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Image is of the damage caused by an Iranian Kheibar Shekan ballistic missile in Israel, causing dozens of injuries.


Now in our second week of the conflict, we have seen continuing damage to both Israel and Iran, as well as direct US intervention which nonetheless seems to have caused limited damage to Fordow and little damage to Iran's nuclear program. Regime change seems more elusive than ever, as even Iranians previously critical of the government now rally around it as they are attacked by two rabid imperialists at once. And Iran's government is tentatively considering a withdrawal, or at minimum a reconsideration, of their membership to the IAEA and the NPT. And, of course, the Strait of Hormuz is still a tool in their arsenal.

A day or so on from the strike on Fordow, we have so far seen basically no change in strategy from the Iranian military as they continue to strike Israel with small barrages of missiles. Military analysts argue furiously - is this a deliberate strategy of steady attrition on Israel, or indicative of immense material constraints on Iran? Are the hits by Israel on real targets, or are they decoys? Does Iran wish to develop a nuke, or are they still hesitating? Will Iran and Yemen strike at US warships and bases in response to the attack, or will they merely continue striking only Israel?

And perhaps most importantly - will this conflict end diplomatically due to a lack of appetite for an extended war (to wit: not a peace but a 20 year armistice) or with Israel forced into major concessions including an end to their genocide? Or even with a total military/societal collapse of either side?


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Israel-Palestine Conflict

If you have evidence of Israeli crimes and atrocities that you wish to preserve, there is a thread here in which to do so.

Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:

UNRWA reports on Israel's destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.

English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news.
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.

English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.

Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict

Sources:

Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it's just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists' side.

Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.

Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:

Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.

https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a 'propaganda tax', if you don't believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.

Pro-Ukraine Telegram Channels:

Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.


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[-] [email protected] 53 points 1 week ago

I think this is as good a time as any to share a fantastic Marxist analysis on the Islamic Republic of Iran, excerpted from Chapter 4 of "Why the World Needs China" by Kyle Ferrana, which is overall an incredibly brilliant book that has my full recommendation for everyone to check out.

CHAPTER FOUR

Bourgeois Anti-Imperialism

Chapter One identified the divisions in the global periphery between the comprador bourgeoisie who collaborate with an empire to extract resources from their own country, the national bourgeoisie who seek to retain these resources for their own exclusive benefit, and the lower bourgeoisie or petit bourgeoisie who aspire to join one of the other groups by attaining greater capital. Just as they did in Venezuela, the less prosperous bourgeois classes have a strong incentive to eliminate the restrictions on development that comprador rule enforces upon a neocolony. This chapter will explore their goals and limitations, their relationship with the other classes, and the nature of their conflict with the super-empire. […]

[…] The Iranian Revolution of 1978 is commonly oversimplified, often called the “Islamic” Revolution due to the theocratic system that eventually emerged. More fundamental to the Revolution’s development, however, was the ongoing class struggle. Under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi’s reign, the population of Iran had doubled, and the working class became the most numerous—particularly in Tehran and other urban areas, as many peasant sharecroppers, unable to purchase enough farmland to live off following the Shah’s land reform program in the early 1960s, migrated by necessity to the cities. Without their support, the popular movement would have been unable to overthrow the comprador Shah. Rather than ideology—religious or communist—the essential causes of the urban proletariat’s mass mobilizations were low wages, rising rents, severe income inequality, and the insufficiency of the Shah’s reforms. Workers began a massive strike wave in 1978, culminating in a general strike in October and November which paralyzed oil production; 35,000 oil workers had gone on strike demanding wage increases. The Resolution of the Ashura March of December 1978, which the New York Times reported was attended by “several million” protestors, demanded “the right of workers and peasants to the full benefit from the product of their labor.” The Shah fled the country the following month, never to return.

As a remnant of feudalism, the landholding clergy were quite naturally conservative, yet by 1979 it was a demographic inevitability that feudalism would never be restored as the prevailing mode of production in Iran. The millions of new city-dwellers could not return to the countryside even if they wanted to, and reversing land reform was politically impossible even for a figure of Ruhollah Khomeini’s considerable influence. However, decades of repression by the Shah’s secret police had severely diminished every potentially revolutionary organization (liberal and communist alike), leaving only the clerics relatively untouched (with the exception of Khomeini himself, who had been arrested and exiled). At the height of the Revolution, the clergy therefore found itself in command of a broad alliance of classes—everyone, really—that had mobilized against the Shah.

