🇮🇷🇮🇷 General Discussion Thread Iranian Solidarity Edition

Glad to see this community taking the principled anti-imperialist stand here (as we did on Russia's intervention in the Ukraine). The mainstream internet is full of the worst Zionist shitlibbery.

Death to zionism. Death to america. Death to white supremacy.
I am glad we can be your refuge from the rest of the internet
I don't think so, I think most of the pro-zionist buzz you're seeing is consent manufacturing. Noone sane wants war, and most people are sane.

Welcome CommunistMemes refugees I hope you have a nice stay over here

What happened to CM? I have not been around

Love and support to the people of Iran, Palestine, Yemen and all the people resisting the Zionist entity and Amerikkkan imperialism in mind, heart or body.

I cry for your people and your martyrs. The crimes the western imperialists have inflicted on these lands and these peoples for centuries is too much to bear. Inshallah justice and peace will come soon.

Every morning I play Disco Inferno and watch images of Israel burning

Apart from the main thing: next week we will have another general strike against our government. It's the 7th month in a row that we are striking now and we won't stop anytime soon

Every morning I play Disco Inferno and watch images of Israel burning
Great idea, actually.
We have same thing in Turkiye. Turkiye is pro-Isn’treal and politicians doing their mouth service but carrying Azerbajian oil to Isn’treal

I never thought I will see someone so based being interviewed in an Iranian news media

Several good marxists, actually. Pretty rad for state TV

A very prominent figure in the Belgian neolib party (the ruling one) got on tv to talk about Gaza. He called Israel an apartheid State and he says that Palestinians have no other option than to die, live under oppression or flee. He even went as far as to say that if he were born in Gaza he himself would have become a terrorist to fight Israel. He says Israel is one of the worst disgraces of the century.

Now, I was blown away by this. This is even more harsh words than our party leaders use on tv. Like, fuck me man I 100% agree.

And this all goes directly against his own party's stance too.

Am I going to need to start liking the Belgian Neolibs? or is this a stopped clock is correct when someone sets it
- Oh no it's still shit. It's neolib mixed with Flemish nationalism. But he thinks this way because years ago he visited Israel and got to see how Palestinians were living and how they were treated and that radicalized him when it comes to Gaza.
  Which shows that he at least has some integrity. He is pushing his party to take action and as some sort of last resort has now decided to go on live shows to talk about it.

news megathread be like:

"China why wont you nuke your entire soft-power to stop the overstretch of the American regime when it's gonna do what it does regardless?"

China is already helping Iran under the table. There are supply lines from China to Iran. There's also a big player helping Iran with electronic warfare and satellite intelligence. It could be China or Russia.
Demanding the PLA to go marching to Iran's aid of course would be silly but it's clear Iran is suffering a severe deficit in their air defense and are very much in a vulnerable position if no one steps to help them in that area at least. It's not going to stretch the US empire all that much if they decide to simply start wrecking havoc on Iran with B2 bombers. I don't think anyone who doesn't already hate China is going to be upset if they start sending Iran Pakistan level military aid.
- They're most likely giving them everything they can plus intelligence support. Exposing that to the public or diplomatically threatens a significant chunk of soft-power they can continue to use.

From Venezuelan comrades to our Iranian comrades

A Dutch pro Israel org send out a tweet asking where the protests against Iran are, calling them a terrorist state that is targeting civilians. Satire is now officially dead. You can't top this.

First Theoretical Symposium between the Communist Party of China and the United Socialist Party of Venezuela

This happened last week. 🥹

Inshallah Isntreal will be made so

You Too Oppo, you too

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Got a message from the Dutch railroad company gaslighting about the strike, saying it is their duty to keep The Netherlands available to everyone for a good price.

It's literally cheaper to fly from my home town to Ibiza and from Ibiza to Amsterdam than it is to take the 1.5 hour train if I plan far enough in advance.

Somebody just got their throat slid on a bus in my city and died. Sometimes I wonder why I bother living in a city.

