WaPo Laments Loss Of News From Iran Which Is Not From Iran
Here is a funny incident in which a mainstream media headline is debunked by the sub-headline following it.
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U.S. foreign aid cuts threaten to choke off information from Iran (archived) - Washington Post
The reduction in funding for Iranian groups, based largely outside Iran, is affecting the work of human rights monitors, news outlets and civic activists.
The piece laments that certain propaganda groups run by Iranian exiles have, under the Trump administration, lost the funds they need to run propaganda campaigns against Iran.
The cut-off of U.S. funds for these groups does not choke off information from Iran. There is plenty out there from the Iranian government as well as from people of all kind who are living in Iran. What is choked off is the distribution of highly selected (or even made up) (dis-)information by anti-Iranian groups in London or Los Angeles.
The piece itself admits this:
The organizations supported by the United States are largely based outside Iran and fall under the umbrella of “democracy promotion.” They include news organizations, programs supporting civil society and monitors collecting information on human rights abuses.Most of the U.S. support for these groups comes from the State Department’s Near East Regional Democracy fund, known by the acronym NERD, which set up in the aftermath of the 2009 protests by Iranians against their government. In 2024, the Biden administration requested $65 million for NERD, including at least $16.75 million for internet freedom, according to the Congressional Research Service.
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Most organizations that receive U.S. support operate entirely outside Iran. “Most of their work was collecting the statistics and data from other organizations. They don’t have their own sources inside Iran,” said Arsalan Yarahmadi, a founder of the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, one of the most prominent Iranian human rights organizations, which operates with a network of sources inside the country. He said his group does not get U.S. funding.Yarahmadi said some of the groups that receive U.S. funding do important work but others do little. “Some, all they have is an Instagram page,” he said.
Arsalan Yarahmadi is an Iranian of Kurdish heritage who has left Iran eight years ago and now lives in Erbil in the Kurdish region of Iraq. He seems to dislike the U.S. financed competition to his own propaganda outlet. His Hengaw organization is registered in Norway. Its website gives no hint on who finances it.
The WaPo writer, Susannah George, also laments that the lack of information from outside Iran is effecting the work of "news outlets" which write about Iran.
Is she admitting that part of her job as a Washington Post writer in the Middle East is to copy-paste the press releases by anti-Iranian groups which were financed by the U.S. government? How else could one interpret that?
Posted by b on March 7, 2025 at 16:44 UTC | Permalink
I love the smell of fundings for fifth column being cut in the morning
Posted by: Cansado | Mar 7 2025 17:05 utc | 2
Clown World can't help itself...It betrays the truth even with its lies....
Posted by: pyrrhus | Mar 7 2025 17:06 utc | 3
Were the editors puzzled as to how to justify the semi-legal impoundment of funds, even to the point of admitting this?
Or did they think they were tacitly explaining how this funding was actually good, in their pro-imperialist eyes?
Perhaps it would take supernatural powers to decide?
Maybe OT, but this post is about Iran, so pasting this from another thread:
Trump cultist claims of Trump the peacenik refuted from the horse's ass: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/were-prepared-us-on-chinas-ready-for-any-type-of-war-warning-as-donald-trump-tariff-row-escalates/articleshow/118747024.cmsPRC does not pose a military threat to the US. Its existence poses a threat to the financial empire of the US but that's not the same thing at all. Nonetheless Hegseth mouthpiece for his God breathes fire in defense of that empire. Peace through strength? That's a warmongers cliche. Abolishing nuclear weapons, peace through disarmament, is far more sensible, and decent.
Posted by: steven t johnson | Mar 7 2025 17:08 utc | 4
I think they'll have to train an anti-iran AI to just invent the new stuff up.
Much cheaper and same trash.
Posted by: Newbie | Mar 7 2025 17:13 utc | 5
We are living in a post truth era.
The only practical way I know to combat lies is to ignore them - as in avoid them.
I am pretty sure that political leaders do not wallow in all this excrement.
Posted by: jared | Mar 7 2025 17:26 utc | 6
MSM are a bunch of morons circle-jerking in an echo-chamber, they don't even let free trolls enters like in the Bar , only the ones on their payroll.
Posted by: Savonarole | Mar 7 2025 17:28 utc | 7
Here in Tehr-angeles, I always wonder if the kindly old Iranian guys I run into here and there have some crazy SAVAK past. Diaspora communities are always interesting.
Posted by: lex talionis | Mar 7 2025 17:34 utc | 8
What it looks like is that hostility directed toward Iran is an apparently unnecessary favor to Israel and does not serve our overall interests.
Posted by: Jmaas | Mar 7 2025 17:02 utc | 1
Israel serves no interests but its own. Too bad we don't have an American President with the balls to rule by executive order and BAN ALL DUAL CITIZENS serving in Federal, State, or Local governments in America. Immediately. Out the door. Gone.
Stop sending Israel munitions and money, if you want peace. Let Israel stand on their own. Without US.
Posted by: Nooneuknow | Mar 7 2025 17:39 utc | 9
It is a joy to see so many imperial-tools get their funding cut off, and get exposed for the lying, traitorous, oligarch-serving PoS that they are. It is akin to the 1970s congressional investigations which showed so much of the media, including many "progressives", were simply propagandist tools funded by the state.
Posted by: Roger Boyd | Mar 7 2025 17:40 utc | 10
Brilliant article!
Soooo funny i almost had to change the battery in my pacemaker.
Posted by: Merkin Scot | Mar 7 2025 17:46 utc | 11
WaPo and other propaganda organs are beginning to go through withdrawal, I guess, for easy to cut-and-paste BS from "dissident" groups outside Iran. They learned nothing from their Iraq War debacle except that there is no penalty and lots of reward for lying. They were shown and even, in some cases, admitted to the lies they told that most showed their fundamental dishonesty.
Instead of reforming and attempting to move even a little towards journalism they continue to make us mistrust anything they report--if you notice, however, there is far more "opinion" pieces in the news in the MSM so they seem to have given up actually reporting about events in a way they supposedly learned in school.
Thankfully, most of us have found other ways of finding the truth of any situation.
Posted by: Chris Cosmos | Mar 7 2025 17:49 utc | 12
"...Ramyar Hassani, spokesman for the Norway- based Hengaw Organisation for Human Rights..."
