The US on the one hand works tirelessly, ruthlessly and competently to prevent the emergence of a regional hegemon anywhere on earth and on the other hand is working to facilitate the emergence of Israel as a regional hegemon in MENA.
The US works tirelessly, ruthlessly to ensure that the US is the hegemon on earth and all will bow to its power or be destroyed. It always has done. Except now the US is imploding and destroying itself because of its greed and stupidity.
The Israelis are deranged lunatics and anyone who supports them in any way supports pure evil.
I see no evidence of the US imploding or destroying itself. Rather, it is consolidating and expanding. We are watching the republic fade away as the empire hardens.
It is not consolidating. The US has the highest levels of poverty, some of it Third World levels and working poor of any developed nation. Disgusting for its wealth.
The US has the worst worker rights and freedoms, the lowest minimum wage, the worst education system and the worst medical system of any developed nation.
It is also a heavily armed society where people fear and hate their Government. And now with the thugs unleashed by Trump, they fear and hate it even more.
The US is not expanding it is contracting because while in the past some of the world hated the United States, now most of the world hates the United States.
To hold an Empire you need boots on the ground and they are less and less available. Younger people will not join the army and fight the evil wars the US wages.
Either the US implodes in civil war, or collapses economically because of massive levels of debt, no capacity to be self sufficient in manufacturing, inferior standards in everything, a decayed and rusting infrastructure and too many unhappy and enraged citizens.
In addition, Americans are the most sickly people on planet earth, the most medicated, the most vaccinated and now with the lowest longevity.
To expand and consolidate you need a healthy population, a healthy economy, a healthy culture, a healthy society and the US has none of that.
I have read Americans consume most of the world's medications and 97% of painkillers. But happy to be corrected if you provide the data.
AI Overview
Based on data regarding pharmaceutical consumption and expenditure, the people who consume the highest volume of prescription medications are predominantly located in high-income nations, with the United States leading in both overall expenditure and per-capita spending.
While the U.S. does not consume an overwhelming majority of all global drugs (representing about 7.7%–8% of the global volume of daily doses rather than higher, inaccurate claims of ~87%), it is the dominant market.
Key Groups with High Medication Consumption:
Americans (USA): The U.S. is the most medicated country, with roughly 66% of adults using prescription drugs. Americans consume about 80% of the global opioid supply.
Other High-Income Nations: In addition to the US, countries with high per-capita pharmaceutical spending include Japan, Greece, Germany, Switzerland, Ireland, Belgium, France, Canada, and Australia.
Older Adults: Medication use increases significantly with age. In the EU and elsewhere, the highest usage is among those aged 75 and over.
Women: Women generally consume more prescribed medications than men across various regions.
Reasons for High Consumption:
High Disease Burden: The U.S. in particular has high rates of chronic diseases, including heart disease, diabetes, obesity, depression, and cancer.
Access and Marketing: The U.S. and New Zealand are the only countries that allow direct-to-consumer advertising for prescription drugs.
Healthcare System: The U.S. has a faster, more accessible market for new, often more expensive drugs.
My statement was based on what a French teacher once told my French class. Perhaps she was wrong or perhaps she was taking non-prescription drugs into account too.
You’ve got your head in the sand or maybe up your arse. The productive capacity of the US has collapsed. It is in its last and most dangerous phase. It now relies purely on piracy; theft and extreme violence to maintain its military economy. The domination of the US dollar is on the cusp of sudden collapse. It won’t be gradual. It is still number one only through coercion and assassinations/coups.
It will create much much more misery and death for civilians worldwide but its days are numbered.
Excellent analysis. Let's just remember the Mossadegh episode in 1953 and the mission of CIA agent Kermit Roosevelt, sent to Iran with a million dollars - not for charity...
One of the big takeaways from John’s column is near the end.
Most of us who don’t listen to the Nat-Sec Nutsacks™ (feel free to share!) know the Mossad angle in the current protests, and can fill in the CIA angle. (Apparently Delta not involved, though?)
But, the indirect confirmation that the attacks on Iran's nuclear structure last summer, if not a full nothingburger, were a semi-nothingburger, is something to note and keep in mind.
The idea that the regime only became violent after the protesters became violent is ridiculous. There is no amount of violence civilians can commit that could possibly justify the murder of more than 5 thousand people.
I can’t think of any 21st-century protest movement that was met with this level of violence.
There are many countries on Earth with Western sanctions, say Russia, and their economies are not collapsing. We don’t live in an age when American sanctions alone can destroy a country across the Atlantic. The reason the Iranian economy is this bad is because Iran is a military mafia state that serves the cleric and IRGC elites.
Plus, Iranians are not protesting against the regime just because of the economy.
There was already mass anti-government sentiment before Western sanctions.
Of course, Mossad and the CIA wanted a revolution. That doesn’t mean Iranians didn’t want it too. They did.
No one wants to live in a country governed by 7th-century laws implemented by a draconian mix of mullahs and the military.
How exactly did Iran win the 12-day war?
Trump’s boasting about destroying Iran’s nuclear facilities was nonsense and Netanyahu’s plans for regime change failed, but at the end of the day Iran suffered about 42 times the casualties in terms of the death toll, including top scientists and IRGC leaders.
At the beginning of the protests, Turkiye informed the Iranians of about 400 armed Kurds were headed for Iran, they were intercepted by the Iranian military.
Have you considered that the 'protesters' were armed and there is evidence that they had instructions from Mossad agents to shoot people in the crowd, you know the Israeli operatives that Israeli Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu said 'were active in Iran “right now” as they were during the 12-day war' and you KNOW that if there is a 'regime change' operation/protest/riot, the CIA/NED et al, is there.
Abbas Masjedi Arani, the head of Iran’s medical examiner authority, told state media that many of the casualties were shot in the chest or the head FROM CLOSE RANGE OR FROM ROOFTOPS with the aim of inflicting mortal wounds, while others were stabbed to death. Doesn't this sound remarkably similar to the 2014 Maidan Massacre in Ukraine? The US regime change operations are becoming so transparent and there are still fools that ignore the patterns.
You'll be able to find foreign involvement in any revolution in history. No one is denying that Israel and America are involved. The idea that it's either a CIA ploy or a hundred percent organic is nonsense. It can be mostly organic and also amplified by foreign agents.
I don't particularly about the fact that some of the protesters were 'armed.' If you look at the history of post revolution Iran, it isn't that hard to see why.
Iranians have been fighting back against the Islamic republic since it's birth. I actually wrote a piece exploring the entire history of this on my newsletter. But the point is, when peaceful protests fail, people turn violent. That's the regime's fault, not the protesters.
Why exactly do you care about what Iran's head medical examiner said? Any government will spread propaganda about the opposition. Believing in those lies is sheer naivety.
Of course, western media has it's own remarkable set of propaganda. That's why you should be looking at reports by independent international and Iranian human rights organizations.
What does Turkey telling Iran that the 400 Kurds are on their way have to do with any of this? The Kurds have been againt the Islamic Republic for a long time. What now, Mossad sent those Kurds?
Oh, there's 'No one is denying that Israel and America are involved', and you think that's just fine? According to the UN charter and international law, meddling in the affairs is unlawful, regardless of the reasons. Were the protests partly organic, sure, but they were peaceful except for the armed foreign funded MEK, those 400 US funded ISIS Kurds an other EXTERNAL forces that were implanted in the crowds, would you accept that in YOUR country? Also, it's now known that the Starlink units were smuggled into Iran by the Biden administrations to provoke the 'regime change' protests over the death of Mahsa Amini and the stories the US/Mossad cooked up over her death.
Also, that some of the protesters were armed surely isn't hard to understand when you consider how much money has been put into the MEK, the Syrian/Turkic Kurds and Baluchis by Mossad/the CIS/NED/Soros and the myriad of American three letter agencies and that doesn't even take into account the MI6. Again, would you accept that in YOUR country?
Why exactly do I care about what Iran's head medical examiner said? Probably because it shows a pattern, why do you believe what the US MSM says, only someone WILLFULLY ignorant could suggest they don't lie to their audiences.
Are you really so thick that you have to ask what Turkiye informing Iran of 400 Kurd saboteurs and seditionist heading their way have to do with any of this?
America, Israel and everyone else should GTFO of Iran and let the Iranians look after their own country, NONE of hem has the good will of Iranians as a goal, NONE!
If you dig deep enough, you'll find foreign involvement in almost every revolution in history. We live in a world where the UN charter and international law is broken every single year.
Are you surprised that the US funds MEK? Is this your reason for why the Iranian protests are illegitimate?
By this logic, the Palestinian fight against Israeli apartheid is also wrong because Hamas is funded by Iran.
What even is the point of bringing the MEK into this conversation?
The organization has been dead since the 80s with almost no support in Iran. The MEK wouldn't even represent 1/1000th of the protesters.
No, I wouldn't accept foreign agents in my country. But the idea that most of the more than five thousand people killed were foreign agents is ridiculous.
Labelling your opposition "foreign agents" is a basic propaganda tactic.
The Soviets called anyone who was for democracy a "western agent." In America, communists and socialists were called "Soviet agents." In my country, during the July Revolution, protesters were tagged "Pakistani agents."
So what if Starlink was "smuggled in"?
Letting people have access to the internet doesn't "provoke" them. It lets them share information. That's what authoritarian regimes fear.
Iranians don't care if Masha Amini's story was "cooked up."
Masha Amini's death was the boiling point for Iranian anger against the regime.
No one shows up to protests knowing they could be killed, just because some young girl was beaten to death. Mass protests comes from deep-seated anger.
No, I don't trust the US MSM.
Every country on earth has their own propaganda media. Iran's chief medical examiner will spout Iranian propaganda in the same way that the New York Times or the MSM spouts American propaganda.
If you think that it's just the West who lie and the rest of us are just awesome truth tellers, you need a reality check.
And I agree, America and Israel should get out of Iran and let Iranians win their own battle against their military mafia government.
