You gotta give it to Iran for being completely unbested at identifying pressure points than the largest economy in the world.
My theory is that there is a strong potential that Iran is going to come out of this bullshit war as a regional power that can punch way above their weight class.
They will finally get around to building their nukes too, after this. And Israel wont be so eager to bomb them all the time.
Israel might even be less eager to bomb in its neighbours in general.
Another predictable result of MAGAs virtuosic incompetence.
I think the actual goal is to create a fierce enemy hellbent on destruction of the US so there is always an enemy to fight. That’s why they are bombing the schools and research centers, they want to make the Iranian people hate us completely so they can always say “You have to elect us, they want to destroy us and the other party is weak”
We have always been at war with Eastasia.
Its kind of a Tower of Babel situation, the not rich people had built a great tool of communication and cooperation. The wealth gods felt threatened by the combined power of the poor and the middle. So the weatlh gods destroyed the internet, hiding knowledge behind flase orAIcles and gatekeeping with token currency.
Large but young. A civilization as old as Iran’s will know a thing or two about real politik and how to utilize leverage. Iran could easily come out of this a regional power as it has been throughout history. China has also risen much closer to its historical global standing and India is accelerating in that direction also. We are watching an era of Western hegemony fade away and it is fascinating to see. Doubt it will be as bad as the fall of the Romans and 1000 years of religious dogma and anti-intellectualism but this is a high risk period for sure.
Seems more like they are calling their shots to show the US military cant stop them. “9 ball, corner pocket”.
As a counter to their swagger, I say we surround those buildings with our well-trained and highly-competent ICE agents. As the missiles rain down they can shoot them out of the sky with their rifles. Its worth a try.
And the more ICE agents the bigger the chance it will work.
I know they’re both fired but being the patriots they are I bet Kristi Noem and Pam Bondi would be willing to help out as well. Hell you know Pete Hegseth would do wonders for this country if he was over there. Send the whole crew over. It would be the most patriotic thing Trump could do.
Would get public support by 2 percent if he did so
…because Iran understands who runs the USA.
Imagine telling someone even like a year or two ago that in this war Iran would be the “good guys”.
and it’s one of those conflicting good guys cause…well…Iran and all the shit they’ve done to their people. I want to cheer them on for doing exactly this to data centers but at the same time I feel very guilty for doing so.
USrael is bombing schools, hospitals, residential buildings, water processing plants, orphanages, ambulances, and journalists in Iran, Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon. Iran is targeting mega corporations, US bases, IsraHell, military commanders, and politicians AND they are making a ceasefire contingent on ending the genocide in Gaza. I think it’s safe to say Iran are the good guys here. If you believe they slaughtered 80,000 protesters in 48 hours, you’re drinking the CIA koolaid, friend.
https://thegrayzone.com/2026/02/24/ned-congress-starlinks-iran-violence/
Iran doing some good things does not mean that it’s not a bad regime.
Why are you repeating Trump’s war propaganda for free, helping him and Israel slaughter civilians, journalists, and healthcare workers, and destroy schools, hospitals, and homes? Calling Iran’s democratically-elected government a “bad regime” is not only uninformed and childish but it is harmful—it is helping to manufacture consent among the public of the Western world to support or tolerate the continuation of these evil war crimes being committed against Iran by USrael.
Two things can be true. The Iranian regime is bad. The US regime is bad and started an unjust war.
Also, democratically elected? I must have slept through the last supreme leader elections
Just because you weren’t aware of it doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.
Masoud Pezeshkian won the 2024 Iranian presidential election on July 6 and was inaugurated July 28. Pezeshkian, who is still president, has criticized the Iranian government’s handling of protesters in the past, is an advocate for the rights of ethnic minorities in Iran (like the Kurds and Azeris), and has appointed two women as Vice Presidents, one as a minister in his cabinet, and a woman as his spokesperson.
The Ayatollah is the equivalent of the Queen of England + the Archbishop of Canterbury and has both political and religious power, but the president is elected by the people of Iran and runs the country along with various councils. According to the UN, the official leader of Iran is the president, not the Ayatollah.
Maybe try to diversify your media intake so you’re not only consuming narratives manufactured to support US imperialism and hegemony (I.e. billionaire-owned mainstream media). I recommend reading President Pezeshkian’s message to the American people he posted the other day. We would be lucky to have a president as intelligent and humane as him.
I get my info from plenty of sources, I’m just neither an idiot nor some shill, I hadn’t decided where you fall but if you think the president of Iran is the one calling the shots I’ll go with idiot.
Do you have sources to back this up or are you just going on vibes?
In 1960s, Cosmopolitan magazine brainwashed women to wear mini skirts and smoke in public, and I said nothing, because that shit was hott.
Imagine telling someone even like a year or two ago that in this war Iran would be the “good guys”.
