One of Ali Khamemei's final remarks to his followers shows how steadfast his belief in the Iranian Revolution remained to the end.
The crowd cries as he states:
"My life has little value. I have a disabled body. I have a little bit of dignity, which you yourself have given me.
I put all of this on the line.
I am ready to sacrifice everything for the sake of this revolution and for Islam
May all this be sacrificed for you."
"You are the owner of this revolution"
Collective mourning for Khamemei continues, social life in Iran continues despite the intense bombing campaign all around this religious spaces.
A crowd was seen crying at the mention of "May Allah protect the Leader" during a sermon. The common refrain, no longer needed reminded the followers of their steadfast leader's brutal assassination.
And because my comments have been full of this Hijab commentary for the past year I wanna remind folks where Khamemei stood on the issue.
According to Ali Khamemei wearing a Hajib or not, or wearing it well vs badly was NOT a sign of being Anti-Revolutionary or against the state.
It was a simple personal choice to him, he reminded his followers that they are talking about their daughters and sisters and that they should respect this simple fashion choices.
The more I read about Ali Khamemei the more it really seems like regardless of his politics earlier in life he seems like a moderate who many westerners would expect leaders to be able to negotiate with.
He's a revolutionary, no doubt, and after seeing how the US elites felt after Luigi I can well see why they were terrified of Khamemei and the extremely militarily diligent regime he oversaw.
But at this point, he's just giving Luigi in old age grandpa vibes you know.
I keep looking at Iranian media and am just in shock with how organized their government is despite an assassination and thousands of US bombings in only a few days.
Meanwhile the Americans government is a total clusterfuck.
There is NO support right now for US citizens stranded in West Asia.
Many commercial airports are closed and the US really should be operating its own flights to get stranded citizens out.
While I rag on the Trump admin I know for a fact Democrats would have started this war too, they just would have kept the government customer service office open while doing so.
How do I know Dems would attack Iran?
Bc Hillary Clinton repeatedly said she WOULD no matter the stage of development be willing to attack Iran if she were in power.
There's been debate if that remark is out of context but I think she meant it.
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/01/video-of-clinton-on-iran-taken-out-of-context/
Iranians are continuing to take to the internet to explain how the regime under both Ali Khamemei & Ruhollah Khomeini resisted the urge for Iran to develop its own chemical weapons during the war with Iraq.
Iraq, with the backing of the West, committed countless war crimes gassing civilians.
EVEN during those conditions Khomeini & Khamemei remained steadfast AGAINST developing and deploying weapons of mass destruction.
Followers of Ali Khamemei (PBUH) are posting clips of his final address.
Khamemei urges his follows to not surrender to America and to stay focus on defeating Zionism.
He knew he would not live past the start of the war but he says I wishes he could see the day when the Zionist occupation has been defeated.
#KhameneiAssassination #MartyrKhamemei #Khamenei #Iran #Israel #Zionism
Iranian media published these images of the destruction in Tehran.
In this video you can see extensive damage to residential structures with some completely flattened.
First responders gear up to search the rubble for survivors.
Professor of Middle Studies Narges Bajoghli warns that we could be seeing Israel enacting their "Dahiya doctrine" upon Tehran.
The is "Dahiya doctrine" just a fancy name carpet bombing civilians.
#Dahiyadoctrine #Tehran #Iran #Israel #NargesBajoghli #WarCrimes #netanyahu
DEVELOPING - Overnight Iranians posted this video of what they claim is an F15 of F35 shortly after it was hit by antiair fire. Two pilots can -just- be seen parachuting into the mountains near Tehran.
The problem for Israel+US with enacting the "Dahiya doctrine" is that they simply do not have air superiority yet.
According to Iranina reports they claim to have shot down around 30 US+Israeli attack drones like the MQ-9 Predator in addition to this manned jet.
Israeli OSINT accounts are already accepting the report as likely true but are claiming it was an American pilot shotdown and not an Israeli.
We don't have solid confirmation either way just yet, to my eyes it doesn't look like any jet Iran operates but there's still a chance it could turn out to be an Iranian jet which was shotdown.