The situation is completely different in Iran and Gaza, there is no comparison, last I heard, there was no genocide happening in Iran and the Iranians are not supremacists and suggesting the MEK has been 'dead' since the 80s is unbelievable, that it has little support in Iran is undeniable but they have been funded in Azerbaijan by the US and Israel and no doubt, MI6 as well, they were undoubtedly in Bangladesh as well so yeah, you didn't mind them there either.
As for all of the 2500, 5000, or was it "many tens of thousands", get your numbers straight, being killed by foreign agents, NO ONE, including you can verify how many were killed or by whom so the point is moot, you can debate all you want but there are still no facts to back up any of it.
Arguing that cutting off the internet and Starlink is wrong is silly at best, if groups that are trying to destabilize your country are being organized through any communication system, EVERY country would do what they could to disrupt the communications, it would be foolish NOT to do that. As for the internet provoking, no, it doesn't, but what it does is the same as the US/UKs massively funded 'NGOs', they are a propaganda tool that, by the very nature of propaganda, are designed to cause problems wherever they go, why do you think the US/UK governments have radio stations and internet sites, Youtube channels and have captures MSM in in every country they can to spread their propaganda, do you honestly believe it's for the good of the citizens of the target countries or their governments? This is a
system set up by the British in India(and Bangladesh) to cause division and infighting amongst the 'savages' so they wouldn't bother the colonizers, they even convinced some of the 'savages' to defend them and their tactics, the US and Israel have just taken it over and expended on it
What makes you think Iranians didn't care if Masha Amini's story was "cooked up", do you honestly think that if they knew it was a lie they would have protested and rioted without outside provocation? I can't believe even you really think that.
Now it comes down to the point of the US MSM, of course you believe them, you have been passing on obvious US propaganda, using unsubstantiated numbers and assuming that because they told you Iranians have been fighting back against the Islamic republic since it's birth, implying that it's a widespread phenomenon, organic and with little or no assistance from outside actors, in fact you DO believe US MSM and the propaganda, so much so, that you don't even recognize that you do.
What we can agree on is that all side lie and that America and Israel should get out of Iran and let Iranians win their own battle against their military mafia government, where we differ is that I doubt the US and Israel to a much larger extent, both have a much worse track record than Iran in any and every context.
You don't need a literal genocide to legitimately protest against a regime. If we actually add up the sum total of the anti Islamic republic activists killed since 1979, it will not be that far from the death toll in Gaza.
The MEK was largely wiped out by the Islamic Republic in the 80s. Their top leaders and activists were murdered. They are effectively a dead organization with almost no support from ordinary Iranians.
I did get my numbers straight. If you didn't read properly, the "some tens of thousands" was the number of protestors according to the person I was replying to. The number of the dead is above five thousand or at least in the thousands.
If you think "no one" can get their facts straight, then there is no point even debating politics. I'm basing my information on human rights groups such as amnesty international which say that thousands have died.
The Islamic republic has admitted that at least two thousand protesters were killed.
Try to count to two thousand for God's sake. These are people with mothers, fathers, wives, husbands, children and friends
Again, MI6, CIA and other intelligence agencies are everywhere. To think that a movement is illegitimate because a foreign country backs it is nonsense.
Iran wants a free Palestinian state. North Korea wants it. That doesn't mean the Palestinian fight for freedom is a conspiracy by the KGB.
The hypocrisy is in supporting the freedom of some people while labelling others "foreign agents." It's grossly like how America label's Palestinians "terrorists."
Protesters are trying to "destabilize" your country? Well, guess what, every protest in history is destabilizing.
Most Iranians support ending the Islanic republic. It's right to cut them off the internet and gun them down because they are "destabilizing"?
Should people just stay at home and watch Netflix all day for fears of being "destabilizing"?
Iranians don't care about the country being stable. Stable means death. Unstable means a hope for new life.
Mahsa Amini's story was a boiling point. If her death didn't cause the protests, something else would have. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that protests don't magically explode out of nowhere. As Mao Zedong once said, a single spark can start a prairie fire.
And it seems I am a propaganda consumer because I support the a mass movement in an authoritarian country! I'm against US interfering in Iran or any other country but I'm still brainwashed by America!
Listen, if you like governments that kill their own people, lock up women for showing hair, crush their economy to benefit military elites and don't allow democracy, that's on you.
Most people don't, which is why they are protesting. There are many many polling agencies that have tracked Iranian opinion on the Islamic Republic for a long time.
The citations to these are given below. I also included reports on the death tolls in the latest protests.
Are you really that uninformed and stupid, the Shah was a US/British stooge so no, I definitely wasn't a supporter of his or his son who hasn't lived in Iran since 1979, possibly even longer. Do you not understand anything about Iran and just blindly repeat what you are told without understanding any of it?
"Iranians have been fighting back against the Islamic republic since it's birth. I actually wrote a piece exploring the entire history of this on my newsletter. But the point is, when peaceful protests fail, people turn violent. That's the regime's fault, not the protesters."
Why is it the fault of the government? Who gets to say that the "protesters'" protests are justified? Just because I protest, that doesn't make me right.
The protests, sparked by US coordinated currency manipulation(Bessant admitted as much) were peaceful, but then the US/Israeli backed and trained agitators entered and started rioting and shooting police and other peaceful protesters. And yes, SOME Iranians have been fighting back against the Islamic republic since it's birth but while the peaceful protesters disagreed with governments economic management, they did not necessarily disagree with the government as a whole and preferred the system as it is rather than the breakup of the country and subjugation by the US and Israel.
Discounting the decades of “crippling sanctions” arbitrarily imposed on the Iranian economy at the behest of neocon fools and their masters in israel is stupid.
Russia has been under sanction in totality for less than 4 years.
Iran has been under sanctions in one way or another ever since the Shah and his cronies were kicked out. There’s a massive difference there for a start.
Stupid comment, the Iranian government put down a coup and I’ve no doubt that a large amount of casualties were foreign militants.
As for the 12 day war, the Iranians were striking the Israelis with impunity and if it took the US begging for a ceasefire to save their ally. A clear strategic victory for Iran.
A coup means the illegal take over of a country, usually by the military or a small group of elites. If you think the hundreds of thousands of people who went out into the streets are the military or a small group of elites, I am amazed.
Around 80 percent of Iranians support ending the Islamic republic. Anti regime feelings in Iran are not elitist. The clerics and the IRGC are absolutely for the regime. Common people are not.
The idea that the government just magically found out more than five thousand foreign agents and killed them is ridiculous. This is an age old excuse.
The communists in America were hammered down during the red scare because they were "Soviet agents." Pro democracy activists in the Soviet union were sent to the gulag because they were "American agents."
This is the most basic propaganda tactic in history.
The idea that a country which suffered 40 times the casualties had the other country "begging" is absurd.
From what I can tell, the US and Israel backed off because they realized their plans for regime change were failing and Iranians were not rising up against the government, as Netanyahu was asking them to.
Another stupid comment, the 1953 Iranian coup involved hundreds of thousands of protesters and was 100% a foreign intel op. As for recent events, you have no idea how many people were protesting, likely the numbers were far less, probably some tens of thousands, still a small minority in a country of 93 million.
Again, you have no idea how many Iranians support the current government as Western polling simply can’t be trusted.
Protestors were tracked via Starlink apparently, nothing magical about it just smart tactical maneuvers. As for the death toll, no doubt a large number were innocent civilians and security forces killed by the agitators (just like in Maidan).
Regarding Iz/Iran casualties, you have no idea of the real number, I’d wager the real count was far different than what was reported. Irrespective, it was clearly a win as Mearsheimer details.
You are right, we have no idea how many people were protesting but we also know that it was in the "some tens of thousands"! We know nothing but we also know everything!
And you are also correct that unless more than half of the 93 million Iranians take to the streets, the majority of Iranians support the Islamic republic.
Because more than 50 percent of Jews didn't protest against Hitler, it means that most Jews supported the Holocaust.
Because most Soviets didn't protest Stalin, it means they supporter the gulags.
Because most north Koreans haven't protested against Kim Jung UN, it means they are living happily with their beloved dictator.
And of course, my numbers are wrong about the casualties in the 12 day war but yours is right. Even Iran's own official count is wrong.
Thank you so much for replying unstupidly to my "stupid" comment.
There’s video footage which puts the numbers in the tens of thousands range, nowhere near your claimed hundreds of thousands.
As to the rest of your asinine blather, you clearly have limited intelligence and think that strawmen and false equivalences qualify as arguments. I’m done educating you, you’re now muted.
Where do you get your numbers or do you just make them up on your own, over about 12 hours your numbers for those killed went from 5000, doubling US/Israeli propaganda, to "some tens of thousands", do you understand how absurd your comments are sounding? Your arguments are devoid of facts so you just make up what you think sounds like it will support your ideology, to hell with facts!
The other guy claimed that only "some tens of thousands" protested in Iran. I was quoting him.
The amount of death is at the very least in the thousands according to human rights
organizations and likely above five thousands.
You are correct, the US and Israel has their own propaganda. Iran does too.
For example, if you think that Iranians love the Islami republic, you are falling for Iranian propaganda.
On the other hand, if you think Iranians want the shah to return or that they want America to attack Iran, you are falling for American and Israeli propaganda.
Watch out for both.
And no, I am not an idealogue, thank you very much. Making one ideaoogy the sole purpose of your life is dangerous.
If you actually look at who died on both sides, it was all civilians on the Israeli side and civilians + top official on the Iranian side.
Even if the casualties were lower, Iran would still have it worse. Israel killed many of its nuclear scientists and IRGC leaders. Iran couldn't kill anyone that important.
All the military/IRGC guys israel assassinated were semi retired desk jockeys with the average age being late 60s. The idea that they wouldn't have a bunch of guys they trained personally who were active duty is just silly.
