Greetings, I'm in iran right now and after 76 days I hardly connected to the internet with a psiphon fork, its very slow and the internet in iran is not coming back, so if I disconnect again I will miss everyone from the internet very much, we have a domestic intranet right now with a few whitelisted websites like Google and GitHub, Please don't let the internet blackout be buried under the war news. Goodbye for now.

The American empire cannot win the war against Iran at acceptable financial, military, and political costs.

It does not claim to be a government in waiting, or a new political party. “We cannot claim from exile to return after 47 years and run a country which is by and large foreign to those that have not been there for 50 years,” said Youssefiani, who until 2018 was an adviser to Reza Pahlavi, the son of the former shah. “The patronage or help must come to those inside Iran who are capable of moving the needle.”

He said the group had a “responsibility to break out of the classic pitfalls of exile politics by creating a pluralist movement to help the democratic forces inside the country”.

The bloody crackdown on anti-regime protests at the start of this year was the catalyst for many of its now members. “After the shock of thousands [being] slaughtered in January … the moment came when we said: ‘Enough is enough,’” Youssefiani said. “At the time the threat of war was looming. We just saw our boys and girls killed and we equally share the blame, or the shame of this. For too long there was a lack of imagination, there was only classic exile politics, an inability to get along. It was a terrible failure.”

“Arms will not bring democratic change, as we have seen, and we worry about what is the end goal of the war,” said Youssefian. “No one has defined what is peace, and this is where our problem is. Personally I am enormously concerned by the war, since the outcome was not thought through. There were those that thought they could chop off the head of the snake, and all would fall into place, but that misunderstands Iran.”

Will the regime crumble if the pressure continues? “The difficulty in Iran today is that those who own and control the guns also own and control the butter,” said Youssefian. “The IRGC own and control billion-dollar enterprises. If there is a defeat, these people are not going to go to Paris or London. Their wealth, power and assets and their ideology is deeply rooted in Iran’s ground.”

Full report: https://understandingwar.org/research/middle-east/iran-update-special-report-april-25-2026/

Milani calls the internet blackout a war crime because it leaves tens of millions of Iranians unable to avoid Israel or the U.S. bombing them.

Iranian business owner, who said he had traveled to Turkey for just two days to check his WhatsApp messages and the international news.

Cross-posted from https://sh.itjust.works/post/59090182

Wendy Sherman helped Obama reach a deal with Iran. Here’s what she thinks Trump is doing wrong.

The assessments come as the U.S. is working to cement a cease-fire that would fully open the Strait of Hormuz and also insulate Iran, American troops and states in the region from further attacks.

What are the risks and rewards of the different military options?

Skip the first 10 minutes if you don't need all the background intro.

When the United States did this in Kazakhstan, removing about 600kg (so roughly the same amount) it required the team to spend 12 hours a day every day for a month to remove it, using multiple heavy cargo planes. And that facility was neither defended, nor buried under rubble.

...and why both sides need it to continue.

Azerbaijan's foreign ministry lodged an official protest with ​the Iranian embassy on Thursday after a pair ‌of Iranian drones flew across the border into Azerbaijan and injured two people at an airport in the Nakhchivan exclave.
"This attack ​on the territory of Azerbaijan contradicts the norms ​and principles of international law and contributes to increased ⁠tensions in the region," the foreign ministry said ​in a statement.

"We demand that the Islamic Republic of Iran ​clarify the matter in the shortest possible time, provide an explanation and take the necessary urgent measures to prevent such incidents from ​recurring in the future."

The bombing of an Iranian elementary school that killed some 165 people, many of them schoolgirls, included more targets near the school than has been initially reported, a review of commercial satellite imagery by NPR has found.

The images suggest that the school was hit on Saturday as part of a precision airstrike on a neighboring Iranian military complex — and that it may have been struck as a result of outdated targeting information.

Iranian state media said 165 people died in the bombing, which struck a girls' school. The school was located within less than 100 yards of the perimeter of an Iranian Revolutionary Guard naval base, according to satellite images and publicly available information. The clinic was also located within the base perimeter, although both facilities had been walled off from the base.

Given Minab's location in the southeastern part of Iran, Lewis believes it's more likely the U.S. would have conducted the strike than Israel. As one gets farther south and east in Iran, "a strike is much more likely to be a U.S. strike than an Israeli strike because of the type of munitions and the geographic location," he said.

The report comes as Washington weighs support for Kurdish groups and Trump speaks with Kurdish leaders about the war with Iran.

An official from the Coalition of Political Forces of Iranian Kurdistan (CPFIK) says Kurdish armed groups based in Iraq have already begun a military offensive against Iranian regime forces.

According to the official, Kurdish fighters affiliated with the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK) began taking combat positions inside Iranian territory on Monday, March 2.

The CPFIK official said several Kurdish political and armed factions are prepared to cooperate with the U.S. and Israel.

“Most of the armed Eastern Kurdistan [Western Iran] parties are ready to work in unity and openly with the State of Israel and the USA,” he said.

cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/48383631

https://web.archive.org/web/20260304105404/https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=54e1cf706a41af84

They pulled it from a number of recruiting sites but Kagi still had the results in their cache.

An Iranian warship has sunk off the coast of ​Sri Lanka, with the Sri Lankan authorities saying on ‌Wednesday they had rescued 32 people who were on board and recovered several bodies from the sea.

Content warning: speculation and discussion about dystopianism, US fascism, mass surveillance

After ICE murdered Alex Pretti, it became known that he'd had a run in with ICE a week earlier, which was documented as he went to the ER for a broken rib courtesy of ICE. Knowing the prior interaction, the question arose as to how spontaneous the killing of Alex Pretti was. Was a decision to capture or kill him issued, on the day of his murder, as soon as he was recognized by the surveillance apparatus, before any ICE agent interacted with him?

Based on what this article about 2020 Russian technology used in Iran suggests, I'm more convinced the killing of Alex Pretti was more pre-meditated. My fears of facial recognition in general are pretty piqued after reading this

israel has striked iran again, internet will most likely be shutdown to stop the flow of internet. https://apnews.com/article/iran-us-explosion-tehran-c2f11247d8a66e36929266f2c557a54c i heard three explosions myself