....the-herald-on-sunday/20221127...etc.
https://m.jpost.com/author/ramyar-hassani
Posted by: Ornot | Mar 7 2025 17:57 utc | 13
Supreme Court denied government's temporary freeze on USAID funding. Still ongoing.
Posted by: Thurl | Mar 7 2025 17:59 utc | 14
I am reminded of the story of Nayirah al-Ṣabaḥ and the incubator babies during the Iraq war. (pardon the Wikipedia link)
It doesn't seem to have harmed Hill and Knowlton, the PR firm that helped out with the exercise. I think they did it out of the LA office.
Posted by: lex talionis | Mar 7 2025 18:01 utc | 15
Iran is not the only example of this. The idea of having exiled dissidents conjure up "inside information" from their supposed contacts in the old country is so obviously prone to abuse that it smacks of deliberate corruption. Since it's from super-duper secret sources it can never be corroborated.
How long will their funding last if they don't provide "information" in line with what the government of the day wants?
So is cutting the funding now mean there is some fundamental change or is that the fig leaf is judged to be an unnecessary expense and encumberance? I'd bet on the latter.
Posted by: Billb | Mar 7 2025 18:09 utc | 16
Is she admitting.. How else could one interpret that?
The pretense of rational discourse is going away and the naked agendas are now standing in it's place.
Posted by: team10tim | Mar 7 2025 18:12 utc | 17
"Is she admitting that part of her job as a Washington Post writer in the Middle East is to copy-paste the press releases by anti-Iranian groups which were financed by the U.S. government?"
This is literally the model of the modern MSM reporter: cultivate the best sources of pre-thought and pre-written public relations and narrative management exercise that meets the organization's editorial thrust and publish. Rinse and repeat and occasionally win a press award.
Posted by: Caliman | Mar 7 2025 18:14 utc | 18
Thanks for the post b.
People talk about TDS. I think IDS (Iran derangement syndrome) has been stronger, and on-going much longer than TDS. TDS, by comparison is a recent phenomenon. People ask: what do mean they (Iranians) are not crushed yet? We've had 45 years to do it. Why?
Before getting banned, we used to have a poster here, at the bar, with a severe case of IDS. His entire being was devoted to war with Iran. He developed many scenarios as to how such a war would start, and be fought. He probably still does, on his substack. I don't care to look.
Re funding: is the funding for Iran International being cut (usaid?) ? That would be a major signal in change in policy.
Posted by: Sakineh Bagoom | Mar 7 2025 18:14 utc | 19
Posted by: Thurl | Mar 7 2025 17:59 utc | 14
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With the uncertainty and funding disruption, countries will more easily be able to identify who is bought and paid for inside of a country.
5th columnists everywhere are shook right now. Hopefully some of them are in fear for their lives.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 7 2025 18:17 utc | 20
In London pro-Palestine protests, some of the pro-Israeli counter-demonstrators I have seen appear to belong to Iranian exile groups. I will certainly cry a river if their funding is endangered... :)
Posted by: Waldorf | Mar 7 2025 18:18 utc | 21
U.S. foreign aid cuts threaten to choke off information on US - Washington Pissed
The reduction in funding for Zionist groups, based largely outside the US, is affecting the work of human rights abusers, propaganda merchants and civilian agents.
The organizations supported by the United States are largely based outside US and fall under the umbrella of “democracy promotion.” They include media disinformation, programs supporting civil unrest and the collection of intelligence information on civilian activity.
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Posted by: Ornot | Mar 7 2025 18:18 utc | 22
8 - A particularly obnoxious traffic warden in London I encountered was Lebanese by origin. Apparently he was a former member of the South Lebanon Army, Israeli collaborators. When Hezbollah rolled them up he sought asylum in England.
Posted by: Waldorf | Mar 7 2025 18:23 utc | 23
We don’t hear much these days from the Syrian Human Rights Observatory or whatever it was called, which turned out to be one bloke working out of a West Midlands council house.
Probably had his Universal Credit stopped for not filling out his job search properly...
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Mar 7 2025 18:45 utc | 24
OVER 140 KILLED IN MULTIPLE MASSACRES AS REBELLION BREAKS OUT ON SYRIAN COAST
Posted by: Apollyon | Mar 7 2025 18:50 utc | 25
It's shameful that WaPo ignores to talk about the dire realities faced by the Americans. Latest stats show there are now more than 100 million Americans relying on food stamps for survival. This is what DJT's MAGA is all about.
Posted by: pepe | Mar 7 2025 18:52 utc | 26
@ jared #6 re: post truth era
Yes, a VERY good argument can be made that every moment spent following current events is completely wasted.
Posted by: chunga | Mar 7 2025 18:58 utc | 27
@ pepe | Mar 7 2025 18:52 utc | 26
Good news! Soon there will be no Americans relying on food stamps for survival… 🙄
Posted by: malenkov | Mar 7 2025 19:03 utc | 28
We don’t hear much these days from the Syrian Human Rights Observatory or whatever it was called, which turned out to be one bloke working out of a West Midlands council house.
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Mar 7 2025 18:45 utc | 24
SOHR is still going. There's a citation in the Southfront link in 25.
Posted by: laguerre | Mar 7 2025 19:03 utc | 29
Thank you, b! This excellent observation is one that to me coincides with my own attempts, feeble at best, to examine and explain the subject of tariffs as understood and now in use by President Trump. I am still working through a biography of President McKinley in which the author explains in detail McKinley's understanding of how tariffs work (I have yet to read the section devoted to McKinley's early experience in Congress). Later, just before his assassination here is what the biographer writes:
... On another night, the President talked about the tariff. He remarked that it would be "intensely amusing" to have the issue revived, but any tariff revision would have to be done by the Republicans. The Democrats had "made a mess of it." All they had ever done on the subject, McKinley said, was display "economic ignorance."[In the Days of McKinley, Margaret Leech]
This brings me back to segments of the text I had skipped (It's a hefty tome). Over the weekend, maybe I can familiarize myself with how McKinley's understanding differed from that of the Democrats. It involves a term described as 'reciprocity treaties'. I suspect that is what Trump has in mind, beginning with Canada and Mexico. Here is a link to McKinley's final speech for those interested:
https://ia801207.us.archive.org/16/items/lastspeechofwill01mcki/lastspeechofwill01mcki.pdf
Posted by: juliania | Mar 7 2025 19:09 utc | 30
Posted by: pepe | Mar 7 2025 18:52 utc | 26 No, MAGA is about cutting food stamps. Points for lying to serve your God, though.
