Freedom for Iran
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This was Frankfurt yesterday
For nearly a year now, tens of thousands diaspora Iranians have gathered in cities such as Frankfurt, Munich, Washington, Paris, Toronto & Los Angeles to draw attention to their fight for freedom
0 violent attacks, 0 attacks on police, 0 vandalism, 0 looting.
Certain other groups out there protesting could learn a lesson or two about how to behave during demonstrations in the West.
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Iran threatens missile strikes on Europe if the US resumes attacks
The Islamic regime in Iran has explicitly threatened direct missile strikes on European soil if the United States uses its bases in Europe to attack Iran.
“Any act of sabotage or military aggression by the US and Israel would trigger an Iranian response, with missiles capable of reaching targets in Europe,” said Islamic regime parliament lawmaker Hossein-Ali Haji Deligani.
Islamic regime media named Germany and Italy as primary targets due to their concentration of U.S. bases. A published map highlighted 15 bases across Europe, including RAF Fairford in the UK and Bezmer Air Base in Bulgaria.
IRGC forces also declared that Iran will target critical subsea fiber-optic cables in the Strait of Hormuz to disrupt international internet connectivity.
Defense analysts note that Iran’s actual capacity to strike deep into Western Europe remains highly restricted. Most of its ballistic missiles are limited to a self-declared 2,000 km range, which is enough for parts of Southeastern Europe (Greece, Bulgaria, Romania) but short of Western or Northern Europe.
To hit distant targets like Diego Garcia earlier this year, Iran used heavily stripped-down warheads. Firing a limited payload over well-defended NATO airspace makes a successful deep strike into Europe very unlikely.
The more realistic risk is Iran firing at U.S. bases in Southeastern Europe, missing, and hitting civilian areas, which could trigger a NATO Article 5 response.
Picture: Front cover of the Iranian state-owned newspaper Hamshahri featuring a list of potential IRGC targets in the event of a new war with the US, November 4, 2026.
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More Trump Than Trump
When Trump defeated Biden, everyone knew he had been elected for a four-year term. But Trump’s landslide victory in 2024 set off a search among Republicans for someone who embodied Trumpism more than anyone else and could eventually succeed him.
JD Vance suddenly became the luckiest politician in America. By blindly following Trump and embracing his ideas, he positioned himself as the most deserving candidate to replace him.
Vance’s biggest problem is that if you take Trump’s name away from him, there is very little left to offer. His entire political identity is tied to Trump, and if Trump’s ideas for running America fail, Vance’s political future will collapse with them.
According to polling, the implementation of Trump’s agenda — from tariffs and immigration crackdowns to fuel prices and Middle East policy — has steadily eroded different parts of the Republican electoral coalition. But rather than acknowledge reality, Vance is doubling down. He wants voters to believe that the problem was never Trump’s ideas, but the failure to implement them properly.
These days, Vance is becoming more Trump than Trump himself. He is even willing to commit political suicide at Trump’s expense just to prove his loyalty. He puts forward some of the worst possible ideas on Iran — not because he is unaware of the consequences, but because he knows that if they fail, Trump and others will take the blame. He can then present himself as the man who stood for the genuine, uncompromising implementation of Trump’s ideas.
Vance’s hastily published post, just hours after the Republican electoral defeat, had one clear purpose: “I told you so, but nobody listened.”
In a text riddled with contradictions and flaws, he offered a superficial analysis of the situation, attempting to rewrite the events of the past two years and even distort the motivations and message of voters. As if the problem were not the administration’s performance, but its failure to follow the version of Trumpism he prescribes.
Another Republican defeat in the next election could spell the end of Vance’s political career. He knows perfectly well that, to save his own future, he must distance himself in advance from the consequences of the administration’s performance while continuing to portray himself as Trump’s most loyal defender.
In an administration where a populist like Vance is supposed to call all the shots, there is little point in having an experienced politician like Marco Rubio around. Perhaps the smartest move for Rubio would be to resign from the Cabinet.
