLoomer @marklevinshow @elicalebon @DrEliDavid @SecRubio @TRobinsonNewEra @RodDMartin @DavidVance @therealBehnamBT @miadmaleki @alexandre_lores @ViadelCorso2266 @JennyJewhadi @ArcherNightfall @amusicalweapon @chico_ray @chrisG7676
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BREAKING | Turkey Is Keeping Iran Afloat
According to Western intelligence assessments, U.S. pressure has dramatically reduced Tehran’s financial channels — and Turkey has recently become the single most important conduit keeping Iran’s head above water.
At the same time, according to our sources, in recent weeks the IRGC’s Quds Force has used the Turkish route to transfer tens of millions of dollars to Hamas in Turkey, in an effort to rebuild the organization.
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Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci removing her chador during her tense 1979 interview with Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Qom, Iran...
In October 1979, Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci traveled to Qom, Iran, to interview the Islamic Revolution's supreme leader. To get inside the room, Fallaci was forced to cover herself from head to toe in a heavy black chador, leaving only her face visible.
The conversation inside the room was tense from the very start. Fallaci did not hold back her questions.
She pushed the Ayatollah on political executions, the sudden shutdown of independent newspapers, and the sharp loss of rights for Iranian women under the new regime.
When she asked about the forced wearing of the veil, Khomeini dismissed her concerns and claimed the garment was meant to protect young and respectable women. He then added,
"If you do not like the Islamic dress, you are not obliged to wear it."
Fallaci took his words literally and replied, "Thank you, Mr. Imam. Since you tell me so, I am taking it off right now."
With a quick move, she pulled the chador off her head, leaving her hair completely exposed right in front of the Supreme Leader.
Khomeini was furious.
He stood up without saying another word and walked out of the room. The room fell silent, and the interview was abruptly stopped. However, Fallaci refused to leave Iran until he returned a day later to finish the conversation.
This confrontation became legendary in the history of journalism.
It showed a reporter refusing to bow down to authority, even in one of the most dangerous settings imaginable.
Fallaci proved that real journalism requires standing up to power, asking hard questions, and refusing to be silenced by fear or tradition.
When journalists trade raw courage for easy access and comfortable silence, we lose one of our strongest shields against tyranny.
In an era where true courage in reporting feels rare, her brave stand reminds us that honest journalism still has the power to light up the dark, giving a voice to the voiceless and inspiring future generations to speak truth without fear.
#archaeohistories
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من، #محمد_پارسا_گلچین، دانشجو، به بغی متهم شدهام و جانم در خطرست. صدایم باشید!
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Four years since Mahsa Jina Amini was killed in state custody, Iran has increasingly become a society of grieving families.
From Jina and the lives stolen during the ‘Woman Life Freedom’ uprising to the thousands massacred in January 2026, every atrocity has widened the circle of those demanding justice.
For every life the Islamic Republic takes, it leaves behind families, friends and communities who will not forget.
Every atrocity fuels the very movement it seeks to extinguish.
The memory of Jina, Nika, Sarina, Kian, Mohsen, Majidreza and countless others lives on in a new generation determined to carry the struggle for freedom forward.
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20-year old twin sisters, Taraneh and Romina Rahimi's lives are at risk.
The terrorist Islamic Regime occupying Iran has raped and tortured them, and has sentenced 20 year old Taraneh to death.
Be their voice.
#LastBreath
Teenage twin sisters Taraneh and Romina Rahimi were dragged from their beds after joining anti-regime protests in Iran, according to their family.
Taraneh, now 20, has been sentenced to death. Romina received a 36-year prison sentence. Their family says the sisters were tortured in custody and forced to confess.
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A security project named “Elaj” (Cure) has published the personal information of several Iranians living abroad, urging citizens to identify and report more individuals to its platform. Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) has actively promoted the project, though the identity of the security or government entity managing it remains unknown, as does how it obtained the published identity data.
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I am not sure who on Tucker's staff wrote this for him but that is a lot of lies in one statement. Purposeful I am sure. Any reader can hit the @grok button and ask true? See my article on the 2,000 pound bomb fallacies, why they are used in war to include by the U.S. today.
A Mark 84 does not destroy everything within half a mile. Yes, fragments can travel farther than the area where the point of impact occurs, but terrain, surrounding structures, and the circumstances of the explosion affect the extent of the blast. It also does not send out a sun-temperature wave that melts surrounding rock and vaporizes people at 100 feet. It is not a nuclear weapon. Yes, it can collapse apartment buildings and leave large craters, but a thirty-five-foot crater is not a standard result. Crater size depends on the factors of the structure/ground conditions of where the bomb detonates.
Dresden is not recognized as a war crime under the standards of World War II. Interesting choice of example tho as the city had about 560,000 residents in early 1945. A 250,000 civilians killed figure was devised by Joseph Goebbels’ ministry and pushed for decades, later recycled by David Irving. More than 50 years later, a historical commission put the death toll at 25,000.
The March 1945 Berlin raid was not “the largest American air raid of WWII.” Some people call it the largest U.S. raid on Berlin. A bigger American raid was Christmas Eve 1944, Eighth Air Force operation against targets in western Germany. Comparing that one day Berlin drop to a planned Israeli stockpile of 40,000 two-thousand-pound bombs is lazy, not a like for like measure of an attack. Operation Meetinghouse over Tokyo did kill 80,000–100,000 people and is often called the most destructive single air raid in history, but the load was 1,665 tons of incendiaries, not “1,600 tons of bombs.” Different weapons, different effect. The 7.5% line only works if you treat an arms-sale inventory as if it were already dropped in one raid.
