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🇮🇷 The Islamist regime is not Iran. 🇮🇷
🙉Even as the economy collapses and the threat of more bombs hangs in the air, #Halloween is claimed by Iranians — surreal, and almost absurd — simply to defy!
🙈 Iranians numb the present — just enough — to refuse its total claim on them.
♦️Like the paisley, that old Persian symbol of ‘bending without breaking,’ the Iranian people endure, hanging onto the promise that: happier days will come.
#Iran #PersianPaisley #SupportIranians
#IranianHolloween
America / the west must wake up! Looking the other way won’t make it go!
#IraniansSawThisMovieBefore
#RedGreenAlliance #ChicContrarianism
Mehrdad Marty Youssefiani ∴ مهرداد یوسفیانی retweeted
I have formed a strong impression that in spite of our sustained engagement with Iran since the Shia extremist takeover, our leaders have not read Xenophon's Anabasis which explains how Iran's peculiar geography offsets the qualitative inferiority of its forces. Nothing has changed since 401 BC
Mehrdad Marty Youssefiani ∴ مهرداد یوسفیانی retweeted
"We will never find a better friend than the Kurds." @Mikeknightsiraq on why the Kurds remain America's best partner in Iraq, on The MEF Podcast.
Mehrdad Marty Youssefiani ∴ مهرداد یوسفیانی retweeted
My new @nypost op-ed: The Islamic Republic only survives on war. Don't give the regime what it craves.
I spent years at @USTreasury squeezing this regime and I want it gone. That's exactly why the next round of bombs should stay in the racks.
This regime is built to fight, not to govern. A blackout in wartime is a sacrifice the IRGC can police; in a cease-fire, it's a failure the regime must explain.
Hold the blockade. Make them run the country they broke.
Islamists promise the world “kind & gentleness,” but don’t look how they really live behind closed curtains!
#IraniansHaveSeenThisMovie cfpublic.org/2021-02-05/cair…
⚠️ Clever spy-craft?
Barnea boasts Mossad released video of its assets so Iran's thug regime would mass-arrest, giving his agents cover.
💥 Boasting 21,000 Iranians were arrested, ordinary, innocent Iranians were treated as noise to absorb.
💥 Being used w/o care is exactly what Iranians fear most, and it matches the regime's narrative.
👉‼️ Swagger / Bravado is not SMART public diplomacy!
#Iran #IranFreedom #Barnea #Mossad
Former Mossad chief David Barnea said that the video was deliberately published to trigger mass arrests and make it more difficult for the IRGC to identify actual Israeli agents.
✍️ @Jeremybob1
jpost.com/middle-east/iran-n…
Excellent point by @AriFleischer.
It’s NOT the faith, but the tool you choose to turn it into. (That applies universally to All faiths?)
#ChicContrarianism
#RedGreenAlliance
Abdul is not the only Muslim to run for the Senate. Mehmet Oz ran in 2024. No one ran against Oz because he’s a Muslim.
That’s because Oz didn’t call Israel Bloodthirsty. Oz didn’t write an oped urging support for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. Oz didn’t have donors who belonged to the MB. Oz didn’t blame terrorism on the policies of the US. And Oz didn’t justify a terrorist on a synagogue.
This race isn’t about Abdul’s faith. It’s about his extremist ideas.
To add to Taleblu’s good points:
👉@USAMBTurkiye is right on the decisive point: only Iranians can produce a durable political change.
♦️Once the regime’s chokehold of repression / economic isolation loosens, Iranian will organize & reshape their future from within.
⚠️The historical shorthand is imprecise— 1953 was a CIA-backed initiative; But, 1979 was an indigenous revolution the U.S. neither engineered nor controlled.
👉Those distinctions matter.
👉The practical lesson: externally imposed regime change has a weak record of producing stable, legitimate outcomes. Why❓The day-after problem remains real.
👉The useful implication is therefore clear: Pressure that starves ordinary Iranians while leaving the security apparatus intact has not opened the political space.
♦️Give Iranians the agency they have long lacked. That is the path consistent w/ both realism & the people who must live with the result.
@therealBehnamBT
#IranWar #RegimeChange
#SupportIranianPeople
I'm going to sidestep the rather large historical inaccuracies around "installing" Iranian leaders and doing regime change as one would a lightbulb...
But one of the things U.S. policy on Iran has suffered from is the lack of intellectual continuity. It often sounds as if so many U.S. administrations genuinely start from zero on Iran while the Islamic Republic has had the benefit of years of experience and lessons learned.
Administrations intead have chosen to expend their term on dealing with Iran as a matter of political fiction, fantasy, or fallacy, only to be moved toward a variant of the kick the can down the road sort of approach.
No wonder the Islamic Republic has held on for 47 years...
گفتگویی لازم: آیا برای پایان کابوس #جمهوری_اسلامی مصلح کردن جامعه نسخه مسؤلانه از سوی «فرنگ نشینان» است؟
#خیر!!
@M_Boroujerdi
⚠️ @TomBarrackJr
makes abundantly clear, that @POTUS’ policy on #Iran, is NOT regime change, pointing out it’s all about: “what is the day-two scenario.”
👉This falls in direct conflict w/ the signal coming out of Jerusalem: “Regime change [in Iran] is the only option.”
🟥≠🔴 — So, how can this circle be squared?
@USAMBTurkiye
#IranWar #IranRegimeChange
#SupportIranianPeople
So, we don’t need doctors or engineers, but … Islamist activists and … opines “Dr. Abdul El-Sayed?”
Exactly what the #Islamists said in 1978 Iran. See what that’s brought Iran.
#RedGreenAlliance
U.S. Senate Candidate Abdul El-Sayed at 2019 Islamic Convention: The Time for Action Is Now; Our Community Doesn’t Need Any More Doctors and Engineers, We Need Activists, Journalists, Academics, and Public Leaders; Palestine, the Uyghurs, Kashmir, Racism, Sexism, and U.S. Border Repression Are All Muslim Issues
Mehrdad Marty Youssefiani ∴ مهرداد یوسفیانی retweeted
"I'm sorry it offends you when I point out you're a tool of the Iranian regime"
That was for everyone who wanted to say that to Trita Parsi over the many years he has been undermining US foreign policy towards Iran.
nitter.gq/PiersUncensored/status…
"Shut your mouth and let me speak!"
Jim Hanson blasts Trita Parsi as "a tool for the Iranian regime", in a heated debate on America's involvement in the Iran War.
📺youtu.be/RKXubRUMwwE
@piersmorgan | @tparsi | @JimHansonDC
A good read by @emahyar:
I Fled Islamism in Iran. Now, American Tax Dollars Are Funding It in Michigan meforum.org/mef-online/i-fle…
Mehrdad Marty Youssefiani ∴ مهرداد یوسفیانی retweeted
MEF's @emahyar, who fled Islamism in Iran, in a @dcexaminer op-ed: at least seven Michigan mosques politicked before a Senate primary decided by 13,792 votes, much of it at odds with IRS guidance. The IRS rarely acts. washingtonexaminer.com/op-ed…