Let Vance, Witkoff and Kushner have this administration. They can take responsibility for the ideas whose costs everyone else will end up paying.
از ترامپ، ترامپ‌تر
روزی که ترامپ بایدن را شکست داد، همه می‌دانستند که این پیروزی فقط یک مأموریت چهار‌ساله است. اما پیروزی بزرگ ترامپ در سال ۲۰۲۴، جمهوری‌خواهان را به جست‌وجوی کسی سوق داد که بیش از هر سیاستمدار دیگری به ترامپ شباهت داشته باشد.
جی‌دی ونس ناگهان به خوش‌شانس‌ترین سیاستمدار آمریکا تبدیل شد. او با تبعیت محض از ترامپ و تکرار ایده‌هایش، خود را شایسته‌ترین گزینه برای جانشینی او معرفی کرد.
بزرگ‌ترین مشکل ونس این است که اگر نام ترامپ را از او بگیریم، تقریباً هیچ چیزی برای عرضه ندارد. هویت سیاسی او تماماً به ترامپ گره خورده و اگر ایده‌های ترامپ در اداره آمریکا به شکست بینجامد، آینده سیاسی ونس هم به پایان خواهد رسید.
بر اساس نظرسنجی‌ها، اجرای ایده‌های ترامپ، از تعرفه‌ها و سخت‌گیری علیه مهاجران گرفته تا سیاست‌های مربوط به قیمت سوخت و خاورمیانه، به‌تدریج بخش‌های مختلف پایگاه رأی جمهوری‌خواهان را فرسوده کرده است. اما ونس به‌جای پذیرش واقعیت، با فرار به جلو می‌خواهد به رأی‌دهندگان بگوید مشکل نه در ایده‌های ترامپ، بلکه در اجرا نکردن درست آن‌ها بوده است.
ونس این روزها از خود ترامپ هم ترامپ‌تر شده است؛ تا جایی که حتی حاضر است برای اثبات وفاداری‌اش به ایده‌های ترامپ، علیه خود او هم دست به انتحار سیاسی بزند.
او بدترین ایده‌ها را در قبال جمهوری اسلامی مطرح می‌کند؛ نه به این دلیل که از پیامدهای آن‌ها بی‌خبر است، بلکه چون می‌داند در صورت شکست، مسئولیت آن بر دوش ترامپ و دیگران خواهد افتاد و خودش می‌تواند مدعی شود که نماینده اجرای واقعی و بدون انحراف ایده‌های ترامپ بوده است.
پست شتاب‌زده ونس، تنها ساعاتی پس از شکست انتخاباتی جمهوری‌خواهان، دقیقاً با همین هدف منتشر شد: «من از ابتدا گفته بودم، اما گوش نکردند.»
او در متنی پر از تناقض و ایراد، با تحلیلی سطحی از شرایط، تلاش کرد وقایع دو سال گذشته و حتی انگیزه و پیام رأی‌دهندگان را تحریف کند. گویی مسئله نه عملکرد دولت، بلکه فاصله گرفتن از نسخه‌ای است که او برای ترامپیسم تجویز می‌کند.
شکست جمهوری‌خواهان در انتخابات بعدی می‌تواند به معنای پایان حیات سیاسی ونس باشد. او به‌خوبی می‌داند که برای نجات آینده سیاسی‌اش، باید پیشاپیش خود را از نتایج عملکرد دولت جدا کند و در عین حال، وفادارترین مدافع ایده‌های ترامپ باقی بماند.
در دولتی که قرار است پوپولیستی مثل ونس همه‌کاره آن باشد، حضور سیاستمدار کارکشته‌ای مثل مارکو روبیو عملاً بی‌معنا خواهد بود. شاید عاقلانه‌ترین تصمیم برای روبیو، کناره‌گیری از این کابینه باشد.