Likewise, israel has been murdering scientists in Iran for well over a decade and that doesn't seem to cause the Iranians to say "oh golly I guess we should just stop studying nuclear energy" does it?
israel-- as always-- was primarily focused on terror-bombing. The Iranian response hit a bunch of stuff that the IDF military censor still covers up and the israelis were the ones who sued for a ceasefire.
ecause those guys were in their late 60s, they were "semi-retired" and unimportant?
The average age of the most important people on Earth is from their late 60s to 70s. The three most powerful leaders in the world, Trump, Putin, and Xi, are past their "late 60s." If the CIA assassinates Xi Jinping, are you gonna say "It was nothing because he was old and semi-retired"?
Old people run the world.
Why will Iranians stop studying nuclear energy because Israel murders their nuclear scientists? They won't, but it will slow them down. Iran still hasn't got the bomb, which proves this.
Israel wasn't focused on terror-bombing in the 13-day war. This isn't Gaza.
Netanyahu made his goals very clear during the 13-day war: to destroy Iran's nuclear capabilities and overthrow the regime.
The 13-day war wasn't a terror-bombing campaign because terror bombing wouldn't help Israel achieve any of its goals. Still, many innocent Iranians were killed. No one's denying that.
The idea that the IDF can just magically cover up everything if Iran actually did real damage is ridiculous. We live in a world of smartphones, cameras, and the internet. That's why they couldn't hide the Gaza Genocide.
We live in a world where war is live-streamed. No "military censor" can hide blood behind a curtain anymore.
Israelis don’t “walk around with assault rifles.” Israel has a reserve force, similar to South Korea with mandatory military service.
According to international law anyone who isn’t currently serving in the military is a civilian. A 25-year-old Israeli software engineer who served at age 18 is a civilian.
the 12 day war ended because israel begged trump to escalate it and then begrudgingly for a ceasefire due to a war they started (much like every single war israel’s been a part of— see a pattern there) and because the Iron Dome failed miserably against Iran’s missile arsenal.
Most of israel’s “stunning victories” were achieved the first couple days— when they assassinated elderly desk-bound military personnel or civilian scientists and the like who were “at ease” more or less because they thought the situation would deescalated (the IAEA lied to thing in this regard as well).
What else— well there was a hell of a lot of israeli terror-bombing in Tehran and other places, wasn’t there? But it seems that israel threw in the towel when Iran was just getting warmed up with the response.
I can't remember if it was Jeffrey Sachs, Larry Wilkerson or or someone equally qualified, that pointed out that Israel has assassinated over 3000 people, even if that's over the totality of the existence of the state, that's a horrifying number considering even today it's population is still only 9 million. And that doesn't even take into account the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians they've killed!
Mearsheimer, let’s be clear about what you’re actually arguing. Are you supporting—and hoping for the survival of—the Iranian regime so it can continue to brutalize its own people, more than 75% of whom oppose it? Are you rooting for a government that jails, tortures, and executes dissidents, crushes women, and rules by fear to remain in power?
Is this the regime you want to see succeed—one that uses its oil wealth not to improve the lives of Iranians, but to build missiles, fund proxies, and terrorize its neighbors while pursuing regional hegemony? Are you genuinely cheering for Tehran to prevail over the United States and Israel?
Because that is the unavoidable implication of your argument. You consistently shift blame away from the regime that is victimizing its own population and instead frame Western democracies as the real villains—as if Iranians are incapable of resisting tyranny on their own, and as if the mullahs bear no responsibility for decades of repression, corruption, and economic ruin.
So answer the simple question you keep avoiding: do you want the Iranian regime to survive, rearm, and continue its march across the Middle East? And if so, what the hell is wrong with you?
No. The professor and all peace loving people wish for Iran to stay intact and not fall into anarchy and more bloodshed as in Iran, Iraq, Libya, etc. The way is to support the Iranian people by removing the sanctions and help them change their government by peaceful means. But that is not how US of A and its poodle (the apartheid state) wants.
Interesting that the person you are responding to supports a genocide which is against international law. He justifies and supports the death and destruction, the starvation, the horror against a people that Israel continues to attack to this day, yet professes to care about the Iranian people. Really? Hypocrisy is an ugly thing as it implements propaganda, and BS regarding Iran and it's people to justify further carnage solely for the benefit of Israel and the US.
I any regard, if the IRANIANS want the government they have or another, that's up to themselves, the US and Israel should GTFO and fix their own problems, BOTH live by death and destruction and are no example of what should be.
“Peace-loving” doesn’t mean protecting a murderous regime from consequences. Waving around Iraq and Libya is a tired deflection used to justify inaction while Iran’s rulers jail, torture, and kill their own people. Lifting sanctions to funnel more cash to the mullahs doesn’t empower Iranians—it entrenches the very system oppressing them. And calling the U.S. a “poodle” doesn’t make your argument principled; it just reveals the reflexive anti-Western posture that substitutes slogans for serious thought. Supporting the Iranian people starts with recognizing who is actually victimizing them—and it isn’t sanctions.
Shove your "concern" for the Iranian people where the sun never shines. People who awarded and honored the commander of USS Vincennes for shooting down Iranian airplane in 1988 killing 290 innocent Iranians should keep their mouth shut - not to mention their support for the ongoing genocide by the apartheid state. Also, dont forget the chemical weapons provided to Saddam when he was slaughtering Iranians by the tens of thousands.
That would be hundreds of thousands, John stated that a number he found from researching it was as high as half a million by the most prolific murderer in the world, the USA, they supplied the targeting and the chemicals knowing what both would be used for. That's not complicity, that's participation!
Should be clear. This is a cynical conflict. The Israeli's only care about their own, and maybe for them Bibi really only cares about his own skin and messianic destiny. The Red White & Blue cares for the donor class and the egos of its leaders. The will of regular people is used and abused to herd us along. And neither country's leadership gives a damn about regular Iranians. They care about their leverage on the geopolitical version of the boardgame Risk. Israel is on borrowed time to consolidate or lose it all, the USA before it defaults economically. The mania of these two countries is the greatest danger on Earth, cause nukes. And Europe is subservient and terrified cause the post world War 2 order is on life support. Things a regular listener of Merishimer will understand from his world view.
The most murderous regime on earth at this point is Israel and standing by its side is the US. The Iranians are benign and civilized by comparison.
While Iran's leaders jail, torture and kill their own people. OH YOU MEAN LIKE THE AMERICAN LEADERS DO?
Cut the bullshit, anyone with half a brain knows the only reason to take out Iran is to allow shitrael to take dominance in the Middle East as a puppet of the US. It won't happen because evil never wins in the end and Israel is pure evil and so is the US in supporting this terrorist state.
AND WE LAUGHED AND WE LAUGHED AND WE LAUGHED AND WE LAUGHED.
Supporting the iranian people you say. Well, if we were supporting the Iranian people there would be no US sanctions and shitrael would not be assassinating and attacking the Iranian people.
No sanctions and Iran has wealth and people have good lives and the opportunity TO SORT OUT THEIR OWN FRIGGIN GOVERNMENT. The Government of Iran IS SOLELY THE BUSINESS OF IRANIANS AND NO-ONE ELSE.
The goal is not to help the Iranians. The goal is to destroy Iran utterly and allow the American/Israeli savages in to pick it clean and fill their own pockets.
Ah, the PhD supporter of a genocidal fascist apartheid regime and rabid anti-Iran who has no problem with both the US and Israel killing as many people as necessary to 'free' them from the tyranny of a government most in the country support. Proof that intelligent people can be stupid or maybe just racist like the country they support.
you are a neocon and a zionist. That means your opinion is less than worthless, whether it comes to Iran (of whom 75% of the population are not “pro America” or “pro israel”) or the broader west asian region.
What an idiotic, asinine remark that has nothing to do with the scope of what Mearsheimer does. He discusses evidence in the public record, provides critical analysis, and asks questions. Questions that should be asked about countries and leaders who commit murderous war acts with impunity (over a thousand murdered in June, and belligerent destruction of state and private property collectively hurting the Iranian people who are already economically choked) and meddled in these protests (killing IR cops, molotovs, lighting fires) that triggered a blowback that resulted in the killings of thousands of protestors.
Mearsheimer is not only right on point, but his criticism is grounded in ethics and international law. I think you need to unsubscribe from this account, and find some maga-zionist brain type of stack that aligns more with your kind of, uh, thinking - that prefers to ignore any bad facts that suggest enormously expensive failures, and excuse the very worst kind of crimes, as long as it aligns with your manufactured world view.
The truth hurts, doesn’t it—especially when it punctures a belief system built on obedience rather than thought. You’re not defending analysis; you’re clinging dog-like to Mearsheimer, parroting his lines while snapping at anyone who dares challenge them. And mocking my bio? Ha, only proves my point that you’re a dummy afraid of being challenged.
Yes ... I support the Iranian regime, just like the 3 million Iranians that marched on the streets of Tehran a few days ago to support the Iranian government. Check out this video:
Most Iranians support their Government. A minority do not. However, on that criteria the world should unite to take out the US Government and free the American people. How about that?
The propaganda piffle you post just makes people laugh and laugh and laugh. No-one believes this shit anymore. The world cheered and danced when the iranian hit back at the lunatic Israelis after their unprovoked attack. Most of the 8 billion people on earth want to see Tel Aviv levelled, Israel eradicated and the US learning to shut up, go away and for a start, look after its people instead of raping, torturing, murdering, destroying, stealing around the globe.
You sound like you're just using the description of the US and inserting Iran's name!
Just to put things in perspective, first there's zero evidence that 735% of Iranians oppose the government, at BEST it's CIA/Mossad propaganda as well as the claim that it's a government that jails, tortures, and executes dissidents, crushes women, and rules by fear to remain in power.
I just yesterday had a discussion with a friend that was as completely uninformed and confused and was sure that Israel was not committing a genocide of the Palestinians because that hadn't killed all them, the absurdity he missed in that was that BY HIS LOGIC, there was no Jewish Genocide.