Will update as I hear more.
In Lebanon Hezbollah has started releasing a stream of professionally edited videos depicting precision strikes on invading Israeli troops.
This video shows the defenders of Lebanon hitting an Israeli Merkava tank with a missile from position kilometers away.
#hezbollah #lebanon #ResistanceAxis #Israel #KhameneiAssassination
Hezbollah has been releasing extensive drone footage from their planning of strikes.
They regularly fly drones over Israeli installations to collect intelligence for missile strikes and videos like this from years ago still seem to be providing Hezbollah critical intelligence.
Israel and the US down play the fact that decapitating Hezbollah's leadership and even invading Lebanon has had little to no effect on the combat readiness.
While Iranians & the rest of the resistance axis is eager to show the civilian toll along side the military reality Israel is responding with censorship.
CNN anchors have begun noting what they can and can't show on air.
In this segment a CNN anchor says they can film incoming missile strikes because it could give away air defense positions which is well and good I suppose but that's just the tip of the iceberg of Israeli censor ship....
When CNN's Turkish langauge anchor Emrah Çakmak and cameraman Halil Kahraman were doing a live report from the streets of Tel Aviv they were detained by authorities while on air.
After the run in with Israeli cops CNN anchor Emrah Çakmak showed how the authorities covered all of his phone cameras with tamper-evident stickers.
Israeli officials have reportedly stopped MANY journalist and onlookers from filming scenes of Iranian strikes.
Even filming the aftermath the next day in civilian areas can land journalist in hot water with Israeli police.
When cenorship and bombing civilians doesn't work the US and Israel resort to directly threatening Iranian dignitaries.
This morning U.S. envoy to the UN Mike Waltz threatened Iran’s Ambassador to the United Nations Amir-Saeid Iravani:
“He should be careful with his words sitting on American so"
Protect that man!
#Iran #NYC #UN #MikeWaltz #AmirSaeidIravani #US #KhameneiAssassination
In other news I'd been wondering about @alissaazar perspective on the new regional conflict and am saddened to hear that the conflict is impacting people in our local journalism community.
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Israel issued evacuation orders for ALL of southern Lebanon. They continue to forcefully displace large amounts of people, destroying the land, and carry on endless murders. Israel never even stopped bombing Jnoub/ southern Lebanon since the supposed "ceasefire" and now they are attempting to destroy as much of the country as they can. Meanwhile the da3esh forces that many "leftists" in the west cheered on despite what many Syrians and SWANA minorities were saying and explaining are supporting Israel against Lebanon.
In the past 72 hours Iran has continued to pound targets throughout the middle east including within Israel.
Numerous reports over the weekend prove that Iran has been using ballastic missiles with cluster warheads which have been basically impossible for close in anti-aircraft weapons to shootdown once they split apart.
Important to note, Israel never signed the weapons ban on cluster munitions nor did Iran.
Today's kinda crazy for how I guess normal the Iran war seems for the region. Iranian DJ did a live stream earlier while bombs were falling in Tehran.
As strikes have intensified on Iran, the Iranians in-turn have continued to up their attacks on Israel. They've been clocking at least a dozen missile or drone strikes on Israeli targets most days.
Tonight Iran promised 3 hours of continuous ballistic missile strikes and delivered on that promise.
Tonight more missiles were equipped with cluster munitions. Strikes landed in Haifi, Tel Aviv & mil bases across the occupation.
#TelAviv #Haifa #Israel #Zionist #Iran #KhameneiAssassination #OilWar
The Iranians have been pushing their propaganda on multiple fronts.
On the sabre rattling side of the house Iran has been circulating this video of their under ground naval equipment.
A claim the US has been running with is that Iran can't possibly pose a threat to the straight of Hormuz if most of their large military ships are sunk.
But bru... they got thousands of missile boats, drones, ROVs & mines.
All in underground cities.
On the defense side, Iran has been showing a lot more about how they take down American MQ-9 Reaper drones.