Wow

I've seen a disturbing amount of anti-AES rhetoric lately, particularly on the bear site.

So they had months long struggle sessions and banned tons of long time users, made an open call to bluesky libs and told their users to be nice to them, now they are letting libs walk all over the left unity policy and shit on AES. Is anyone still questioning if hexbear got taken over by feds?
As in an increase on anarchism? that would not particlularly suprise me for right about now.
- Its been a variety of lib/ultra/anarcho-Bidenist takes. We should hold space for criticism (aka critical support) but this doesn't seem to be that. More just reddit-tier bad faith garbage.

From @Middle_East_Spectator:

I am literally seeing Iranian larp Zoroastrians / pro-Democracy liberals and nationalists now siding with the Islamic Republic.

Israel has united the most unlikely of alliances. Iranians united for the homeland.

Very happy to see how the Iranian people from all types of ideology united against the zionist siege.

Look we can all agree Israel brings people together, Aganst them

I hope you all have a nice week :D

Sending US troops to go fight Iran because the Israeli's started a war is probably the only thing that would actually turn public opinion against Israel past the point of no return. Which is why they're trying to be as subtle as possible with the phrasing of "moving troops closer to the border to assist."

there was a report from Cuba that said Majority US american opinion was opposed to Israel after their unprompted attack. So I think the fear they have is that this might make it pass the tipping point, and also Vitnam style anti-war protests
- Do you have the source?

Days after a dude killed a completely random person on a bus in my city another person attacked random people with a hammer. This time I was actually near it. Idk what's happening but this city is on a shithole speedrun lately.

I also just read that Antwerp police ran over a nine year old boy, who died
- It's a Jewish boy and I can't believe I'm saying this but this was bound to happen, police or someone else. The Jewish district is a danger traffic wise. Just today I nearly hit three kids myself who cross the road without looking, even through a red light. I ride my bike there daily and every single day I wonder if someone gets killed. Complete chaos and everyone ignores the traffic rules or exist solely in their own world it seems.
  One of my clients actually saw it happen in her way to our office. She said the police car was driving with lights and sirens but the boy just randomly wandered onto the road, far from pedestrian crossing from in between parked cars.
  I don't want to blame the kid because that just seems wrong but sooner or later this was bound to happen. Absolute tragedy.

I live above and Italian couple and I guess just by being in close proximity to their internet usage I get suggested lots of italian migrant content in social media and it is just Italians bashing Belgian food lmao

Understandable, unless they're also bashing the fries

Why does the average person think the division in philosophy is between idealism and "realism" ? Its like they materialism has been mandela effect'd.

I mean i can imagine it is because materialism leads to marxism.

I went to the dentist this morning (boo! Tomato! Tomato!) and the TV was playing a news network called “the 700 club” also known as CBN. I had never heard of it before and was subjected to the most egregious, disgusting, Zionist propaganda I have ever seen on TV. The male host was interviewing the Israeli ambassador to the US and wow, just shitting on Iran over and over while talking up the morality of the IOF. With that comes white supremacist nonsense as well. It was like watching Piers Morgan tbh. I was also unable to change the channel so I just sat there like I was being tortured lol.

Edit: I also stumbled across this TikTok which I feel is very relevant to this discussion thread.

A floral panel honoring the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War decorates the SPIEF(San Peterburg International Economic Forum) 2025 exhibition.

Thought I'd share some more light hearted news as a man walking his dog near a Belgian body of water yesterday found a Caiman wandering around and now a big search has been set up lol. They assume it is released by someone but otherwise climate change is taking up some really drastic forms.

Don't have much to say about Iran cause fog of war and not knowing much about what's going on and all. But damn, it is hard not to have some anxiety about it. May this be a turning point for liberation from the colonizer in the region. 🙏

We really need to reinvent cities in Belgium and The Netherlands as it's only becoming hotter and drier for the next few years. Absolutely scorching sun right now but everything is traditionally build to keep the warmth in. Not nearly enough greenery as needed. And as a result we're getting wrecked by the heat.