Christ, a loss for the Axis of Evil, Israel/USA, is a win, as these are the days of proving grounds and all of us are their crash test dummies.
Water water food food money money data data.
Iran is hobbled in more ways than one, so this was just one of many trial balloon runs for the Axis of Evil.
As many a Jewish Kissinger lover recalls, those who control the food, control the people, and those who control the money, control the country, and those who control the water, control the region, and those who control the data, control the world.
Read on about that pathogen, Judaism, a la Israelization of the world, like a never ending folding prion, aka Mad Mitzvah Disease: 19 Million Jews like are the judaic spongiform encephalopathy.
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Bolivia was one of the first countries to break off relations with Israel over the Netanyahu regime’s genocide in Gaza, in late 2023. But in the Andean nation’s recent presidential elections, a divided left meant that a right-wing candidate, Rodrigo Paz, was able to win for the first time in over two decades. One of Paz’s first acts in office was to restore relations with Israel.
In December, the country’s new Foreign Minister Fernando Aramayo met with his Israeli counterpart, Gideon Saar, in Washington. That meeting spawned an agreement not only to reinstate ambassadors but also to boost cooperation in areas such as security, tourism and, crucially, lithium mining. From Forbes:
The restoration of relations between the two countries means that Bolivia, the country possessing the world’s largest proven reserves of lithium, which are indispensable to manufacturing modern batteries, now has a partnership with one of the world’s most dynamic and technologically innovative societies. Although the concepts of “Net Zero” and “human induced climate change” are being questioned lately even more than in the last few years, there is little doubt that renewable energy sources, such as solar and wind, will continue to play an increasing role in future energy development on a world-wide basis.
That being the case, each of Israel and Bolivia now has a valuable (and viable) strategic partner, something that neither country really had in the past. In 2023, for example, the prior leftist government of Bolivia struck a deal with China to give that nation, which already produces over 75% of the world’s lithium-ion batteries, the right to develop Bolivia’s prodigious lithium reserves, which mostly are in the Andes Mountains near the borders with Chile and Argentina. (Bolivia Gives China The Whip Hand On Renewable Energy). However, that partnership did not work from the Bolivian’s perspective, and in June of 2025, a Bolivian Court ordered suspension of all Bolivian lithium deals with both China and Russia.
Bolivia, together with Argentina and Chile, hosts the so-called “lithium triangle”, a vast expanse of salt flats in the Andean highlands that accounts for an estimated 60% of the world’s known lithium reserves. It is not the only one of the three to have signed a strategic agreement with Israel, or Israeli companies.
I just finished the FT weekend article on Iran and its economy.Have they abandoned real news? After reading this from Prof Mearsheimer- I’m seriously disappointed in the Ft article.
It is becoming increasingly clear to me this man is paid by anti-US forces. The question is clear: if Iran was getting the upper hand in the 12-day war, why would they back down? Moreover, not even a single mention of the 5,000 Iranians assassinated by the regime???? 5,000 dead is the Iranian government’s own estimate, so the real number might well be double that.
“Why would they back down?” They didn’t, thy weighed the possibilities (including further US involvement) and wanted to end the attacks and murder of their people and felt that they demonstrated a deterrent to israeli aggression, they have stated this several times. First of all the number you are referring was never stated as an estimate, and The Iranian government hasn’t taken responsibility for any number of deaths, you just uncritically believed claims of a translated speech from Khameini that was reproduced in some reports, which have been debunked by many fluent Farsi speakers, what he said is that several thousand were killed due to armed rioters.
Wanted to stop the murder of their own people? Don't make me laugh. Surely you must have seen the videos. The estimates of several thousands dead are perfectly realistic. What about that? I know dozens of Iranians living in the exile who have educated me enough on the atrocities of their regime. White-washing them like professor Mersheimer does is suspicious to say the least. You call them government? What kind of government shuts down the internets and sends assassins to kill Masih Alinejad? With all its proxies currently disbanded, decimated or destroyed, the current crackdown does nothing but demonstrate that the Iranian regime is at the weakest it has been in decades. Winner of the 12-day war?
What kind of government shuts down the 'internets' and sends assassins, well, let's see, both Israel and the US send assassins and oddly enough, when the US based, Zionist Musk run Starlink was shut down/blocked in Iran, the riots stopped, why do YOU think that happened? Are you seeing a pattern here? Neither the US nor Israel have any room to talk about democracy or human rights, they are the worst of the worst offenders in both cases, you should be ashamed of defending such abhorrent governments.
So you uncritically accept the whole Iranian regime's narrative, despite the well-recorded cases of murders and abuses, for decades now? Despite the millions that have gone into exile? Would you shut down the internet if some foreign agents were stirring up confusion and chaos on your streets? NO. You would suppress them, without needing to make your whole population deaf and blind. Give that some thought for a minute and don't blindly believe the discourses of a IXth Century regime please.
So you uncritically accept the whole US and Israeli regime's narratives, despite the well-recorded cases of murders and abuses, for decades now?
Would your government shut down a system that was used organize the overthrow of YOUR government, if you say they would not you are either not intelligent enough to make a rational argument or you are lying.
Understand that the internet and MSM, with very few exceptions, is a very effective propaganda tool, give that some thought for a minute and don't blindly believe the discourses of three of the largest criminal organizations in the world, the UK, US and Israel that have massive propaganda budgets. You are being lied to and manipulated every waking minute.
“With all its proxies currently disbanded, decimated or destroyed”
Lmao dude even the IDF command isn’t engaging in this kind of cope.
israel lost in Gaza militarily, lost in Lebanon militarily, couldn’t stop the Houthis from doing anything.
Barring the fact that none of those groups “take their orders from Tehran” (that’s just an israeli lie), why do you think israel’s “won”?
I mean I get that pro israel people are delusional, but read the room. All israel managed to do is become even more universally hated around the world— the next time there’s a major Palestinian assault into israel, no one’s going to believe the lies israel makes up.
Have you considered that there was no mention of the '5,000 Iranians assassinated by the regime' was because many of the 'protesters' were armed and had instructions from Mossad agent to shoot people in the crowd, you know the Israeli operatives that Israeli Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu said were active in Iran “right now” as they were during the 12-day war and you KNOW that if there is a 'regime change' operation/protest/riot, the CIA/NED et al, is there.
Abbas Masjedi Arani, the head of Iran’s medical examiner authority, told state media that many of the casualties were shot in the chest or the head from close range or from rooftops with the aim of inflicting mortal wounds, while others were stabbed to death. Doesn't this sound remarkably similar to the 2014 Maidan Massacre in Ukraine? The US regime change operations are becoming so transparent and there are still fools that ignore the patterns.
We have come to understand that odd voids in the media mean something. It has been 26 years since the Mother of All media voids happened. You never really know exactly what happened, but pattern recognition tells you the MSM media are curated and support the story designed for mass consumption. That's not a novel discovery, but more affirmation that things are going the way they usually do when crushing decline rolls on.
Isn't it odd how much we are like the Warsaw Pact countries were right before their system unraveled?
The Palestinians have suffered the longest genocidal holocaust in modern history and one of the longest in history fullstop. Palestine deserves to be free and the Israeli colonial experiment in Palestine must end.
This is my favorite story of the year When the people finally discover that digital overlords are no more powerful than a team of good hackers, stories like this will be common.
They may control the internet, but they don’t control science. They can be beaten on their own turf using their own tools.
Dear Professor Mearsheimer! Thank you for your analysis!
(I appreciate very much your written articles, please publish more on Substack).
Maybe, but conservative cuck!
The US on the one hand works tirelessly, ruthlessly and competently to prevent the emergence of a regional hegemon anywhere on earth and on the other hand is working to facilitate the emergence of Israel as a regional hegemon in MENA.
The US works tirelessly, ruthlessly to ensure that the US is the hegemon on earth and all will bow to its power or be destroyed. It always has done. Except now the US is imploding and destroying itself because of its greed and stupidity.
The Israelis are deranged lunatics and anyone who supports them in any way supports pure evil.
I see no evidence of the US imploding or destroying itself. Rather, it is consolidating and expanding. We are watching the republic fade away as the empire hardens.
It is not consolidating. The US has the highest levels of poverty, some of it Third World levels and working poor of any developed nation. Disgusting for its wealth.
The US has the worst worker rights and freedoms, the lowest minimum wage, the worst education system and the worst medical system of any developed nation.
It is also a heavily armed society where people fear and hate their Government. And now with the thugs unleashed by Trump, they fear and hate it even more.
The US is not expanding it is contracting because while in the past some of the world hated the United States, now most of the world hates the United States.
To hold an Empire you need boots on the ground and they are less and less available. Younger people will not join the army and fight the evil wars the US wages.
Either the US implodes in civil war, or collapses economically because of massive levels of debt, no capacity to be self sufficient in manufacturing, inferior standards in everything, a decayed and rusting infrastructure and too many unhappy and enraged citizens.
In addition, Americans are the most sickly people on planet earth, the most medicated, the most vaccinated and now with the lowest longevity.
To expand and consolidate you need a healthy population, a healthy economy, a healthy culture, a healthy society and the US has none of that.
Actually, the French are the most medicated people on planet Earth.
I have read Americans consume most of the world's medications and 97% of painkillers. But happy to be corrected if you provide the data.
AI Overview
Based on data regarding pharmaceutical consumption and expenditure, the people who consume the highest volume of prescription medications are predominantly located in high-income nations, with the United States leading in both overall expenditure and per-capita spending.
While the U.S. does not consume an overwhelming majority of all global drugs (representing about 7.7%–8% of the global volume of daily doses rather than higher, inaccurate claims of ~87%), it is the dominant market.
Key Groups with High Medication Consumption:
Americans (USA): The U.S. is the most medicated country, with roughly 66% of adults using prescription drugs. Americans consume about 80% of the global opioid supply.