Posted by: steven t johnson | Mar 7 2025 19:27 utc | 31
Good catch, b!
The funniest thing about about this eerily inept WaPo story isn't about WaPo at all.
It's about Trump's Special Rapporture and Right Hand Man - Saint Elon Musk. Elon is the Angel who, on circa 27/5/2018, Tweeted "Who do you think owns the Press? Hello."
Below the message was a technicolor graphic listing 12 well-known News outlets and the Jews who own, run and micro-manage each outlet.
So from that date onward there is no excuse for any News Consumer to wonder why the News in the MSM is mostly tosh, balderdash and drivel. And that Elon Musk deserves at least a modicum of gratitude and respect.
Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Mar 7 2025 19:28 utc | 32
If the notorious Mujaheddin-e Khalq (MEK) ends up extinct, from its own dysfunctional leadership and internal issues as from lack of funding, then that'll be one good outcome from the DJT administration's cutbacks.
One looks forward to similar headlines in The Washington Post and New York Times bemoaning that USAID funding cutbacks are also affecting the ability of Uyghur and East Turkestan "human rights" groups based in Los Angeles and Washington DC to monitor the human rights situation in Xinjiang. Maybe Adrian Zenz will have to go back to writing books about the Rapture and hawk them to pro-Zionist Christian rallies to raise money for his anti-Communist China crusade.
Ditto for Venezuelan and Cuban "human rights" groups operating out of Miami. Will the bloodletting never stop? What will WaPo and NYT reporters do if they have no-one to tell them what to write and no ready online material to cut and paste into pre-prepared Microsoft Word templates?
Posted by: Refinnejenna | Mar 7 2025 19:51 utc | 33
Why would the Iranian authorities - believe a single word from the Orange Yankee Zionist POTUS Trump - a man who reneged on the JCPoA deal with Iran.
"Iran's permanent mission to the United Nations has dismissed the latest claim by US President Donald Trump about sending a letter to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, proposing negotiations on a new nuclear deal.
“We have not received such a letter yet,” the mission said on Friday.
In an interview with Fox Business' Maria Bartiromo on Friday, the US president claimed that he has sent a letter to Ayatollah Khamenei and proposed to negotiate with Iran on a deal on the country's nuclear program.
"I said I hope you're going to negotiate, because it's going to be a lot better for Iran," he claimed, before threatening Tehran with military action.
"I think they want to get that letter. The other alternative is we have to do something, because you can't let another nuclear weapon," he said despite Tehran's repeated stance that it does not seek to develop nukes."
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 7 2025 20:02 utc | 34
Wonder if I ought to put together a bid submission to USAID for a “European Human Rights Observatory”? Just to, y’know, monitor the increasingly authoritarian powers being taken up by both individual governments and the EU bureaucracy. Would USAID be interested in supporting such an organisation? Somehow, I think not...
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Mar 7 2025 20:04 utc | 35
Iran is a founding member of the UN - where is the UN now, when Iran needs it - oh that's right its in Washington's pocket.
"Iran says Washington's continuation of its so-called "maximum pressure" policy against Tehran is tantamount to "crime against humanity," stressing that the failed policy will not yield new results for Washington.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei made the announcement on Friday, a day after US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said his country’s sanctions against Iran are designed to shut down its oil industry and “collapse its already buckling economy.”
He said Bessent’s hostile remarks clearly indicate the continuation of hostility of American policymakers towards the Iranian people.
Baghaei pointed to the failure of the US policy of pressure and intimidation against the Iranian people at different junctures, saying it is a “clear violation of the principles and objectives of the United Nations Charter and international law which is subject to international responsibility for the US government.""
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 7 2025 20:06 utc | 36
For those of you in the know - regarding My Uncle Napoleon - (A 1970's Iranian tv programme) he was right, the Brits are to blame.
"The Iranian Foreign Ministry has summoned the British ambassador to Tehran to convey the Islamic Republic’s strong protest to “baseless" accusations leveled by the UK against Tehran.
Hugo Shorter was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs by Director General of the Western Europe Department Alireza Yousefi on Friday in response to the repeated "baseless" claims of senior British officials, according to a statement by the ministry.
Britain said on Tuesday that it would require the Iranian state to register everything it does to exert political influence in the UK, subjecting Tehran to an elevated tier of scrutiny in light of what it said was increasingly aggressive activity.
During the meeting, Yousefi said the "spiteful positions" and "unfounded claims" of British officials against Iran are "contrary to the principles and norms of international law and diplomatic practice."
This, the diplomat continued, "will exacerbate the Iranian people’s distrust towards Britain's policies on Iran and the West Asian region."
He urged the UK to revisit its "unconstructive approaches towards the Iranian nation."
The British ambassador, for his part, said he will convey Tehran's protest to London."
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 7 2025 20:11 utc | 37
The Orange Yankee Zionist POTUS, Trump - won't like this one little bit - the US usually manages to remove from office, or demote, those who don't comply with its polices - such a the one-time UNSG Boutros Boutros Ghali - who wasn't complaint enough for the Yanks liking.
"Iran has been elected the vice president of Executive Council of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) despite a bid by the United States to block the Islamic Republic's bid.
The election came during an annual conference of the intergovernmental body that oversees the global endeavor for the permanent and verifiable elimination of the munitions.
Iran won the seat at the 108th Session of the Executive Council of the OPCW in The Hague, the Netherlands.
The United States attempted to block Iran's bid in the council through exerting pressure on members.
The Executive Council consists of 41 OPCW member states that are elected by the Conference of the States Parties and rotate every two years. "
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 7 2025 20:16 utc | 38
The (OIC) put forward a good plan to rebuild Gaza - that would see the Palestinian people remain in Gaza during the process - this plan has been rejected by those aiding and abetting in the genocide - and those committing it - namely the USA and Israel.
"Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has traveled to Saudi Arabia to attend a ministerial meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to discuss measures to counter the US plan for the forced displacement of Gazans.
Araghchi on Thursday afternoon flew to the Saudi city of Jeddah where the meeting proposed by Iran will be held on Friday afternoon, Iran’s foreign ministry said.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said Iran requested the meeting to "draw the attention of the OIC, as the most important organization in the Muslim world, to an issue that is the primary concern of the Islamic community and countries".