The Iranians have built a "loitering munition", a drone that automatically flies a search pattern and manually or automatically finds and destroys US drones.
They claim dozens of MQ-9 downings now.
Overall Iran has an extremely impressive line up of missile technology and I'm not sure it's wise to think their missile boats and underground missile cities are out of commission.
Meanwhile the Israeli border war with Lebanon has seen continued precise drone and missile strikes launched by Hezbollah hitting valuable targets in Israel.
Today footage came out showing a missile striking an IOF comms station and first responders picking over the scrap
US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Dan Caine spoke to the press today and said Iran has made him respect their ability to fight.
He clear states that Iran's strategy is working and that the US military is working hard to "adapt" he of course claims that the Occupation Axis (Israel+US) can out adapt Iran... which remains to be seen.
The US has been forced to admit that as many as 150 US soldiers are currently counted as casualties with seven confirmed dead thus far.
Iran claims the US casualty number is closer to 500. They also have alluded to possibly taking some US personnel hostage a few days ago but have not yet provided proof.
Regardless, the US media currently has a LOT of questions about the deaths and injuries of American crusaders.
So if you listen to all the US officials they all say that the troops who didn't die are all doing just swell.
But judging by the interviews mentally and physically scarred US military members are giving from hospitals in the US I for one don't think those injured troops seem too fit for duty rn.
Dude man got hit on the 1st day of the war and STILL has shrapnel in his head.
That man is gonna be PTSD'd as motherfucker once(if) he's physically healed.
The Iranians have clearly laid out their plan. They WANT this to be a long term war.
General Masoud Akhtari of the IRGC explains their plan is to collapse the world economy until regional and worldwide support for the US' warmongering president evaporates.
The General predicts that point comes after a few weeks of oil being over $150 / barrel.
Iran is also notably very organized and thoughtful in their latest round of communications.
Iran's Foreign Policy Advisor Kamal Kharazi reinforced the message, that the US needs to be taught a lesson and to loose support.
CNN recently got reporter Frederik Pleitgen otg in Tehran and that team has been doing so really critical reporting directly speaking with Iranians.
#Kamal Kharazi #Tehran #Iran #FrederikPleitgen #CNN #KhameneiAssassination
Back on the home front... you know it's clear that Iran could be serious about escalating the situation with oil shipping should tankers attempt to run the blockade.
The typical military play is Iran sending mines. The US would counter with mine sweepers, a strategy that worked well in WWII.
Oh what's that? The US slated the middle east minesweepers for decomissioning AND they just made it back to a US port this week to get taken out of service?
https://www.slashgear.com/2096935/why-us-navy-avenger-class-minesweeper-pulled-middle-east/
So there might be a mine warfare situation in DAYS not weeks or months and the US tried and true mine sweepers are on the wrong side of the globe right now.
The US Navy is not without a solution.
Enter the littoral combat ship, the biggest boondoggle of weapons program run by the Navy in recent memory.
An untested ship that is best known for having a haul that spontaneously cracks apart.
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-navy-spent-billions-littoral-combat-ship
#MineSweeper #Iran #StraitOfHormuz #USNavy #LittoralCombatShip
Littoral combat ships were supposed to launch the Navy into the future. Instead they broke down across the globe and many of their weapons never worked. Now the Navy is getting rid of them. One is less than five years old.
So right about now.... I'm thinking the US really just does not have the cards for all the hell Iran is raising and will continue to raise.
BREAKING: An entire US KC-135 "Stratotanker" has crashed over Iraq
The entire six member crew is feared dead. This marks the fourth loss of a US plane.
This plane costs about $11k per hour to operate and the purchase price was $26M to $50M per aircraft.
#EpicFail - Yesterday Trump encouraged tankers to run the Iranian blockade.
This morning we were greeted by videos shot by the first tanker crew to take Trump's advice... showing the crew clinging to life rafts watching the smoking wreck of their ship.
Three ships have been struck by Iran in the past 36ish hours.
Iran says they're doing IR monitoring of engine heat for signs if any movement without their permission.
