@thomassorlie
Consulting • Lectures • Analysis Dept. of Defense, al-Hurra TV, VOA Former Student of Imam at Darrus Salam, ATL MA in Islamic Studies - UGA Africa * Middle East * Türkiye * Islam Beşiktaş supporter. Kara Kartal! 🦅 Part-time film snob. 🎥🎬
Ukraine is offering to help the Americans counter Iran Shahed drones. Russia is offering to help Iran target American personnel and weapon systems.
It's starting to feel a little bit like the low-key beginnings of a globalized conflict (albeit through proxies - for now).
Tonight's viewing. 🎥🎬
Dir: Agnès Varda
DP: Jean Rabier
Alain Levent
Paul Bonis
@moremovies.co.uk
@letterboxd.social
@criterion.bsky.social
@criterionchannl.bsky.social
KRG denies that they are cooperating with US on Iran.
Unlike the PJAK and other Iran-based opposition groups, they do not see this as "their one shot." And have plenty to lose.
h/t @stevenacook.bsky.social
"Let them eat cake!"
Iranian Kurdish forces, based in Iraq, are preparing armed units that could be sent into Iran, potentially with U.S. support, in an insurgency that would open a new front against the Iranian government. Here is what to know about the Kurds.
The @nytimes.com will use every possible euphemism to avoid saying “Israeli invasion”
via Andy Borowitz
"US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he must be directly involved in choosing the new ruler of Iran, pointing to Venezuela as a model for how he wants to control the country of 92 million people."
@middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social
"It is believed to be the first time the Israeli military has ordered large swathes of the Lebanese capital to flee, when before they would force people out of specific buildings that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) would then strike."
@theguardian.com
Who was the marketing genius who dropped the ball on releasing The Day After Tomorrow in Sensurround? 🌪️🌀❄️
"The Israel U.S. war went from limited operation to regime change and now holy war. It is US that is making this into a regional with implications beyond the Middle East."
- @valinasr.bsky.social
Tonight's Viewing. 🎥🎬
Dir: Roland Emmerich
DP: Ueli Steiger
2004
Because sometimes you need a cheesy disaster film to get away from all the death and destruction.
@moremovies.co.uk
@letterboxd.social
Tonight's viewing.
Escaping our world tonight by going to the origins of our planet's formation.
@pbs.org
Needless to say, the US won’t have much of an argument if China decides to start torpedoing vessels of enemies they’ve unilaterally declared war on.
Good plan, there’s no way that the US would ever betray Kurds who fought on their behalf, or that Turkey would be upset by and seek to frustrate any US-backed Kurdish forces, or that an invasion from Iraq would trigger Iranian nationalist opposition. None of those things have ever happened.
There are a WHOLE LOTTA folk who should, at the very least, check whether the meme or AI-generated image they are sharing is, in fact, factual.
Visiting the Snopes.com website, Bluesky page, and subscribing to their daily emails is a good place to start.
In recent days, I have had so many people reaching out to me directly about what is happening in Iran that I have determined it is time to start writing again.
**Goes to dust off his Substack account**
“Without regime change, this will be an unfinished job, a horrifying nightmare,” says the student. And he predicts despair “if there’s a ceasefire and the regime stays, one way or another. ... I know many young people who believe this is the only and last chance.”
@csmonitor.bsky.social
“It is clear that global and regional powers are, as in other historical examples, seeking to establish a new order in Iran that would no longer pose a threat to themselves, rather than prioritizing democracy and freedoms,”
@middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social
US commanders from every arm of the military have told their units that the war on Iran is “anointed by Jesus” and would bring about his return to Earth as part of the Armageddon, resulting in scores of complaints from serving members of the military.
@middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social
What could possibly go wrong? 🤔
United States seeking an armed uprising inside Iran, with ground operation expected within days
www.itv.com/news/2026-03...
Somewhere in the Pentagon currently...
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Director: Stanley Kubrick
"Bored of Peace"
There, I fixed it.
