I have been following Bad Hasbara Podcast from the beginning (basically since #gazagenocide started) and I totally recommed it. Two jewish guys explaining and analizing a lot of things about Israel, Palestine, etc...
In this espisode: "comedian Michael Schirtzer to talk over his Instagram banishment, Piers Morgan's tête-à-tête with Israeli Ambassador to the U.K. Tzipi Hotovely, and several flagrant and lengthy violations of producer Adam’s No Accents rule."
Specially interesting the anallysis about the new Goebbels Meta producer and her speech about what Meta policy about jewish content and how happy is she of being a ziopath.

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#badhasbara #metasucks #metazionists #michaelSchirtzer

112: New Account Who Dis? with Michael Schirtzer [UNLOCKED]

Unlocked this episode because Michael continues to be deplatformed for his Palestine advocacy. We have included all of his new social media links. Please sub...

^YouTube

Ever wanted a play where Anne Frank was played by a queer latino actor.

Well fuck you here it is.
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Slam Frank: A New Musical on Instagram: "Say it with me: Slam Frank is a Real Musical."

42K likes, 2,106 comments - slamfrankmusical on June 23, 2025: "Say it with me: Slam Frank is a Real Musical.".

^Instagram

I have blocked Ronin Grey because he's a shill, possibly a fed, who doesn't want to engage with the arguments and won't acknowledge facts/sources/videos, as revealed in the comment section of TFM's stream:

mgtow.tv/watch/1A8uoGWfol4fJGz

Obviously most TFM followers aren't to be trusted, especially the Judeo Christian types, but the ones who aren't even honest enough to argue their point, are truly worthless.

The Morning Constitutional: LIVE

TFM Website: https://tee.fm/ Morning Constitutional Article Links: https://tee.fm/morning-constitutional-articles/ Stream Links: Entropy: https://entropystream.live/TFMonkey Rumble: https://rumble.com/user/TFMonkey MGTOW

^www.mgtow.tv

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• "everything is alright" (85%, 6 votes)
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Bélarus/partout : Appel à action, entre le 9 et le 11 août
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"Pramen / jeudi 3 juillet 2025 Appel à des actions solidaires du 9 à l’11 août, pour l’anniversaire du soulèvement de 2020 au Bélarus Le cinquième anniversaire du soulèvement contre la dictature de Loukachenko approche. La répression à grande échelle … Continuer la lecture →"

Three Zionist Soldiers Killed in Jabalia

Zionist media reported on Monday that three soldiers were killed and three others injured when a military vehicle was targeted with an anti-tank missile in the northern Gaza Strip.

In detail, the three soldiers from the 401st Armored Brigade were killed inside their tank around 12:00 noon today, while carrying out a mission in Jabalia to “decisive the battle against the local Hamas battalion and destroy its infrastructure, both above and below ground, in the area,” according to the Zionist army.

According to occupation media outlets, 10 soldiers from elite units of the occupation were killed last week during ongoing operations in the Gaza Strip.

This brings the number of army deaths since the resumption of fighting in the Gaza Strip last March to 43.

The number of Zionist soldiers killed since the start of the ground operation in the Gaza Strip has reached 451, according to the occupation. In contrast, the total military losses since the outbreak of the war have reached 893.

Footage exposes vulnerability of Zionist forces in Gaza

The al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Resistance movement Hamas, revealed on Friday that its fighters attempted to capture an occupation soldier during a daring daylight raid east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza. The group confirmed the operation targeted Zionist soldiers and military vehicles, including a Merkava tank and a troop carrier, using Yassin-105 rocket-propelled grenades.

The al-Qassam Brigades stated that, despite battlefield conditions preventing the capture of the soldier, the fighter responsible killed him and seized his weapon. “Abraham Azulai’s luck ran out,” the statement said, “and soon, the next soldier’s fate will be different, as a new prisoner.”

