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Fighter jets, explosions, and drones were reported across Tehran and the surrounding areas.

So, to recap.

Beyond all the insanity of this, there is ofc the transatlantic language barrier where "I knew a guy" in the US tends to mean "someone I would consider somewhat a friend" and in the UK it can mean "that fucker at work who used slurs like they were adjectives"

Iran gives approval to Indian government for two liquefied petroleum tankers to sail through Strait of Hormuz.

Tweet: "Jewish people in the United States are subject to such hate crimes as: seeing a Palestinian flag, hearing Arabic being spoken, reading a "free parking" sign, and many more atrocities."

Belittling responses like this from large left-wing accounts the day after an attack on a synagogue are a major part of why so many American Jews believe only Zionism and the state of Israel can keep them safe.

Found this in r/NewIran, thought it was too good not to share

I think we may have reached Junta status. We won't know til it's over but I would not be surprised if the Velayat-al-Fiqh is now dead and the IRGC is puppeteering its corpse, pretending that the Mullahs still call the shots.

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We also need to consider the implications if he were to be announced dead. He was the only one the IRGC could rely on to allow them to continue their activities.

If he’s dead, there are many reasons to pretend he’s still alive, at least for a while.

this means it is not open for transit

Honestly, I think you're dead on. Nothing else makes sense.

Mojtabā being wounded is smth they can spin into propaganda and him being dead is prob smth they’d’ve announced in the early days, but him being alive but incapacitated completely destroys the myth of invincibility that IRGC is trying to project onto the world and demoralizes their troops even more.

I’m near certain he’s in a coma partly because it helps explain why they’re not letting so much as a whiff of his condition leak.

piercing together history thanks to one autistic dude at a time, god bless him.

FRANCE AND ITALY OPEN TALKS WITH IRAN IN HOPE OF SECURING SAFE HORMUZ PASSAGE - FT

Oh I didn't even THINK of that

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Maybe even more importantly, today is Quds Day. He hasn't even appeared in photos.

I should hate this with a passion but I hope it does well because it seems to be giving a lot of younger comedians and writers a big break in a way that the ossified British TV industry increasingly doesn’t

BBC headline - Wuthering Heights uni module given content warning for students

BBC iplayer, ep 4 of Wuthering Heights, neon pink banner with warning "Contains some violence and some upsetting scenes"

The BBC will be appalled to learn that the BBC also put content warnings on Wuthering Heights

Can this be a solution?

NATO forces intercepted an Iranian ballistic missile over Turkey earlier today, Turkish authorities say. It marks the third such interception since the start of the war.

Back-to-back, seconds apart lol

*TRUMP: PUTIN MIGHT BE HELPING IRAN 'A LITTLE BIT'
*EU'S COSTA: US LIFTING SANCTIONS ON RUSSIA OIL CONCERNING

yeah there were reports early in the war that we had killed mojtaba so i wouldn't be surprised if he was a bit mangled at the moment

Maybe the second (if he's not dead) as I am reminded of the images of Ali Khamenei on his hospital bed after the attempt on his life (and also did an interview or speech on that bed, which I did not know before this week)

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It is Friday, Jum'ah, the day of prayer in Islam. It is also Ramadan, the holiest month in Islam.

Mojtaba Khamenei has still not appeared in video.

I'm not saying he's actually dead but... you know... something is afoot!

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Why Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Is Still Useful For more than a decade, he has been known more as a regime opponent than as a supporter.

Funny article that posits that the US and Israel may have bombed *near* the location of Ahmadinejad.....in order to free him from house arrest and dash him away for use later as part of a coup d'état against the IRI's leadership.

Possibly the most fucking mental, evil thing Badenoch has said yet, which is setting a high bar.

One of the most likely places for missing episodes of Doctor Who such as Marco Polo to have been sent is probably Iran, and for that reason US/Israel boming must end

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