This alliance quickly destroyed the Iranian comprador class and redistributed much of its wealth. Many wealthy pro-Western business owners followed the Shah, or else fled after the Islamic Republic was officially declared by referendum in April 1979. That summer, the revolutionary government moved to expropriate their assets, as well as nationalize all private or foreign-owned banks, insurance companies, and large-scale industry, all without compensation. Between 1979 and 1980, the nominal minimum wage was tripled, and when the rural peasantry seized 800,000 hectares of farmland from large private landholdings, the government was either unwilling or unable to return the confiscated land to its former owners.

Nevertheless, once their common enemy had been eliminated, the alliance gave way to the class struggle between bourgeoisie and proletariat. While Khomeini’s government gave to workers with its left hand, it ruthlessly crushed their independent revolutionary leadership with its right. All Marxist parties were banned and their leaders arrested. Even the Tudeh Party, a Marxist-Leninist organization which had supported Khomeini, was eventually suppressed in 1983. Throughout the 1980s, the government executed several thousand political prisoners, including not just the Shah’s former secret policemen and loyal military officers, but members of the People’s Mujahedin of Iran (A militant organization that had attempted to overthrow the Islamic Republic, it joined the Iraqi side during the Iran-Iraq War, and has since become a willing tool of U.S. regime-change efforts), and many communists as well. Workers’ councils, which had seized factories and organized local proletarian resistance to the Shah, were gradually disbanded or replaced by Islamic Councils more loyal to the government. Meanwhile, Iran’s secular national legislature became dominated by the petit bourgeoisie. In A History of Modern Iran, Iranian-American historian Ervand Abrahamian writes: “the Majles, which had been a debating chamber for notables in the distant past and a club for the shah’s placemen in more recent years, was now filled with the propertied middle class. For example, more than 70 percent of the deputies in the First Islamic Majles [elected in 1980] came from that class. Their fathers included 63 clergymen, 69 farm owners, 39 shopkeepers, and 12 merchants.”

Today, there can be little doubt that the Iranian bourgeoisie has developed and holds state power with a grip that is stronger now than it has ever been. In 2006, the Islamic Republic’s constitution was amended to allow the privatization of 80% of shares of government businesses (excepting the National Iranian Oil Company and several other key state-owned entities). Though implemented at a slower pace than neoliberal shock therapy, privatization has nonetheless proceeded over the last two decades, even despite strikes and protests by the affected workers. Within a few privatizing the banking sector, including Bank Saderat Iran, one of the largest state-owned banks. According to the Tehran Times in 2014, hundreds of state-owned businesses had been privatized or were slated to be privatized; by 2017, the government had privatized over half the country’s power plants, and further planned to privatize at least 80% in total. By 2019, the government formally held only a minority share—which it pledged to sell entirely by 2021—in Iran Khodro and SAIPA, two of the largest domestic car manufacturers.

Poverty has declined considerably since the Revolution, recently aided in large part by substantial direct cash transfers from the government during the early 2010s; yet hard limits to this willingness to redistribute wealth have emerged. A combination of U.S. sanctions, declining oil prices, and the COVID-19 pandemic caused economic disaster in Iran during the latter part of the decade. GDP per capita plunged; in 2020, the World Bank downgraded Iran back to its “lower-middle income” classification, and despite the still-existing welfare state, inflation likely outpaced wage increases, according to analysis from Iran’s Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs. Yet Iran’s new rich went unharmed; while two decades of progress in reducing rural poverty were erased, the government’s priority during the crisis was to support the stock market with large infusions of cash from its sovereign wealth fund, in effect sustaining private fortunes with public money. […]

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy9xl4nrq8wo Talk of regime change resonates with Iranians fleeing across border

An Iranian father whose family is now living in Germany, spoke on condition that we hide his identity. Beside him, a younger woman was planning to embark on a long taxi drive with him, across steep mountain passes and narrow gorges, first to Armenia's capital, Yerevan, and then on to nearby Georgia. Two cats waited beside her in a basket in the shade.

"I would like to change the Iran regime. Everything is broken and damaged," said the man, adding that its end was "close."

He criticised others who, he claimed, complained constantly about their government but were not willing to endorse outside military intervention.

"My family… can die but it's war and for everything to change we have to pay something."

To sacrifice? I asked.

"Yes," he replied firmly, stressing that he welcomed America's decision to enter the conflict.