Al-Qassam had earlier released a video as part of its David’s Stones operation series, documenting the moment its fighters engaged a military convoy in the same area. The footage showed direct contact with Zionist troops, capturing one soldier fleeing while others appeared unprotected and unsupported during the confrontation.

The video also showed resistance fighters attempting to seize the fleeing soldier, before ultimately killing him and confiscating his weapon. Notably, the footage highlighted the absence of covering fire or any immediate response from nearby Zionist forces.

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#alAqsaFlood #gaza #guerrilla #hamas #palestine #resistance #westAsia

Three Zionist Soldiers Killed in Jabalia
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Trump's bid to claw back $9B in foreign aid and public broadcasting funds nears Senate vote
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Edit: Click through for the typical BS govt response that’s been added… 🙄

Are you in the UK and opposed to providing ID to use social media in the coming weeks?

There’s an official parliament petition to repeal the Online Safety Act, and it’s already at 13,000 signatures and growing: petition.parliament.uk/petitio…

(Not UK? Please spread the word!)

Petition: Repeal the Online Safety Act

We want the Government to repeal the Online Safety act.

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Hongrie : La déclaration de Maja sur la fin de sa grève de la faim
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"Budapest Antifascist Solidarity Committee / lundi 14 juillet 2025 Cher.es gens, cher.es compas et personnes qui me soutenez, Je m’appelle Maja. Depuis le 5 juin, je me trouve en grève de la faim [voir ici ; NdAtt.]. J’ai commencé pour … Continuer la lecture →"

Support Committee Denounces Abuse of Prairieland Defendant

Dallas-Forth Worth, Texas — A week after the arrest of 10 protestors at a demonstration at Prairieland ICE Detention Center and the subsequent arrest of the spouse of an arrestee, Johnson County Jail is obstructing the defendants’ access to legal representation and retaliating against them for exercising their 5th and 6th amendment rights pursuant to the U.S. Constitution.

These constitutional violations have occurred in conjunction with a far-reaching investigation that has included numerous instances of excessive force and intimidation by various police agencies, friends and family of the defendants reveal. A majority of defendants remain without legal counsel in violation of the 6th amendment. At least three defendants have been denied their requests for a public defender on the grounds of alleged “incomplete paperwork.”

The DFW Support Committee, a group of family and friends of the defendants, said that, “this delay or denial of the right to counsel appears to be in retaliation to the defendants’ lawful right to refuse to speak to law enforcement without their lawyer present and is an egregious violation of their constitutional rights.” In response to one of the defendants exercising their constitutional rights, Johnson County Jail has transferred this person to a solitary medical unit, despite the fact this person has no medical issues or needs. “I am completely appalled at the way their constitutional rights have been ignored,” this defendants mother said, “I grow increasingly concerned for their safety and well-being with each passing day.”

Johnson County’s use of segregation and isolation of pretrial detainees — presumed innocent until or unless convicted at trial — amounts to torture and excessive force used to punish and coerce these defendants in contravention of federal and state law. Johnson County Jail has also refused to house transgender defendants in the housing unit appropriate for their gender raising serious safety and welfare concerns. To avoid further harassment from jail staff and other prisoners, one defendant has been forced to remain in solitary confinement, citing safety concerns in the general population.

Defendants’ friends and family report raids of their homes where agents deployed flashbang grenades, caused extensive damage, and detained spouses, family members and housemates without cause. In one instance, federal agents tackled the adult child of a defendant and put a bag over their head before arresting them and transporting them to jail. “I was terrified, I had no idea what was going on,” the child later said. During this interrogation, agents offered this person monetary bribes in exchange for information, which of course were refused. Police also attempted to extort them by offering to “get rid of a warrant” if they cooperated with the law enforcement investigation. Johnson County Jail has also harassed and intimidated those wishing to visit defendants while in pre-trial detention.

