Iran commentary by top observers

[Barbara]

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency - asks sarcastically in response to Hegseth's demand for the US to put Iran bac into the stone age.

Hegseth himself looks like a Neanderthal, if you notice

Meanwhile this was the extremely sophisticated earliest Persian Empire. Imagine what the US looked like THEN.

Does everyone know that the American Postal Service's slogan was taken from the motto of the couriers who traversed that Achaemenid Empire on horsebac at great speeds to deliver messages to far flung provinces ?

"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds"

Hopefully, some of the provinces lost over the millenia since then will be restored to modern Iran as a result of this war. Or at least, like Syria, become strong allies of Teheran.

"This map shows Iran in the Stone Age.

Do you insist on reviving it?"


https://x.com/IrnaEnglish/status/2039758080586703174

[Barbara]

Hope this report is TRUE + ALL the rest of the fleet of ALL the Western and Saudi and Gulf Arab and all the rest of the bombers and fighter jets are sent to the trash heap by Iranian military efforts, like here apparently :

"Warmest congratulations: Iran shot down a B-2 type bomber
and captured its entire crew.

Iran wins completely"

https://x.com/aldyf_mhmd56894/status/20 ... 1565624743

[Barbara]

Chay Bowes post. Think about the description of what's been done to the US since the arrival in office of this monster masquerading as a president :

"The IRGC [official] says "Muslims are revealing the hideouts of US officers and men" in the Middle East

He also says that America has not been this humiliated since Trump began to humiliate America""

[Barbara]

"Members of the [Reza Pahlavi]
Transitional Leadership Council after returning to the Stone_Age"


https://x.com/SirwanBahrami88/status/20 ... 7310225546

[Barbara]

I learned by listening to an interview of a so-called expert on Iran's history and culture one or two useful facts.

This person lives in the same town as Reza Pahlavi and knows him probably well.

This person used to be in the US govt in a destructive mode [ie handing over all secrets to is not real and petitioning for and participating in the 2003 American invasion of Iraq - plus decades of loud cheerleading for the current invasion of Iran], said that Yasmine Pahlavi is actually Azeri.

He mispronounced the word, so we can't say he is a real expert.
He bizarrely kept repeating "AH-zurree".
When it's "Ah-ZAIR-ee" ! He should have known that.

Many people who claim to be experts on Iran are really NOT so !

One can get a sense of who knows Iran even just from their pronunciation - or most common by Americans - mispronunciations.
The country name is "EER-AHN", not "EYE-ran" as in "I ran down the street as 95+ % of US govt officials in ALL administrations say.

Anyway, the term Azeri refers to roughly a quarter of the Iranian population who originate from Iranian Azerbaijan, the northwestern province, which used to include today's country of Azerbaijan.

I have never seen this fact about the Pahlavis so i thought before moving to more urgent topics that i would add it to the record.

The interviewee said that Reza Pahlavi says he can't understand his wife when she speaks in the Azeri [Turkish] language. Obviously, he doesn't speak it.
The daughters also are mostly Azeri. But they are known to not have any proficiency even in Farsi, the main language of Iran. They only know English.

Reza Pahlavi's grandmother was apparently a member of the Qajar dynasty which ruled Iran til the early 1920s. This was Turkish [quite ineffectual, lost a lot of Iran's territory to Russia due to ineptness.]

So Reza has some Azeri Turkish blood himself thru his grandmother.

Then Farah Pahlavi, the Shah's 3rd wife, is also [she is still alive as of this writing] Azeri Turkish. Or at least mostly so : that part isn't clear. Needs more research.

Ironically, she was the least pretty of the last Shah's 3 wives - but the only wife to produce heirs to the Peacock Throne.
Footnote : it was too bad that the Shah divorced his 2nd wife for that reason, as, to date, there has been no heir ruling Iran, anyway !
A lesson that one shouldn't be too insistent on what one wishes, when it may not be the Will of God at all !


The Shah's 1st wife, Fawzieh, Princess of Egypt, was of course Arab.


His second wife, Soraya, was a Bakhtiari, from the famous nomadic tribe.

Thus Reza Pahlavi has a certain quotient of Azeri blood himself.

If I remember right, this group is [without a real reason] made fun of by the other Iranian ethnicities.

However, the current President of Iran, a heart surgeon by profession, is Azeri.

[Barbara]

"who[m] do we believe?

The American action drama?

Or the Iranian statements?

Iranian media outlets and accounts affiliated with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard announced today, April 5, 2026, the capture of a pilot holding both Israeli and American citizenship named Moran Sagron. All her official military identification data was published.

Some details were provided:

Circumstances of capture: Reports stated that the pilot was captured after her plane crashed inside Iranian territory.

Identity data: An identification number attributed to her (20183278190001) was circulated in the published data.

Official stance: The Revolutionary Guard challenged both the Israeli and American sides to reveal her true fate.

The news was covered by several news platforms.

And God knows best the truth...

As the Greek poet Aeschylus said:
"In war,...
Truth is the first casualty.""

https://x.com/BlackwoodBrief/status/2040894858433561054

[Barbara]

Worth a listen, at least to the 1st part [30 min]
Larry Johnson comes across well in this interview.
He does explain things rather than assume everyone has seen a certain movie or heard of a certain character. I NEVER have heard of any of them, so I appreciate the explanations.

I didn't know who George Galloway was, but he seems OK from this interview

"The exfiltration of US pilot from Iran is a $400m cover story, says ex-CIA man Larry Johnson.

Eight or more crashed planes in the desert, unknown US casualties, it was a preamble to seizing an Iranian nuclear plant"

https://x.com/georgegalloway/status/2040927470950678615