Other High-Income Nations: In addition to the US, countries with high per-capita pharmaceutical spending include Japan, Greece, Germany, Switzerland, Ireland, Belgium, France, Canada, and Australia.
Older Adults: Medication use increases significantly with age. In the EU and elsewhere, the highest usage is among those aged 75 and over.
Women: Women generally consume more prescribed medications than men across various regions.
Reasons for High Consumption:
High Disease Burden: The U.S. in particular has high rates of chronic diseases, including heart disease, diabetes, obesity, depression, and cancer.
Access and Marketing: The U.S. and New Zealand are the only countries that allow direct-to-consumer advertising for prescription drugs.
Healthcare System: The U.S. has a faster, more accessible market for new, often more expensive drugs.
My statement was based on what a French teacher once told my French class. Perhaps she was wrong or perhaps she was taking non-prescription drugs into account too.
You’ve got your head in the sand or maybe up your arse. The productive capacity of the US has collapsed. It is in its last and most dangerous phase. It now relies purely on piracy; theft and extreme violence to maintain its military economy. The domination of the US dollar is on the cusp of sudden collapse. It won’t be gradual. It is still number one only through coercion and assassinations/coups.
It will create much much more misery and death for civilians worldwide but its days are numbered.
You can always tell the people with weak arguments. They resort to insults.
Perhaps read or listen to Larry Johnson.
https://open.substack.com/pub/glenndiesen/p/larry-johnson-trump-greenland-and?r=ppxvi&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web×tamp=916.8
Grow up.
Agreed
Money talks.
FYI https://matthewrafat.substack.com/p/geese-in-an-american-graveyard
Another inbred American from dumbfuckistan USA.
Excellent analysis. Let's just remember the Mossadegh episode in 1953 and the mission of CIA agent Kermit Roosevelt, sent to Iran with a million dollars - not for charity...
One of the big takeaways from John’s column is near the end.
Most of us who don’t listen to the Nat-Sec Nutsacks™ (feel free to share!) know the Mossad angle in the current protests, and can fill in the CIA angle. (Apparently Delta not involved, though?)
But, the indirect confirmation that the attacks on Iran's nuclear structure last summer, if not a full nothingburger, were a semi-nothingburger, is something to note and keep in mind.
I'm a gentleman. You be a cunt first. Wait, you are.
Bye!
Excellent and highly objective summation, John.
The idea that the regime only became violent after the protesters became violent is ridiculous. There is no amount of violence civilians can commit that could possibly justify the murder of more than 5 thousand people.
I can’t think of any 21st-century protest movement that was met with this level of violence.
There are many countries on Earth with Western sanctions, say Russia, and their economies are not collapsing. We don’t live in an age when American sanctions alone can destroy a country across the Atlantic. The reason the Iranian economy is this bad is because Iran is a military mafia state that serves the cleric and IRGC elites.
Plus, Iranians are not protesting against the regime just because of the economy.
There was already mass anti-government sentiment before Western sanctions.
Of course, Mossad and the CIA wanted a revolution. That doesn’t mean Iranians didn’t want it too. They did.
No one wants to live in a country governed by 7th-century laws implemented by a draconian mix of mullahs and the military.
How exactly did Iran win the 12-day war?
Trump’s boasting about destroying Iran’s nuclear facilities was nonsense and Netanyahu’s plans for regime change failed, but at the end of the day Iran suffered about 42 times the casualties in terms of the death toll, including top scientists and IRGC leaders.
If that counts as a victory, I’m baffled.
At the beginning of the protests, Turkiye informed the Iranians of about 400 armed Kurds were headed for Iran, they were intercepted by the Iranian military.
Have you considered that the 'protesters' were armed and there is evidence that they had instructions from Mossad agents to shoot people in the crowd, you know the Israeli operatives that Israeli Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu said 'were active in Iran “right now” as they were during the 12-day war' and you KNOW that if there is a 'regime change' operation/protest/riot, the CIA/NED et al, is there.
Abbas Masjedi Arani, the head of Iran’s medical examiner authority, told state media that many of the casualties were shot in the chest or the head FROM CLOSE RANGE OR FROM ROOFTOPS with the aim of inflicting mortal wounds, while others were stabbed to death. Doesn't this sound remarkably similar to the 2014 Maidan Massacre in Ukraine? The US regime change operations are becoming so transparent and there are still fools that ignore the patterns.
You'll be able to find foreign involvement in any revolution in history. No one is denying that Israel and America are involved. The idea that it's either a CIA ploy or a hundred percent organic is nonsense. It can be mostly organic and also amplified by foreign agents.
I don't particularly about the fact that some of the protesters were 'armed.' If you look at the history of post revolution Iran, it isn't that hard to see why.
Iranians have been fighting back against the Islamic republic since it's birth. I actually wrote a piece exploring the entire history of this on my newsletter. But the point is, when peaceful protests fail, people turn violent. That's the regime's fault, not the protesters.
Why exactly do you care about what Iran's head medical examiner said? Any government will spread propaganda about the opposition. Believing in those lies is sheer naivety.
Of course, western media has it's own remarkable set of propaganda. That's why you should be looking at reports by independent international and Iranian human rights organizations.
What does Turkey telling Iran that the 400 Kurds are on their way have to do with any of this? The Kurds have been againt the Islamic Republic for a long time. What now, Mossad sent those Kurds?
Oh, there's 'No one is denying that Israel and America are involved', and you think that's just fine? According to the UN charter and international law, meddling in the affairs is unlawful, regardless of the reasons. Were the protests partly organic, sure, but they were peaceful except for the armed foreign funded MEK, those 400 US funded ISIS Kurds an other EXTERNAL forces that were implanted in the crowds, would you accept that in YOUR country? Also, it's now known that the Starlink units were smuggled into Iran by the Biden administrations to provoke the 'regime change' protests over the death of Mahsa Amini and the stories the US/Mossad cooked up over her death.
Also, that some of the protesters were armed surely isn't hard to understand when you consider how much money has been put into the MEK, the Syrian/Turkic Kurds and Baluchis by Mossad/the CIS/NED/Soros and the myriad of American three letter agencies and that doesn't even take into account the MI6. Again, would you accept that in YOUR country?
Why exactly do I care about what Iran's head medical examiner said? Probably because it shows a pattern, why do you believe what the US MSM says, only someone WILLFULLY ignorant could suggest they don't lie to their audiences.
Are you really so thick that you have to ask what Turkiye informing Iran of 400 Kurd saboteurs and seditionist heading their way have to do with any of this?
America, Israel and everyone else should GTFO of Iran and let the Iranians look after their own country, NONE of hem has the good will of Iranians as a goal, NONE!
If you dig deep enough, you'll find foreign involvement in almost every revolution in history. We live in a world where the UN charter and international law is broken every single year.
Are you surprised that the US funds MEK? Is this your reason for why the Iranian protests are illegitimate?
By this logic, the Palestinian fight against Israeli apartheid is also wrong because Hamas is funded by Iran.
What even is the point of bringing the MEK into this conversation?
The organization has been dead since the 80s with almost no support in Iran. The MEK wouldn't even represent 1/1000th of the protesters.
No, I wouldn't accept foreign agents in my country. But the idea that most of the more than five thousand people killed were foreign agents is ridiculous.
Labelling your opposition "foreign agents" is a basic propaganda tactic.
The Soviets called anyone who was for democracy a "western agent." In America, communists and socialists were called "Soviet agents." In my country, during the July Revolution, protesters were tagged "Pakistani agents."
So what if Starlink was "smuggled in"?
Letting people have access to the internet doesn't "provoke" them. It lets them share information. That's what authoritarian regimes fear.
Iranians don't care if Masha Amini's story was "cooked up."
Masha Amini's death was the boiling point for Iranian anger against the regime.
No one shows up to protests knowing they could be killed, just because some young girl was beaten to death. Mass protests comes from deep-seated anger.
No, I don't trust the US MSM.
Every country on earth has their own propaganda media. Iran's chief medical examiner will spout Iranian propaganda in the same way that the New York Times or the MSM spouts American propaganda.
If you think that it's just the West who lie and the rest of us are just awesome truth tellers, you need a reality check.
And I agree, America and Israel should get out of Iran and let Iranians win their own battle against their military mafia government.
The situation is completely different in Iran and Gaza, there is no comparison, last I heard, there was no genocide happening in Iran and the Iranians are not supremacists and suggesting the MEK has been 'dead' since the 80s is unbelievable, that it has little support in Iran is undeniable but they have been funded in Azerbaijan by the US and Israel and no doubt, MI6 as well, they were undoubtedly in Bangladesh as well so yeah, you didn't mind them there either.
As for all of the 2500, 5000, or was it "many tens of thousands", get your numbers straight, being killed by foreign agents, NO ONE, including you can verify how many were killed or by whom so the point is moot, you can debate all you want but there are still no facts to back up any of it.
Arguing that cutting off the internet and Starlink is wrong is silly at best, if groups that are trying to destabilize your country are being organized through any communication system, EVERY country would do what they could to disrupt the communications, it would be foolish NOT to do that. As for the internet provoking, no, it doesn't, but what it does is the same as the US/UKs massively funded 'NGOs', they are a propaganda tool that, by the very nature of propaganda, are designed to cause problems wherever they go, why do you think the US/UK governments have radio stations and internet sites, Youtube channels and have captures MSM in in every country they can to spread their propaganda, do you honestly believe it's for the good of the citizens of the target countries or their governments? This is a
system set up by the British in India(and Bangladesh) to cause division and infighting amongst the 'savages' so they wouldn't bother the colonizers, they even convinced some of the 'savages' to defend them and their tactics, the US and Israel have just taken it over and expended on it
What makes you think Iranians didn't care if Masha Amini's story was "cooked up", do you honestly think that if they knew it was a lie they would have protested and rioted without outside provocation? I can't believe even you really think that.