Some defendants’ visitors have been denied entry, detained and interrogated, and had their personal electronics confiscated. Legal experts consulted by the support committee believe that these tactics constitute a campaign of fear and harassment against the defendants and their loved ones, and calls into question the veracity of any statements that law enforcement has compelled under these conditions of confinement, particularly when the defendants have no access to legal representation as the law requires. The state has violated the constitutional guarantees against unreasonable search and seizure and cruel and unusual punishment which will negatively taint any further state prosecutions.

These violations have occurred while the legal proceedings have not progressed on either the state or federal charges. Local legal experts explained that normally in this district, a defendant facing federal charges will receive a first court appearance within one to three days, whereupon appointment of court appointed counsel, release or bail conditions, and next court dates are all addressed. There has been no explanation why these normal practices are not being followed regarding these defendants.

The Prairieland defendants were arrested following a demonstration at the Prairieland ICE Detention Center on July 4th. They are facing state level criminal charges for terrorism and aggravated assault, and federal charges for attempted murder, among other charges.

Anyone wishing to contribute to the defendants’ legal costs can do so here: givesendgo.com/supportdfwprote…

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#anarchism #northAmerica #PoliticalPrisoners #repression

Support Committee Denounces Abuse of Prairieland Defendant
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A tenor de la que está liando el fascismo en Torre Pacheco y las convocatorias nazis, me viene a la cabeza está frase de un señor más listo que yo:

𝙇𝙖 𝙫𝙞𝙤𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙞𝙖 𝙚𝙨 𝙚𝙡 𝙪́𝙡𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙤 𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙪𝙧𝙨𝙤 𝙙𝙚𝙡 𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙚𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙚

Officials from over 30 nations meet in Colombia to demand end to Gaza genocide

The historic conference aims to announce 'concrete measures' against Israel, provoking outrage from the #US government

from #TheCradle
News Desk - JUL 16, 2025

Ministerial delegates from over 30 nations gathered in Bogotá, #Colombia, for a two-day summit to discuss measures for the international community to stop Israel’s ongoing #genocide of Palestinians in the #Gaza Strip.

“Each state must immediately review and suspend all ties with the State of #Israel … and ensure its private sector does the same,” #UN special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territory, #FrancescaAlbanese, said on Tuesday. “The #Israeli economy is structured to sustain the occupation that has now turned genocidal.”

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#StopStarvingGaza
#DivestFromIsrael
#StopArmingIsrael
#USHandsOffICC
#SolidarityWithPalestineIsNotAntisemitism
#Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#news #press #politics @palestine

Officials from over 30 nations meet in Colombia to demand end to Gaza genocide

The historic conference aims to announce 'concrete measures' against Israel, provoking outrage from the US government

^thecradle.co

Leipzig (Allemagne) : Un bref compte rendu de la manif sauvage pour Maja
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"Knack Punkt News / vendredi 12 juillet 2025 Aujourd’hui, nous avons été à une manifestation spontanée, à Leipzig, pour soutenir la grève de la faim de Maja, à Budapest. Après plus d’un mois sans manger, son état de santé se … Continuer la lecture →"

Federal Raids and Surveillance in NYC

This last month, a beloved organizer has been the target of a terror campaign in New York City for an alleged connection to the burning of multiple police vehicles.

Three raids in search of him – in Brooklyn, New Jersey, and Queens – were executed by heavily armed federal and state agents terrorizing his family and comrades. Though the NYPD has publicly announced a $30K bounty on his head and subjected him to a defamation media campaign, he has not been apprehended.

This is just one of countless current incidents of State repression – from the assault on the Palestine movement, the Stop Cop City trials in Atlanta, the kidnapping of immigrants, and the brutalization of anti-ICE protestors in Dallas.

In the spirit of the Palestinian resistance, our prisoners are our compass. No matter what happens next, our solidarity is critical to the targeted organizer. Our support shows our comrade that we stand with him – and shows the State that we will not buckle under their terror tactics. An attack on one is an attack on all.

