A senior @FDD adviser to Pahlavi is rebranding a US illegal invasion of Iran as “America First”, pitching $1T in oil revenues for US investors while listing Iran’s major refineries as “possible targets” You can’t bomb a country’s infrastructure and market it as an opportunity!

“The problem with replacing the regime is the insurgency that comes later.” They’re telling you very loudly and clearly that their plan is to let some other sucker deal with that problem.

Samson Option

A great suggestion: “A law should be passed requiring every member of Iranian diaspora who supports military action to immediately return to Iran once military hostilities commence.” I doubt if even 1% of the diaspora would be supportive of military intervention then!

Why are we going to war with Iran again? Could someone please ask the president?

"As long as U.S. policymakers continue to assess Iran primarily through a Western political lens... not fully account[ing] for [🇮🇷s] ideological legitimacy, revolutionary identity, & deterrence psychology then confrontation becomes less a policy choice and more a matter of time."

They chanted for Khomeini too. The outside world mustn’t mechanically elevate whoever appears most amplified in the moment. The Iranian govt has crushed organic domestic opposition for years. When that space gets hollowed out, figures amplified on social media or satellite networks beamed into Iran inevitably fill the vacuum— as Khomeini once did via radio/tapes in the lead-up to 1979. That doesn’t mean they reflect a durable or broadly representative political consensus. Reactionary moments don’t automatically justify rallying behind a specific figure. Let’s learn from history and not repeat it.

Witkoff on Iran: The president is curious as to why -- I don’t want to use the word capitulated but why they haven't capitulated. Why under this pressure with the amount of naval power over there, why they haven't come to us and said we profess we don't want a weapon…

I’ve been called many things, today, apparently, a communist So in the spirit of that title, I’ll honour Missak Manouchian, Armenian poet, communist activist, and French Resistance leader and hero who saved many Jews during World War II He now rests in the Panthéon in Paris.

Graham: Ignore advisors, ignore the vast majority of Americans, ignore the Constitution, ignore international law, just bomb Iran and do whatever Israel wants. Really in tune with the needs of his constituents in South Carolina.

Bring all of the US troops home… And no U.S. troops will die for Israel. They should be defending America and not used for the service of any other nation.

“The opening assault, which if authorized could come within days, would target a few military or government sites.” wsj.com/world/middle-east/tr…

What’s striking about these continuing leaks to the press - each one with more operational detail - is the obvious question: why telegraph an attack in advance? There were no such warnings prior to the June 2025 strikes. This doesn’t mean there won’t be some form of military action. But you don’t normally signal that figures like Khamenei, his son Mojtaba, or senior IRGC leaders could be targets. Israel was able to decapitate the top tier of the IRGC last June precisely because the other side didn’t see it coming. Which suggests these leaks look less like operational preparation and more like calibrated pressure - intense psy-ops. The White House appears to be exploiting internal divisions within Tehran’s leadership, trying to erode the belief that the regime can simply ride out the storm and avoid major concessions. This kind of messaging forces decision-makers in Tehran into a fraught internal debate. Some in the ruling elite will insist Trump is bluffing. Others will ask: What if he isn’t? The goal is to inject enough uncertainty that Iran concedes as much as possible at the bargaining table. If diplomacy stalls, the logic becomes sequential escalation: strike, then ask “Are you ready now?” If not, strike again. Rinse and repeat - until the pressure produces movement. That’s broadly consistent with recent reporting that Washington is considering limited strikes intended to coerce concessions. The danger, of course, is overshoot: excessive kinetic force could destabilize the regime to the point that no credible negotiating partner remains. As I argued in this recent piece [geopoliticalfutures.com/iran…], the military option - borrowing the baseline logic of the Venezuela model - isn’t necessarily about regime change, but about selective coercion: targeting the actors blocking a deal while empowering those prepared to negotiate. But pulling off this strategy demands razor‑sharp intelligence - and the capability to calibrate strikes with surgical precision to shape a precise political outcome.

This is why Iran has been around for 5000-7000 years: it is a freaking layer-after-layer-after-layer fortress controlling entire Gulf of Hormuz. It is probably the most difficult country in the world in case of war. PEACE IS THE WAY 🙏

82 years ago today… In memory of Missak Manouchian, Armenian poet, activist, and leader in the French Resistance during the Second World War. He is remembered as a hero of the Resistance and now rests in the Panthéon in Paris.

There is zero evidence, zero, that Iran is trying to "obliterate our country" with nuclear weapons. There is a lot of evidence that Iran wants a nuclear deterrent because Israel and America are constantly threatening to depose its government.

The American public is instinctively anti-war, so when you ask our leaders why we're going to war they just admit outright they don't care what the public thinks

He’s trying to convince his audience that the illegal war against Iran is the right path, not through civilised debate, but with declarations like: “Your moral compass is broken.” “We know the truth. You don’t.”

Iran has done nothing to the US I feel like I went back to 2003 in a time machine It's Iraq and "weapons of mass destruction" all over again This is about what one country wants, and that's Israel

BREAKING: US officials say hundreds of military personnel at base in Qatar set to be relocated amid possible strike on Iran, according to ABC News report.