President Donald Trump's plan to displace Palestinians in a US takeover of the Gaza Strip has received global condemnation and echoed long-standing Palestinian fears of being permanently driven from their homes.
Baghaei said the plan amounts to a "threat of genocide against the Palestinian people, particularly in Gaza.”"
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 7 2025 20:20 utc | 39
The pattern is that the gov propagandizes the public with less than factual information to promote some policy. At least some part of the body politic buys into it, and that encourages the political class to act on it. That is, we end up believing our own lies and acting on them.
What it looks like is that hostility directed toward Iran is an apparently unnecessary favor to Israel and does not serve our overall interests.
Posted by: Jmaas | Mar 7 2025 17:02 utc | 1
The 'less than factual information' you mention is actually painstakingly 'focused grouped' to targeted populations for maximum manipulation. EX liberal Whites in usa and their empathy & sympathy for others. Or 'free market' values to conservatives & libertarians.
Others groups are targeted, too - but make no mistake it is so deviously crafted that true or false barely describes the iceberg that it is.
Posted by: ryanggg | Mar 7 2025 20:44 utc | 40
This is not very hard:
A UN so-called NGO (Non-Governmental Organization) that goes broke because of a lack of government funding was never a Non-Governmental organization.
"Independent media" that likewise goes broke without government funding is also not independent media.
The tide has gone out, take note of who's been swimming naked.
I hope this finds you well
Posted by: ockham | Mar 7 2025 20:49 utc | 41
This article by the Washington Post reminds me of this wonderful quote by Eric Hoffer. “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”
Posted by: Jose Garcia | Mar 7 2025 21:03 utc | 42
@Jose Garcia | Mar 7 2025 21:03 utc | 42
Great quote Jose!
I'll save that one in my collection
Posted by: petergrfstrm | Mar 7 2025 21:27 utc | 43
Imagine the shame of having to tell your parents that you've become a journalist.
Posted by: Figleaf23 | Mar 7 2025 21:53 utc | 44
Isn't the Russian Times based in Norway? The media works by citing other media or fronts that is compromised to create false narrative stories. That way the larger legacy media can't be accused of making up stories. Quite clever and most of the population are unaware, same with think tanks with official sounding names, they pump the BS and the media cites it.
Posted by: Organic | Mar 7 2025 22:02 utc | 45
Isn't it odd that a right wing moron (although she certainly feels as though she's as radical as Che Guevara) like Susannah George, is drawing a large salary and comfortable lifestyle for her inane imperialist scribblings while countless, kind decent and even talented people in the US live in cardboard boxes?
This just in! We have nothing to write about now that CiA cutout USAID isn't funding artificial "news" from Iran! Black and Brown people! Women and Girls! Antisemitism! Trans activists! Democracy itself!
Doesn't it make you want to just smash the state to bits and start all over again?
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Mar 7 2025 22:33 utc | 46
osted by: juliania | Mar 7 2025 19:09 utc | 30
I am still working through a biography of President McKinley in which the author explains in detail McKinley's understanding of how tariffs work (I have yet to read the section devoted to McKinley's early experience in Congress).
<==remember both Lincoln and Mckinley were killed before the 16th amendment 1913, before the income tax law, and before the Federal Reserve Act .. to go on the Mckinley Tariff plan one needs to rescind the 16th amendment. destroy the federal reserve and set up more tariff collection points.. With Tariff's and no 16th amendment its possible to run the USA without income taxes.. The British bankers killed both Lincoln and McKinley. Lincoln because he found a way around banks to finance the government and McKinley because he was in the way of King of the Mountain ideologist who were planning to use American incomes to secure multi billion loans to be made to the broke and defunct European nations and to the MIC planning to profit from what we now call WWI.
Posted by: snake | Mar 7 2025 23:42 utc | 47
actually I think the tariffs will bring industry back to America. Yes, America may suffer for lack of some conveniences, for a short while, but eventually Americans will get their industries in-spite of wall street. Americans are likely to get their educational system back on track now that the Dept of Education has been gutted, and the living standards of Americans will likely increase starting about 6 years from now, if the USA can use the Tariffs to keep foreign goods from coming into USA governed America.
It took me a while but as it stands now I agree with Trump.. Using Tariffs to safeguard the domestic economy is the only way given the monopoly powers the big guys can bring to the table. . The globalist and bond dealers are going to cry all the way to poor house because Americans are going to be very choosey in what they buy. Domestic demand is going to shrink..
Posted by: snake | Mar 7 2025 23:54 utc | 48
They want real information?
I highly doubt that.
RT
PressTV
Are banned in US.
Love those American values.
Posted by: Parfum | Mar 8 2025 0:22 utc | 49
Maybe the Washington Post could change its "Democracy Dies in Darkness" to "Propaganda Perishes in Penury".
Posted by: Mark Mosby | Mar 8 2025 0:25 utc | 50
@ Parfum | Mar 8 2025 0:22 utc | 49
The RT and PressTV websites are universally available in the USA. Are you thinking of the USA’s Eurotoadies?
Posted by: malenkov | Mar 8 2025 0:33 utc | 51
RT and now-defunct RT America used to have carriage on US Cable systems. They no longer do.
I hope this finds you well
Posted by: ockham | Mar 8 2025 0:42 utc | 52
Imagine the shame of having to tell your parents that you've become a journalist.
Posted by: Figleaf23 | Mar 7 2025 21:53 utc | 44
"no, please say it isn't so! You had so much more potential as a pole dancer!"
Posted by: UWDude | Mar 8 2025 0:50 utc | 53
Thanks for the post of McKinley’s speech, Julianna. Fascinating!
Posted by: mjh | Mar 8 2025 0:57 utc | 54
I am working hard, very hard, to squeeze out a tear for the suffering Demented Party donors whose criminal scam has now seen the light of day.
1. Pick up a Demented Party membership. Encourage your family and closest friends to join too.
2. Create an NGO. No. Create many interrelated NGOs.
3. Buy a U.S. Politician. Preferably one close to a U.S. Agency like USAID or one of the CIA or Military groups. There are so many, it is hard to choose. Mindbogglingly difficult to choose.
4. Get yourself a local bought U.S. Politician. Usually the Demented Party ones are easiest. Usually one drink and they will do things that will make a Kiev street service provider blush. The Republic ones will tell you they won't at first, but they always do, purporting to do the service reluctantly.
5. Once your name is on the list, don't be shy, ask for some absurd number and make it clear you will be spreading the lucre generously amongst "Friends of the Party."