Please Presenald Trunt my people yearn for freedom

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NEWS — Senate R’s refusing Dem request for a bipartisan meeting with the parliamentarian on using current policy baseline to pay for tax cuts.

As far as I understand this, Republicans don't even want to have a vote to disregard the Senate Parliamentarian (as the Senate rules allow), but want to just pretend the Senate Parliamentarian doesn't exist. If this doesn't work, they will go with the vote thing anyway, or just fire the Parliamentarian. But in any case, pretending the Parliamentarian doesn't exist is the only correct thing to do. Maybe some day, a politician will do the same thing but in order to pass good legislation.

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[-] [email protected] 52 points 1 week ago

they were talking about regime change yesterday day i ain't buying the "it's time for peace thing".

im not a geopolitical analyst (thank god) but imo there's two possibilities:

  1. they're gonna keep violating the ceasefire and when iran responds trump can justify a full scale invasion to his base on the account of "they took away muh nobel peace prize".

  2. the more likely scenario, it's there to buy time for another surprise attack like the first day/launching a civil war. im not saying israel was in a worse position than iran, but the fact is that they were running out of interceptors. they believe (and unfortunately im inclined to believe as well) that they have done enough damage to iran's missile program to stop us from replenishing our missile stockpile, while they fill up their interceptors, re-establish bases and contacts inside iran and gather intel for another attack or even attempt an uprising.

there's already reports of light weapons being smuggled into iran and there's ongoing talks with shah's failson. climate change ain't making the weather any cooler and there's an eerie sense of anger hanging in the air. the last large scale protest was 3 years ago and looks like we have those every couple of years now.

islamic republic has failed to establish deterrence and now the only path forward is to both change domestic policy and root out corruption to appease the populace, and to get a nuclear weapon to establish real deterrence. and I'm sad to say but seeing our geriatric and libbed out leadership (with a huge portion of them being outright assets) i don't have high hopes. i hope im wrong but it looks like iran is on the path to become the next libya.

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European Workers Warn Against Cutting Social Spending for Defense Increases - Telesur English

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Governments must ensure that the wealthiest pay their fair share of taxes, the ETUC pointed out. On Wednesday, the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) warned that social budgets should not be affected by European leaders’ plans to increase defense spending, which are under discussion at the NATO summit.

The ETUC said social spending must be protected, while also voicing support for “coordinated and enhanced security policies that ensure Europe contributes to securing peace, the rule of law, human rights, and social progress at the international level.”

“EU funds originally intended for cohesion and recovery programs have already been redirected toward the defense sector,” the European unions said.

The announcement came during this week’s NATO summit in The Hague, Netherlands, where European leaders are discussing ways to raise defense and security spending to 5% of member states’ GDP. Most currently allocate between 1% and 2%.

Governments “must avoid increasing the financial burden on workers” and “ensure that the wealthiest pay their fair share of taxes,” the European unions pointed out.

ETUC Secretary General Esther Lynch said the lack of investment in public services will leave Europe unprepared for the challenges it faces.

“The EU must stop draining already insufficient social funds, and governments must not make workers, retirees, or people with disabilities pay the price for unrealistic targets they have set,” she said, calling for safeguards to ensure that the rise in public defense spending does not “simply enrich shareholders and CEOs of weapons manufacturers.”

“Funding must be tied to social conditions that guarantee workers in the sector are covered by collective agreements ensuring fair wages, working conditions, and training,” Lynch concluded.

[-] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago

I have a question regarding the wests ultimate goals in Iran and how they don't really make much sense in regards to regional and worldwide safety from nuclear threats.

Let's say that Iran hadn't evacuated their 60% enriched stockpile from Fordow, and these strikes were a complete success. There is now half a ton of enriched uranium buried at the site.

And let's also say that a successful decapitation strike occurs. Iran is thrown into civil war with many factions. Some have extreme ideologies, maybe more extreme than the regime ever was.

Now obviously this would not result in a nuclear weapon, assuming the country is fractured and unstable. But whoever ends up controlling the fordow site now just needs to do a bit of excavation and we are looking at material to make dozens of dirty bombs, potentially falling into the hands of a group as extreme as ISIS. How is burying half a ton of nuclear material and destabilizing the country at all going to lead to safety for the world?