– NYC Prisoner Support Committee

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#brooklyn #northAmerica #nyc #repression

Federal Raids and Surveillance in NYC
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MODELLO MILANO FINE CORSA

Gli arresti richiesti oggi dalla Procura di Milano nei confronti di alcuni big dell'immobiliarismo milanese, primo tra tutti Manfredi Catella di COIMA, scrivono la parola fine sull'ormai agonizzante "Modello Milano".
Il crollo dell’insegna sullo “storto” è stata un’avvisaglia, ora il mare mosso porta alla superficie il fango, ma la cosa peggiore è che chi amministra la città è del tutto sdraiato su questo modello al tramonto, incapace di reagire, anzi parte del problema e, in ultima analisi, il miglior propagandista di una destra cittadina che appariva fuorigioco.
I magistrati faranno i magistrati, ma noi dovremmo ri-cominciare a prendere in mano il destino della nostra città.

CONTINUA LA COMPLICITÀ DELL'EUROPA CON ISRAELE

Nella giornata di ieri Kaja Kallas, rappresentante dell'UE per gli affari esteri, ha annunciato che l'Europa continuerà come ampiamente previsto, sulla strada della complicità con Israele nella mattanza in corso a Gaza. Non solo non verrà rivisto l'Accordo di associazione, ma non verrà attuata neanche una seppur minima misura simbolica. Il tutto nel consueto trionfo di ipocrisia, doppiopesismo, servilismo e viltà.
Sicuramente questa Europa di tecnocrati è oligarchi non è la nostra.

#FreePalestine
#StopBombingGaza
#CeasefireNow

Moëlan-sur-Mer (Finistère) : Contre la loi Duplomb (et pour des logements pour tou.tes)
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"Ouest-France / lundi 14 juillet 2025 Dans la nuit de samedi à dimanche, de nombreux bâtiments ont été tagués dans le bourg de Moëlan-sur-Mer. Banques, cabinets d’assurance, Intermarché mais aussi des bâtiments publics comme le pôle culturel l’Ellipse ont fait l’objet … Continuer

Women's basketball stars' name, likeness and image brands carrying over into the WNBA
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Al-Quds Brigades Unveils Complex Operation Against Occupation, Among Others

The Palestinian resistance continues to torment occupation forces 21 months into the Zionist regimne’s genocidal war on Gaza. Today, Al-Quds Brigades revealed details of a high-level operation east of Khan Younis, targeting a Zionist armored personnel carrier in an attempt to capture occupation soldiers. The operation is one of several resistance operations in Gaza carried out over the past week amid intensifying confrontations with occupation forces.

High-level operation targets Zionist armored carrier

A field commander from the Al-Quds Brigades’ Khan Younis division confirmed that the operation took place last Tuesday, July 8, in the Abasan al-Kabira area. According to the commander, fighters detonated Barq explosive devices that had been strategically planted along the route of an approaching armored personnel carrier following days of field surveillance.

“The explosion completely destroyed the vehicle and set it ablaze,” the commander reported. “Our fighters immediately stormed the carrier, engaging in close-quarters combat with the crew and managed to drag one soldier with the intention of capturing him.”

The operation was disrupted when nearby Zionist military vehicles intervened, opening heavy fire on the area using shells and machine guns. The exchange resulted in the death of the targeted soldier and the martyrdom of several Al-Quds Brigades fighters.

“This was not our first attempt,” the commander noted. “There were several prior efforts in areas of direct engagement. We remain confident in our fighters and, God willing, success will follow.”

Explosive devices destroy occupation vehicles

Earlier today, the Al-Quds Brigades announced the destruction of another Zionist military vehicle using a pre-planted barrel explosive near the Islamic University in the Ma’an area, southeast of Khan Younis.

Additionally, the Brigades confirmed that on July 10, a high-explosive device was used during an occupation incursion into the Central Street area of Shujaiya, east of Gaza City. The device, manufactured via reverse engineering, successfully destroyed the invading military vehicle.