6. Once your NGO bank account is full, spread it around. Keep a few million for yourself, after all, you have connections.
7. Oh. And so you can keep the myth of all that Social Generosity alive and well, be certain to tell them George and Alex sent you.
Posted by: kupkee | Mar 8 2025 0:57 utc | 55
Posted by: snake | Mar 7 2025 23:54 utc | 48
Thanks for that, snake. The McKinley book gave a good sense of his era. A lot of the technological changes are reflected in his final speech, given the morning before he was attacked. Basically, it felt like the way China has accomplished what it has done this century so far by following 'communism with Chinese characteristics' --- a fair deal for the people and hope for peaceful trade with neighbors.
I'm still hoping.
Posted by: juliania | Mar 8 2025 1:27 utc | 56
The irony is that the Populist movement of the late 1890's and the early 20th century urged voters that they, the lower class and middle class were paying the bulk of the govt. 'taxes' in tariff payments so why not create an income tax to tax the rich and lower the tariffs.
One hundred years later or so a populist, Trump, is doing the exact opposite.
Strange times...
Some will be interested in reading the contents of this article, "Putin's Roundtable Discussion with Employees and Wards of the Defenders of the Fatherland Foundation", particularly if you live in a NATO nation so you can learn about the damage your nations have caused and how Russians have reacted.
Headlines, I'm told, are written by editors not writers, to get attention. . . It works.
Posted by: Don Bacon | Mar 8 2025 2:12 utc | 59
Maybe the Washington Post could change its "Democracy Dies in Darkness" to "Propaganda Perishes in Penury".
Posted by: Mark Mosby | Mar 8 2025 0:25 utc | 50
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Precious!
For everything else there is MasterCard.
Posted by: Acco Hengst | Mar 8 2025 4:02 utc | 61
thanks b...
yes, i think she is admitting that without being able to copy and paste the anti-iranian groups press releases, she runs out of coverage!!
Posted by: james | Mar 8 2025 4:38 utc | 62
Alternative Title: "WaPo Laments Loss Of American-funded Disinformation From Iran Which Is Not From Iran"
Much of the so-called Free Press is actually disinformation bankrolled, sponsored, or peddled by America and its allied partners in crime.
USAID is only one such cut-out organization that is used for such machinations by American spook agencies.
The late Udo Ulfkotte, who was an editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper, describes his own personal experiences acting as a mouthpiece for the Central Intelligence Agency and the Germany BND spy organization to plant disinformation masquerading as "independent" journalism.
Confession from the profession: ‘Presstitutes’ in the service of the CIA
https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/confession-from-the-profession-presstitutes-in-the-service-of-the-cia/
Posted by: ak74 | Mar 8 2025 4:46 utc | 63
This quote from Udo Ulfkotte's book is priceless ... and damning:
Intelligence services believe that journalists are easy to buy, according to the author, quoting a CIA agent who told the Washington Post, “You can get a journalist for less than a good whore, for a few hundred dollars.”
Hooker > Journalist
Posted by: ak74 | Mar 8 2025 4:51 utc | 64
When did the donor-addicted West's Christian Colonial Cuntries decide that they enjoyed being jewed up?
Is jewed-up spelled $$$$$-$$?
During Paul Keating's reign as Oz PM, from 1991 to 1996, there was a storm in a Newscup when Malaysia's Prez, Mahathir Mohammad, announced that "Jews rule the world by proxy."
Keating was livid and made up a whole new chapter of creative insults with which to deliver a loud and public dressing down of Malaysia's recalcitrant Prez.
Luckily, so many politicians piled onto the Fuck Mahathir bandwagon that the underlying truth of his assertion became evident, if not obvious.
Fast-forward to 2024 and the "Israel" Lobby in Oz has bullied its Oz political Jew$lave$ into passing anti anti-semitism laws aimed at critics of "Israel's" merciless and indiscriminate genocide in Gaza.
Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Mar 8 2025 6:12 utc | 65
Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 8 2025 1:37 utc | 58
>>>>
I watched and listened to the whole meeting.
It was heart breaking.
The Chief Commander in Chief Mr. Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (VVP) at one point had even tears on his eyes.
Posted by: pepe | Mar 8 2025 6:17 utc | 66
For something of a backgrounder on life in Iran: Persepolis.
I don't usually watch a lot of anim, but this is well done.
Fji
Posted by: Fubar El Haq | Mar 8 2025 7:20 utc | 67
Posted by: canuck | Mar 8 2025 1:29 utc | 57
The irony is that the Populist movement of the late 1890's and the early 20th century urged voters that they, the lower class and middle class were paying the bulk of the govt. 'taxes' in tariff payments so why not create an income tax to tax the rich and lower the tariffs.
One hundred years later or so a populist, Trump, is doing the exact opposite.
Strange times...
<===Nothing strange about trying to retrieve one's country from
abuse by the powerful few?
<= The course reversing federal Reserve Act and the Income tax acts both of 1913 were delayed until banksters and X-indies company directors in England could get the Sixteenth Amendment, passed by the US congress [1909}, and ratified (in 1913) by the states. Many say the 16th amendment was never ratified? For years prior to 1909 many proposals in support of the European wars in Europe were blocked by Article 1, Sec. 8, para 4 of the US constitution, These proposals had purpose to support the X-Indies corporation intentions to get America involved in WWI so the Corporate owners could take from the Ottomans ownership of all of the oil and gas beneath the Ottoman Empire [basically the middle East] from the Ottomans.
The king of mountain people were seeking a way to use the USA, to rule the American people by rule of law. The idea was to make the American people stand good for the private cost of conducting the wars in Europe. WWI and many wars before it were aimed at separating the Ottomans (rulers of the entire middle East) from their oil and gas reserves. Gaza today is a mop up operation of that war. Germany was a bystander competitor to the X-indies companies [we all know the fate of competitors imposed by people subscribed to king of the mountain ideologies]. Germany had strong very friendly relations with the Ottomans, and where actively exchanging oil and gas in exchange for building railroads throughout the Ottoman empire. German technology would extract Ottoman oil and transport it to Germany in exchange Germans technology would build railroads the Ottomans needed to prosper.