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Dem Fascist (Senator Kirsten Gillibrand) meltdown over Zohran;

https://x.com/barbarismcrit/status/1938309709842550831

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IAEA chief Grossi gave an interview on French radio today, link here. What I find most interesting is this statement:

Yes, and the knowledge we have of the facilities and capabilities, for example. I'll give you an example: Fordow, the major underground facility that everyone's talking about. It's almost like a movie script. We've seen the images of the perforations from these high-penetration bombs. Obviously, we can't assess the degree of damage. But given the power of these devices and the technical characteristics of a centrifuge, we already know that these centrifuges are no longer operational, because they are fairly precise machines: there are rotors, the vibrations have completely destroyed them. There couldn't have been any nonsense about significant physical damage. So, we can draw a fairly precise technical conclusion. I know the Fordo facility. It's a network of tunnels where different types of activities took place. I can also tell you that what we saw in the images and analyzed more or less corresponds to the enrichment hall.

So that's all the centrifuges at both Fordow and Natanz gone according to the IAEA. Over 15 000 of them were in active operation, 13 000 at Natanz and 2000 at Fordow, with Fordow being especially costly as the advanced IR-6 centrifuges were located there. So the blast pressure and overpressure through the ventilation shafts directly into the enrichment halls destroyed the centrifuges, according to Grossi. Also pretty clear why Iran no longer want to co operate with the IAEA.

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ALL THE COLLABORATORS OF IMPERIALISM HAVE UNITED AGAINST IRAN statement by Anti-Imperialist Front

Netanyahu says: Revolt,

PJAK says: Revolt,

Abdullah Öcalan says: Revolt,

Reza Pahlavi’s son says: Revolt,

IMPERIALISM TELLS IRAN: Either Submit, or Be Divided, or Be Destroyed

The goal? Leaving no centre of resistance in the Middle East.

The U.S. Imperialist Program: All forces resisting imperialism will be crushed: Iran, Lebanon (Hezbollah), Yemen, Palestine

The U.S. bully says: All resistance forces will be crushed.

Israeli PM Netanyahu called on Iranians: “Rise up to overthrow the regime; we are behind you.”

Reza Pahlavi, son of the ousted Shah, living in the U.S., called for “regime change in Iran. “Democracy for Iran. Our time is now… the only solution is for this regime to go.”

PJAK: (Partiya Jiyana Azad a Kurdistanê, which translates to the Kurdistan Free Life Party): “The democratic struggle of the people and the ‘Jin, Jiyan, Azadî’ revolution will bring freedom to Iran.” They called for an uprising in the name of “self-governance” and a democratic society.

DEM Party – Tuncer Bakırhan (on Iran): “The current ground actually invites interventions.”

EU imperialism: “Israel has the right to defend itself,” “Iran should not respond.”

Kurdish nationalists, along with Israel and the U.S., launched a mobilization to invade Iran. For its operation against Iran, the U.S. is using Israel and Kurdish Nationalists. The U.S. has united its collaborators in the region. The goal is for these forces to cooperate in its operations. Israel’s attack on Iran happened within this framework. Israel, the U.S., and Kurdish nationalists are all saying: RISE UP! And they are working for the same goal: Regime change in Iran. And the slogan repeated by the Kurdish nationalists in line with imperialism is: “Jin, Jiyan, Azadî!”

PJAK: Jin, Jiyan, Azadî

Netanyahu: Women, Life, Freedom!

Reza Pahlavi: Women, Life, Freedom!

Imperialism says: Submit, do not resist.

And Former head of the self-liqudified PKK Öcalan writes: “Iran will either undergo a radical transformation or… be fragmented.”…“But it cannot continue this existence against capitalist modernity and global capitalism much longer. It will either undergo a deep transformation (which is difficult in terms of power and state; becoming a liberal nation-state means the collapse of the current Islamic state model) or be fragmented and take its place in history.”

So, he supports the fragmentation of Iran. That’s the U.S. “divide and rule” policy.

They divided Syria. They split Yugoslavia into 8 states. That’s how imperialism rules.

All U.S. doctrines and strategies are world domination projects. They are plans for occupying and re-colonizing countries. Their goal: to crush revolutionary, anti-imperialist forces and people’s liberation struggles. Therefore, we are witnessing this illegitimate and unlawful attack on Iran. And therefore, we are by the side of Iran and Iranian People.

Resistance is the only way to defeat imperialist aggression.

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[-] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago

Israel has closed its airspace until further notice.

-Telegram (DDGeopolitics)

[-] [email protected] 51 points 2 weeks ago

Having lived in Qatar and knowing many people there, kind of insane to see first hand accounts and videos of the missiles.