By no definition (words have meaning) has Israel done a genocide in Gaza. Not by the definition's intent or actions requirements. No actual evidence support the intent or actions allegation.
The government of Israel was in a war against the terror army of Hamas in Gaza after they invaded Israel on October 7th and withdrew into Gaza with 250 hostages; they were also at war with the terror army (more equipped than many nations) Hezbollah in Lebanon after they attack on October 8th.
Israel is not working to exterminate an unarmed civilian population in Gaza or Lebenon. No evidence shows they have targeted civilians.
All of the Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, and Iran fronts have contained buried and fortified targets that can justify the use of modern 2,000-pound bombs.
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According to an informed federal official, in the coming months the Trump administration plans to send a total of 40,000 Mark 84 and Blu-117 bombs to the government of Israel. Each bomb weighs 2,000 pounds. This appears to be the largest transfer of conventional explosive ordnance from the United States in modern history.
How big is this shipment? It amounts to 40,000 tons of bombs. For perspective, the largest American air raid of World War Two was the Eighth Air Force’s attack on Berlin in March of 1945. Combined, the 2,023 Allied aircraft involved dropped about 3,000 tons of bombs. That’s 7.5 percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. That same month, March of 1945, the US Army Air Forces began the single most destructive bombing raid in human history, Operation Meetinghouse over Tokyo. More than 100,000 Japanese civilians were killed. By the end of that operation, the US had dropped 1,600 tons of bombs. That’s four percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. World War Two ended five months later, when the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. The shipment Trump is sending to Israel amounts to more than three times the destructive power of that nuclear explosion. There is no precedent for what the Trump administration is doing.
Nor is there a justification. The government of Israel is not fighting World War Two, or even a war. It is engaged in periodic skirmishes with a guerrilla force in Lebanon, and it is working to exterminate an unarmed civilian population in Gaza. Neither front requires modern 2,000-pound bombs.
An American-made Mark 84 has a destruction radius of half a mile. It releases a thermal wave the temperature of the surface of the sun. Within 100 feet of the explosion, rock melts and human flesh turns to vapor. The bomb collapses apartment buildings and leaves craters thirty-five feet deep. Until the war with Iran, the US military generally avoided using the Mark 84 in urban areas. It kills too many civilians.
For the Netanyahu government, that’s been the upside. In the weeks after October 7, the IDF dropped nearly six hundred 2,000-pound bombs on densely populated areas in Gaza, including on more than 100 officially designated civilian evacuation zones. The slaughter was so grotesque and embarrassing that for a moment the Biden administration paused a shipment of Mark 84s. Those shipments quickly resumed under Trump. Now they’ve accelerated.
It’s hard to overstate the scale of the crime the Israeli government is committing in Gaza. Over the last three years, more than a quarter-million Palestinians have been killed or wounded by Israeli forces there. The majority of them have been noncombatants: women, the elderly and tens of thousands of children. Many thousands more remain missing, presumably entombed under the rubble of 200,000 collapsed buildings. So far the Israelis have destroyed 92 percent of all homes in Gaza, and 34 of the 36 hospitals. By comparison, the 1945 Allied bombings of Dresden, now acknowledged as a war crime, destroyed about half of the city’s inhabited buildings.
By any definition, what the Netanyahu government has done in Gaza is genocide. The 40,000 new bombs the Trump administration is sending will be used to do the same in Lebanon, and likely in other countries in the region. If you wanted to extend the Iran war into the indefinite future, this is exactly what you’d do.
So far none of this has received public scrutiny. At some point, inevitably, it will be described in media accounts as an “arms sale.” It is not an arms sale. It is a gift, funded by American taxpayers through the Foreign Military Financing program, an arrangement designed to disguise welfare as capitalism: Congress appropriates money to the executive branch, which transfers the cash to Israel to “buy” American-made weapons, in this case from General Dynamics. Politicians claim this is a win for America. Most voters have no idea they paid for it. The bill in this case is about $3 billion. Add that to the $352 billion the US Treasury has transferred to Israel since 1951.
How did this happen? The request for 40,000 new high-explosive civilian-killing bombs originated at the US Embassy in Jerusalem, which is run by Christian Zionist Ambassador Mike Huckabee and his aide David Milstein, who is the stepson of Fox News host Mark Levin. From there it moved to the State Department, where Marco Rubio enthusiastically approved it.
At this point, only four more people need to sign off before the bombs ship to Israel: Senators Jim Risch and Jeanne Shaheen, the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; and Congressmen Brian Mast and Gregory Meeks, the top two members of the equivalent House committee. All four are committed neocons. Collectively they’ve taken millions from the Israel lobby. In 2015, Brian Mast traveled to Israel to volunteer for the Israeli military. In 2023, Mast showed up in the House of Representatives wearing an IDF uniform.
It’s hard to imagine any of them hesitating before sending more free bombs to Israel. Only public outrage can stop this.
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More than six months after the U.S. strike on a school in Minab, Iran, killed more than 168 people, including 120 children, there has been no public accounting of what happened.
Now Republican @RepThomasMassie is putting Minab at the center of his articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
The effort faces serious odds in Congress. But Massie’s move forces a vote and puts civilian deaths, congressional war powers and accountability for the Iran war back before lawmakers. theguardian.com/us-news/2026…