Many believe King of the Mountain British X-indies company owners and their Bankster owners were behind the push to get the 16th amendment passed. Without the 16th amendment the war against the Ottoman was cost prohibitive. Always in seems, British interest are at the heart of the reason for war. Don't forget without the British there would have been be no Israel and without Israel it would have
been impossible for the PTB to keep control of the Ottoman oil and gas. The Ottoman Palestinians would have taken it from them.
Observe from where the people came who populated post WWI Israel. Very telling.
Many financing proposals in America designed to support the coming war in Europe were blocked by Article 1 Section 9 paragraph 4 of the US Constitution which read: No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the Census or Enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
and the 16th amendment ratified in 1913 reads :
The congress shall have the power to lay and collect taxes on incomes from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
The war in Europe began in 1912- 1914 era..
don't forget the British Infiltrated Young Turks failed to over throw the Ottomans in 1907 and the Russian Bolshevik revolution in 1919.. are all related..
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth(<= A Rothschild Brit) on April 14, 1865, while Lincoln was at Henry Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. He was the first U.S. president to be assassinated ( in the lead up to WWI)
Unification of Germany 1866–1871
Franco-Prussian War 1870–1871
Second Concert of Europe 1871
Great Eastern Crisis 1875–1878
Campaign in Bosnia 1878
Dual Alliance 1879
Boer Wars 1880–1902
Austro–Serbian Alliance 1881–1903
Triple Alliance 1882
Berlin Conference 1884
Bulgarian Crisis 1885–1888
Reinsurance Treaty 1887–1890
Franco-Russian Alliance 1894
First Sino-Japanese War 1894–1895
Anglo-German naval arms race 1898–1912
Fashoda Incident 1898
Anglo-Japanese Alliance 1902
May Coup 1903
Russo-Japanese War 1904–1905 < An American banker Schiff financed this war
Entente Cordiale 1904
First Moroccan Crisis 1905–1906
Pig War 1906–1908
Anglo-Russian Convention 1907
Young Turk Revolution 1908 <= a major attempt to take the oil from the Ottomans
Bosnian Crisis 1908–1909
Racconigi Bargain 1909
Second Moroccan Crisis 1911
Italo-Turkish War 1911–1912
Balkan Wars 1912–1913
Assassination of Franz Ferdinand 1914
July Crisis 1914
Judgement about Trump's true intentions is waiting to see the outcome of his actions. If he understands the above, the question becomes what does Trump intend to accomplish? Does he intend to retrieve America from the jaws of the ideologically subscribed Monopolist or is he a Trojan monopolist waiting for the opportunity to turn what's left of America over to the Monopolist.
Posted by: snake | Mar 8 2025 7:26 utc | 68
People ask: what do you mean they (Iranians) are not crushed yet? We've had 45 years to do it. Why?
Posted by: Sakineh Bagoom | Mar 7 2025 18:14 utc | 19
First: It was the anglosaxons UK/US who ousted the shah and put Khomeini in power
As usual a revolution is the work of the anglosaxon imperialists
They tried to bring about a revolution in China in 1989 but the Chinese were smarter than the shah who relied on the anglosaxons to organise his own secret police
2nd:The anglosaxons created zionism and the Israel project. They however did not want the jews to be independent of the empire
So it makes sense that they havent allowed Israels expansion to be as quick as if the anglosaxons werent going to control their creation.
The anglosaxons nor want the leash to be too tight neither too weak.
But the grassroots enormously exaggerated belief about the jews controlling everything is welcome for their elites.
Hence the surprise about the imperial expansion and crushing of opponents being slower than expected by the grassroots.
.
The latter are not prone to learn from mistakes nor to reevaluate their understanding.
That naivete is very welcome from the elites point of view. Everybody being happy inside their propaganda bubble.
In addition an important challenge against the petrodollar happened in the late 70s. This part of history is totally blanked out by most,
Cynthia Chung explains that part and I recommend you to read that.
The Sword of Damocles over Western Europe
Cynthia Chung
Sep 14, 2022
https://cynthiachung.substack.com/p/the-sword-of-damocles-over-western
And there was even more. Even the occupation of the embassy was a psyop. Cynthia is cautious not to go there. Probably a wise move. But I dont hesitate to accept that it was indeed the US who arranged that occupation to have an excuse for the US to intervene and threaten the europeans to deprive them of energy from OPEC. Cynthia describes that part
Posted by: petergrfstrm | Mar 8 2025 8:51 utc | 69
Doesn't it make you want to just smash the state to bits and start all over again?
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Mar 7 2025 22:33 utc | 46
The libertarians concur and they are ready to help the final oligarchic takeover, the libertarians pretending they oppose the oligarchy, which has funded them from the beginning.
Posted by: petergrfstrm | Mar 8 2025 9:14 utc | 70
Gutten morgen Bernard,
The problem with you Germans is that having had the boot of the Americans on your neck for so long, it has cut off the flow of blood to your brains. Starved for oxygen, it has atrophied, and you have become a nation of dummkopfs.
This explains your confusions about even the simplest of matters, not knowing the difference between "exiles" and a Diaspora.
You have spent so many decades licking boot that it upsets you to see a people who are fighting to recover their nation from a Canaannite Cult masquerading as Islam.
No doubt it must 'burn' to see that even teenage girls of Iran Zameen have more 'balls' than your so called "men". "It must be propaganda". Nein.
You are a funny people, with your fat sausage fingers and your fat pink faces that you stuff with the flesh of the Swein. A clumsy lot; no wonder you are always stepped over by the "Anglo-Saxons" and the Tribe.
Either laying down prostate or goose stepping like devils. And in either modality, you are always marching like mindless drones to the tune of a piped piper. No wonder we Aryans left you behind in the woods of Europe and went on to create a civilization while you and yours were sticking your tribal cheifs in tree trunks and burning them.
We are taking back Iran Zameen. It belongs to us, not to the Canaanites. The Canaanites can go back to Canaan and duke it out with their fellow Canaanites. They are utterly alien to us.
We welcome the cutting of funds by spooks world over. This cuts down on the noise of Cabal sock puppets and the Authentic Iranian voices will emerge. (Speaking of spooks, btw, I am sure the barflies are ever thankful to you for running a honeypot with beacons to 5-eyes central so that they can tag your "customers", barkeep.)
wa Salaam.
Posted by: sunof27 | Mar 8 2025 10:02 utc | 71
"How else could one interpret that?"
Reporting of actual facts and situations is dead and buried a long time in msm.
We're aware of that for a long time.