#Iran #StraitOfHormuz #Shipping #Oil #KhameneiAssassination #US #trump
The US base in Fujairah, UAE was seen being struck around 1am on March 11th, which has become routine.
Video filmed by sailors showed 4-6 US missile interceptors missing the incoming Iranian missile before it struck the base.
Costing a minimum of $16M in failed interceptors.
Rumours of THAAD missile defense systems being withdrawn from South Korea were confirmed this week by both South Korean and US media.
These billion dollar systems are being moved to better protect US assets near Iran to replace the depleted / destroyed systems originally tasked to the US Middle East strategy.
Back to what popped shit off... killing Khamenei.
I keep feeling as if the Khamenei who was sold to us in the western media isn't an accurate picture of the man.
I've found myself digging deeper to verify claims in Iranian propoganda and I keep finding it all to be true and well supported.
Ali Khamenei was naunaced & well read and. He had deep objections to America's treatment of Black ppl.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/23527515
#BlackMastodon #Khamenei #KhameneiAssassination #Iran #Writing #Novels #books
Ali Khamenei regularly talked about his favorite western books, Les Misérables, The Grapes of Wrath and Uncle Tom's cabin.
He told tactical thinkers in the Iranian regime to read Uncle Tom's cabin in particular to fully grasp how evil the US is.
When Khamenei said "this book [Uncle tom's cabin] still lives"... I don't think he meant that figuratily.
From all oh Khamenei's statements on Black Americans he clearly means it literally.
Another aspect of Khamenei is the "Death to America" chant which has been around since he was a child.
Khamenei frequently explained that even an a country like America exists and is likely continue existing. The part of America he wants to die is the arrogant imperialism and systematic racism applied inside and out of the country.
Khamenei's beef's were squarely with our leaders who oppressed his country and the people pulling the triggers, not avg citizens.
When listening to Ali Khamenei over the years his version of the concept of سیاست صدور انقلاب اسلامی ایران or Exporting the Islamic Revolution comes into contrast with his predecessor Khomeini.
From my read, Ali Khamenei, defined the revolution as opposing foreign control of governments like the Shah.
The Iranians young and old remember how the Shah got to and remained in power and see parallels all over the world with the same enemy. Namely the US and Zionist-Israel
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exporting_the_Islamic_Revolution
From Gaza & Lebanon to Sudan & Yemen militant revolutionaries are finding that the genocidal forces they EACH face have been massively weakened by the US+Israel attacking Iran.
In Gaza, Hamas was seen above ground holding a large military parade for recent recruits.
In Sudan the government reports that genocidal RSF troops have weakened due to missed supply drops from Israel and the UAE.
In Lebanon Hezbollah hit TWENTY plus IOF targets this week.
This morning oil market analysts are saying that Iran has shipped+sold more oil per day after they were attacked by the US+Israel than they did prior to being attacked.
Also seen reports that the first non-Iranian flagged vessel, a Chinese oil tanker heading for Pakistan, was let through the blockade.
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Abbas Araghchi, Iran's Foreign Minister, has been speaking to the media explaining why the country will NOT be negotiating a ceasefire with the US and Israel right now.
He says the US is only beginning to learn not to act in bad faith with their country and that there is more for the Israeli and US leaders to learn.
In other media appearances Abbas Araghchi confirms that multiple countries are negotiating directly with the Iranians to ensure their vessels are allowed through the blockade.
So far there are rumors that France and Italy may work directly with Iran.
The FM also notes that they are not actively blockading non-oil shipments and they already are committed to not harming ships that aren't serving the US and Israel.
BUT ships of all types and origins aren't taking the chance & want a clear plan.
With rumors swirling about European countries negotiating directly with Iran... Trump has been begging for EU and Asian countries to come bail out the US military.
Like... it seems the options for world leaders is do you:
1. Work with the US... and likely have missiles and drone boars buzzing all over while your ships run the blockade
OR
2. Talk to Iran like adults and promise not to help Israel assassinate anymore of their leaders right now. No need to run blockade.