این دولت بماند برای ونس، ویتکاف و کوشنر؛ همان‌هایی که قرار است هزینه ایده‌هایشان را دیگران بپردازند.
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Courage Is What Separates Leaders from the Rest in the Greatest Crisis of Our Time.
In the greatest crisis of modern history, those who endure are the ones who have the courage to stand their ground.
Going to war takes courage. Avoiding endless wars is a legitimate choice. But allowing fear of war to trap you in an endless state of neither war nor peace is far worse than fighting an actual war.
Iran’s regime leaders know they may not survive the next American strike. Yet they continue to declare their willingness to fight to drive America out of the Middle East and acquire nuclear weapons.
Meanwhile, JD Vance is afraid of fighting, apparently to avoid a few extra dollars at the gas pump. Even if the price is changing the rules governing the passage of American warships through the Strait of Hormuz. Even if it means allowing a terrorist regime to acquire nuclear weapons and missiles capable of reaching the United States.
In the end, it is the mindset of the leaders on both sides, not the sophistication of their weapons or the superiority of America’s naval forces, that will determine the outcome.
History is changed by leaders like Churchill, not by timid politicians who, in the middle of the greatest crisis of our time, are preoccupied with grocery bills and their weekend vacations.
The face of fear in the American administration was exposed the day JD Vance sat in the Oval Office and shouted at Zelensky, a man whose defiance against Russian aggression had helped shape the course of history, demanding to know why he wasn’t grateful enough to America.
Vance’s ideas, implemented by an incompetent negotiator like Steve Witkoff, have kept the world in a state of neither war nor peace for seven months. Meanwhile, the criminal rulers of the Islamic Republic have been attacking oil tankers with their missiles, while Vance and his associates desperately plead for negotiations to resume.
War requires courage. So do negotiations. So does making a deal.
JD Vance has shown remarkably little of it.
One of the things the data analysts on our side obsessed over was "composition"—whether the electorate looked close enough to 2024 for Republicans to win. And despite polls that showed a Democrat blowout, the data kept on telling us the same story: in some states turnout was merely OK, in other states it was downright amazing, and in no state was it catastrophic. There was a genuine sense of optimism on our team: our people were showing up.
So, I asked the smartest data guy I know, does that mean we're going to shock the world? "No," he told me. "We might do better than the polls suggest. But the data is telling us that a lot of Trump/Vance 2024 voters are pissed and planning to vote for the other guys. Our voters are turning out, but they may not vote for us."
Well, that looks prophetic now. Our voters did show up. In Florida, for example, the electorate was 9 points more Republican than Democrat, just a couple points worse than 2024. Undoubtedly there were places we could have done better on turnout. But the main problem is not turnout. The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026.
There will be a lot of infighting and arguing over what happened and why that is. One of the pollsters I really respect told me that our economic messaging wasn’t sharp enough down the stretch. I’m sure that’s true.
But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone.
Another pollster—one of the smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday we’d lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative going into Tuesday, but even I was shocked by this. In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were:
1) End the war
2) Focus on cost of living/inflation
3) Put America First
4) Change our relationship to Israel
Our voters showed up. And the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats. This is according to a pollster who nailed the results. While many spent Monday attacking Rachel Campos Duffy for calling for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, it turns out her political advice was sound. (She’s also a great person.)
In the next few months, there's going to be a lot of gaslighting. Expect to hear any number of establishment politicians say the solution to our woes is amnesty. I'm open to the idea that we should change enforcement—by focusing more on businesses that hire illegal labor, for instance. But anyone pushing amnesty is lying to you.
The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night.
If you'd like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that's at least honest.
But everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there.
I remain hopeful about our country. To the people who are pissed off and want to say, “I told you so”: you’re right, you did tell us so. Take that energy into electing Republicans who share your worldview. To the people who are just pissed at the results, you should be. Let’s take that anger and get back to the work of saving our country.