The Al-Quds Brigades released video footage showing fighters launching coordinated attacks on occupation forces stationed at Jabal al-Sourani, east of the Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City. The attacks included 107mm rockets and mortar shells.

Al-Quds Brigades capture reconnaissance drone

In a related development, the Al-Quds Brigades announced Tuesday that they had taken control of a Zionist reconnaissance drone while it was conducting intelligence-gathering missions over the Tuffah neighborhood in eastern Gaza City.

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#alAqsaFlood #gaza #palestine #pij #resistance #westAsia

Al-Quds Brigades Unveils Complex Operation Against Occupation, Among Others
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NHL releases the 2025-26 schedule, the last 82-game season before new CBA increases it to 84
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Bielefeld (Allemagne) : Free Maja! Le bureau du Procureur attaqué
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"de.indymedia.org / lundi 14 juillet 2025 Dans nos pensées, nous sommes beaucoup aux côtés de Maja, en ce moment. Pour donner une petite forme d’expression à notre soutien à Maja, dans la nuit du 13 au 14 juillet, nous avons … Continuer la lecture →"

Against Imperial Memory: The “Long War” on Iran

We live in a moment where critique risks flattening into instinct, where binaries do not merely polarize, but offer the illusion of coherence. Liberal humanism and conservative militarism, in their supposed opposition, often co-produce a world where historical struggle collapses into media soundbites, and moral clarity becomes a function of narrative simplification. Events like October 7 are swiftly severed from their historical contexts, recast not as echoes of long-standing structural violence but as ruptures demanding immediate condemnation, stripped of their genealogies and folded neatly into the grammar of spectacle.

In the shadow of the latest escalation, and before the next inevitable one, this strategic amnesia is no longer merely a failure of history, but a calculated act of memory-taming: a theft of the past, curated by those determined to keep its meaning sterile, singular, and useful only for our despair and compliance. To position ourselves meaningfully within this engineered reality, we must first revive the memory that charts the future we seek.

Within this logic of compression, a documentary like Al-Jazeera’s Long War begins its historical narrative. Released two years ago, the film exemplifies the framing dictated by Western powers portrayed by oil-funded outlets: that Iran’s antagonism toward the West begins with the 1979 Revolution, as though British gunboats, oil concessions, and CIA coups had not already laid the groundwork long before Khomeini’s sermons.

But revolutions are rarely the origin of antagonism. They are the breaking points of accumulated struggle. Iran’s 20th century, as historian Ervand Abrahamian shows in Iran Between Two Revolutions, was riddled with unresolved tensions over foreign interference, most visibly in the oil economy. The 1901 oil concession, granted during the late Qajar era, gave Britain near-total control over Iran’s oil resources, directly alienating the very social forces that would later fuel widespread resistance: the bazaar merchants, the clerical establishment, and the emerging professional class.

The Tobacco Protest of 1891–92 was one such expression. Not yet a revolution, but more than dissent, it marked one of the earliest moments when foreign control was met with mass refusal. Sparked by a royal concession granting the British monopoly over Iran’s tobacco trade, the protest quickly escalated into a nationwide boycott. A fatwa by Mirza Hasan Shirazi declaring tobacco use haram shut down consumption across the country, forcing the Shah to cancel the deal. In this context, the fatwa becomes not merely a religious ruling but a mobilization of the sacred against the infrastructural. Such a moment resists easy categorization and thus sits uneasily with liberal sensibilities, because here, resistance arrives not through policy briefs but through a theological injunction that suspends imperial aggression. Indeed, the historical fusion of religion and politics in this region, and its transformations, demand an analytical framework that transcends imported frameworks of thought, which often flatten, or even actively obscure, local realities.

