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  • “Iran” An Ayatollah Does A Flock of Seagulls’ “I Ran (So Far Away)” – A Parody

    06/28/2025 12:39:17 PM PDT · by mononymous · 4 replies
    Self ^ | 6/28/2025 | Self
    (Expletive deleted) around the middle east Always thought I’d do what I please Do what I please With Hezbollah and Hamas guys The kind of guys to terrorize the Jews Terrorize the Jews And I ran Iran in my own way I just ran Iran all night and day Couldn’t get in my way A cloud appears above my head A bomb or bolt of lightning comes right through Something comes right through The cloud is moving nearer still Seventy-two virgins come in view Many virgins in view And I ran Iran in my own way I just ran Iran...
  • In Iran, Mass Arrests, Executions, and Everyone Is Wondering: Where Is Supreme Leader Khamenei?

    06/26/2025 9:00:39 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 28 replies
    PJ Media ^ | 06/26/25 | Rick Moran
    Iran is in trouble, and the theocratic clique that has ruled the country for 46 years is worried. Who is Israel going to target next? There's no protection for anyone in Iran. Politicians, scientists, bureaucrats, and military leaders are all looking over their shoulders or watching the sky anxiously, wondering if there's a bomb or a drone with their name on it. Paranoia has gripped the Iranian elites. This has resulted in what Reuters describes as a "campaign of widespread arrests." There's also an "intensified street presence" as authorities attempt to head off any kind of mass protests, such as...
  • US strikes Iran live updates: US could not reach Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for last minute nuclear deal before airstrikes: report

    06/22/2025 4:13:02 PM PDT · by Libloather · 19 replies
    NY Post ^ | 6/22/25 | Josh Christenson, Samuel Chamberlain, Victor Nava, Ryan King, Diana Glebova, Kaydi Pelletier, Kathle
    President Trump has launched the United States into the spiraling Israel-Iran war, ordering strikes on the latter Middle Eastern country in the middle of the night Saturday in an attempt to crush its nuclear program. “We have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan,” Trump announced on Truth Social just before 8 p.m. ET, 3:30 a.m. Iran time. The president’s move to get the US involved in Israel’s military operations — now in their second week after large-scale airstrikes on June 13 took out 20 of Iran’s senior military leaders...
  • US strikes Iran live updates: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s top adviser declares ‘it is now our turn’

    06/22/2025 2:42:08 AM PDT · by Libloather · 61 replies
    NY Post ^ | 6/22/25 | Josh Christenson, Samuel Chamberlain, Victor Nava, Ryan King, Diana Glebova, Kaydi Pelletier, Kathle
    President Trump has launched the United States into the spiraling Israel-Iran war, ordering strikes on the latter Middle Eastern country in the middle of the night Saturday in an attempt to crush its nuclear program. “We have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan,” Trump announced on Truth Social just before 8 p.m. ET, 3:30 a.m. Iran time. The president’s move to get the US involved in Israel’s military operations — now in their second week after large-scale airstrikes on June 13 took out 20 of Iran’s senior military leaders...
  • Downfall of the Ayatollah ? When the king runs, the war is over. Khamenei looks as though he's running ...

    06/18/2025 7:28:39 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 31 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 06/18/25 | Civics Americanus
    KhameneiUntergang (Downfall, 2004) is a movie about the last days of the Hitler regime, including Hitler's nine-millimeter-and-cyanide honeymoon with Eva Braun. We are now looking at the final days of Iran's theocracy, which is likely to collapse by the end of the week; one week after Israel began military action. It is well known from history that, when a country's leaders flee the battlefield, the war is over for them. At Gaugamela in 331 B.C.E., the massive Persian army collapsed when King Darius turned his chariot to run from Alexander the Great, who was personally trying to kill him. Once...
  • Trump threatens Iran’s leader, demands ‘UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER’

    06/17/2025 11:20:00 AM PDT · by RandFan · 171 replies
    CNBC ^ | June 17 | CNBC
    President Donald Trump on Tuesday warned Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that he is an “easy target” and “our patience is wearing thin,” before demanding Tehran surrender in its conflict against Israel. “We know exactly where the so-called ‘Supreme Leader’ is hiding,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “He is an easy target, but is safe there - We are not going to take him out (kill!), at least not for now,” he wrote after declaring “total control” over Iran’s airspace. “But we don’t want missiles shot at civilians, or American soldiers. Our patience is wearing thin.” Trump in a subsequent...
  • Trump Touts ‘Total Control’ of Iranian Airspace, Says U.S. Knows Where Ayatollah ‘Is Hiding’