But this is the official announcement
Posted by: jpc | Mar 8 2025 11:25 utc | 72
Posted by: ak74 | Mar 8 2025 4:46 utc | 63
Udo Ulfkotte's confession and the story of Iraq weapon's of mass destruction (among other items) are definitive proof that we live under bombardment of fake news here in the West by American Pravda and European Pravda since the 90s.
Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Mar 8 2025 11:37 utc | 73
Posted by: pepe | Mar 7 2025 18:52 utc | 26
Latest stats show there are now more than 100 million Americans relying on food stamps for survival.
Do you a source for this?
How many Americans use food stamps?
The numbers vary from month to month. But in April 2023, the most recent month with available figures, 41.9 million people in 22.2 million households received SNAP benefits. That translates to 12.5% of the total U.S. population.
Posted by: dontflayme | Mar 8 2025 12:07 utc | 74
Posted by: petergrfstrm | Mar 8 2025 8:51 utc | 69
Thank you for your reply, Peter. I am familiar with Cynthia Chung's work. She does a fairly thorough job.
I lived through the rule of Shah. All I remember is poverty, disease, oppression, and backwardness.
Reading through the link you provided ( I had read it once before) I came across this, which doesn't make sense, since it was US that provided nuclear technology to Iran, under the auspices of atoms-for-peace initiative in the 1950s.
As early as 1977, France and West Germany had begun exploring the possibility of concretizing a deal with oil producing countries in which western Europe would supply high-technology exports, including nuclear technology, to the OPEC countries in exchange for long-term oil supply contracts at a stable price. In turn, OPEC countries would deposit their enormous financial surpluses into western European banks which could be used for further loans for development projects… obviously to the detriment of the IMF and World Bank hegemony. The Carter Administration was not happy with this, sending Vice President Walter Mondale to France and West Germany to “inform” them that the U.S. would henceforth oppose the sale of nuclear energy technology to the Third World…and thus they should do so as well.
Also this:
On Oct 22, 1979, the Shah arrived in New York to receive medical treatment. Twelve days later, the U.S. Embassy in Teheran was taken over and 52 American hostages would be held captive for 444 days!
The un/under-reported part of this story is: Iranians freed women and African Americans (the truly oppressed) hostages in the first few days of the hostage crisis.
Posted by: Sakineh Bagoom | Mar 8 2025 15:20 utc | 75
If 12 percent of US Americans are using food stamps, there are another 15 percent that qualify but are too fecked up to fill out the forms, have no address, etc.
Then, there are all the prisoners in jail or prison that no longer qualify.
Posted by: Chaka Khagan | Mar 8 2025 15:22 utc | 76
God forbid that any or our MSM would ever read Fars News
Reading the actual words of Iranians and then comparing it to the spin machine that we fund to demonize Iran just sooooo hard. We at least the Jerusalem Post is still around to tell use what to think.
Posted by: Christian J Chuba | Mar 8 2025 16:42 utc | 77
NERDs, huh...wraps it up in one little acronym. "Near East Regional Devilopment". or something like that. Fits for sure. Oh the irony. Imagine those nerds in the $tate Deportment...wringing their hands over loss of empowerment for the Nerd $quad.
Old adage of "first they make them crazy...then they destroy them" has to be the gods at work. Proof positive in Foggy Bottom. Do those critters wear Depends like our former pretzeldent?
Posted by: aaristodemos | Mar 8 2025 17:02 utc | 78
snake@726 March 8
Ha. You get a helluva lot of things right on, but "Henry Ford's theater" had got to have been written with tongue clear out of the cheek.
SABOTAGE SERIOUSNE$$.
Posted by: aristodemos | Mar 8 2025 17:09 utc | 79
Posted by: sunof27 | Mar 8 2025 10:02 utc | 71
Shah ass licker.
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Mar 8 2025 17:17 utc | 80
ALPHABETANERDS=LAMBDA+LAMBDA+LAMBDA+LOL - https://es.irna.ir/photo/85771619/La-lluvia-invernal-en-Persépolis
Posted by: ATOMIZER | Mar 8 2025 17:47 utc | 81
The West’s real problem with Iran is not necessarily her nuclear programme; it could be their method of accepting payment for their oil which is really bugging Washington. Hence the fake dog and pony show about the nuclear project.
Posted by: kerdasi amaq | Mar 8 2025 17:58 utc | 82
Posted by: canuck | Mar 8 2025 1:29 utc | 57 It's not a bit strange, if you dare to think Trump is not a so-called populist at all, and he promotes tariffs to cut income taxes on the rich. If he's viewed as a lying oligarch, do the opposite of the original populists is to be expected.
Posted by: steven t johnson | Mar 8 2025 18:10 utc | 83
The safest place in the world for a Jewish person to live these days ?
Iran
Posted by: Exile | Mar 8 2025 18:43 utc | 84
“We are taking back Iran Zameen. It belongs to us, not to the Canaanites.”
Posted by: sunof27 | Mar 8 2025 10:02 utc | 71
“Shah ass licker.”
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Mar 8 2025 17:17 utc | 80
Tom, I was wondering who this 'we', 'us' is in sunof27's post, till I saw your post.
Perhaps sunof27 cares to tell us who is taking the Iran zameen (land) back.
Posted by: Sakineh Bagoom | Mar 8 2025 21:10 utc | 85
I’d say that one flaw in the US Constitution is that it doesn’t set an upper limit to maximum tariff that Congress can impose. 15% seems right to me. This flaw caused a civil war.
Posted by: kerdasi amaq | Mar 8 2025 23:04 utc | 86
Posted by: kerdasi amaq | Mar 8 2025 23:04 utc | 86 Not true. The prominence of tariffs was partly as an excuse. But insofar as there was a sectional strife over tariffs, it came partly from the way protective tariffs acted as a sales tax, especially on the luxury goods desired by the planter class, which were largely imported into the then undeveloped US, from England mostly but also France. And because the plantations were more profitable than manufacturing or much else besides the commercial staples like cotton, tobacco, rice, sugar, indigo. The plantations had fewer seaports too, with less hardwood, shipbuilding was not as significant as in the North (especially New England.) Domestic shipping even for the South tended to center on New York City, Philadelphia and Baltimore. New Orleans was important, but New Orleans was an outlier socially, politically and economically. There were free blacks who owned slaves there! The competition from slave labor lowered the wage level and skills of the free but unpropertied whites preventing much growth in local handicrafts/manufactures, particularly because low taxes---which favored the plantations---prevented local governments from providing infrastructure like roads or long term improvements like education of the free workforce. There was a much smaller stratum of middle income people to create a local market for such preliminaries to further economic development.
