uhhh oh my god

Why are Americans..................?

Happy Iraqi Teacher Day to me😭

I have MANY complicated thoughts about this but the one thought that I have consistently known to be true for me at least is that the experiences of the vast majority of the Iraqi diaspora are severely detached from ours here in Iraq which is clearly reflected in their opinions on Iraq.

I am not sure if I agree above is the goal, but several key US allies in the region, from Israel to GCC would prefer an Iran in civil war over a democratic & sovereign Iran... Israel may prefer a friendly proxy ruled Iran to keep Turkey in check though. Many lines of interest by many parties here.

In a famous video, Khamanei was approached by a boy who said he wanted to be a martyr. Khamanei said, ok, how about you grow up, grow tall, study, become wise and useful to Islam, live 80 to 90 years, and THEN become a martyr. Like I said, he got exactly what he wanted x.com/DropSiteNews...

Rather than regime change, Iran becoming a failed state & potentially breaking into a civil war & multiple weaker states is a common discussion among Iranians of all political leanings in Iran & leftist Iranians in diaspora. Yet it doesn't get much air elsewhere, esp on English MSM, I find.

been thinking about the entire school of elementary school girls we exploded today

To the extent that Trump has a goal, as he articulated in his barbaric prerecorded video last night, it is not to do regime change but regime collapse. This is also the obvious goal of Israel. The Shah's son won't benefit because the goal is to turn it into rubble and let Iranians fight over rubble.

Details on Khamanei's assassination from Tanim News Agency. The Israelis/Americans have no magic powers. He was killed at home. That's where they like to kill many of their targets, as well as their families as they did here. x.com/Tasnimnews_F...

The IRGC is running the show now, with no one within the regime able to reign them in. So yeah assassinating the only guy who was kind of able to reign them in was definitely a great idea by America and Israel well done!

Trump claimed to have AMAZING intelligence. Not true. The Iranians were just sloppy….again. The trigger for the US/Israeli strikes was a meeting by Iran's leadership: at least those who were killed, though not sure Khamanei was there. I'm hearing he was home working in his office when he was hit.

The fact that his assassination was announced so quickly by the Iranian authorities is giving me some pause, especially when considering the rumours that he hadn't been in actual charge for quite a while.

Home of reformist opposition leaders from 2009 Green Movement, Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Zahra Rahnavard was also hit by Israeli/US strikes. They have been under house arrest by the regime for over a decade.

in case anyone ever needed confirmation that it's not about building a democratic Iran, it's about collapsing Iran and turning it into a land of rubble that can be bombed every six months

Moments after Khamanei's killing was confirmed, an anonymous grp inside Iran says its ready to take over. 70 ppl - none named - have decided they should decide Iran's future. Notably, they have called for a decentralized Iran - which is code for a fragmented Iran x.com/SehatiKouros...

Khamanei was assassinated in the early morning - meaning at the very start of strikes. The process for selecting a new Supreme Leaders starts now x.com/BabakVahdad/...

Well in other news Saudi Arabia engaged in dirty double dealing, pushing Trump to strike while publicly claiming not to support an attack. MBS was worried about being hit by Iran if they were public w/their real goals. They got hit anyway www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

it seems pretty likely that the rumors that Khamenei delegated powers to the supreme defense council weeks ago were true judging by the way Iran responded and how quickly it did so compared to last year

Drinking an extremely hot cup of milk tea 20 minutes before Fajr because I like to live on the edge in order to feel something.

Those school girls were soldiers and therefore deserved to be obliterated by a US/Israeli bomb, but also they're not dead but also it'd be good if they were dead

This is basically the best possible death that he could have ever gotten, when the alternative was a Gaddafi-style execution. I have nothing good to say about him, but that doesn't make America and Israel's illegal war on Iran and its people OK by any means though.

Iranian media has confirmed, Ali Khamanei has been killed. The US/Iran gave the 86 year old ayatollah, who had been tortured by the Shah's govt and was a leading figure in the govt since 1979, the death he deeply wanted - they made him a martyr for the revolution.

My Iraqi millennial arse will tell countless "back in my day" wartime stories to my college students who weren't even born in 2003.

Iraq has never been truly free from US occupation. “No Chance for You”, Shiite Leader Tells Alhurra Details of Barrack–Maliki Meeting | Alhurra share.google/vToSYfbfV7d1...

The absolute state of this! Push from Saudis, Israel helped move Trump to attack Iran - The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Guys do you remember Alex Pretti, who was murdered by ICE agent in Minnesota 13732795 years ago?

The Iranian national football team qualified to the World Cup. How are they going to compete when the country attacking their country is hosting the tournament?

I read somewhere that Gavin Newsom thinks that he is hot in the same way Jon Ossoff is actually hot and it stuck with me😂🙈

Times are incredibly hard but here is @zackpolanski.bsky.social being genuinely happy to cleanse your timeline😍😭

Torn between "Gotta save money because darker times are coming" and "The world is ending anyways I might as well buy whatever the fuck I want before I die" and it's honestly such torture.

I like Ossoff a lot and I think that he is so hot but this statement does not mention the Iranian people at all, not even once. He is praying for the US army but not for the innocent civilians of Iran and the region whose lives are endangered by America and Israel. Very hot man though.

Iraq is next for sure. Iraq war 2.0 baby!

In addition to hitting an all-girls school in southern Iran, killing over 100 civilians mostly little children, the US-Israel also hit this school in Tehran, killing 2 more students. x.com/adhaque110/s...

Too obsessed with what Iranian women were and were not wearing to focus on making the A bomb. How did that work out for you Sayyid Ali?

If you are feeling like shit right now please remember that there are people in the Middle East who are also feeling like shit whilst having to fast as well so yeah.

We are exacerbating a hunger crisis in Venezuela at the moment so it would be on brand

America really thought that the Iranian regime was structured exactly like Saddam Hussein's regime in the sense that killing Khamenei would shut it all down. Know your Middle Eastern autocracies you colossal morons.

DEMs want American crimes against other countries to be committed with grace and decorum.

Ali Al Khamenei is known to outsiders as the supreme leader of the Iranian regime, but to MANY Shi'a Muslims he was also their Grand Ayatollah meaning that he is their highest religious authority (Marji' مرجع). He was however not the only Grand Ayatollah in Iran.

Neither the U.S. nor Israel wants democracy in Iran. They want a puppet regime that does their bidding.

"Success" of the current US/Israel aggression on Iran will be measured by the fall of the current Iranian regime not by what happens after that or the resulting consequences for the Iranian people if/when Iran becomes a Libyaesque-wasteland or a military autocracy. Watch them hail Trump as a genius.

So the people that started this think that Ayatollah Khamenei and Ayatollah Khomeini are the same person? Christ on a bike.

A general rule of thumb is that joking about war is only acceptable if you are a potential victim of that war. Like for e.g. when my students joke that I might not be able to examine them in a couple of weeks because of potential spillage into Iraq? That's OK. White people nonsense? ALWAYS NOT OK!

Main problem with it is its sole focus on 'American lives'. Iranians dont exist to these ghouls (much like Palestinians and Lebanese).

U.S. Still Enjoying Small But Loyal Following

🇮🇷🇮🇱🇺🇸 BREAKING: ISRAEL BOMBED 20 volleyball players in a sports hall in Iran.

Or a hardline nationalist military autocracy that would make Sayyid Ali Al Khamenei seem like Mr Rogers in comparison.

Well we Shi'as believe that martyrs are alive so they are not technically lying.