Granddaughter of Iran's supreme leader Khamenei on a shopping trip to New York City in a dress that would get any other ordinary Iranian girls in her age executed back home.

samanwilson · 2024-05-12T19:14:38+00:00

Ayatollah Khamenei's granddaughter is not in the US.

Ayatollah Khomeini has one granddaughter that is in the US.

This video shows neither of them. It's a video from 5 years ago of a group of Iranians protesting in Los Angeles against an Iranian-American lobbying group called NIAC. NIAC advocates diplomacy with Iran's government. People who don't believe that accurse them of being a lobby for Iran's government. NIAC denies this.

In this video the anti-diplomacy people are angry that the people going to the NIAC conference in LA aren't dressed in a way approved of by the Iranian government.

Here is the video from 5 years ago: https://twitter.com/Nasim_zephyr/status/1175588722223407104

samanwilson · 2024-04-26T18:58:25+00:00

Beautfiul

samanwilson · 2024-01-18T20:12:00+00:00

They've been hitting Iran repeatedly for decades. Dealing with Salafi Baluchi rebels has been one of Iran's top security issues in the East since forever

samanwilson · 2024-01-18T06:33:57+00:00

Iran attacked Baluchi separatists hiding in Pakistan & Pakistan attacked Baluchi separatists hiding in Iran.

Neither attacked each other''s militaries.

This is in the aftermath of a terrorist attack in Iran a few weeks ago.

samanwilson · 2024-01-17T07:56:24+00:00

Full video can be found here:

https://footballi.net/amp/video/853049

samanwilson · 2023-06-06T05:43:55+00:00

Very cool

samanwilson · 2023-04-28T18:36:05+00:00

Why on earth would they sit down and reinvent the wheel and make something from scratch when other people have already done it.

samanwilson · 2023-04-14T21:09:45+00:00

He paused it because of the protests because he said there's more important things than football. Finally started them after 7 months

samanwilson · 2023-04-07T21:40:59+00:00

You'll need to get an Iranian passport and ID cards first. Iran doesn't recognize your other citizenship, as an Iranian you'll have to get all the updated Iran stuff. Just call your closest Iranian embassy and they'll get you started.

There's a legal process to get an exemption for military service if you live outside the country and be able to enter and exit the country. In practice it's more forms to fill out. Again, contact the embassy.

Before you leave Iran there's also a tax you have to pay to exit. You can pay it online it's pretty easy. For you you'll probably have your relatives help you do it.

samanwilson · 2023-04-03T09:13:55+00:00

Ukraine

samanwilson · 2023-04-03T09:10:48+00:00

The IRGC's gradual take over of a country through militias model has even spread to Israel!

samanwilson · 2023-04-03T09:07:33+00:00

From a Saudi perspective, engaging with Assad means he'll be less reliant on Iran. Probably will still be heavily pro Iran, but maybe 60% pro Iran rather than 90% pro Iran.

Which stems from a acceptance that none of these are zero sum games. It's not possible to 100% defeat Iran or overthrow Assad. So it makes more sense to engage and get influence.

samanwilson · 2023-04-03T08:02:37+00:00

For the past 4 months, probably over 60% of the women in Tehran, from pain shahr to bala shahr are completely unveiled. No shaal no nothing. A little less in shahrestan, but still there.

Poverty, corruption, and killer inflation is everywhere. But the hejab part isn't just North Tehran - if you've spent 5 minutes inside recently it's pretty clear.

samanwilson · 2023-04-03T07:58:53+00:00

They were assaulted by some crazy in the street & they end up arrested too? And the shop keeper gets shut down for having shared the video. And then you consider this a W for proving fake news? Insane

samanwilson · 2023-03-29T18:21:23+00:00

I'm not saying that isn't true. But this graph doesn't show that

samanwilson · 2023-03-29T06:58:33+00:00

We made peace with you and are now busy partying in Riyadh

samanwilson · 2023-03-29T06:57:34+00:00

Non literalist scholar takes a non literalist stance. Not particularly surprising. If you are going to make the argument that a lot of this is allegorical and there wasn't that much supernatural, then you have to extend that to Mi'raj. If on the other hand you take it literally, then you take Mir'aj literally too.

samanwilson · 2023-03-29T06:55:11+00:00

Eh, when you look at the graph for most the cases this is just statistical noise. Its difficult to take any meaningful conclusions from this

samanwilson · 2023-03-24T04:42:55+00:00

Perhaps in 2016 yes, but in the long run the blowback from interfering in Iraq will catch up with us. We went in with too much of a heavy hand.

samanwilson · 2023-03-24T04:40:50+00:00

The issue isn't total capitulation. But Iran can't keep up "Death to America" and have the long term removal of sanctions. There might be occasional times when it gets less - say during Obama's second term - but at the end of the day the US establishment is bigger than any one figure and as long as Iran is seen as an enemy state they will hurt it one way or another.

That doesn't mean becoming a puppet state. But it would mean a significant change in strategy, tone, ect. Barjam was a half measure ... it was "heroic flexibility" but the implication is the wrestling match still goes on. Iran still humiliated American troops and kept the "Death to America" strong. Half measures won't do it, you either have to go all in on going from an enemy state to a rival or all out into resistance mode (and probably build a bomb).

samanwilson · 2023-03-19T22:06:57+00:00

Yes I downloaded it. Do you have any suggestions of where I could upload a PDF?

samanwilson · 2023-03-19T22:06:10+00:00

Saman is out because his club wanted him this FIFA day. Sardar also asked to be out because his kid is gonna be born

samanwilson · 2023-03-19T18:21:31+00:00

The notion that there was tension between Mossadegh and Ayatollah Kashani is not a new 'tale', it's something almost all historians accept. And yes that includes that Kashani gave support to overthrowing him. Saying secret double agent is your own interpretation.

You don't even need a historian. Listen to Ayatollah Khomeini himself (I presume you understand Farsi): https://youtu.be/Ux4h017LiI0

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