They always have been in conflicts with America/Israel. As it turns out, what America and Israel want for Iran is somehow even worse than the Islamic Republic.
More like antihero. Iran regime is evil, plain and open. But in this evil vs evil conflict they are the underdogs. In sheer military strength it’s not even a close match. They are making do with what they have and hitting the bigger evil where they can hurt.
yes, antihero that’s what I was looking for. thank you.
The “bigger evil” eh? The US is the one who killed 10 thousand+ protesters? And the US is the one where women are beaten to death in the streets for showing their faces? Where LGBTQ people worry about a lot more than “can I play sports or use a public restroom?”
Lemmy has gone stupid over Iran. The two aren’t even close. Iran isn’t a “hero” in any sense of the word.
The US is the one who bankrolled, enabled and protected a literal genocide, which is worse than everything you just said.
The bloodthirsty regime in Iran is not a “hero” in any word indeed. Nor is the US that has engaged in this unjustified aggression and early on killed a school full of pupils. As it stands I don’t know how large the blood toll is, likely the Iranian regime has still more blood of its own people on its hands, but the US is working on getting there. Let’s see how long this 3 days special military operation will take.
Iran isn’t threatening the rest of the world though, and Magastan has killed several orders of magnitude more people on every continent. Including its own citizens.
Also, Magastan is directly responsible for the Iranian regime coming to power in the first place. So these atrocities committed are also blood on Magastan hands
I like “Magastan”, going to borrow that.
I am pretty sure I borrowed it in the same way from someone else. Don’t think I am witty enough to have come up with that myself, but I don’t recall where I saw it.
The bigger evil is the one that overthrew their democratically elected government in 1953 to protect British oil interests.
Women wore skirts, there was freedom and education for all but their government wanted the oil under their country and BP wanted to not pay a fair amount for it.
This is chickens coming home to roost after 60+ years for the CIA and MI6.
This is chickens coming home to roost
Not even close. Would need to find those BP execs to start.
BP was just the company getting the oil. The US and Britain wanted a destabilized Middle East, the govt’s are to blame.
Now the US fell into a trap. Now they have had to remove sanctions on Iranian oil and Iran has started selling their oil for more money and in Chinese Yuan. They are making money on every barrel they allow through the strait and like it or not they are now a rising world power in opposition to a power in decline, the USA. I hope that that new world power will not be too cruel to it’s people and others but with the position they have been in for the last 60 years, I can’t really blame them if they are a cruel power to those in power in the region.
I don’t support them being brutal towards those who took them down so long ago and their allies but I’m not surprised.
So the “bigger evil” isn’t the regime doing the things you say are evil.
I know, reading is hard, but you should try.
They are showing the rest of the world one needs not bow to the neonazis. (even if it’s a religious nutcase regime showing so)
You dont really have to consider them the good guys, but they’re the ones who are defending themselves against terrorism
As someone who dies not support Iran, I see nothing wrong with this headline.
same, I did not have “supports actions of Iran” on my bingo card, but here we are.
The more headlines I’m seeing about Iran the more I’m starting to support them I don’t support any regime though
Good to keep in mind it is still an oppressive theocracy with public killings and their own flavor of violent regime thugs, working above laws, just like Russia has their militia and US has their ICE etc.
But, in comparison to this current flavor of the US, I too find myself preferring Iran here, and not only because they are the victim here, which is just bonkers in any objective sense. The world is just nuts.
That has a somebody’s else’s problem field around it. I can’t see it.
Get fucked Elon
AFAIK Stargate is Sam Altman, not Elon. You’re probably confusing with Starlink and Starship.
Starlink is Elon, Starship is Mickey Thomas, Stargate is Ra.
Jaffa kree!
The Stargate system was built by the ancients. The Goa’uld just used it to get around.
Hmm, perhaps Sam Altman is just a Ba’al clone?
He’s not nearly pretty enough
Or perhaps they were just saying that because its worth saying, even randomly in random places.
Fuck Nazis
I upvoted it anyway, because I gatta Nazi’s even when the story isn’t show Nazi’s.
I’m sure you do as well, but I also do, additionally.
wonder if he named it because of the SHOW. we know altmans master, thiel names his own companies after lotr.
Chaotic one way data compression.
And broken up & distributed, basically a torrent
DO IT
https://maps.app.goo.gl/YANWqi9jtCvxv1PGA?g_st=ac
Here I guess
Ohhh noesss, not the datacenters!
Anyway…
I see Iran has taken lessons in the “get the world to like you” class
Hey do that and come here and Bob ours next, and if you’re still feeling frisky, bomb the pop up ICE headquarters next.
Do it and nothing of real value to humanity will be lost.
Except of course the monetary value of the AI chips. and those are owned by the 1%, so taking away some of their control, Iran will actually do Democracy of the world a favor.
