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On the 46th anniversary of the revolution that unleashed political Islam, ousted a strong American ally, and changed the ME and the national security imperatives of western countries and Israel a simple thread as to what happened and why:

For @POTUS there is no pretending at the gates of heaven, and none at the negotiating table with Tehran! Q: You're entering the next life [before God], all you have to do to enter paradise is feel love and forgiveness for James Comey, Nancy Pelosi, etc...can you do it? TRUMP: Then I wouldn't be real, would I? ….the answer is no. Compare with the concept of Taqiyya in Islam. Central in Shi’ism it is “prudent concealment” letting a believer lie to save himself. Khamenei repackaged it as “heroic flexibility” in 2013, just as Iran was negotiating JPOA, the precursor to the JCPOA. US is again at the same juncture in Doha. Will the regime abide by a diplomatic settlement or will it be “flexible” and conceal its intentions to save itself?

The Iran war has pulled back the curtain on the regime. Before it, Tehran relied on plausible deniability, sowing chaos while covering its tracks. Now it is pursuing a balance of terror, striking Gulf states and signalling that everything is fair game. Everything.

The regime is keenly aware of Iran’s fervent nationalism and has tried to marry its Islamist ideology to Iran’s pre-Islamic past. Below is one such example. @POTUS “execution” is juxtaposed against pics of Iran’s ancient ruins and the concept of the Paladin, Iran’s savior.

Watch as Tehran’s focus shifts from Trump to Rubio as the target of regime’s next smear campaign thru Iran Expert Initiative. 👇🏻 While Vance denounces the Iran war and even avoids the use of the term, @SecRubio has doubled down on a muscular fp and eliminating threats abroad.

Farah Pahlavi, the Shahbanoo of Iran may have been right. During Ahmadinejad's presidency (2005–2013), she lamented that had the West condemned Tehran's human rights abuses instead of focusing on its nukes, the regime would have been ostracized and in trouble. Today, it continues to act with impunity.

On the bottom of the screen “We will kill Trump.” This is a football match between two teams in Iran, widely watched family events. Generations, grandparents, parents and children watching together. Revenge and hatred had always driven the regime. But let’s make a deal with it.

جمهوری اسلامی، ماده شیمیاییِ ماندگارِ ژئوپلیتیک است که هرگز از بین نمی‌رود. ۴۷ سال پیش در چنین روزی، سفارت آمریکا را اشغال کرد و ۵۲ آمریکایی را به مدت ۴۴۴ روز گروگان گرف، بحرانی که به پایان یک دوره ریاست‌جمهوری کمک کرد. ۴۷ سال بعد، این بار به سقوط اکثریت کنگره برای یک رئیس‌جمهور دیگر کمک کرده است. جهان تا چه زمانی دیگر باید مسموم شود؟

The Islamic Republic is the forever chemical of geopolitics. 47 years ago today it seized the US embassy and held 52 Americans for 444 days, helping end a presidency. 47 years later, it helped cost another president his Congress. How much longer before the world is poisoned?

Large imposing posters have been a staple of regime propaganda machine. They are meant to invade one’s space and remind the public that compared to the grandeur of the Islamic Revolution, the individual is “a speck of dust” to quote Ahmadinejad. Below is one such ominous example, directed at the American audience. But the context is the same.

Nuclear noise is saturating the news coverage of Iran — from renewed diplomacy to President Obama’s claim that the JCPOA “curbed” the regime’s ambitions. This needs a reading of the footnotes. What is Iran really up to? Here is my response on @TheStoryFNC @marthamaccallum.

"Standoff" implies parity, and there is none. Intermittent strikes on tankers make headlines. They are not leverage. In 1988 the Tanker War looked deadlocked too, until US naval dominance settled it within weeks. Weigh the balance of power, not the incident log.

ایرانیان خارج از کشور، چه یهودی و چه غیر یهودی، از این جنگ حمایت می‌کنند؛ چرا که ماهیت رژیم جمهوری اسلامی را به‌خوبی می‌شناسند و می‌دانند که این رژیم جنايتكار، فریبکار و فاسد است. انقلاب ۱۳۵۷ هرگز با هدف بهتر کردن زندگی ایرانیان شکل نگرفت. هدف آن تحمیل اسلام‌گرایی بر ایران و صدور همین ایدئولوژی به کشورهای منطقه و در نهایت سراسر جهان بود. در اصل، این نبردی علیه ارزش‌های لیبرال و آن چیزی است که تمدن غرب و ایران پیش از اسلام نماینده آن بودند. پدر نویسنده، در حالی که چشمانش از اشک پر شده بود، به یاد سرزمین محبوبش می‌افتاد؛ وطنی کهن و ریشه‌دار، با فرهنگی غنی و تاریخی پرافتخار. اما شاید مهم‌تر از آن، او نگران آینده و سرنوشت زندگی‌ای است که امروز می‌شناسیم. هرچه زودتر نسبت به تهدیدی که رژیم ‌ جمهوری اسلامی متوجه جهان می‌کند بیدار شویم، بهتر است.