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Muhanad J. M. Alshrouf, a 22-year-old Palestinian man, was detained by immigration authorities at Houston's Bush Intercontinental Airport for nine days. Attorneys say his detention is just one part of the Trump administration's broader crackdown.
Muhanad J. M. Alshrouf, a 22-year-old Palestinian man, was detained by immigration authorities at Houstonâs Bush Intercontinental Airport for nine days. Attorneys say his detention is just one part of the Trump administrationâs broader crackdown.
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I spoke to the CEO of a company that has a nearly $12 million contract to provide barriers to "Alligator Alcatraz." He told me that he didn't know his products were going to the facility. I offered to show him the contract. He declined to look at it. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/contrac...
TPM has obtained and analyzed over a dozen contracts and invoices related to the construction and operation of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantisâ so-called âAlligatorâŠ
Explore the CVE-2025-5777 vulnerability in Citrix, dubbed CitrixBleed 2. Learn how it works, attack details, and defensive steps from Horizon3.ai experts.
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From 2024: Texas #prison labor is completely unpaid, creating a stark divide between those who get money from home and those who don't. texasobserver.org/the-wages-ofâŠ
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:
https://www.mgtow.
Interesting that you didn't bother asking me, but instead you took a screenshot of my post and shared it here.
I posted it because I like to explain the reason why I block an account, but I deleted it because I realized it might cause drama and the link to the relevant comments would expire anyway, so there was no point in having it up with a dead link.
I want to know what he said that convinced you to block him because I assume it most be really important information to be block worthy
Kind of like how the Jehovah Witnesses will talk to you a long time unless you ask about the governing body then they will not want to talk to you anymore
Because knowing about the governing body is the only thing that can help a Jehovah Witness, so it is the one thing they are taught most of all to avoid conversations about
Since it's too late to avoid drama, I guess I might as well.
This is what started it. I decided to share my opinion on the comment section and got this response. Now, if the individual in question tried to argue his points, besides attacking the messenger, it would be fine. But he kept on avoiding the multiple topics and links to evidence I provided, going as far as downvoting comments that provided sources to back my claims, which weren't even directed at him.
"The International Criminal Court (ICC) has rejected Israelâs attempt to cancel arrest warrants issued against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant" "Israel had asked the ICC to withdraw or invalidate the warrants. It also called on the Court to suspend its investigation into crimes committed in Palestine" "The investigation will move forward, and the arrest warrants remain active" Good news
Oklahoma City's Fox affiliate reports: The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI) arrested a man in Duke for first-degree rape and child sexual abuse. According to OSBI, the bureau was requeste
Researchers have found the first new type of magnet in nearly a century. Now, these strange "altermagnets" could help us build an entirely new type of computer
The New York Times published an opinion piece by David Litt, a former Obama speechwriter, who makes the case as to why leftists and liberals should stop snub...
Yet another reason why the SC appointments should NOT be for life. We've culled a nice bunch of tired, old, lazy, Justices that simply want the decision making to go away, so they can retire and wash their hands of it all. They've sold their souls to the Devil.
If the Kikes wrote the new testament then why didn't the Kikes make all Kikes in the new testament to be the good guys instead of making people of the Kike religion the bad guys in the new testament who are persecuting the Christians whether the Christians are of Gentile or Israelite ancestry
Why didn't they make Jesus followers and the Pharisees followers best friends in the New Testament
Because you can't lead the opposition if you don't allow it to oppose you, at least in words. Like Reps and Dems.
Secondly, Christianity was created in opposition to the elites of Israel. It failed in Israel, they were infiltrated by rabbi Paul and driven out. Then they went to the goy instead and converted them, while appealing to their myths.
And thirdly, they HAVE to paint Jews as the bad guys (ever so slightly) so that they're no longer "chosen by god" and now YOU are.
It becomes rather obvious when you see that the root of Christianity is Judaism, but changed to subvert the goyim. It's an eye for an eye, for the Jew. It's turn the other cheek for you. It's racial supremacy for them, but "we're all brothers under Christ". They're taught to pray for wealth, you're taught the rich don't make it to heaven, etc.
@reallyangry @LudditeMan Except, Maimonides and the other rabbis' claims about Christianity being a subversion are backed by evidence. One only needs to study the well-documented fall of Rome and read Judeo Christian works such as "The City of God", by Augustine of Hippo, to see that Christianity was a subversion from the start. There's far too much evidence.
It's precisely because of this subversion, that the rabbis are the BEST source of information regarding Christianity.
So constantine basically created a State Church that was run on voting and which was not based on the originally intended meaning of New Testament Jesus quotes
Ever since constantine what has been called Christianity has been used to support blind obedience to an authority structure
Constantine's Christisnity with it's majority vote was in direct opposition to Jesus teaching about the narrow way with few that find it
Good we're making progress. First Maimonides was a thousand years removed from the death of Jesus, now Constantine is only 270 and we've acknowledged the Church was already a psyop by then.
And how did they gain influence in Rome before Constantine? By promising communism and salvation to the poor, like every Jewish subversive group ever.