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Until the Western world understands that the Iranian regime and the IRGC are at the heart of the spread of Islamist extremism and terrorism, people will continue waking up to a new shock every day.
The West must sooner or later face the cost of bringing down the Islamic Republic. Otherwise, the day will come when this regime’s threat reaches their own doorsteps, and by then, it may be too late to act.
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چرا حمله هوایی حکومت را ساقط نکرد؟
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Persian-speakers in Trump’s administration: Send him the wave of reactions from Iranian people on social media. Let him see with his own eyes how easily he threw the social capital of an 90 million nation in the heart of the Middle East into the trash.
It took decades to find a society in a region plagued by Islamic radicalism that was this friendly toward America and Israel.
How cheaply this self-proclaimed “deal-maker” is selling it.
#POTUS
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Let’s finish off the Iranian regime
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For 47 years the regime in Iran has waged war on the US and its allies. Today, the regime is weak and the people are prepared to topple it. The right policy today can redefine the next century. I look forward to discussing tomorrow at the @politico Security Summit.
Prince Reza Pahlavi will speak with @DashaBurns at the @Politico Security Summit tomorrow. He will make the case that the world should stand with the Iranian people and the only guarantee of regional stability is to stay the course and end this regime.
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Tehran executes 29-year-old grad student accused of being CIA and Mossad spy trib.al/BYVUdDj
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For years, for your own interests, you turned a blind eye to the crimes of the Shiite Islamic regime!!???
Now that mourning has reached your alley, your voice has been heard!!
You saw that the Iranian people are deprived of the simplest civil rights!!
As long as the clerical regime exists, the people of the Middle East will not be satisfied.
Stand with the Iranian people for peace🙏✌️🇮🇷🤝🇦🇪
@_A_khalifa
@SultanAlQassemi
@mustafa_agha
@OmarSaifGhobash
@MansoorAbulhoul
@NouraAlKaabi
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His name is Erfan Shakourzadeh, a brilliant Master’s student in Aerospace Engineering at Iran University of Science and Technology, one of Iran’s top universities.
In just a few hours, the Islamic Republic plans to execute him.
His crime? “Cooperation with America and Israel.”
This is not an exception. This is Iran’s daily horror: young talents, engineers, students, systematically hanged on fabricated charges of “ties with the West.”
While President Trump negotiates with this regime and calls its leaders “more rational,” they are busy executing Iran’s best and brightest for the “crime” of supposedly talking to America.
Mr. President, do you see this?
Will you stay silent while they hang Erfan for the sin of “cooperating with America”?
Or will you speak out and use your power to stop this murder?
The world is watching.
#SaveErfanShakourzadeh
#POTUS
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Get this serial killer NOW!!
This disgusting terrorist has
slaughtered tens of thousands
of innocents Iranians and continues to take lives every single day
#Iran
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While Britain still refuses to designate the IRGC as a terrorist organisation, the Islamic Republic’s embassy in the UK has urged Iranians in Britain to register on a website whose clear purpose is to declare readiness to sacrifice their lives for the regime.
What do you think the tasks assigned by the Iranian regime to those who sign up will be?
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Never forget what the Iranian nation did in January 2026.
The regime must fall
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special message to Ayatollah @BBCWorld , @BBCNews , Ayatollah @Reuters , Ayatollah @SkyNews , Ayatollah @CNN , and other Ayatollahs!
#KingRezaPahlaviForIran
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مردان بزرگ، تاریخ را همین‌گونه می‌سازند.
رسانه‌ها و سیاستمداران غرب را همین‌گونه خطاب قرار دهید. نشان‌شان دهید که بی‌طرفی اخلاقی را کنار گذاشته‌اند و یادآوری کنید غربی‌ها که با معامله با تروریست‌ها و نادیده گرفتن مردم، تمام ارزش‌های غرب را به سخره گرفته‌اند.
