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- 31 Maj 2020
Iran Crisis & the 2026 War between Iran and the United States, Gulf States, and Israel - Please focus on news and coverage, not argumentation.
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- 15 Gru 2021
They scuffed a plane.
BILLIONS MUST DIE!!!
BILLIONS MUST DIE!!!
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- 21 Maj 2020
It's the way he pauses that gets me. I know the dude would've been turned into chunky salsa but holy shit the way he just stops for a second while processing the danger he is in.
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- 16 Gru 2019
Nothing like being called a martyr because you decided to stay in an underground facility with no way of getting air.
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- 5 Lut 2021
How terrible. That he survived.
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- 19 Kwi 2025
You people have the attention span of an ipad kid on cocaine.
SneedOnTheBeach
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- 14 Maj 2025
The duality of American war strategy
On one hand the Iranians are dirty savages that behead kids and chop women in half. They must be slaughtered. Their hospitals, schools and infrastructure must be levelled, population left destitue
On the other hand the Iranians love the US, are moments away from ousting their government and welcoming their new US overlords with open arms
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- 31 Lip 2020
They already did, they reused Hezbollah in Iraq
I’m glad you finally explained what Tehran is. I’ve been reading your posts for the last couple weeks wondering, “what’s a Tehran?”
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- 30 Maj 2024
Fuck me that would be god damn terrifying.
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- 21 Wrz 2024
Damn it's almost like "Iranians" aren't a monolith and there's an anti-US islamic arab minority running the current dictatorship that need to be tossed out so the non-islamic non-arab majority that fucking hate them can take over.
O algo.
Stupor Mario
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- 11 Sty 2024
If you can't understand the difference between an oppressive, dictatorial government that enslaves, tortures, and kills vs. the majority of regular Iranian citizens who hate their government and want to be free of it, you're a fucking idiot.
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- 17 Gru 2019
Or they're just pretending not to understand, in order to make discourse impossible
myhairisonfire
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- 22 Paź 2024
yes, just 2 more weeks and they're finished.
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- 12 Maj 2017
He's a milquetoast, impotent babyface that only literal retards took seriously at first glance. No one that I know IRL voted for Mamdani thinking that he'll be a big change. No, he's a fucking Desi nigga. He's got that clean haircut, manicured beard, the Hinglish campaign ads, he looks like a skeevy, scummy lawyer who'd leave one of your relatives trapped in India or Pakistan once the dodgy paperwork he filed with USCIS comes back rejected. He already reneged on several of his campaign promises, and he's playing nice with Donald Trump despite literally talking a big game about how he'd defy the big bad orange man if elected. He's a gutless coward with no fixed principles, and the institutional powers that be don't like Mamdani either. He'll absolutely be a one-time mayor once NYS and NYC Democrats manage to pull off another RCV with some guy who sucks slightly less on the campaign trail. And God only knows that NYGOP will continue stoking the flames of Giuliani/Bloomberg/Pataki nostalgia, continue neglecting everything downticket, fail to canvass neighbourhoods for ballot signatures, and continue failing at all levels that NY Democrats continue to mog them in. The only reason why anyone I know voted for Mamdani in the first place is because they hated Andrew Cuomo that much more, and that bald, corrupt khote di putr wala harami Adams let illegal Venezuelan aliens camp within walking distance of their houses, their workplaces, and so on. We could live with migrants combing through our trash for recyclables. We draw a line at underage streetwalking prostitutes propositioning randos while NYPD can't arrest people on QOL crimes because of Adams' whims. YOU HAD ONE JOB: TO NOT BE LIKE DE BLASIO, AND YOU TURNED OUT TO BE DE BLASIO ON STEROIDS. FUCK YOU ERIC ADAMS. I hope your boiler freezes over every single winter for the rest of your life, you goddamn asshole.
There's a couple of critical distinctions to make when discussing Imam Khomeini's doctrine of wilayat al-faqih and exporting the anti-monarchist revolution to the broader Dar al-Islam.