Do we need to go further back, to when Jesus celebrated the passover in the first church?
Terrorismo es cuando cuando unos jovencitos de Navarra le dan dos tortas a un picoleto fuera de servicio que se pasa de listo yendo borracho o cuando unos anarquistas okupan un inmueble abandonado y tienen pintura y un camping-gas.
Cuando grupos organizados de nazis se coordinan para ir a un pueblo de Murcia a cazar magrebĂes es otra cosa.
Los jueces aplican toda la dureza contra los primeros a la mĂĄs mĂnima ocasiĂłn. Sin embargo, cuando un nazi termina sentĂĄndose ante un juez mĂĄgicamente se beneficia de una indulgencia o una negligencia inexplicables.
Pero vivimos una dictadura socialcomunista y bla, bla, bla.
Sitzen wir, was die #Klimakrise betrifft, alle in einem Boot? Leider nein: Die Klimakrise ist ungerecht. Denn sie bedroht einige Bevölkerungsgruppen stÀrker als andere.
Sitzen wir, was die Klimakrise betrifft, alle in einem Boot? Leider nein: Die Klimakrise ist ungerecht. Denn sie bedroht einige Bevölkerungsgruppen stÀrker als andere.
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 tĂȘte-Ă -tĂȘte with Israeli Ambassador to the U.K. Tzipi Hotovely, and several flagrant and lengthy violations of producer Adamâs 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.
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...
Kolumbien: »Gruppe Den Haag« debattiert konkrete MaĂnahmen, um Israels Genozid an den PalĂ€stinensern im Gazastreifen zu stoppen. Aufruf an alle Staaten, Beziehungen abzubrechen.
I haven't touched Rimworld in so long them adding shelves is new to me. Trying to pick it back up. Do I need to be judicious in my use of wood? Do trees regrow by themselves or do I need to get some asshole to start a tree farm fairly soon?
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:
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.
Guys, we have to trust Trump on this one. He HAS to throw a majority of his voters under the bus. We canât be demanding transparency regarding global elites molesting underage girls at a time like this. We have to peacefully bomb Russia, and Iran, and Palestine, and Syria. We HAVE to lose the midterms and 2028, and maybe every election until we can elect Barron to rule over the ruins. MAGA!
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 âdecisive the battle against the local Hamas battalion and destroy its infrastructure, both above and below ground, in the area,â 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. âAbraham Azulaiâs luck ran out,â the statement said, âand soon, the next soldierâs fate will be different, as a new prisoner.â
Al-Qassam had earlier released a video as part of its Davidâs 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.
"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. InâŠ"
NASAâs latest open Software Catalog, released Wednesday, offers more than 1,200 downloadable codes developed by agency engineers that could enable faster solutions to energize the space economy and stimulate American ingenuity. The catalog is part of NASAâs effort to place advanced technologies, including agency software, into the hands of businesses, researchers, and entrepreneurs to foster [âŠ]
Read this. Prof Bartov ââŠIsrael is committing genocide against the Palestinian people. Having grown up in a Zionist homeâŠserved in the I.D.F. as a soldier and officer and spent most of my career researching and writing on war crimes and the Holocaust, this was a painful conclusion to reachâŠâ nytimes.com/2025/07/15/opinionâŠ
Edit: Click through for the typical BS govt response thatâs been added⊠đ
Are you in the UK and opposed to providing ID to use social media in the coming weeks?
Thereâs an official parliament petition to repeal the Online Safety Act, and itâs already at 13,000 signatures and growing: petition.parliament.uk/petitioâŠ
Trump, in a stunning social media post, branded the Epstein story a "hoax" and said he doesn't want the support of those who "bought into this bullsh*t."
Support Committee Denounces Abuse of Prairieland Defendant
Dallas-Forth Worth, Texas â 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 defendantsâ 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 âincomplete paperwork.â
The DFW Support Committee, a group of family and friends of the defendants, said that, âthis delay or denial of the right to counsel appears to be in retaliation to the defendantsâ lawful right to refuse to speak to law enforcement without their lawyer present and is an egregious violation of their constitutional rights.â 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. âI am completely appalled at the way their constitutional rights have been ignored,â this defendants mother said, âI grow increasingly concerned for their safety and well-being with each passing day.â
Johnson Countyâs use of segregation and isolation of pretrial detainees â presumed innocent until or unless convicted at trial â 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.
Defendantsâ 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. âI was terrified, I had no idea what was going on,â 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 âget rid of a warrantâ 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 defendantsâ 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.
"Dallas-Forth Worth, Texas â 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,âŠ"
El jutjat dâinstrucciĂł 2 de Tarragona investiga lâex-ministre dâHisenda espanyol CristĂłbal Montoro per haver encapçalat una presumpta trama de corrupciĂł que utilitzava el ministeri per a modificar lleis i reglaments al dictat dâempreses privades, a câŠ
A tenor de la que estå liando el fascismo en Torre Pacheco y las convocatorias nazis, me viene a la cabeza estå frase de un señor mås listo que yo:
Ministerial delegates from over 30 nations gathered in BogotĂĄ, #Colombia, for a two-day summit to discuss measures for the international community to stop Israelâs ongoing #genocide of Palestinians in the #Gaza Strip.
