Imagine Being Iranian
Imagine betting it all on Don the Con.
“The fascist theocrats who comprise the Republican Party won’t side against me!”
That is the wager that everyone in what passes for the Iranian “opposition” made.
And now the lucky winners are being turned into large piles of ash.
International Republicanism claims yet another non-USian population revolting against the Axis, as I had warned Iranians and their boosters among World Jewry would happen for years and years and years.
To no avail, of course, because “anti-regime” Iranians always wanted to lose.
“Anti-regime Iranians” worship the Republican Party, as does every single population engaged against the Axis, to their own destruction. “Anti-regime Iranians” do this contrary to all publicly-available facts, which indicate that Republicans have always backed the IRI and view them as a cornerstone of the geopolitical architecture of World Conservatism, leading us to conclude that there, in fact, are no “anti-regime Iranians,” but merely competing imperial successionists, who seek to continue Iran’s eternal cycle of recycling one imperial government with another.
After all, SAVAK became the Revolutionary Guards, and Punchline Pahlavi has already said he would be willing to take them back into his new regime (which will never happen, as the Pahlavi cult is and always has been an obvious dead-end for the Iranian “opposition”).
Had Iranians actually wanted to topple the Islamic Republic or Iran, they never would have supported Republicans through Operation OBAMA, wherein they blamed every single advance that Iran made on him instead of open pro-IRI Republican sabotage.
Had Iranians wanted to win against the regime, they would have told the world how Nixon sold the Shah enough arms to tank the Iranian economy, opening the way for Khomeini to take power.
Instead, they blamed Jimmy Carter, who told the Shah to crack down harder against Khomeini, which the Shah refused to do. The same Carter who launched the G.I. Joe-tier Operation Eagle Claw to rescue the embassy hostages, while Reagan colluded with the IRI to continue their captivity until after the 1980 election. The same Carter who began arming Saddam against the IRI, a process which Reagan derailed.
Iranians never talk about how Reagan gave Hezbollah, Assad’s Syria, and therefore Iran control of Lebanon after the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing. Rather than fight Hezbollah, Reagan chose to withdraw from Lebanon, handing the country over to IRI forces, thereby securing the IRI in its infancy.
For Iran relies on its empire to sustain its regime. That is why the IRI, despite being under existential threat from Iraq in the Iran-Iraq War, immediately chose to export itself. There are only so many people in the Middle East who would support a Shia theocracy, and Iran needed to collect personnel from them all to have an army to call upon should it face a revolt at home.
Iranians never talk about Iran-Contra, wherein Reagan and the Republican Party, avenging Nixon, achieved a triumph of the will over the Constitution and illegally armed Iran, despite a Congressional ban on such a move.
Indeed, it was the Democratic Congress that provided virtually all American support to Iraq, mostly in the form of economic aid, which Democrats tend to prefer anyway. The notion that the United States played both sides in Iran-Iraq has no foundation in Reality. American policy was divided between Team Iraq, centered on the Democratic-led Congress, and Team Iran, which resided in the Republican-led executive branch. All levers available to Reagan to support Iraq were left virtually unmoved. The same cannot be said for Reagan’s support for Iran.
The scale of Iran-Contra is unknown to anyone living today because, again, Iranians never talk about it. But we have all seen what a TOW can do to a Soviet armored vehicle thanks to a decade of such videos from Syria, and those were from the 2010s. In 1985, a TOW missile was a true wonder weapon.
The Republican Party and Israel supplied Iran with thousands of TOWs and Hawk anti-aircraft missiles, which Iran immediately deployed.
Source: Wikipedia
Iran first deployed the TOWs it received from its conservative allies in the First Battle of Al-Faw. This saw Iran capture Iraq’s al-Faw peninsula, severing its access to the Persian Gulf. Iran held the peninsula until the end of the war.
By 1986, Iran had lost control of the skies to Iraq, yet upon receiving the Hawks, downed dozens of Iraqi aircraft, thereby eliminating the most severe battlefield threat to Iranian forces.