Since plantation economy means in a word, slavery, everyone who claims tariffs caused the Civil War is repeating a lie. Whether it's a sincerely believed lie accepted by conformity to old lies hallowed by conventional thinking is irrelevant.
Posted by: steven t johnson | Mar 9 2025 0:05 utc | 87
Salaam to all.
So now we'll have an analysis of Washington Post's "article". Your intelligence will not be insulted in this reading.
First thing to note, before we get started is that only careless readers take Washington Post's 'missives' on face value. After all, have we forgotten that WaPo is one of CIA's mouthpieces, where American democracy went to languish and then finally die an inglorious death?
Second thing to note is that only fools believe what's in the funny pages of America's official democracy undertakers aka "journals of record".
So CIA is sending a message to stakeholders of Islamic Republic "of Iran". This is part of the "deal" that is on the table. I'll decode it for you, it's e-z-p-z:
(1) CIA offers to stop funding its sock puppets. They exist, this is obviously true. Every one of the major and middle powers have them. IRI has them. Russia has them. USA has them. UK invented the very idea and they have a whole stable of them.
(2) Ominously for genuine Iranian dissidents, CIA promises that there will also be suppression of information space activities that could discomfit the regime in IRI. This is the subtext.
Now to round the picture and see the more important aspect of the "deal" on offer, we need to look what is being offered on the policy level. That's not Washington Post / CIA's department.
That is the job of Conuncil of Foreign Relations, CFR, and they too have an official mouthpiece, and it is called Foreign Affairs. Let's see what's on offer on the policy level:
This article, What Iran Wants (read: What we're offering) is a good read. Just like the WaPo variant, it obviously is not going to come out and say: "Let's make a deal", so it too 'paints a picture'. The article basically claims that the West has entirely misunderstood IRI's extraterritorial behavior. It is not about some metaphysically motivated desire to 'hasten the coming of the Mahdi'.
No, all this time IRI has been suffering from a sort of PTSD because of the Iran-Iraq war. The "resistance" is not due to estachological and ideological motivations, rather it is just a disguised mechanism for traumatized "Iranians". A certain Mr. Nasr -- father and son have an affinity to graviates to courts of power (they are "spiritual" you see) -- is relied on by the author to assure the reader that this is indeed the case. As to the readership in IRI central, the message is: "We're gonna go along with this narrative if you are willing, bygones be bygones". Naturally, the "tramatized" ones are implicitly offered security guarantees.
But the kicker comes in the end, this is like famous "Cake" from back in the day to 'sweeten' the "deal". Let's quote this at lenght:
There is no straightforward way for Iran to recover from the setbacks of the last year. “Today, even if the Islamic Republic chose to abandon forward defense, it would not be easy to do so,” Nasr writes—and that was before Assad’s fall in December. The nuclear dilemma makes Tehran’s position all the more fraught, by likely forcing it into a headlong confrontation with the Trump White House. And unlike in the years after the Iran-Iraq War, when Iran had the advantage of a comparatively youthful leadership, Khamenei and his inner circle have become a gerontocracy, and a new generation is increasingly impatient with clerical rule.But it may not be the end yet. For all the Islamic Republic’s exhaustion and brittleness, and the readiness of millions of Iranians to take to the streets to express their disdain for it, the people are fiercely protective of their country, and outside attacks tend to bring them together. Increasing the uncertainty is the question of the Iranian succession. Khamenei’s preferred choice to follow him as supreme leader seems to be his second son, Mojtaba, who is 56 and whom Nasr describes as his “principal adviser.” In a recent interview, Abbas Palizdar, a close associate of Mojtaba, referred to widespread corruption in the “ruling circles” of the Islamic Republic and expressed his confidence that should Mojtaba take over from his father, he would not only “break the neck of the corrupt” but also increase social freedoms and release political prisoners. That would put him in the same category of reforming modernizer as Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman.
And yet Mojtaba spent the Iran-Iraq War serving in a battalion of the IRGC that was known for its ideological purity and, according to Nasr, wishes to “perpetuate the strategies of resistance and forward defense born during the war.” He has also shown no sign of being any less committed to the nuclear program than was his father. If Mojtaba does indeed become supreme leader, not only will the Islamic Republic come closer to becoming a hereditary monarchy, but the forward defense may get a second wind.
CFR forcasts fair weather for the future of IRI. "But it may not be the end yet". Indeed, CFR also signals it is OK with IRI becoming a "hereditary monarchy" [sic]. (They mean hereditary theocracy. Ahl al-Bait? They are not here, you are! It's not "the end times yet!". Let's make a deal. CFR is OK with Mojtaba assuming the 'mantle' and he could join the 'big boys' club with MBS.
As to the CFR's "partners" and the geopolitical parameters of the "deal", well, the 'partners' are having meetings in KSA and hashing things out.
I hope you now understand why I flared up earlier.
& Salaam.
Posted by: sunof27 | Mar 9 2025 1:48 utc | 90
Posted by: Sakineh Bagoom | Mar 8 2025 21:10 utc | 85
!گگگم شو زبرم ای کککمتر از زن
یا ممن خواحی مممشتی به ککلت بزنم
.. که بیفتد مممغزت ممیان ددهن
(And the rest of you can googoogoole it)
wa Salaam
Posted by: sunof27 | Mar 9 2025 1:54 utc | 91
Posted by: sunof27 | Mar 9 2025 1:54 utc | 91
So, you think I can't read your stuttering Farsi? Google the rest?
Answer the question sunof27. Who is 'we' and 'us' taking Iran zameen back?
Two choices: 1) Reza 2) MEK/PMOI/MKO/NCRI.
Who is the 'we?'
Posted by: Sakineh Bagoom | Mar 9 2025 2:33 utc | 92
The comments to this entry are closed.
The pattern is that the gov propagandizes the public with less than factual information to promote some policy. At least some part of the body politic buys into it, and that encourages the political class to act on it. That is, we end up believing our own lies and acting on them.
What it looks like is that hostility directed toward Iran is an apparently unnecessary favor to Israel and does not serve our overall interests.
Posted by: Jmaas | Mar 7 2025 17:02 utc | 1