    06/17/2025 10:49:58 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 32 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 06/17/2025 | Nick Gilbertson
    President Donald Trump announced, “We now have complete and total control” of Iranian airspace and that the U.S. knows “exactly where” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei “is hiding.” Trump’s announcements came in a string of Truth Social posts. “We now have complete and total control of the skies over Iran. Iran had good sky trackers and other defensive equipment, and plenty of it, but it doesn’t compare to American made, conceived, and manufactured ‘stuff,'” Trump wrote. “Nobody does it better than the good ol’ USA,” he added. Trump then said the United States knows where Khamenei is located.
  • Too Good to Check: Putin Calls Trump, And Then Tells Khamenei He's On His Own

    06/15/2025 9:10:35 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 22 replies
    Hotair ^ | 06/15/2025 | Ed Morrissey
    Developments continue apace in Israel and Iran, where the two bitter enemies will enter their fourth day of war. Earlier today, news reports had the Iranians asking erstwhile intermediaries to pressure Israel into cease-fire negotiations, albeit on the same terms as before -- with Iran maintaining its nuclear enrichment programs and with the usual "Death to Israel" and "Death to the Great Satan" messaging. That didn't work out so well, apparently, so the mullahs asked Vladimir Putin to intercede with Donald Trump. According to Israel Hayom -- and no one else so far -- Trump told Putin that he wasn't...
  • Trump: Iran Has to Turn Over Uranium, Destroy Centrifuges or Get Blown Up

    05/08/2025 9:29:28 AM PDT · by Racketeer · 31 replies
    Breitbart ^ | May 8, 2025 | Ian Hatchett
    On Wednesday’s “Hugh Hewitt Show,” President Donald Trump discussed nuclear talks with Iran and stated that Iran has to turn over its uranium and either deactivate or destroy their centrifuges or else they will face strikes from the United States.
  • Saudi Arabia Opposed Obama's Deal With Iran. It Supports Trump's. Why?

    04/21/2025 4:30:53 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 14 replies
    New York Slimes ^ | April 20, 2025 | Vivian Nereim. Leily Nikounazar contributed reporting from Brussels.
    Ten years ago, when President Barack Obama and other leaders reached a deal with Iran to limit its nuclear program, Saudi Arabia was dismayed.Saudi officials called it a "weak deal" that had only emboldened the kingdom's regional rival, Iran. They cheered when President Trump withdrew from the agreement a few years later.Now, as a second Trump administration negotiates with Iran on a deal that might have very similar contours to the previous one, the view from Saudi Arabia looks quite different.The kingdom's Foreign Ministry issued a statement recently saying that it hoped the talks, mediated by neighboring Oman, would enhance...
  • Trump death threat by hardline newspaper divides Iran

    04/06/2025 3:58:55 PM PDT · by Mr. Mojo · 11 replies
    The Telegraph via Yahoo ^ | April 6, 2025 | Akhtar Makoii
    An Iranian state newspaper has issued a death threat against Donald Trump, as fears grow of war between Iran and the US. Kayhan newspaper is widely regarded as the voice of the most hardline factions in the country’s clerical establishment. Its editor is appointed directly by the supreme leader. However, the death threat sparked outrage in Iran, with political figures warning that it gave the US president a pretext to strike their country. In its “dialogue” column on Saturday, the newspaper wrote: “What’s up with this Donald Trump? Who does he think he is to threaten several countries every day?...
  • Ayatollah Khamenei Says No Iran-U.S. Talks: ‘Unintelligent and Dishonorable’

    02/09/2025 8:31:56 AM PST · by Mr. Mojo · 17 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 7 Feb 2025 | FRANCES MARTEL
    Iranian ‘supreme leader’ Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ruled out any negotiations with the United States on any important issues for the foreseeable future during remarks on Friday, warning his underlings in Tehran that attempting diplomacy with Washington was “dishonorable.” “Some people pretend that if we sit at the negotiating table, some problem will be solved, but the fact that we must understand correctly is that negotiating with the US has no effect on solving the country’s problems,” Khamenei declared, speaking at an event with the Iranian Air Force to mark the anniversary of the jihadist revolution in 1979. The “supreme leader”...
  • A Critically Important Trial Has Just Begun, and No One Involved Will Speak About Motive

    02/07/2025 9:39:06 AM PST · by george76 · 10 replies
    PJ Media ^ | February 06, 2025 | Robert Spencer
    Hadi Matar finally went on trial Tuesday for attempting to murder the novelist Salman Rushdie back in Aug. 2022. There is little, if any, doubt about Matar’s guilt .. for he stabbed Rushdie multiple times in full view of a shocked crowd at the Chautauqua festival. .. Barone managed to delay the trial for over a year. Now that it has begun, both Barone and his opposite number, Chautauqua County District Attorney Jason Schmidt, seem curiously intent on preventing any discussion of Matar’s motive. Matar tried to kill the man who, at the time of the stabbing had carried for...
  • Former President Jimmy Carter Passes Away at age 100