Iran then used the next waves of TOWS it received from Republicans and Israel to launch Operation Karbala 5, the largest battle of the war. Iran’s push toward Basra involved over 200,000 troops and would have threatened Iraq’s main supply routes had they won.
Iranians never talk about this because they skip to Operation Praying Mantis. Yet they never talk about how the “battle” was a chivalrous affair, with the Navy giving Iranians stationed on them twenty minutes to evacuate. The operation was over, until a nearby Iranian naval commander, uninvolved with the staged attack, decided to launch his own assault, in which his forces were destroyed.
Iranians also never seem to understand that the 1988 executions occurred under a Republican President, just as the 1982 Hama Massacre in Iran’s sole ally, Syria, did.
Iranians are also constitutionally incapable of seeing themselves in Iraq’s failed post-Saddam revolution, which was also instigated by a Republican and subsequently abandoned, leaving 200,000 Iraqis killed by Saddamist forces in April 1992.
Iranians never recognize that Democrats enable Iran’s farcical opposition to make whatever pitiful gains are possible, given the reality of Iran’s situation.
During Iran’s 1999 student protests, the IRI didn’t dare to conduct such a level of repression as they did under Reagan and Bush, as they would have had to contend with a Democratic President in office at the height of the Responsibility to Protect doctrine.
Likewise, with the Green Revolution under OBAMA, Iran was not able to launch a crackdown on the scale and barbarity as they did under Donandon Trump.
This, of course, changed with the coming of Donandon Trump. Under Trump 1.0, Iran too launched a massive revolt, but as Trump had cut off weapons to Syrian rebels in July 2017 after conferring with Putin on the sidelines of the G-20, they had no chance of success. Trump also refused to send Iranians fighting the regime Internet, which was their sole demand. Yet, as Trump and, therefore, fascism were still restrained by various forces, the regime was unable to unleash its full brutality on the protesters.
During the Women, Life, Freedom protests under Biden, the IRI was likewise unable to deploy its full strength against protesters and was eventually forced to concede some measure of autonomy thanks to Biden, another hated Democratic President.
However, with the total defeat of USian liberal forces in 2024, the IRI was no longer so constrained by the Democrats that every Iranian loathes. With Donandon Trump back on his throne, the Iranian “opposition” and World Jewry were now able to achieve the failed revolt in Iran that both had long desired (as World Jewry is a lost branch of the Iranian imperial world), ending with tens or possibly hundreds of thousands of Iranians massacred, securing the regime’s rule for another generation.
I had warned anyone I could in the Jewish-Iranian camp would happen with Republicans. Yet every single time, actors from both camps accused me of “supporting the regime” because I could see where their agitation would lead and was actually interested in defeating the regime, not securing to strike a blow against liberalism, as the imperialist Iranian “opposition” and functionally anti-Zionist World Jewry were.
Even more, Donandon Trump saved Iran’s nuclear capabilities from the systematic dismantling they had previously undergone under OBAMA. The Fordow strike had been decades in the making. Trump’s best move to save the IRI’s nuclear program was to scuttle the operation with a single strike, which he did.
With Midnight Hammer, Trump forever took the threat of military force and its unknown consequences for Iran off the table. The IRI recognized the capabilities of the U.S. Air Force and could begin to plan accordingly. Most importantly, the IRI also never lost the uranium it already enriched, which is already enough for 10-20 bombs.
Republicans, of course, as con people, misdirected people observing the aftermath of Midnight Hammer by pointing to the destroyed centrifuges as a measure of the success of their attack against the IRI. But Iran’s entire nuclear program was expendable, because all that mattered was getting enough uranium for some bombs. Once such weapons were constructed, Iran could reconstitute its program at will.
Midnight Hammer locked in place the gains Iran had made since Trump withdrew from JCPOA. And as any money laundering crook like Trump knows (and the IRI, for that matter, as it is a criminal enterprise), a few losses are the cost of doing business.
