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Opinion of one of the Simurg Admins
🇮🇷President Pezeshkian has promised the Leader of the Revolution to resign if a deal with the US isn’t clenched.
Iranians are sick and tired of political stunts by the Reformist governments that have returned little other than misery and poverty for them, while enriching the so-called “Reform Mafia” by 100s of billions of dollars.
Pezeshkian will not resign and is likely to concede any and all rights that Iran possesses since it’s become crystal clear that he’s essentially on a mission for the Iranian oligarchs such as Ansari, Mar’ashi and others.
During the 40-day War, the Trump regime specifically targeted industrial production in Iran, including the pharmaceutical industry.
Iranian oligarchs view domestic innovation and production as rivaling their massively lucrative import-export gig.
Even Western sanctions since the 2009 “election riots” have been designed in such a way as to enrich the pro-West businesses and deprive popular concerns.
The Islamic Republic needs to systematically clean house in order to preserve the achievements of nearly 50 years worth of national sacrifice.
@SimurghRes
Finally people are talking about this.
The reformists are speedrunning selling Iran out. Its ridiculous that they’re capitulating after all the cards they hold. I guess the bourgeoise are terrified of additional sanctions or their assets in Western countries being seized.
Either way, really need Imam Khamenei to step in and get rid of these snakes
It’s not about fear for them. They don’t really fear much about the US. The Iranian oligarchs want to be able to access western markets and enruch themselves further, as they could very easily compete with most global players today.
It’s not a fear of West, it’s envy of their opulence, and an all encompassing greed.
Would him agreeing to concede all these rights possessed by Iran even work out? Don’t they have to be approved by the supreme leader to actually work?
The reformists used this playbook before. Agree to concessions that they know the leader won’t accept, then when the negotiations fall through, the reformists use it to paint the principalists and IRGC as unwilling to make concessions. From there they use the various media outlets the oligarchs own to stir up their supporters into a frenzy.
This the time though, they don’t have a support base among the population, especially compared to the very agitated and mobilized public that currently exists in Iran.
And there have been several important people like the relative (or son) or Ayatullah Khomeini saying that “anyone that negotiates with US empire is a traitor”. Let’s hope the Reformists actually try to do something like this and then get their asses handed to them by the public
Ain’t no way
Tbf this is what reformists across the world have always done. This is why during imperial wars of aggression, reformists need to be stripped of power. Let them have a voice, but their hands should be tied, because when they’re not, they always sell out their people.
I hope the reformists responsible for this are hanged in a public square in Tehran. No reformists in Iran should ever have the balls to betray the Iranian people ever again. Make them spit blood and show everyone else what it means to betray the Iranians
The great martyred leader of the revolution, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been buried.
May God bless his soul eternally.
So according to Nima there were some himars strikes from bahraine and kuwait. Iran is placing mines in the Omani side of the strait. There are Iranian jets patrolling over Tehran.
I think the oil tankers that Iran has been hitting were headed fro usa and Iran stopping them is what has made trump angry. The american oil reserve is basically tapped and Iran is demanding that the MoU be followed so usa doesn’t get any oil till they stop the israelis, release the stolen funds, and lift some sanctions.
Thank you for the actual details! Unlike certain megathreads!!
I genuinely hope this leads to Pezeshkian and Aragchi being thrown out on their asses, if not imprisoned, and being replaced by IRGC hardliners who know how to use their drones and missiles instead of tweets that go against Iran’s interests
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
🇺🇸🇮🇷The areas struck by the Trump regime in southern Iran earlier. Both the Zionist apartheid entity and Bahrain are said to have played an active part.
@SimurghRes
🇮🇷🇺🇸| In the last 24h, Iran has hit 5 tankers in the Strait of Hormoz following warnings by the IRGC that were ignored.
The latest 3 are:
🇶🇦 Qatari-owned LPG tanker AL REKAYYAT 🇸🇦 Saudi-owned Oil Tanker WEDYAN 🇦🇪 UAE-owned LPG Tanker AL MARYAH
Another one hit this afternoon remain to be identified, and the unreported one hit during July 5-6 night too.
@FotrosResistancee
https://t.me/FotrosResistancee/22726
Very terrifying to see my basic predictions about the arc of US-Russian/Iranian affairs come true. Hitting electricity & bridges is exactly what everyone pointed out was holding back the US from entering a huge escalation spiral. An even bigger one going as far out as the Indian Ocean. I assume you saw that it came out Iran’s damage to Israel’s power grid was far more severe than revealed initially.
It seems like there may be more fear of the alternative, Iran not entering the escalation spiral, which I agree would be worse, but this is very very bad & I don’t see any way out, maybe people are right we will keep falling back to low-intensity as both sides benefit from stalling in some respects. I hope they destroy everyone in my industry bring it on. Revenge
🇮🇷Seyyed Ali Khomeini, speaking at the memorial service for the martyred Leader:
“The current negotiation is not a peace negotiation; the country is at war. Anyone who negotiates for peace with the United States is a traitor.”
@SimurghRes
Video: https://t.me/SimurghRes/6935
Let’s goooo
VIDEO | A video from Tehran, Iran, shows protesters marching with banners featuring crosshairs over the faces of Laura Loomer, Trump, Ben Shapiro, Miriam Adelson, Lindsey Graham, and others, accompanied by a caption in English stating, “Sooner or later, your heads will roll.”
Those are really good. I wonder if they will sell them as commemorative T-shirts, like after the fact so that it isn’t a threat anymore.
Pentagon officials ‘ignored warnings’ of outdated intel ahead of Minab school massacre: Report
Trump blamed Iran for the strike that killed over 160 school children in March, despite evidence showing the use of a US Tomahawk missile
https://t.me/thecradlemedia/63673
The accusation against Iran feels like when Libs accused the Soveits of doing the Katyn massacre.