Imam Khomeini was genuinely contentious even among the maraji of Ithna'ashari Shia Islam. To clarify, it's specifically Khomeini's branding of Ithna'ashari Shia Islam that is the messianic death cult trying to force the hidden 12th imam, al-Mahdi to return, which would herald the coming of the Day of Resurrection. Yet we must remember that Ithna'ashari Shia Islam ain't the only type of Shia Islam with a hidden imam. Most permutations of Shia Islam have a lineage that terminates at a hidden imam who's concealed, in occultation, whatever you want to call "hidden from the world until the Day of Resurrection." The reasons why are painfully autistic, but please bear with me... or reply with the Bossmanjack video where he says "shut up pussy I ain't readin all that shit fuckin loser:"
All permutations of Shia Islam universally uphold Imam Ali as the rightful heir to the the mission of the Prophet, as both a secular and religious leader. Where they often differ quite intensely is tracking the ensuing patrilineal succession of Imam Ali. To grossly oversimplify tons of autistic historical context that no one reading this would care about: first one to splinter off was the Zaydis, then the Ismailis split off, and then we have what we now know as Ithna'ashari Shia Islam. Yet even this tripartite division obscures the Shia inclination toward schism.
Regarding the Ismailis, they're the ones who were historically "the" Shia Muslims. The Brethren of Purity were Ismaili Shias. The Fatimid dynasty that controlled Mecca and Medina, that Saladin would eventually conquer, was an Ismaili Shia dynasty whose caliphs were simultaneously imams. The Druze split off from the Ismaili Shia Islam of the Fatimids following the disappearance of the sixth caliph-imam (16th Ismaili Shia imam), Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah. Then there was another schism a few imams later, and that gave us the Nizari Ismaili Shia Muslims and then the Tayyibi Ismaili Shia Muslims. The Nizaris are the "mainstream" among Ismaili Shias... but they have a living imam... and he's a Persian real estate billionaire who's stupidly well-connected, lives in Switzerland, and runs a bunch of humanitarian aid networks that are cheap by American standards but hideously expensive by third world standards. More on him later.
The Tayyibi Ismailis are basically in two places: Yemen and India. They lack a manifest imam, instead relying on a "da'i al-mutlaq" (i.e. Chief Missionary), who in turn is basically serving as the representative of the imam in abstentia. You'd think the concealed imam would mean the schisms are over, right? WRONG. There's now three different Tayyibi branches that claim their chief missionary has a direct link to the concealed imam and the other guys' don't! The Sulaymanis in Yemen, and then the last two in Gujarat: Dawoodi Bohras (the merchants who follow Dawood) and lastly the Alevi Bohras (the merchants who follow Alev). You can see how one's patience can run extremely thin here, right? Oh but it gets worse... so much fucking worse.
You see these two? The one on the left is Aga Khan V, the guy on the right is the late Aga Khan IV. These are the Persian billionaires living in Switzerland, allegedly patrilineal descendants of Imam Ali, who are the living manifest imams of the Nizari Ismaili Shia tradition. What the fuck is an Aga Khan? I have no fucking clue what it means, I just know it's a title that the British conferred upon Aga Khan the first. Except I can't find any public-facing information about Aga Khan I's predecessors. At all. It's just "[succeeding hereditary imams -> Aga Khan IV, now Aga Khan V]." My faith in Islam is extremely tenuous; I'd say I'm closer to a Muslim than an ex-Muslim... but holy fucking shit dude. If I grew up a Nizari Ismaili, and I had to uphold the friggin Aga Khan as the religious focal point that my tithes go toward to fund the dubious Aga Khan Development Network, I'd gleefully deconvert, say I'm an ex-Muslim, and be an obnoxious Top 1% poster on /r/exismaili. Seriously, where the hell is all the missing Nizari hereditary imam information?! My inner cynic tells me it never fucking existed and Aga Khan I was basically resurrecting a long-dead ghost and had to make names up on the fly, but my inner optimist says maybe it's real and it's just hidden behind an initatory framework. I'll let you guess which one I weigh more heavily.