    12/29/2024 1:06:25 PM PST · by CFW · 401 replies
    AJC ^ | 12/29/24 | staff
    Former President Jimmy Carter, a man who redefined what a post-presidency could be, died Sunday. He was 100. Carter, who lived longer than any other U.S. president, entered home hospice care in Plains, Georgia in February 2023 after a series of short hospital stays. The only Georgian ever elected to the White House, Carter left office after a single term that was highlighted by forging peace between Israel and Egypt, but was overshadowed by the Iran hostage crisis. In the decades after, his reputation grew through his and wife Rosalynn Carter’s work at the Carter Center in Atlanta and his...
  • ‘We all came home.’ Former hostage said Jimmy Carter left with few choices in Iran crisis

    12/30/2024 10:49:02 AM PST · by DallasBiff · 63 replies
    WSB-2 TV ^ | 12/29/24 | Scott Flynn
    One of the defining moments of Jimmy Carter’s presidency was the Iran hostage crisis. Retired Army Col. Chuck Scott was one of the 52 hostages held in Iran for 444 days. In an interview with Channel 2 Action News, he said Carter got a lot of blame he did not deserve. “People say, ‘Yeah, he really screwed up the hostage crisis.’ But how do you know? You weren’t there,” Scott said. The crisis would overshadow many of the accomplishments during President Carter’s one and only term. “We looked like idiots. Here we were, the most powerful nation in the world...
  • Jimmy Carter's aid to the Ayatollahs. Former Israeli envoy to Washington Yoram Ettinger gives a retrospective on former US President Jimmy Carter's policies and how they contributed to the rise of Ayatollah Khomeini.

    12/30/2024 11:55:12 AM PST · by Milagros · 34 replies
    INN ^ | Dec 30, 2024
    "President Jimmy Carter strongly supported the Ayatollah regime's takeover of Iran. In 1978, Carter and his advisors concluded that the Persian Shah, America's Gulf policeman, was obsolete, and they believed Ayatollah Khomeini, who was in exile in Paris, would suit the US as he was anti-Communist and anti-Soviet." Ettinger added, "Carter went so far as to declare—ten days before Khomeini landed in Tehran—that US intelligence determined Khomeini would be an Iranian Gandhi. He also claimed Khomeini had no desire to spread the revolution outside Iran, would focus on tractors rather than tanks, and be a loyal envoy for the interests...
  • Iran Refutes Supreme Leader 'Coma' Reports Amid Social Media Buzz

    11/18/2024 12:07:18 PM PST · by rdl6989 · 14 replies
    Newsweek ^ | Nov 18, 2024 | Maya Mehrara
    ran has hit back against social media claims that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is close to death or in a coma, by publishing a picture of him meeting a Lebanese official. The photo on X, formerly Twitter, purports to show a meeting between the Iranian leader and Mojtaba Amani, Iran's ambassador to Lebanon at noon Sunday, November 17, in Tehran. Its publication followed tweets claiming Khamenei was in a coma or dead which had erupted on November 16.
  • Khamenei threatens Israel and US with ‘a crushing response’ to Israel’s airstrikes

    11/03/2024 9:35:09 AM PST · by Mr. Mojo · 35 replies
    The Times of Israel ^ | 2 Nov 2024 | AP and TOI STAFF
    Iran’s supreme leader on Saturday threatened Israel and the US with “a crushing response” over attacks on Iran and its allies. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei spoke as Iranian officials are increasingly threatening to launch yet another strike against Israel after its October 26 attack on the Islamic Republic that targeted military bases and facilities and that Iran said killed at least five people. Israel’s retaliatory strikes on Iranian military facilities came weeks after the October 1 attack, in which Iran launched 200 ballistic missiles at Israel, sending most of the population rushing to bomb shelters and safe rooms, causing relatively minor...
  • LIVE: Return Of Tousi TV After Death Threats

    10/09/2024 6:31:10 AM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 3 replies
    Mahyar Tousi TV ^ | 9/10/24 | Mahyar Tousi
    Tells of life story, seeking asylum as a boy in British Embassy in Tehran because morality police were after his mother. Mother taught him that as refugees the onus is on them to be loyal to their new country. Now relocated from central London due to death threats and kidnapping attempt, keeping location secret to protect loved ones living with him. Transcript linked below video.
  • Rats Scurry for Cover: Iran Moves Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to 'Secure Location' After IDF Strike Kills Hezbollah Leader Nasrallah

    09/28/2024 9:02:28 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 21 replies
    Red State ^ | 09/28/2024 | Ward Clark
    Israel has taken the gloves off and sent in the exterminators, and the rats are running for cover. One of the rats is Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has reportedly been moved to a "secure location" within Iran: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been transferred to a secure location somewhere within the country, according to Reuters. The outlet reported that Iran is in “constant contact” with Lebanon’s Hezbollah and other proxy groups to determine next steps.Khamenei’s movement comes hours after he urged Muslims in the region “to stand by the people of Lebanon and the proud Hezbollah...