Some of my inner city hasn't got a proper park nearby for miles. Only concrete squares but they trap heat even more.

And then you have lunatics like Amsterdam who have organised a festival on the city's highway and won't call it off. Have fun partying on fucking asphalt in 32 degree weather with full sun.
- 32 degrees on asphalt. Reminds me of my home town. Only it was like this the whole year.
- Amsterdam Municipality is not really known for their amazing plans

Lmao Dutch Fürher Geert Wilders is coming to my Dutch hometown soon for some anti migration bullshit

Contemplating going to it for shits and giggles

I am going to assume he is also anti-EU? I would assume because easy migration within the EU is a core tennent
- Yeah he is. Campaigned for a Nexit at one point. Didn't get that much traction tbh.
  He has been proxy governing The Netherlands for the last year and pulled out of the government a few weeks ago because he found the government was too lenient on migration. Which is funny because he appointed the migration minister. Proper fascist shit he is.
  My hometown is a heavy working class city so I'm guessing he wants to show himself to his voter base. Hope we show him what working class actually means.

Prolewiki dead?

ProleWiki down but they're working on it to get it back up
- ❤️ Thanks!

I just ordered from Amazon, and could feel a bit of my integrity disappear.

We live in a society
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Yeah, package literally just arrived at lunch today. Rat's ass company.
Although I'm wondering what the guy putting the order together was thinking when he had to collect Governance of China IV, People's China at 75 and The Wumao Handbook and place them into one box. (If not done by a machine.)

مرگ بر آمریکا، مرگ بر اسرائیل.

Long live the resistance. Didn't expect the US to escalate so quickly. Thought there would be at least a couple weeks to try to manufacture consent.

The Euro-American chauvinism, ignorance, audacity, racism, orientalism, and cope that comes out of the mouths of ordinary citizens who consider themselves smart and experienced is just too much for me sometimes.

May I borrow your words. I am autistic and words fail me more often than not when dealing with emotional subjects like this. well said
- You may

Dutch left reddit already auto fellating for both sidesing the conflict saying Iran needs regime change as well

So far for critical support I guess. But that sub sucks anyway.

I was at the anti-NATO demonstration in the Hague today. We were with 5000 people and we made a stand, although I wished we were with more. It was pretty international, with the Belgian PvdA and the Turkish TKP participating as well. There was a lot of police for such a small demonstration and they were clearly trying to intimidate us. During the march there were three arrest buses following us which were later joined by police on horseback. On every side street there were always a dozen police officers and a couple of police vans.

Edit: I forget there was also a police van with cameras on top filming everyone the whole time

There were also some pro-ayatollah Iranians present, like not just critical support but full support for the government. The women were all wearing chadors. I heard rumors they were embassy staff, or paid by the embassy, which I don't necessarily believe. There were times where anti-regime Iranians in the march were clashing with the pro-regime Iranians.

I saw we were there with 350 people.
Saw some people get mad at a banner depicting I think a Hamas soldier but I'm not sure. Optics wise you can have an opinion on that, I guess.
Anyway I hope the protests continue the next few days.

Is Mamdani another AOC or is he more legit?

Generally speaking, if they reach beyond municipal politics, and want to join the join the ranks of ghouls in the fed. gov't, such a politician becomes AOC
I have never heard of Mamdani but I think it is safe to assume if they are a member of the democrat party they are just another AOC.
- Yeah he should've ran as an independent
He seems to be a bit more legit, if he actually manages to pass the policies he promises. But yeah the affiliation with the dems doesn’t help

There's probably a cool thesis that could be written about a contradiction within the "America First" movement by being both anti-war and USA exceptionalist in times of decaying imperialism that can only maintained through war. Tucker Carlson and Tulsi Gabbard are the best examples of this.

I reread this topic for the first time in a while, and, unexpectedly, I started crying. (Maybe it was made worse by how I could hear this anthem.)