Iran commentary by top observers

[Barbara]

Some nice pictorials, educational. The narrator doesn't pronounce some things correctly. That's al-Zulfikar, the sword of Imam Ali, in the 1st scene.

https://x.com/M_gorji2/status/2030433526026322357

[Barbara]

"Esmaeil Qaani is currently in Iran, after spending hundreds of days in Israel to Help IRGC in an accurate retaliatory attack against Tel Aviv.

Reports claiming his collaboration with Israel are false and baseless."
[These sneaky posts were mere propaganda to demoralize Iran]

https://x.com/rkmtimes/status/2030479698308829502

[Barbara]

In case anybody was wondering about this question :

"I asked Prof. Marandi whether Tehran is being carpet-bombed day and night — and are Iran’s air defenses performing adequately?

He says air defenses are NOT DISABLED.

But the scale of the US and Israeli air forces is enormous, and Iranian systems are working constantly.

Many strikes come from missiles launched by jets outside Iranian airspace — over the Gulf, Kuwait or Saudi Arabia."

https://x.com/RealPepeEscobar/status/20 ... 0501878857

[Barbara]

"MILITARY INFORMATION WARFARE USA

These past few hours have been marked by extremely significant and dangerous developments at the White House, following the escalation of events in the Iranian war.

High-ranking Pentagon officials have resigned in protest against the continuation of the war and Donald Trump's insistence on a ground confrontation with Tehran, which the resigning officials described as a defeat for the White House even greater than those suffered by Americans in Vietnam and Iraq.

One of the high-ranking officials who submitted his resignation laid out his reasons:

I do not want history to remember my name as that of the agency head at a time when America suffers the greatest defeat in its history.

I do not want it to say that I was complicit in the murder of tens of thousands of Americans, and that I was among those who recklessly threw our compatriots into the heart of death.

What is happening in the Middle East, and what Trump plans to do by invading Tehran by land, is the greatest political and military suicide operation there is. We will gain nothing from it but the return of our sons in coffins, if they return at all. If you do not put an end to the madness of this man, you will pay an even heavier price.

At the CIA, the language of anger was even more vehement, and the rhetoric of rejection more pronounced. At the last meeting, the warning and caution were clear:

If you do not abandon your position, rest assured that your time in power will not last more than a few months, and you will face a popular and political trial that will soon end in your death.

What you are about to do is nothing other than an acceleration of the end. A ground invasion entails complex mountain engagements and an exorbitant financial cost. You will encounter monsters and martyr projects waiting for you among the rocks, for that is their dream: that the Iranian child lives his entire life.

The return of a thousand bodies is enough to spark a popular revolution against you, and that is enough for us, with Congress and all the agencies present here, to submit reports that will not only impeach you, but lead to your execution.

Trump justified his position by declaring:

We will first try something with the Kurds. We will push all the militias that reject the Revolutionary Guard into confrontation. If they manage to gain ground, we will intervene to support them. Otherwise, we lose nothing.

But the CIA's response took him by surprise:

The Revolutionary Guards will block your access to those areas by going through those militias. Iran acted very early to confront the Kurdish forces on their lands and, worse still, offered it a historic opportunity to destroy their strongholds and put a definitive end to their existence.

If you persist in following Netanyahu's incitements, the end is near and your legacy will remain as the worst fate of an American president. Seek calm, exits, and solutions, and you have only one possible path: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Seek his help and ask him to take the initiative for a return to calm, so that we can build together"

https://x.com/NumeriqueFrance/status/20 ... 1840956705

[Barbara]

"Why didn't we capture the ship? Could we have used it? I was told no, that it was more fun to sink it."

The banality of evil in its purest form. [In this quotation,] Trump mocks the more than 140 victims of the IRIS Dena and dozens of journalists laugh at his joke.

They were young cadets who were barely over 20 years old. They were returning from an exhibition fair in India.

The ship was unarmed.

And yet it was sunk without warning by the torpedo of a U.S. war submarine.

It's a war crime that only a psychopath could recount as a joke."

https://x.com/EgioVictor/status/2031129937545940996

[Barbara]

Dr Marandi - AS ALWAYS - roasts Western "reporters". They are mere propagandists, not even a FAINT attempt at objectivity.

Here, Dr Marandi shows up the nasty Sky News figure Yalda Hakim.

She employs a tactic here that she ALWAYS uses :

"I am just trying to understand the position of..." said in an innocent little girl voice.

But she does it only as a maneuver to make herself sound less confrontational. When she is part and parcel of the whole is not reali media complex.

Yalda Hakim's other reporting is terribly biased, too.

https://x.com/RAISRAEL2/status/2031157175007977649

Comment from an anti=Iranian American :

"He is right. On the days prior to the attack on the Ayatolah it looked like Iran was finally negotiating a way forward. Hours before I saw on the news that they had accepted 0 enrichment etc.

The Ayatolah must have relaxed, exposed himself with his family and they all got killed.

This is how the start of this war went down, like an act of piracy, quite simply an act of dishonorable backstabbing.

He is also right when he says the regime has popular support, they do come out to the streets to show it on larger numbers than the protesters, who also exist, but regardless, the Sky News of the world show one side only, carelessly unaware that social media shows all.

The support is clearly there.

When Trump saw killing the Ayatolah accomplished nothing he went with talk about finding a puppet "suitable" replacement like he did in Venezuela, literally. His words.

When that didn't work he went the route of feeding weapons to the Kurds to break the country apart in civil war.

When that didn't work, well, they are now desperately trying to get other Gulf countries to join the war, and it is not working either, at least not yet.

Yes, they are also killing plenty of civilians, school girls included, bombing oil fields so it rained black and flames burned Teherán. He is right."

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"The audacity of Europeans and their continual lies"

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"Wow she is truly terrible at reporting. No mention of the fact Iran was at the negotiating table many times n Israel bombed them during negotiations anyway. Now they get what they’ve given"