Ithna'ashari Shia Islam, by stark contrast here, seems like the more rational lineage of Shia Islam. Ignoring the ocean's worth of difference between Ismaili and Ithna'ashari theology and dogma for a moment here: Ithna'ashari Shia Islam resolved the imamat's succession crisis, with hindsight, by stating that the 12th imam is in permanent occultation until the Day of Resurrection, Muhammad al-Mahdi wasn't the historical guy's real name, I'd reckon. Yet the Ithna'ashari hagiography for their 12th imam makes sense from a detached point-of-view: the minor occultation was a time when he was legitimately in hiding from Abbasid assassins. You gotta remember: the Abbasids in Baghdad were the Sunni caliphs. The Fatimids were already a nightmare because obviously crisis of two caliphs, but they couldn't allow for a competing Shia legacy to survive. The 12th imam going into hiding and relying on messengers was necessary and plausible. The "great occultation," i.e. the point where he's hiding until the end of time, that's where a more pragmatic reading says "okay, this guy's dead, he didn't have any sons, there's literally no one else left to take over. We see what the Ismaili imamat succession crisis looks like... let's just say he's hiding forever and learn to live without him. What should we call him going forward? Al-Mahdi? Perfect!"
Without a manifest imam, the Ithna'ashari basically had to do from scratch what the Sunnis were doing for centuries and entered a period of imitation after having enough case law precedents to go off. The ensuing centuries, especially following the rise of Safavid Persia, meant that the Ithna'ashari academic and jurisprudential tradition would develop in a totally different direction from other Shia branches. The Zaydi Shias are intimately tied to the former monarchy of Yemen. The Ismaili Shias had actual institutional power in secular and religious affairs via the caliph-imams, with Nizari Ismailis still claiming a manifest imam in the Aga Khan and the Tayyibi Ismailis outsourcing religious power to their Chief Missionaries. The Ithna'ashari, by stark contrast, basically resembles more conventional Sunni orthodoxy insofar as putting more weight on the jurists and not on specific, named individuals.
Now, circling back to Imam Khomeini: this man was, by all counts, a qualified Ithna'ashari Shia marja'. Yet it was specifically this highly esteemed cleric who authored doctrines and issued fatwas that were so diametrically opposed to the consensus of his peers. Most living Ithna'ashari maraji were born in Qajar Iran; they're fucking old. The youngest ones were children when Reza Shah overthrew the Qajars. Tons of these dudes outlived Imam Khomeini. Wilayat al-Faqih specifically necessitates jurists to have institutional authority... but literally everyone outside of the Islamic Republic objects to this doctrine. Not even the plebs and unwashed masses. We're talking the literal jurists, the same rank and age cohort as Imam Khomeini, and everyone who wasn't in Iran was like "dude, you're fucking nuts." The ones inside Iran didn't have a choice; they couldn't leave!
Ali Khameini was a milquetoast, impotent, hand-picked successor to Imam Khomeini, and he wasn't even a fucking marja'. Khomeini struck down that provision of the Islamic Republic's constitution when the time for him to pick an heir came and none of his contemporaries were there for him.
I take exception to that! We also have Xinjiang. No one ever cares about the Hui, Kazakh, and Uyghurs being systematically genocided while the OIC turns a blind eye and promotes genocide denial tourism to Xinjiang because Chinese money is easier to come by than American money whenever you just don't wanna deal with all that talk about "human rights" and "economic austerity."
Sexual Chocolate
kiwifarms.net
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- 7 Sty 2019
Where were you on the fateful day Iran showed the world how to almost shoot down an F-35?
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- 24 Lip 2019
why is this not a bigger problem?
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- 24 Lis 2024
>Retard struggles to differentiate between the IRGC and the general Iranian populous
> Blames the americans
Many such cases.
They have not used their ultimate weapon infidel.
To be fair to the dude, i think he is politikin' right now.Sure a bunch of his promises were always utter bullshit, but i suspect he will try and achieve some others even though he is struggling to right now.
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- 10 Lip 2017
Well besides most of the senior leadership dead. Their navy and air force vaporized. And them managing to anger and attack every nation in their hemisphere including /checks today's notes... Ukraine!
Maori Kiwifruit Growers
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- 23 Gru 2022
Because Iran like most nations from the region are big ol paper tigers. They can cut, but they can't bite.