And this is to say nothing of every solid that Donandon Trump did for the IRI under his first term.
After cutting off weapons to Syrian rebels fighting Iran, who killed about 200,000 of the imperial forces under OBAMA, Trump then sided againstthe Kurdish Regional Government’s independence referendum, siding with Soleimani to crush the vote. Iran then assumed control of the KRG’s oil production in Kirkuk, which had previously been contested.
In 2018, Donandon Trump withdrew from OBAMA’s JCPOA, which until then had seen Iran surrender all uranium it had enriched and freeze further production. This gave Iran free rein to pursue nuclear weapons, while Team Trump pursued its farcical Maximum Cope campaign to kayfabe against the regime.
The Bush Administration was also full of pro-Iran figures, who, amid snarling about Eye-ran, achieved the regime’s geopolitical goals. “Maximum Pressure” itself was the exact same playbook, word for word, save for the switching of the country, that the Bush Administration used to help North Korea go nuclear. Rather than force North Korea to surrender its nuclear weapons production in a conditional regime surrender similar to JCPOA, Bush pursued a performative lashing out at the regime, which was ensured to leave its nuclear capabilities unaffected while simulating conflict.
In 2018, Donandon Trump Forced the the pro-government Yemen coalition into a ceasefire with the Houthis, even though the Coalition had practically won the war. The Coalition had spent the summer working along the western coast, moving on to Hodeidah, the sole Houthi lifeline for Iranian resupply.
In a common Republican move, Pompeo “surged” support for a “make-or-break” offensive, which no one agreed upon but Republicans, and which did not reflect the state of the war. Even though the Coalition defeated the Houthis in Western Hodeidah and, therefore, cut their access to the sea and Iranian resupply, Republicans declared the battle a failure, forcing a ceasefire that would inevitably see the Houthis regain control of all territories lost, including suppressing an internal revolt.
In 2019, Donandon Trump also forced Saudi Arabia into neutrality against Iran. The IRI launched a drone and missile attack against Abqaiq and Khurais, immediately knocking out 50% of Saudi oil production.
This had been the precise nightmare scenario for Saudi Arabia outlined during the Bush Administration. Yet Donandon Trump did nothing in response. Saudi Arabia took heed and shifted to pursuing reconciliation with Iran until rebel forces deposed Assad in 2024.
The lowest of low-information “opposition” Iranians and their sympathizers love to crow about how Trump did the Soleimani hit, because their brains are incapable of processing any more data than an ASCII image and a brief bit of directly-related text about it. They claim that this was Trump’s long-awaited response to the attacks on Saudi Arabia and general Iranian malfeasance during Donandon Trump’s first term.
Donandon Trump carried out the Soleimani hit amid the height of the Tishreen Revolt. As a result, instead of seeing a youth movement taking Iraq further away from Iran’s orbit, Iranian forces crushed the revolt, and Iraqis brought the country closer to Iran. Soleimani, nearing the end of his useful life, achieved a spectacular final act thanks to Trump.
And in the aftermath, Donandon Trump coordinated directly with the IRI to attack American and Iraqi troops. He even admitted so on television, and downplayed the dozens of Iraqi deaths and 109 American injuries as “a few headaches.”
To say nothing of Trump’s ongoing support for CHINAH and russia, Iran’s allies.
This barely scratches the surface of the Republican alliance with the IRI. All of it is public, and anyone engaging with Iran should be fluent in these points, especially anyone claiming to be part of any “Iranian opposition.” And yet, they aren’t.
Should Donandon Trump decide to strike the IRI, it will only be to give the regime the ability to exterminate more of the “opposition,” to strike heroic Qatar, which stands nearly alone against the Axis in the Gulf, and to visit its imperial revenge on Israel, which won’t be able to stop the volume of missiles that Iran can put up (to the glee of Republican nazis, who might even book a trip to the Holy Land to watch), and to run down USian weapons stockpiles, giving the greater Axis freedom of action.
Imagine, knowing all of this, thinking the Republican con men would do anything else.