Small scale version of blaming Stalin/communism for the 20 million soviet citizens massacred by the nazis
The funeral in Iran and Iraq is on track for a combined total number of 30-40 million people in attendance.
Tehran ~15 Million (confirmed)
Qom 2-4 Million (projected)
Iraq 3-5 Million (projected)
Mashhad 7-10 Million (projected)
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I can’t describe what is happening, I don’t know how to explain to people how truly insane this funeral is. It’s the awakening of an entire nation.
Public life is completely shut down in these cities. People travel from hundreds of kilometers just to visit the martyred Leader. They sleep on the hard streets, some even without food, in 30 degree weather.
People walk, sometimes 10-20 kilometers, with their children, elderly, sick, and even crippled or disabled, to visit the martyred Leader.
There isn’t a single street within the city that doesn’t have dozens or hundreds of mourners walking to the funeral site. There is no metro station without chants of ‘Allahu Akbar’, that isn’t completely congested.
Some of the people that are attending, didn’t even support the Islamic Republic before the war. Some of them never attended a political rally in their entire lives. What is happening is completely unprecedented in history.
@Middle_East_Spectator
— 🇮🇷 NEW: A video from the funeral in Tehran shows people chanting ‘Death to the Compromiser!’ when they saw President Masoud Pezeshkian
I debated whether to upload this or not, but I think it’s important for people to see how Iranians think about the current negotiations with America.
We may disagree with such slogans, especially at a sensitive time like this, but the emotions are raw and sincere.
@Middle_East_Spectator
Video: https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/34244
Personally I think the chant is fine. MES is too focused on optics at times imo.
People get way to hung up on “death to” Its an idiom. When English speakers say “Fuck you” they don’t mean they want to have sex with the person.
It’s honestly less obscene. I’ve heard taxi drivers say “death to traffic” during my trips to Iran, it’s very commonly used.
I think the slogan is a sign of something bigger. The Iranians do not wish to negotiate, and they want blood for what was done to them. Pezeshkian represents the reformist faction, and it’s not surprising that there’s distrust towards reformists, given their tendency to sell out for personal gain.
If anything, this is one of the most unifying movements in recent times.
If any of the pedophiles in US or Israeli intelligence services are paying attention, they should understand that the regime change is quite literally impossible now. Even if by some miracle, the reformists carry out a coup, the people will put their heads on a pike.
Not to mention there’s rumors that Imam Mojtaba is weeding out the reformists and putting IRGC hardliners in important military positions.
I only hope that the radical portion of the Principalists uses this momentum to their advantage against the reformists and finally remove the US from the region entirely.
CONFIRMED 🇺🇸🇵🇰 K2 Airways Boeing 737 reported missing earlier, has been shot down by the US forces north of the Arabian Sea. The Pakistani company has confirmed all five crew are lost.
@SimurghRes
This is what happens when this violent US filth is stationed anywhere around your country. I can’t imagine why they would shoot this down but I’m not assuming anything - bastards, 5 fellow Pakistanis wiped out in a second with no defence, and I expect our bootlicking army rulers to do precisely nothing. One of my cousins is a commercial pilot operating in the region so this hits close to home. Not the first time the US has spilled innocent people’s blood here obviously.
My condolences to your countrymen, Inshahallah, Iran goes through with the revenge its people demand and erases the imperialists from West Asia permanently.
Thank you for the updates, I haven’t been paying attention, can you contextualize this? Why is the US attacking Pakistani firms? What does this mean?
Why is the US attacking Pakistani firms?
Because it’s the US and it’s ruled by most heinous, evil scum that’s ever existed on planet Earth who will actually go mad if they spend even a single second without causing the deaths of innocents around the globe.
I’ve got no clue, people in the telegram are just as confused as well, or purporting their own “theories” that amount to just dogwhistles.
Simurg is a cesspit so I can only stomach so many comments before just tubing it all out.
🇮🇷 Khatam al-Anbiya Headquarters: We will not allow America to interfere in the affairs of the Strait of Hormuz or its management
Statement from Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters:
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The unprecedented turnout at the funeral and farewell procession for the martyred leader of the Islamic Ummah dealt a humiliating defeat to global arrogance and the criminal United States.
The US terrorist military, honoring none of its commitments, and at a time when the sacred body of the martyred leader of the world’s Muslims and free peoples was still a guest of the officials and valiant people of Iraq, struck several points in our beloved southern Iran in a blatant act of aggression.
The armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran will deliver a crushing response to this American act of aggression and terrorism, and will under no circumstances allow interference in the affairs of the Strait of Hormuz or its management.
It is once again declared that the only safe passage for commercial vessels and oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz is the route designated by the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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🇮🇷🇺🇸| Images of the “IRGC speedboats” that the US bombed at the fisher’s pier in Bandar Abbas… but they are actually fishing boats belonging to fishermen.
@FotrosResistancee
https://t.me/FotrosResistancee/22814?single
—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: The IRGC Navy struck a vessel that attempted to cross the Strait of Hormuz via the Omani maritime route without Iran’s permission
@Middle_East_Spectator
https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/34252
— 🇮🇷/🇶🇦/🇺🇸 NEW: Iran most likely struck the Qatari-owned LNG Tanker ‘AL REKAYYAT’
The tanker received multiple warnings, but decided to ignore them and instead called the U.S. Navy for assistance.
@Middle_East_Spectator
The gulf states are getting desperate if they’re pulling this. They know the risks and still go ahead with it. Things must be pretty bad