Mashallah. I support the Islamic Republic against the US and Zionist imperialists.

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Juan Shaihdo has just declared himself interim president of Iran

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🔴 Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine: —

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) praises the Iranian operation “Tidings of Victory,” which targeted American military bases as a legitimate response to the blatant U.S. attack on the nuclear facilities of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

It is Iran’s sovereign right, as an independent state, to defend its land, people, and resources, and to respond to aggression by targeting American and zionist bases wherever they may be. This right is guaranteed by international law and the United Nations Charter.

This response represents a significant step forward in breaking the U.S.-zionist hegemony and deterrence in the region.

The heavy missiles of the Tidings of Victory that pounded American bases in the Gulf reflect a qualitative development in the balance of deterrence and confirm that Iran possesses both the will and the capacity to respond. Iran will not allow the American-zionist enemy to dictate the terms or arena of confrontation.

All the American threats and warnings issued in recent days failed to dissuade Tehran from exercising its sovereign right to respond. This should serve as motivation for all the forces of the nation and the free people of the world to strengthen the front of resistance and enhance coordination among the factions in confronting this dual American-zionist aggression.

As we affirm our full support for the Islamic Republic of Iran in its just battle against U.S.-zionist arrogance, we call on all peoples and their living forces to clearly express their rejection of the aggression and to stand by Iran and the resistance in the battle to defend sovereignty and dignity.

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Central Media Department June 23, 2025

https://t.me/PalestineResist/79398

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Looks like Israel have responded by launching a symbolic airstrike targeting a radar in Tehran.

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🚨🇮🇱 Channel 12: Israel Braces for Major Iranian Response Tonight — Home Front Command Maintains High Alert ⚠️🛡️

https://bsky.app/profile/fintwitter.bsky.social/post/3lscakoacv22q

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Fire erupts at the World Heart Hotel in the Iraqi city of Baghdad.

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Does anyone here know the Iranian born western academic Vali Nasr? He wrote "The Shia Revival" a while back and also a book titled "The Rise of Islamic Capitalism: Why the New Muslim Middle Class Is the Key to Defeating Extremism" (just so you know where he stands).

Anyway he put out a book written right before the Assad government fell called "Iran's Grand Strategy: A Political History", it's what it says on the tin. I think for anyone confused about why the fuck Iran does what it does and what its leaders think, usually in their own terms and not the author's, this is a good read.

But before reading just listen to that episode of citations-needed about the terms "proxy" and "backed" because the author views Iran's "Forward Defense" strategy of supporting these organizations as reprehensible, while no doubt he would not say the same about whatever NGOs the US literally funds. Despite that, it's not too axe-grindish a read I think he did a good job of relaying what the hardliners and reformists believe and why, and any sensible reader will read this and note how in plenty of matters the hardliners are correct.

There's lots of good stuff about Khamenei too, like how he was influenced by new left theories of anti-imperialism and dependency theory. Also explains why Iran for a long time (and even until today) is very reluctant to join a Russia-China axis (the iranian foreign minister literally has "neither east nor west" on its entrance)

At the end he puts out a warning to the regime that basically there's a chasm forming between its commitment to its strategies for resisting the united states as a means of becoming a regional power and the wishes of many iranians to adopt a more """""pragmatic""""" approach (like nuclear negotiations). This was obviously all before the recent missile lobbing war so I hope that chasm as been reduced in favor of the regime.

It's on the audiobook torrent site too

EDIT: Found the guy's twitter and he seems to understand that Iran is not just going to return to the negotiating table after one happens, and it may have only hardened Khamenei's already incredibly hard will to resist the US

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THE US EMBASSY in Dublin is tightening its visa requirements, saying that future applicants looking to visit the country will be required to divulge “all social media usernames or handles of every platform they have used from the last five years” on their visa application form.

The embassy also said that it wants people to set their social media profiles to public, reiterating a move announced last week by the US State Department.

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Russian forces liberated eight more settlements over the past week (Novaya Kruglyakovka and Petrovskoye in Kharkov oblast; and Dyleyevka, Novosergeyevka, Zaporozhye, Perebudova, Shevchenko and Yalta in the Donetsk People’s Republic): https://tass.com/politics/1982135

SouthFront has another big collection of recent Russian combat footage: https://southfront.press/summary-of-russian-combat-footage-from-june-27-2025/

A Russian missile strike destroyed a Kiev regime ammunition depot (video): https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/06/27/1474304.html

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