Now it comes down to the point of the US MSM, of course you believe them, you have been passing on obvious US propaganda, using unsubstantiated numbers and assuming that because they told you Iranians have been fighting back against the Islamic republic since it's birth, implying that it's a widespread phenomenon, organic and with little or no assistance from outside actors, in fact you DO believe US MSM and the propaganda, so much so, that you don't even recognize that you do.
What we can agree on is that all side lie and that America and Israel should get out of Iran and let Iranians win their own battle against their military mafia government, where we differ is that I doubt the US and Israel to a much larger extent, both have a much worse track record than Iran in any and every context.
You don't need a literal genocide to legitimately protest against a regime. If we actually add up the sum total of the anti Islamic republic activists killed since 1979, it will not be that far from the death toll in Gaza.
The MEK was largely wiped out by the Islamic Republic in the 80s. Their top leaders and activists were murdered. They are effectively a dead organization with almost no support from ordinary Iranians.
I did get my numbers straight. If you didn't read properly, the "some tens of thousands" was the number of protestors according to the person I was replying to. The number of the dead is above five thousand or at least in the thousands.
If you think "no one" can get their facts straight, then there is no point even debating politics. I'm basing my information on human rights groups such as amnesty international which say that thousands have died.
The Islamic republic has admitted that at least two thousand protesters were killed.
Try to count to two thousand for God's sake. These are people with mothers, fathers, wives, husbands, children and friends
Again, MI6, CIA and other intelligence agencies are everywhere. To think that a movement is illegitimate because a foreign country backs it is nonsense.
Iran wants a free Palestinian state. North Korea wants it. That doesn't mean the Palestinian fight for freedom is a conspiracy by the KGB.
The hypocrisy is in supporting the freedom of some people while labelling others "foreign agents." It's grossly like how America label's Palestinians "terrorists."
Protesters are trying to "destabilize" your country? Well, guess what, every protest in history is destabilizing.
Most Iranians support ending the Islanic republic. It's right to cut them off the internet and gun them down because they are "destabilizing"?
Should people just stay at home and watch Netflix all day for fears of being "destabilizing"?
Iranians don't care about the country being stable. Stable means death. Unstable means a hope for new life.
Mahsa Amini's story was a boiling point. If her death didn't cause the protests, something else would have. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that protests don't magically explode out of nowhere. As Mao Zedong once said, a single spark can start a prairie fire.
And it seems I am a propaganda consumer because I support the a mass movement in an authoritarian country! I'm against US interfering in Iran or any other country but I'm still brainwashed by America!
Listen, if you like governments that kill their own people, lock up women for showing hair, crush their economy to benefit military elites and don't allow democracy, that's on you.
Most people don't, which is why they are protesting. There are many many polling agencies that have tracked Iranian opinion on the Islamic Republic for a long time.
The citations to these are given below. I also included reports on the death tolls in the latest protests.
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202508212335
https://gamaan.org/2025/08/20/analytical-report-on-iranians-political-preferences-in-2024/
https://www.uu.nl/en/news/support-for-protests-in-iran-significant-81-per-cent-of-iranians-do-not-want-an-islamic-republic
https://theconversation.com/iran-protests-2026-our-surveys-show-iranians-agree-more-on-regime-change-than-what-might-come-next-273198
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2026/1/21/at-least-3117-people-killed-during-iran-protests-state-media-reports
https://iranhr.net/en/articles/8529/
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckglee733wno.amp
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202601223433
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2026/01/iran-massacre-of-protesters-demands-global-diplomatic-action-to-signal-an-end-to-impunity/
You’re really not hiding the fact that you’re a Shah supporter are you?
Are you really that uninformed and stupid, the Shah was a US/British stooge so no, I definitely wasn't a supporter of his or his son who hasn't lived in Iran since 1979, possibly even longer. Do you not understand anything about Iran and just blindly repeat what you are told without understanding any of it?
Fun fact: "Shah" is a popular boys name in South Asia.
No, I don't support a family dictatorship.
I’m aware that “Shah” is also a personal name. That’s not what I was talking about.
Then what were you talking about? I'm for monarchy because I'm against theocracy?
If you know you can't predict people's beliefs, then don't try.
"Iranians have been fighting back against the Islamic republic since it's birth. I actually wrote a piece exploring the entire history of this on my newsletter. But the point is, when peaceful protests fail, people turn violent. That's the regime's fault, not the protesters."
Why is it the fault of the government? Who gets to say that the "protesters'" protests are justified? Just because I protest, that doesn't make me right.
The protests, sparked by US coordinated currency manipulation(Bessant admitted as much) were peaceful, but then the US/Israeli backed and trained agitators entered and started rioting and shooting police and other peaceful protesters. And yes, SOME Iranians have been fighting back against the Islamic republic since it's birth but while the peaceful protesters disagreed with governments economic management, they did not necessarily disagree with the government as a whole and preferred the system as it is rather than the breakup of the country and subjugation by the US and Israel.
That must have taken you a couple of hours to compose, I'm suitably impressed!
7 hours to compose, damn you're good! What an intellect!
Discounting the decades of “crippling sanctions” arbitrarily imposed on the Iranian economy at the behest of neocon fools and their masters in israel is stupid.
Russia has been under sanction in totality for less than 4 years.
Iran has been under sanctions in one way or another ever since the Shah and his cronies were kicked out. There’s a massive difference there for a start.
Stupid comment, the Iranian government put down a coup and I’ve no doubt that a large amount of casualties were foreign militants.
As for the 12 day war, the Iranians were striking the Israelis with impunity and if it took the US begging for a ceasefire to save their ally. A clear strategic victory for Iran.
A coup means the illegal take over of a country, usually by the military or a small group of elites. If you think the hundreds of thousands of people who went out into the streets are the military or a small group of elites, I am amazed.
Around 80 percent of Iranians support ending the Islamic republic. Anti regime feelings in Iran are not elitist. The clerics and the IRGC are absolutely for the regime. Common people are not.
The idea that the government just magically found out more than five thousand foreign agents and killed them is ridiculous. This is an age old excuse.
The communists in America were hammered down during the red scare because they were "Soviet agents." Pro democracy activists in the Soviet union were sent to the gulag because they were "American agents."
This is the most basic propaganda tactic in history.
The idea that a country which suffered 40 times the casualties had the other country "begging" is absurd.
From what I can tell, the US and Israel backed off because they realized their plans for regime change were failing and Iranians were not rising up against the government, as Netanyahu was asking them to.
Another stupid comment, the 1953 Iranian coup involved hundreds of thousands of protesters and was 100% a foreign intel op. As for recent events, you have no idea how many people were protesting, likely the numbers were far less, probably some tens of thousands, still a small minority in a country of 93 million.
Again, you have no idea how many Iranians support the current government as Western polling simply can’t be trusted.
Protestors were tracked via Starlink apparently, nothing magical about it just smart tactical maneuvers. As for the death toll, no doubt a large number were innocent civilians and security forces killed by the agitators (just like in Maidan).
Regarding Iz/Iran casualties, you have no idea of the real number, I’d wager the real count was far different than what was reported. Irrespective, it was clearly a win as Mearsheimer details.
You are right, we have no idea how many people were protesting but we also know that it was in the "some tens of thousands"! We know nothing but we also know everything!
And you are also correct that unless more than half of the 93 million Iranians take to the streets, the majority of Iranians support the Islamic republic.
Because more than 50 percent of Jews didn't protest against Hitler, it means that most Jews supported the Holocaust.
Because most Soviets didn't protest Stalin, it means they supporter the gulags.
Because most north Koreans haven't protested against Kim Jung UN, it means they are living happily with their beloved dictator.
And of course, my numbers are wrong about the casualties in the 12 day war but yours is right. Even Iran's own official count is wrong.
Thank you so much for replying unstupidly to my "stupid" comment.
There’s video footage which puts the numbers in the tens of thousands range, nowhere near your claimed hundreds of thousands.
As to the rest of your asinine blather, you clearly have limited intelligence and think that strawmen and false equivalences qualify as arguments. I’m done educating you, you’re now muted.
Where do you get your numbers or do you just make them up on your own, over about 12 hours your numbers for those killed went from 5000, doubling US/Israeli propaganda, to "some tens of thousands", do you understand how absurd your comments are sounding? Your arguments are devoid of facts so you just make up what you think sounds like it will support your ideology, to hell with facts!
I am afraid you misunderstood what I said.
The other guy claimed that only "some tens of thousands" protested in Iran. I was quoting him.
The amount of death is at the very least in the thousands according to human rights
organizations and likely above five thousands.
You are correct, the US and Israel has their own propaganda. Iran does too.
For example, if you think that Iranians love the Islami republic, you are falling for Iranian propaganda.
On the other hand, if you think Iranians want the shah to return or that they want America to attack Iran, you are falling for American and Israeli propaganda.
Watch out for both.
And no, I am not an idealogue, thank you very much. Making one ideaoogy the sole purpose of your life is dangerous.
Where did the 5000 killed come from, it just keeps getting bigger, again with nothing to back it up but US/Israeli propaganda?
“40 times the casualties” means nothing militarily when the zionist terrorists in israel deliberately target civilians.
If you actually look at who died on both sides, it was all civilians on the Israeli side and civilians + top official on the Iranian side.
Even if the casualties were lower, Iran would still have it worse. Israel killed many of its nuclear scientists and IRGC leaders. Iran couldn't kill anyone that important.
All the military/IRGC guys israel assassinated were semi retired desk jockeys with the average age being late 60s. The idea that they wouldn't have a bunch of guys they trained personally who were active duty is just silly.
Likewise, israel has been murdering scientists in Iran for well over a decade and that doesn't seem to cause the Iranians to say "oh golly I guess we should just stop studying nuclear energy" does it?
israel-- as always-- was primarily focused on terror-bombing. The Iranian response hit a bunch of stuff that the IDF military censor still covers up and the israelis were the ones who sued for a ceasefire.
ecause those guys were in their late 60s, they were "semi-retired" and unimportant?