The Persian Constitutional Revolution of 1905–11 continued this refusal of passive sovereignty. It was as much a revolt against monarchical arbitrariness as against the way imperial power was smuggled in through the language of “development” and reform. The demand for a parliament (Majles) and national control over concessions signaled a profound desire for representation, and crucially, marked a pivotal turn: the attempt to institutionalize resistance and translate it into durable political architecture. The revolution’s motto, that the country was being “sold to the British” and that foreign economic policies were “destroying Iran’s economy”, spoke directly to the need to empower the Majles with the final say over concessions.

In 1953, the coup against Mohammad Mossadegh brought the question of imperial authorship back to the surface. Mossadegh, who despite leading a secular, democratically elected government, did not conform to the West’s prescribed mold. When he moved to nationalize the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC), Britain responded with a global boycott and lobbied the United States to intervene. Playing on Cold War anxieties, they cited the growing influence of the communist Tudeh Party, whose anti-imperialist platform resonated deeply with a population long disaffected by foreign control. The CIA and MI6, through Operation Ajax and Operation Boot, orchestrated the coup that reinstated the Shah and dismantled the broad-based movement that had rallied around Mossadegh. The arrests, censorship, and violence that followed accumulated into what would eventually erupt in 1979.

The explicit targeting of “Westoxification” (Gharbzadegi) became a central pillar of this new ideological infrastructure, framing the incoming revolution not merely as a domestic uprising but as a comprehensive reassertion of Iranian sovereignty against global imperial designs

What followed the coup was not merely a reinstatement of the Shah, but a full-scale US-engineered reordering of the Iranian state. The Shah’s regime became the linchpin of a new imperial logic: one that fused modernization with repression, economic growth with deepening inequality, and military buildup with political suffocation. US advisers flowed into Tehran alongside arms deals and development plans. SAVAK, the Shah’s secret police, was trained and equipped by the CIA and Mossad, tasked with rooting out dissent, especially from the left and the religious opposition. The countryside was remade under the banner of land reform, a reform largely designed to modernize agrarian structures rather than truly empower the peasantry, leading to significant rural displacement. Oil wealth also flowed disproportionately into state coffers, consolidating the regime’s power and enriching its elite. Iran was rendered both a marketplace for US capital and a garrison for regional containment.

The repressed memory of Mossadegh’s nationalization, however, persisted beneath the surface, feeding underground organizing, clandestine literature, and a growing sense that development without dignity was just another form of subjugation. This antagonism, forged in decades of foreign interference and internal repression, began to coalesce into organized networks. From student cells in universities to religious circles within the bazaars and mosques, and even among disaffected elements of the military, a diverse constellation of groups, often drawing on both modern nationalist and Shia revolutionary thought, systematically articulated a rejection of Western dominance. This institutionalization was not uniform; it manifested in the development of a shared lexicon of defiance, the forging of clandestine communication channels, and the construction of parallel social and political structures designed to counter the Shah’s regime and its perceived foreign backing. The explicit targeting of “Westoxification” (Gharbzadegi) became a central pillar of this new ideological infrastructure, framing the incoming revolution not merely as a domestic uprising but as a comprehensive reassertion of Iranian sovereignty against global imperial designs, and crucially, as a distinctive political imagination. It heralded a new model of power structure, specifically the innovative infusion of the modern “state” or “republican” form with Islamic governance, a synthesis previously unprecedented at such scale. Despite its inherent contradictions, this foundational shift represents a unique turning point in the region’s history, and the last successful revolution to overthrow a monarchy and fundamentally reconfigure its political system. The Republic did not invent anti-imperialist legitimacy; it inherited, translated, and institutionalized it. As Mohammad Tavakoli-Targhi argues, Iranian nationalism was not born in rejection of progress, but as a counter-vision of modernity forged under the pressure of foreign domination. The Republic inherited this vision, repurposing it through the rhetoric of resistance. This legacy helps explain not only the regime’s ideological posture but also the broader sense of solidarity and nationalism displayed by the Iranian people, including those who oppose the regime, during the recent US-backed Israeli war.