So I imagine Trump's not going to like what German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius had to say about the request to send more ships:
"We did not start this war.
What does the world expect, what does Donald Trump expect from a handful or two handfuls of European frigates to achieve there in the Strait of Hormuz, which the powerful American Navy cannot manage alone?
It is not our war; we did not start it."
#DE #Germany #BorisPistorius #Iran #StraitOfHormuz #Shipping #Navy #Trump #EpicFail
I think its also interesting how the German Defense Minister clearly points out that even if he and the other military thinkers agreed that their ships could make a difference he would still have to follow German law and get formal approval from federal lawmakers.
Which I'm going out on a limb here.... but I'm gonna bet joining an already losing war that will destroy the economy is probably not a great move politically.
Tyler Simmons was a Black US military pilot who died serving in a unjust American war. He's among the first 13 US troops who have died.
Tyler's family isn't staying quite, they're instead taking to local media to point out that this war is not justified and has very little support from Black Americans.
#TylerSimmons #Iran #EpicFury #US #KhameneiAssassination #BlackMastodon #Veterans
Don't worry, that's just the American's friendly neighborhood C-RAM system successfully interdicting a munition heading towards their embassy in Bahgdad.
Don't worry, none of the Americans were hurt.
What's that? Is the falling shrapnel and late night Terminator inspired noise polution bad for the locals? Nah, they'll get used to it... "hearts and minds" baby.
So anyways, back to Black America's reaction to the unprompted war with Iran.
Chareleston White, a famous comedian, broke down the economic interests that Israel & the US have in controlling banking systems.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARAbAU1YpD4
#CharlestonRight #HustleReset #Trump #Israel #ACAB #IDF #IOF #Zionist #Palestine #NorthKorea #Iran #Russia #BRICS #Economics
Aside from Black podcasters I'm seeing a ton of Black folks posting about how dumb this war is.
In this video a US military recruiter approaches Black men in front of the local barbershop.
Our cameraman tells the recruiter where the nearest white neighorborhood is located and encourages him to leave our community the fuck alone. My man says "it's a cracker war. Not a melanated war".
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OSINT circles are buzzing with rumours of another KC-135 stratotanker air emergency.
Flight watchers noticed a KC135R acting strange just moments ago.
What's so strange about this flight is that they seemed to possibly be dumping fuel and flying holding patterns (maybe to troubleshoot an issue).
This flight spent over half of its 6 hour flight in a holding pattern over Ben Gurion airport.
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/61-0324#3ec53415
To be fair, it's not a "cracker war", it's a stupid war. Of, by and for the insanely stupid on the backs of the lower classes, no matter the color of their skin.
good for them.
Laugh in their faces. Let them know how ridiculous they are to even consider asking anyone to join this farcical attempt to distract from every other failure and the Epstein files.
The last people they should be asking are the people they've been lining up to be their next targets once they're done with the immigrants.
Friendly neighborhood CRAM goes brrr?
Kanzler Merz muss für seine Aussage, Israel erledige im Krieg gegen den Iran die "Drecksarbeit für uns alle", viel Kritik einstecken. Den CDU-Chef ficht das nicht an: "Wenn wir die Dinge nicht beim Namen benennen, übernehmen das die Falschen für uns", sagt er nun. Lobende Worte findet er für US-Präsident Trump.
Merz is a #Blackrock creature through and through, and will not act against the American oligarchy.
Pistorius, on the other hand, is from the Social Democrats, who are the coalition partners to Merz' Christian Democrats.
I am not particularly happy with how the Social Democrats have composed themselves in this coalition, but I do appreciate Pistorius drawing a clear line here.
@nullagent Anyone remember this classic?
Trump is a spoiled child whose parents cleaned up every mess he ever got into. He has no idea what consequences even mean.
Don't elect billionaire kids who are dumber than the neighbourhood Cocker spaniel.
@nullagent iirc, Iran has made public statements that the strait is not "closed" - they're just refusing to allow Isreal, the US & their allies use it.
So... this seems unsurprising?
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