The average age of the most important people on Earth is from their late 60s to 70s. The three most powerful leaders in the world, Trump, Putin, and Xi, are past their "late 60s." If the CIA assassinates Xi Jinping, are you gonna say "It was nothing because he was old and semi-retired"?
Old people run the world.
Why will Iranians stop studying nuclear energy because Israel murders their nuclear scientists? They won't, but it will slow them down. Iran still hasn't got the bomb, which proves this.
Israel wasn't focused on terror-bombing in the 13-day war. This isn't Gaza.
Netanyahu made his goals very clear during the 13-day war: to destroy Iran's nuclear capabilities and overthrow the regime.
The 13-day war wasn't a terror-bombing campaign because terror bombing wouldn't help Israel achieve any of its goals. Still, many innocent Iranians were killed. No one's denying that.
The idea that the IDF can just magically cover up everything if Iran actually did real damage is ridiculous. We live in a world of smartphones, cameras, and the internet. That's why they couldn't hide the Gaza Genocide.
We live in a world where war is live-streamed. No "military censor" can hide blood behind a curtain anymore.
there's no such thing as "israeli civilians" because they all walk around with assault rifles and all serve in the IDF.
Israelis don’t “walk around with assault rifles.” Israel has a reserve force, similar to South Korea with mandatory military service.
According to international law anyone who isn’t currently serving in the military is a civilian. A 25-year-old Israeli software engineer who served at age 18 is a civilian.
You can’t make up your own definitions.
the 12 day war ended because israel begged trump to escalate it and then begrudgingly for a ceasefire due to a war they started (much like every single war israel’s been a part of— see a pattern there) and because the Iron Dome failed miserably against Iran’s missile arsenal.
Most of israel’s “stunning victories” were achieved the first couple days— when they assassinated elderly desk-bound military personnel or civilian scientists and the like who were “at ease” more or less because they thought the situation would deescalated (the IAEA lied to thing in this regard as well).
What else— well there was a hell of a lot of israeli terror-bombing in Tehran and other places, wasn’t there? But it seems that israel threw in the towel when Iran was just getting warmed up with the response.
I can't remember if it was Jeffrey Sachs, Larry Wilkerson or or someone equally qualified, that pointed out that Israel has assassinated over 3000 people, even if that's over the totality of the existence of the state, that's a horrifying number considering even today it's population is still only 9 million. And that doesn't even take into account the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians they've killed!
Anti-regime Israeli/American talking points.
Mearsheimer, let’s be clear about what you’re actually arguing. Are you supporting—and hoping for the survival of—the Iranian regime so it can continue to brutalize its own people, more than 75% of whom oppose it? Are you rooting for a government that jails, tortures, and executes dissidents, crushes women, and rules by fear to remain in power?
Is this the regime you want to see succeed—one that uses its oil wealth not to improve the lives of Iranians, but to build missiles, fund proxies, and terrorize its neighbors while pursuing regional hegemony? Are you genuinely cheering for Tehran to prevail over the United States and Israel?
Because that is the unavoidable implication of your argument. You consistently shift blame away from the regime that is victimizing its own population and instead frame Western democracies as the real villains—as if Iranians are incapable of resisting tyranny on their own, and as if the mullahs bear no responsibility for decades of repression, corruption, and economic ruin.
So answer the simple question you keep avoiding: do you want the Iranian regime to survive, rearm, and continue its march across the Middle East? And if so, what the hell is wrong with you?
No. The professor and all peace loving people wish for Iran to stay intact and not fall into anarchy and more bloodshed as in Iran, Iraq, Libya, etc. The way is to support the Iranian people by removing the sanctions and help them change their government by peaceful means. But that is not how US of A and its poodle (the apartheid state) wants.
Interesting that the person you are responding to supports a genocide which is against international law. He justifies and supports the death and destruction, the starvation, the horror against a people that Israel continues to attack to this day, yet professes to care about the Iranian people. Really? Hypocrisy is an ugly thing as it implements propaganda, and BS regarding Iran and it's people to justify further carnage solely for the benefit of Israel and the US.
I any regard, if the IRANIANS want the government they have or another, that's up to themselves, the US and Israel should GTFO and fix their own problems, BOTH live by death and destruction and are no example of what should be.
“Peace-loving” doesn’t mean protecting a murderous regime from consequences. Waving around Iraq and Libya is a tired deflection used to justify inaction while Iran’s rulers jail, torture, and kill their own people. Lifting sanctions to funnel more cash to the mullahs doesn’t empower Iranians—it entrenches the very system oppressing them. And calling the U.S. a “poodle” doesn’t make your argument principled; it just reveals the reflexive anti-Western posture that substitutes slogans for serious thought. Supporting the Iranian people starts with recognizing who is actually victimizing them—and it isn’t sanctions.
Shove your "concern" for the Iranian people where the sun never shines. People who awarded and honored the commander of USS Vincennes for shooting down Iranian airplane in 1988 killing 290 innocent Iranians should keep their mouth shut - not to mention their support for the ongoing genocide by the apartheid state. Also, dont forget the chemical weapons provided to Saddam when he was slaughtering Iranians by the tens of thousands.
That would be hundreds of thousands, John stated that a number he found from researching it was as high as half a million by the most prolific murderer in the world, the USA, they supplied the targeting and the chemicals knowing what both would be used for. That's not complicity, that's participation!
No clue what point you’re trying to make.
Should be clear. This is a cynical conflict. The Israeli's only care about their own, and maybe for them Bibi really only cares about his own skin and messianic destiny. The Red White & Blue cares for the donor class and the egos of its leaders. The will of regular people is used and abused to herd us along. And neither country's leadership gives a damn about regular Iranians. They care about their leverage on the geopolitical version of the boardgame Risk. Israel is on borrowed time to consolidate or lose it all, the USA before it defaults economically. The mania of these two countries is the greatest danger on Earth, cause nukes. And Europe is subservient and terrified cause the post world War 2 order is on life support. Things a regular listener of Merishimer will understand from his world view.
Perhaps you should stop being a neoconservative zionist and then you’ll begin to understand.
Lol do you support American neoconservatism and the barbarism of genocidal, terrorist israel in the region?
Congrats, you’re a million times worse than any “mollah”. Good job Dicky.
The most murderous regime on earth at this point is Israel and standing by its side is the US. The Iranians are benign and civilized by comparison.
While Iran's leaders jail, torture and kill their own people. OH YOU MEAN LIKE THE AMERICAN LEADERS DO?
Cut the bullshit, anyone with half a brain knows the only reason to take out Iran is to allow shitrael to take dominance in the Middle East as a puppet of the US. It won't happen because evil never wins in the end and Israel is pure evil and so is the US in supporting this terrorist state.
AND WE LAUGHED AND WE LAUGHED AND WE LAUGHED AND WE LAUGHED.
Supporting the iranian people you say. Well, if we were supporting the Iranian people there would be no US sanctions and shitrael would not be assassinating and attacking the Iranian people.
No sanctions and Iran has wealth and people have good lives and the opportunity TO SORT OUT THEIR OWN FRIGGIN GOVERNMENT. The Government of Iran IS SOLELY THE BUSINESS OF IRANIANS AND NO-ONE ELSE.
The goal is not to help the Iranians. The goal is to destroy Iran utterly and allow the American/Israeli savages in to pick it clean and fill their own pockets.
Ah, the PhD supporter of a genocidal fascist apartheid regime and rabid anti-Iran who has no problem with both the US and Israel killing as many people as necessary to 'free' them from the tyranny of a government most in the country support. Proof that intelligent people can be stupid or maybe just racist like the country they support.
your beloved israel is without peer when it comes to the torture and sexual abuse of children held hostage, btw.
Anything to say about that? That your beloved israel routinely abducts, tortures, and sexually abuses Palestinian children?
Blah blah blah
you are a neocon and a zionist. That means your opinion is less than worthless, whether it comes to Iran (of whom 75% of the population are not “pro America” or “pro israel”) or the broader west asian region.
What an idiotic, asinine remark that has nothing to do with the scope of what Mearsheimer does. He discusses evidence in the public record, provides critical analysis, and asks questions. Questions that should be asked about countries and leaders who commit murderous war acts with impunity (over a thousand murdered in June, and belligerent destruction of state and private property collectively hurting the Iranian people who are already economically choked) and meddled in these protests (killing IR cops, molotovs, lighting fires) that triggered a blowback that resulted in the killings of thousands of protestors.
Mearsheimer is not only right on point, but his criticism is grounded in ethics and international law. I think you need to unsubscribe from this account, and find some maga-zionist brain type of stack that aligns more with your kind of, uh, thinking - that prefers to ignore any bad facts that suggest enormously expensive failures, and excuse the very worst kind of crimes, as long as it aligns with your manufactured world view.
Now I'm just laughing seeing your bio.
"Pragmatist. Facts count. Challenge the bullshit."
It's like projection or something.
That describes Jaffee completely, the projecting bullshit part, I mean, a nutbar zionazi supporter, and to do that, he has to be one himself.
That you subscribe to Max Blumenthal and Norman Finklestein substacks says all. Clueless.
The truth hurts, doesn’t it—especially when it punctures a belief system built on obedience rather than thought. You’re not defending analysis; you’re clinging dog-like to Mearsheimer, parroting his lines while snapping at anyone who dares challenge them. And mocking my bio? Ha, only proves my point that you’re a dummy afraid of being challenged.
Okay, weird chatgpt guy.
Do you think you’re intelligent enough to address the issues I raised in my post? Do you support the Iranian regime and what they are doing?
Yes ... I support the Iranian regime, just like the 3 million Iranians that marched on the streets of Tehran a few days ago to support the Iranian government. Check out this video:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/CtLIJQhYJsas
Do you support the genocidal apartheid state of israel and what they’re doing?
Do you support genocidal zionist terrorism in Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, and Yemen?
You are a neocon and an israel supporter. When you say anything about West Asia, you’re lying through your teeth plain and simple.