It is worth noting that during the decades of US-backed modernization in Iran, Gulf monarchies were being fastened into a parallel imperial order, an arrangement of outsourced sovereignty: their external security ensured, their oil flowed, and their obedience guaranteed. While the Shah styled himself as the Gulf’s policeman, the monarchies performed submission as pragmatism, normalizing foreign presence through soft diplomacy and petro-dollar realignments. Under the US “Twin Pillars” strategy, Iran and Saudi Arabia were cast as co-guardians of Western interests in the Gulf, a pairing that saw the Shah assert regional leadership not only militarily but through OPEC’s oil diplomacy, shaping pricing and production decisions the Gulf would initially follow. But as Iran’s revolutionary rupture broke with this consensus, Gulf monarchies doubled down on the model of compliance, turning petro-influence into a currency of preservation rather than transformation. What followed was not simply geopolitical recalibration, but the slow, deliberate manufacturing of a sectarian grammar, where Iran’s Shia-inflected defiance was strategically recast as a threat to the Sunni regional order, transforming a political rupture into a sectarian crisis, which offered imperial alliances a convenient cover for what remained a strategy of suppression and control.

What matters now is not mythologizing Iran, but restoring context, refusing the amnesia that reduces every confrontation to a clash of liberal values rather than a struggle over history.

With the advent of the revolution, the new Islamic Republic moved quickly: expelling US advisors, seizing the US Embassy in Tehran as a symbolic blow against the “Great Satan,” nationalizing remaining foreign assets, severing diplomatic ties with Israel, and backing resistance movements across the region as part of a broader national defense strategy, fundamentally aimed against US influence. Anti-imperialism was no longer a slogan from the margins; it was policy, law, and export. This institutionalization of refusal, rooted as much in theology as in the memory of coups and concessions, was intolerable to a global order built on containment and compliance. The US, now deprived of its most stable outpost in the region, responded through encirclement. Economic sanctions quickly followed the severing of ties, and Washington’s support for Saddam Hussein’s Iraq during the devastating 1980-1988 war further solidified Iran’s perception of the US as an active adversary, often seen as an “imposed war.” Sanctions, assassinations, and media demonization became the tools of a long containment strategy. In this context, the latest Israeli war can be read as a continuation of that same logic: a war explicitly aimed at regime change, as exemplified by calls from figures like Netanyahu urging the Iranian people to “seize the chance.” This toppling of the state, however, is strategically inseparable from the dismantling of the historical narrative and the revolutionary legitimacy it claims, thereby resurrecting the fabricated illusion of the Shah’s past as Iran’s only acceptable trajectory.

Western observers, as Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi notes in Foucault in Iran, have long misunderstood this history, trapped in binaries of secular versus religious, modern versus traditional. That misreading persists. The fixation on clerical power often obscures the longer arc of anti-imperialist sentiment, how it has been co-opted, institutionalized, and at times betrayed by the very state claiming to carry it forward.

This context doesn’t call for yet another account of Western hypocrisy on “individual freedoms,” “terrorism,” or Iran’s “nuclear threat”. That story is already well-exposed. The irony, for those willing to see it, is blinding. What matters now is not mythologizing Iran, but restoring context, refusing the amnesia that reduces every confrontation to a clash of liberal values rather than a struggle over history, over material conditions, and over the unfinished battle for liberation.

This is not a call to romanticize the Islamic Republic either. It is a call to historicize; to resist the smoothing violence of media cycles and the branding of geopolitics. Because when memory collapses under spectacle, we lose the ability to locate ourselves within an Axis, an Axis that carries memory, enacts refusal, and points toward liberation.

The Empire, it seems, is always allowed a long memory. For that, this kind of historical grounding is not indulgent; it is necessary.

Because without memory, there is no direction.
And without direction, liberation becomes little more than a slogan.

source: Al Akhbar

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Against Imperial Memory: The “Long War” on Iran
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