Iran commentary by top observers

[Barbara]

Funny AI video barely a minute long :

https://x.com/TheSaviour/status/2049173877356470749

[Barbara]

Delightful UNDERSTATEMENT here

"Seemingly, we are overqualified for this. They [British, Europeans] didn’t understand our references to Jane Austen, Harold Pinter, Franz Kafka, Walt Whitman, René Magritte, etc.

But our martyred leader has taught us to read books all the time; we do not lower our standards.

They need to level up."

https://x.com/IRANinSWEDEN/status/2047267535809048961

[Barbara]

This insightful observation was made about the US machinations against other countries, particularly Russia, Iran and Afghanistan. I'll post it on all 3 threads as the remark is so accurate

Regular Americans have no clue about what their govt is actually doing.
But it's time to wake up and speak out or it will just continue the same and even worse !

Russians, Iranians, the "Taliban", Muslims in general have been blamed by the heavily subservient US and Western media for what in fact the US has been doing itself.

The comment was made about the John Kiriakou admission of the obvious : that American administrations one after the other screamed about "the Taliban", made up a scary sounding figure, Os.ama, to generate anger at Afghanistan to justify the most brutal invasion for twenty entire years while handily growing poppies so as to addict Iran and Russia specifically. But of course some of these surely found their way bac to the US.

Where did US agencies get the idea for this ?
Because during the Soviet occupation of poor Afghanistan, the fact was well known to American govt observers that Red Army soldiers readily purchased drugs from the locals and MANY Soviet personnel got addicted. Thus diabolical minds came up with the idea of pressing more drugs on the wider Russian population at home.

This is my theory. Though i have never read it anywhere

As far as Iran, when I traveled throughout the country in 1984, drugs were already a huge problem. I remember being taken to meet the head of the Imam Reza Shrine in Mashhad, who was what's called the Imam Jomeh of the major holy city of Mashhad. As my guide led me through a corridor, there were drug addicts languishing in cages, as she pointed out.
I later wrote about this to show that the Islamic Republic govt had clamped down to combat the problem actively.
[Today is the birthday of Imam Reza by the way in case anyone is interested so perhaps that's why this came up today]

The American invasion of Afghanistan happened on St Thecla's Day 2001, so Iran was already struggling with this problem among the population.
BUT - the no doubt huge-scale covert plan to funnel drugs into Iran must have made it a much bigger challenge for the Islamic Republic to stop.

The Iranian govt must have felt animosity toward Afghans at that time, not realizing who was actually behind this plot to destabilize their society.
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About the US thru history, especially 21st, 20th centuries :

"Their history is a paste of blood and ruin, yet the Americans excel at impersonating the righteous.

Whenever their rot bubbles up and their disaster is laid bare, they feign shock and deem it a "slip" of mere contingency.

A play they live out with stubbornness and arrogance, through which they refuse to admit that crime is the root of their being, and what occurs is hardly an exception."

[Barbara]

Excerpt of helpful background from the Iranian media outlet Press TV, a very reliable source of information. I used to read it every day, but skipped all American media.

John Kiriakou did an interview with Tucker Carlson, the same one when he talked about the US flooding of Iran with Afghan d rugs, in which he was asked by T.C. about Reza Pahlavi.

John Kiriakou didn't say anything unique, so I didn't post that here. Partly because in an earlier one from perhaps 5-6 months ago, he had insisted that Yasmine is having an affair with her French yoga teacher ! That was the original gossip from years ago before American Tom Morley was identified as the target of Yasmine's affections.
So I concluded that John Kiriakou is not up to date on the Pahlavi scandals.

"Reza Pahlavi has lived outside Iran for nearly five decades, with critics mocking the very idea of him seriously positioning himself as future leader.

In his recent video addressed to Iran's ethnic groups, he referred to Baluchestan and Kurdistan and then to "West Azerbaijan," demonstrating his ignorance of Iran's population makeup, where West Azerbaijan province is only a fraction of the Azeri-speaking provinces.

In recent years, he has called for foreign intervention in the country, but after facing significant public backlash, he has attempted to downplay or reframe his previous statements—despite the existence of video recordings showing him clearly advocating for foreign military action.

According to a New York Times report earlier this month, top US officials informed President Donald Trump that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's "regime change" plan for Iran—which included Reza Pahlavi as a presumed shoo-in—was "farcical."

The report revealed that the violent riots which hit Iran last December—during which Trump made his infamous promise of "Help is coming" to pro-Pahlavi protesters—were in fact part of the military attack plan."

https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/04/2 ... lavi-woman

[Barbara]

Sheer nonsense EVERYTHING this so-called expert says
The minute you see 'Hudson Institute' or 'Atlantic Council' -
you can be sure it's a propagandist talking, not an objective analyst who is politically aware of the truth of any foreign situation involving another country.

There's no time to discuss everything wrong here, but notice how she says "We know very little about the Iranian people".

All anyone has to do is READ online, at X or other outlets. Of course that is way beyond them.
They only care about "HOW SOON can the Islamic Republic - or any other country in the American crosshairs - be overthrown ?"

Accurate details showing real life in Iran today and the Iranian people's attitudes don't have the tiniest bearing on any aspect of the situation for these 'analysts'. They are salivating for the Iranian govt to be gone.

These American figures appearing in the media and others in the shadows are just waiting to pounce to grab credit for themselves for that imagined day of a downfall that won't happen.

Perhaps the description overstates what was actually said by the Fox News 'expert'. But still - WHAT IF ?

"the Trump administration is using the ceasefire to run covert CIA operations to illegally smuggle weapons into Iran. Washington is actively trying to orchestrate a violent civil war"

https://x.com/FurkanGozukara/status/2049721407664202053

[Barbara]

"Supreme Leader Khamenei to Gulf states:

“America can’t protect you. Iran can.”
New Iranian management of Strait of Hormuz will bring stability & benefits.

“Future of region without American presence.”"

https://x.com/Irantimes02/status/2049831637567893537