âEach state must immediately review and suspend all ties with the State of #Israel ⊠and ensure its private sector does the same,â #UN special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territory, #FrancescaAlbanese, said on Tuesday. âThe #Israeli economy is structured to sustain the occupation that has now turned genocidal.â
According to the World Gold Council, the decline in interest rates worldwide and the remaining uncertainty will support the interest of investors, particularly through gold exchange-traded funds and over-the-counter transactions
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 â in Brooklyn, New Jersey, and Queens â 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 â 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 â and shows the State that we will not buckle under their terror tactics. An attack on one is an attack on all.
"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. ThreeâŠ"
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 dellâinsegna sullo âstortoâ Ăš stata unâavvisaglia, ora il mare mosso porta alla superficie il fango, ma la cosa peggiore Ăš che chi amministra la cittĂ Ăš 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 cittĂ .
Nella giornata di ieri Kaja Kallas, rappresentante dell'UE per gli affari esteri, ha annunciato che l'Europa continuerĂ come ampiamente previsto, sulla strada della complicitĂ con Israele nella mattanza in corso a Gaza. Non solo non verrĂ rivisto l'Accordo di associazione, ma non verrĂ attuata neanche una seppur minima misura simbolica. Il tutto nel consueto trionfo di ipocrisia, doppiopesismo, servilismo e viltĂ . Sicuramente questa Europa di tecnocrati Ăš oligarchi non Ăš la nostra.
"Sen bana bak, oÄlum, yalanin gĂŒcĂŒ doÄrunun gĂŒĂ§sĂŒzlĂŒÄĂŒnden deÄildir. Yalan teĆkilat kurmuĆ, doÄru yalnızdır. Yalanın geleneÄi var, senin doÄrunun her gĂŒn yeniden yaratılması gerek. Her gĂŒn bir Ćafak çiçeÄi gibi yeniden açması gerek.."
Al-Quds Brigades Unveils Complex Operation Against Occupation, Among Others
The Palestinian resistance continues to torment occupation forces 21 months into the Zionist regimneâs 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.
A field commander from the Al-Quds Brigadesâ 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.
âThe explosion completely destroyed the vehicle and set it ablaze,â the commander reported. âOur 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.â
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.
âThis was not our first attempt,â the commander noted. âThere were several prior efforts in areas of direct engagement. We remain confident in our fighters and, God willing, success will follow.â
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 Maâan 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.
"The Palestinian resistance continues to torment occupation forces 21 months into the Zionist regimneâs genocidal war on Gaza. Today, Al-Quds Brigades revealed details of a high-level operation east of KhanâŠ"
Neil Duncan-Jordan, who has been the MP for Poole since the general election in the summer of 2024, has been suspended following his decision to vote against the Welfare Reform Bill put forward by the Labour Party under Keir Starmer.
Ministers are effectively blocking the voices of victims, while 'soliciting those of the perpetrators', argues the CEO of Muslim Engagement & Development, Linsay Taylor
Against Imperial Memory: The âLong Warâ 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-Jazeeraâs 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 Iranâs 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 Khomeiniâs sermons.
But revolutions are rarely the origin of antagonism. They are the breaking points of accumulated struggle. Iranâs 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 Iranâs 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 1891â92 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 Iranâs 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 1905â11 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 âdevelopmentâ 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 revolutionâs motto, that the country was being âsold to the Britishâ and that foreign economic policies were âdestroying Iranâs economyâ, 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 Westâs 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 âWestoxificationâ (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 Shahâs 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 Shahâs 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 regimeâs power and enriching its elite. Iran was rendered both a marketplace for US capital and a garrison for regional containment.
The repressed memory of Mossadeghâs 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 Shahâs regime and its perceived foreign backing. The explicit targeting of âWestoxificationâ (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 âstateâ or ârepublicanâ 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 regionâs 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 regimeâs 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 Gulfâs policeman, the monarchies performed submission as pragmatism, normalizing foreign presence through soft diplomacy and petro-dollar realignments. Under the US âTwin Pillarsâ 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 OPECâs oil diplomacy, shaping pricing and production decisions the Gulf would initially follow. But as Iranâs 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 Iranâs 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 âGreat Satan,â 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 Washingtonâs support for Saddam Husseinâs Iraq during the devastating 1980-1988 war further solidified Iranâs perception of the US as an active adversary, often seen as an âimposed war.â 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 âseize the chance.â 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 Shahâs past as Iranâs 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 doesnât call for yet another account of Western hypocrisy on âindividual freedoms,â âterrorism,â or Iranâs ânuclear threatâ. 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.
Following the recent escalation against Iran, history was once again stripped of context and weaponized for empire. This essay confronts the erasure, tracing a century-long struggle against imperialism that the Islamic Republic neither invented.
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