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@melangell

Currently, a graduate student in London and Historian-in-training on the modern “Middle East.” UX Researcher. Fascinated with post-war Japan and the human mind. Please come to Upscrolled, where brown people are not banned: https://upscrolled.com/en/

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I didn't think Iran's Kurdish population in the country would rise up in the support of an invasion. Given what the Americans/Israelis have done to the Kurdish region, I think it's highly unlikely now that the Kurdish separatists are welcomed with open arms. x.com/DanaNawzarAl...

07.03.2026 03:08 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

The reality is U.S. pressure pushed Iran out of Western economic and diplomatic systems over and over and over and over again.

07.03.2026 02:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Oh, sure. What I also observe is people are used to thinking in rigid blocs (U.S. vs Soviet Union), so they assume every adversary of the U.S. must belong to a rival camp even tho the revolutionary slogan was literally “Neither East nor West.”

07.03.2026 02:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

There’s no alliance structure where Moscow or Beijing can dictate Iranian policy. Iran makes decisions based on its own strategic interests.

07.03.2026 02:02 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A lot of the “Iran must be controlled by Russia or China” talk in U.S. discourse does come from people whose worldview was shaped by Russiagate and the broader narrative that Russia is secretly orchestrating global politics.

07.03.2026 02:01 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0

"The ones that need to worry right now are the Iranians who think they're going to live" Jesus christ

07.03.2026 01:45 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Surely you mean very good?

07.03.2026 01:44 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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There have been some very bad developments today.

07.03.2026 01:03 👍 3104 🔁 1272 💬 283 📌 125
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Three times.

07.03.2026 01:10 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“We know that if the US and Israel had not attacked a country that posed no threat to it, those girls would be alive.”

Matthew Schlaff, Chairman of The American Conservative Union: “…In a Burqa.”

Aside from the fact that Burqas are not traditionally worn in Iran, Schlaff is quite literally insane.

07.03.2026 01:07 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

re: AOC

07.03.2026 00:09 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

And the very dry humor at the beginning got me, lol.

07.03.2026 00:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Nohe Song about Enemies of Iran (English Subtitles)
Nohe Song about Enemies of Iran (English Subtitles) YouTube video by Kai khor

🇮🇷🇮🇷🇮🇷

13.06.2025 21:39 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 2
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Iranian-American anthropologist Narges Bajoghli on why the West has been inundated with far-right voices within the Iranian diaspora: “There’s been eight years of constant funding for these voices.”

06.03.2026 23:03 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Jon Stewart is Helping to Do PROPAGANDA for Trump's War on Iran
Jon Stewart is Helping to Do PROPAGANDA for Trump's War on Iran YouTube video by The Kavernacle

How progressive politicians (Mamdani, AOC) and media figures unintentionally or intentionally legitimize the Iran war’s justification. From @thekavernacle.bsky.social youtu.be/2q753pWvWNI

06.03.2026 21:58 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

40% of Americans love diving headfirst down the trash chute into poverty, disease, and death under the leadership of a sundowning pedophile.

06.03.2026 20:20 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
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‘We’re in it’: Democrats won’t rule out giving Trump more money for Middle East war Democrats will have to balance a desire to criticize Trump’s offensive in Iran with pressure to support funding to defend the nation now at war.

Senate Democrats are open to giving Trump more money for Iran war.

"I don’t rule anything out,” said Senator Elissa Slotkin. “I mean, we’re in it.”
www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

05.03.2026 03:31 👍 547 🔁 139 💬 131 📌 233

“If we separate civilian places and people from the war, our military sites have suffered LESS damage compared to the Americans, and the number of our military martyrs and wounded is significantly less than the casualties and wounded of the US and the Zionist regime.”

06.03.2026 20:22 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Iran’s Armed Forces Spox:

“The Americans are censoring their casualties and wounded.

‌Ambulances are constantly transporting bodies and wounded from the sites hit by Iranian missiles and drones, especially in Bahrain.”

06.03.2026 20:21 👍 19 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0

Thank you!

06.03.2026 16:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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It’s so weird. I guess unless they’re bombing children’s schools three times in a row, they don’t really have anything to brag about.

06.03.2026 13:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Reminded me of the 1999 Kosovo War when Serbian forces used fake tanks made of wood, rubber, and painted canvas to soak up NATO bombs. After the war, investigators found that NATO destroyed far fewer real tanks than claimed because many targets were decoys.

06.03.2026 11:46 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
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Straight out of the Wile E. Coyote playbook.

06.03.2026 11:45 👍 15 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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Great stuff

05.03.2026 16:57 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

“I don’t support irans government but”

“I condem Hamas but”

“I don’t support Venezuela or Cuba but”

Do you know you are an imperialist running dog

03.01.2026 15:43 👍 2627 🔁 672 💬 18 📌 0
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Heal Minds Gaza: empowering Palestinian children who were in detention Palestinian children in Israeli occupation prisons face severe psychological violence that deeply impacts their sense of safety, identity, and community after their detention. The Heal Minds Gaza…

Look, I don't like being here so much, but I made this commitment a year ago, and it's finally happening: help for children who've returned from occupation prisons.

This is an effort to bring them mental health support. Just weeks left to make it happen. chuffed.org/project/hmg

06.03.2026 06:00 👍 11 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 3
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x.com/rezanasri1/s...

06.03.2026 06:00 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
A bulldozer and an excavator clear rubble as emergency personnel search for victims at the site of an Israeli air strike that targeted a residential compound in Baalbek, in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. [Nidal Solh/AFP]

A bulldozer and an excavator clear rubble as emergency personnel search for victims at the site of an Israeli air strike that targeted a residential compound in Baalbek, in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. [Nidal Solh/AFP]

Families displaced by Israeli strikes from southern Lebanon seek refuge at a school transformed into a shelter in Sidon. [Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP]

Families displaced by Israeli strikes from southern Lebanon seek refuge at a school transformed into a shelter in Sidon. [Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP]

An ambulance is parked near a sweeping blaze following Israeli bombardment on a solar farm and electricity generation facility in Lebanon's southern coastal city of Tyre. [Kawnat Haju/AFP]

An ambulance is parked near a sweeping blaze following Israeli bombardment on a solar farm and electricity generation facility in Lebanon's southern coastal city of Tyre. [Kawnat Haju/AFP]

A man passes by a destroyed car and shop on a commercial street that was hit by Israeli air strikes in Nabatiyeh town, south Lebanon. [Mohammed Zaatari/AP Photo]

A man passes by a destroyed car and shop on a commercial street that was hit by Israeli air strikes in Nabatiyeh town, south Lebanon. [Mohammed Zaatari/AP Photo]

Israel kills more than 100 Lebanese as it commands Beirut residents to flee https://aje.news/bauwid

06.03.2026 04:00 👍 158 🔁 150 💬 12 📌 10

These people are so stupid. I don’t care how many titles they put in front of their name.

06.03.2026 03:42 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

(in the US-aligned bloc, I mean).

06.03.2026 03:13 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0