Most Iranians support their Government. A minority do not. However, on that criteria the world should unite to take out the US Government and free the American people. How about that?
The propaganda piffle you post just makes people laugh and laugh and laugh. No-one believes this shit anymore. The world cheered and danced when the iranian hit back at the lunatic Israelis after their unprovoked attack. Most of the 8 billion people on earth want to see Tel Aviv levelled, Israel eradicated and the US learning to shut up, go away and for a start, look after its people instead of raping, torturing, murdering, destroying, stealing around the globe.
You sound like you're just using the description of the US and inserting Iran's name!
Just to put things in perspective, first there's zero evidence that 735% of Iranians oppose the government, at BEST it's CIA/Mossad propaganda as well as the claim that it's a government that jails, tortures, and executes dissidents, crushes women, and rules by fear to remain in power.
I just yesterday had a discussion with a friend that was as completely uninformed and confused and was sure that Israel was not committing a genocide of the Palestinians because that hadn't killed all them, the absurdity he missed in that was that BY HIS LOGIC, there was no Jewish Genocide.
This is geopolitical analysis not opinionated ideology champ, keep your knucklehead strawman nonsense out of here.
Gee I just read the article and I don’t remember any of that . Are you losing it ,Richard ?
They have new medications now
he’s a neocon who loves israel. That should explain everything.
75%? Such a neat number! And then there’s this:
https://matthewrafat.substack.com/p/geese-in-an-american-graveyard
Great reporting.
Christ, a loss for the Axis of Evil, Israel/USA, is a win, as these are the days of proving grounds and all of us are their crash test dummies.
Water water food food money money data data.
Iran is hobbled in more ways than one, so this was just one of many trial balloon runs for the Axis of Evil.
As many a Jewish Kissinger lover recalls, those who control the food, control the people, and those who control the money, control the country, and those who control the water, control the region, and those who control the data, control the world.
Read on about that pathogen, Judaism, a la Israelization of the world, like a never ending folding prion, aka Mad Mitzvah Disease: 19 Million Jews like are the judaic spongiform encephalopathy.
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Bolivia was one of the first countries to break off relations with Israel over the Netanyahu regime’s genocide in Gaza, in late 2023. But in the Andean nation’s recent presidential elections, a divided left meant that a right-wing candidate, Rodrigo Paz, was able to win for the first time in over two decades. One of Paz’s first acts in office was to restore relations with Israel.
In December, the country’s new Foreign Minister Fernando Aramayo met with his Israeli counterpart, Gideon Saar, in Washington. That meeting spawned an agreement not only to reinstate ambassadors but also to boost cooperation in areas such as security, tourism and, crucially, lithium mining. From Forbes:
The restoration of relations between the two countries means that Bolivia, the country possessing the world’s largest proven reserves of lithium, which are indispensable to manufacturing modern batteries, now has a partnership with one of the world’s most dynamic and technologically innovative societies. Although the concepts of “Net Zero” and “human induced climate change” are being questioned lately even more than in the last few years, there is little doubt that renewable energy sources, such as solar and wind, will continue to play an increasing role in future energy development on a world-wide basis.
That being the case, each of Israel and Bolivia now has a valuable (and viable) strategic partner, something that neither country really had in the past. In 2023, for example, the prior leftist government of Bolivia struck a deal with China to give that nation, which already produces over 75% of the world’s lithium-ion batteries, the right to develop Bolivia’s prodigious lithium reserves, which mostly are in the Andes Mountains near the borders with Chile and Argentina. (Bolivia Gives China The Whip Hand On Renewable Energy). However, that partnership did not work from the Bolivian’s perspective, and in June of 2025, a Bolivian Court ordered suspension of all Bolivian lithium deals with both China and Russia.
Bolivia, together with Argentina and Chile, hosts the so-called “lithium triangle”, a vast expanse of salt flats in the Andean highlands that accounts for an estimated 60% of the world’s known lithium reserves. It is not the only one of the three to have signed a strategic agreement with Israel, or Israeli companies.
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/01/the-israelisation-of-latin-america.html
I just finished the FT weekend article on Iran and its economy.Have they abandoned real news? After reading this from Prof Mearsheimer- I’m seriously disappointed in the Ft article.
It's the Financial Times, what did you expect?
It is becoming increasingly clear to me this man is paid by anti-US forces. The question is clear: if Iran was getting the upper hand in the 12-day war, why would they back down? Moreover, not even a single mention of the 5,000 Iranians assassinated by the regime???? 5,000 dead is the Iranian government’s own estimate, so the real number might well be double that.
“Why would they back down?” They didn’t, thy weighed the possibilities (including further US involvement) and wanted to end the attacks and murder of their people and felt that they demonstrated a deterrent to israeli aggression, they have stated this several times. First of all the number you are referring was never stated as an estimate, and The Iranian government hasn’t taken responsibility for any number of deaths, you just uncritically believed claims of a translated speech from Khameini that was reproduced in some reports, which have been debunked by many fluent Farsi speakers, what he said is that several thousand were killed due to armed rioters.
Wanted to stop the murder of their own people? Don't make me laugh. Surely you must have seen the videos. The estimates of several thousands dead are perfectly realistic. What about that? I know dozens of Iranians living in the exile who have educated me enough on the atrocities of their regime. White-washing them like professor Mersheimer does is suspicious to say the least. You call them government? What kind of government shuts down the internets and sends assassins to kill Masih Alinejad? With all its proxies currently disbanded, decimated or destroyed, the current crackdown does nothing but demonstrate that the Iranian regime is at the weakest it has been in decades. Winner of the 12-day war?
What kind of government shuts down the 'internets' and sends assassins, well, let's see, both Israel and the US send assassins and oddly enough, when the US based, Zionist Musk run Starlink was shut down/blocked in Iran, the riots stopped, why do YOU think that happened? Are you seeing a pattern here? Neither the US nor Israel have any room to talk about democracy or human rights, they are the worst of the worst offenders in both cases, you should be ashamed of defending such abhorrent governments.
So you uncritically accept the whole Iranian regime's narrative, despite the well-recorded cases of murders and abuses, for decades now? Despite the millions that have gone into exile? Would you shut down the internet if some foreign agents were stirring up confusion and chaos on your streets? NO. You would suppress them, without needing to make your whole population deaf and blind. Give that some thought for a minute and don't blindly believe the discourses of a IXth Century regime please.
So you uncritically accept the whole US and Israeli regime's narratives, despite the well-recorded cases of murders and abuses, for decades now?
Would your government shut down a system that was used organize the overthrow of YOUR government, if you say they would not you are either not intelligent enough to make a rational argument or you are lying.
Understand that the internet and MSM, with very few exceptions, is a very effective propaganda tool, give that some thought for a minute and don't blindly believe the discourses of three of the largest criminal organizations in the world, the UK, US and Israel that have massive propaganda budgets. You are being lied to and manipulated every waking minute.
Idiotic comment, shutting down the internet was what enabled them to prevent the coup from continuing.
If they hadn’t done that, there would’ve 10x killed.
the fact that you hang out with Iranians from exiled royalist families who don’t even call themselves “Iranians” really says all I need to know.
Do you also believe that “most Iranians aren’t even Muslim” and “most Iranians love israel and zionism”?
What a load of bull.
“With all its proxies currently disbanded, decimated or destroyed”
Lmao dude even the IDF command isn’t engaging in this kind of cope.
israel lost in Gaza militarily, lost in Lebanon militarily, couldn’t stop the Houthis from doing anything.
Barring the fact that none of those groups “take their orders from Tehran” (that’s just an israeli lie), why do you think israel’s “won”?
I mean I get that pro israel people are delusional, but read the room. All israel managed to do is become even more universally hated around the world— the next time there’s a major Palestinian assault into israel, no one’s going to believe the lies israel makes up.
Gracias!
Shooting the messenger does not refute the arguments being made here.
Correct . And also implying things that were never said .
Have you considered that there was no mention of the '5,000 Iranians assassinated by the regime' was because many of the 'protesters' were armed and had instructions from Mossad agent to shoot people in the crowd, you know the Israeli operatives that Israeli Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu said were active in Iran “right now” as they were during the 12-day war and you KNOW that if there is a 'regime change' operation/protest/riot, the CIA/NED et al, is there.
Abbas Masjedi Arani, the head of Iran’s medical examiner authority, told state media that many of the casualties were shot in the chest or the head from close range or from rooftops with the aim of inflicting mortal wounds, while others were stabbed to death. Doesn't this sound remarkably similar to the 2014 Maidan Massacre in Ukraine? The US regime change operations are becoming so transparent and there are still fools that ignore the patterns.
America is a force for evil in the world, particularly in West Asia.
I think you’re off your rocker accusing John of being “paid by hostile parties” but your implication that being anti-US is a bad thing is ridiculous.
The USA is the evil empire. The fact that some have only realized this is deeply unfortunate.
The University of Chicago and Substack? Maybe he goes on TV for free,
We have come to understand that odd voids in the media mean something. It has been 26 years since the Mother of All media voids happened. You never really know exactly what happened, but pattern recognition tells you the MSM media are curated and support the story designed for mass consumption. That's not a novel discovery, but more affirmation that things are going the way they usually do when crushing decline rolls on.
Isn't it odd how much we are like the Warsaw Pact countries were right before their system unraveled?
Thank you so much for this analysis. I think the expression is “coup de grace,” though.
The Palestinians have suffered the longest genocidal holocaust in modern history and one of the longest in history fullstop. Palestine deserves to be free and the Israeli colonial experiment in Palestine must end.
https://open.substack.com/pub/pathgirl8/p/this-video-from-1957-could-have-been?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
The Great Satan and its Fizzraeli dumb drone represent the greatest threat to the planet and humanity we have ever seen.
This is my favorite story of the year When the people finally discover that digital overlords are no more powerful than a team of good hackers, stories like this will be common.
They may control the internet, but they don’t control science. They can be beaten on their own turf using their own tools.