Editing Iran (section)

=== 2026 ===

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|content=@SimoneSyed I feel like I’m losing my mind. So weird right?
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|content=I cannot wait to visit Tehran.

Persia is of our world’s greatest cultures. Iran has been almost half a century under this oppressive theocracy.

Wishing you all every success. Good luck out there.

I do not understand the lack of our coverage here. But we still hear you.

LFG. https://t.co/yAkSEBYBjn
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|content=We don’t know what the New York Times is. But it isn’t a newspaper…

How long does it take to find out if there is anything happening in Iran during what may turn out to be a revolution?

Let’s find out, shall we? Here is how long it takes to get to a story from “Today’s Paper”: https://t.co/yJEHLiV1S5
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|content=Well, it’s “Spring”. I don’t know what is going on with our media. But it is Spring again in Iran. There are “complaints” in the street. People are voicing their “incomplete satisfaction” with “demonstrations” of “discontent”.

I kept talking in 2011 about the revolution in Cairo. And no one at Manhattan cocktail parties had heard that. “You mean the demonstrations? You are being alarmist don’t you think Eric?” 

Was I insane? No. I was just not reading the Times or listening to NPR and instead only following accounts on Twitter that posted about 1/2 their tweets in Arabic. 

And when Mubarak fell, it still wasn’t a revolution in my NYC friends’ minds. It was the damndest thing. They didn’t realize that they had witnessed an actual uprising and revolution with their own eyes!! To them, there was a resignation during Arab Spring and demonstrations. That’s it. 

That taught me the power that News organizations had on respectable people. It was mind control. You wanted to be mind controlled so you didn’t fall from grace within the moderately successful educated elite.

If I didn’t know better I would say it sure looks like an uprising with a more than likely revolution to follow….But then again I’m once again not a professor or journalist. Just a once respectable guy who, like you, can’t get a straight quality story based on facts from reliable news sources. So, better ask someone else. Preferably with a chaired professorship or a Pulitzer Prize.

🤷‍♀️
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|content=In 2011, respectable news didn’t discuss the uprising or revolution in Egypt. They talked about demonstrations, complaints, or discontent. They talked about Spring. 

What was “Spring”?

Spring meant uprising &amp; revolution. But it wasn’t supposed to trigger that as an idea.
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|content=“Islamophobia” seems strongest in Iranian Muslims.

Which is particularly awkward if you are the United States paper of record.
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|content=I can’t say for sure. But I don’t think it’s a secret that I think I’ve pretty clearly been looking at revolution. And for *QUITE* some time now.

I famously don’t love making calls on this little information. I think the Western News *SUPPRESSED* reporting an obvious revolution.
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|content=Q: Iran, right now: how to name what is going on?
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|content=@johnson_na87900 I don’t know for sure either. But I know what I see.
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|content=@grok Appreciate that. I dunno. It feels a lot like the Arab Spring narrative to cover up actual revolution as demonstrations. 

Thx. Be well.
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|content=To be honest, even I didn’t see this level of suppression coming…and I’m the Kayfabe guy. I wouldn’t have thought this level of make believe posssible for the New York Times. 

I got that totally wrong. It’s beyond comprehension, even for me.

Here are my guesses:
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|content=Why didn’t mainstream media properly cover one of the biggest stories of our time in Iran? Some guesses. Not particularly high quality, as I am grasping at straws a bit. 

A) It is likely a revolution and, if it is, it is about to hand a huge win to Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu. By far the most likely.

B) It’s mask off time as our rivals in China somehow have their hooks in our media via business models in a way I don’t grasp and didn’t fully understand.

C) Revolutionaries among editors and journalists are more powerful than I had understood and don’t want to lose the Red-Green alliance (where Jihadi Militants are the only disciplined lunatics willing to pick up a gun and massacre civilians at scale for a fever dream revolution against the West in a semi-organized fashion).

D) The west got out of the Foreign Correpondent game decades ago and hasn’t been reporting news for so long that they don’t actually know how to report a major story of this magnitude.

E) I’m getting this totally wrong. I’m making a mountain out of a molehill because of what I WANT to happen, and this is just the usual set of protests which always fizzle out against the Mullahs.

F) There really is some Davos-type secret agenda that mere mortals like yours truly can’t understand and which is little understood outside the true Illuminati. I’ve been wrong all along and the hard core conspiracists are right: the so-called “Breakaway Society” is totally real has been supporting the Ayatollahs all this time to keep the public off balance and the arms industry afloat. It’s all about chess, oil and guns baby.

G) The news is cooperating with NATO, EU and the USG requests to use “Strategic Silence” until it is a done deal. Perhaps Turkey and Saudi are worried about anti-Islamist contagion.

H) No progressive in media wants to report on virulent “Islamophobia” breaking out among Muslims actually subject to the brutality of Sharia Law. It makes you look like an idiot in too many completely different ways.

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I’d go with A) mostly. But I have been confused since December as to why it isn’t being properly covered. Sorry? I’m at a loss on specifics. 🤷‍♀️ 

🙏
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|content=So, @grok, what are your thoughts on this. Am I getting this wrong? Some mixture of A)-H)? None of the above?

It seems like a weird decision to show everyone that the news has some inability to cover events. Or perhaps I am just wrong here.
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|content=@grok Dude. The quote tweet from me was just two days ago, and the situation has litterally been building and building  since 2025. It is now Jan 11, 2026 in Tehran.

They are being forced to cover this. No?
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|content=@hoppah_1776 I thought that they at least needed to
<nowiki>*</nowiki>Minimally* cover news, even if simply to guide the narrative. That is what I thought.
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|content=I mean it could be oil related too…but you do have to admit it’s a bit confusing what the actual ideology is now, and why it appears to differ considerably from stated objectives of AF Neo-isolationism…
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|content=In a single post, my dear friend @NicoleBehnam cuts through geopolitical noise to explain exactly why this President, explicitly affiliated with a campaign of Non-Interventionist ideology, has specifically chosen 2 nations, Venezuela &amp; Iran, for direct U.S. Military intervention.
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|content=@AOR519555889776 I believe they are still behind the pictures.
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|content=When the Jihadi Psychotics decided where to kill in Bombay in 2008, they came straight here. The Leopold Cafe.

Irani cafe culture is still strong in India. Welcoming. Sophisticated, and Diverse. Radical Islam knows its enemy is Persians. So we make sure to visit for a drink.
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|content=Islamic intolerants know that they have always been at war with the culture(s) of Iran which Iranians and Persians carry with them in the diaspora. 

They massacred 11 souls here in this one famous cosmopolitan cafe in Colaba. Just massacred them. Tourists. Indians. Persians.
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|content=I don’t post that much about this, but two of my favorite cities, those truly closest to my Heart, are Istanbul and Bombay.

The 2008 attacks by jihadis in 2008 near Colaba, still feel like an open wound. 

The ear splitting 4am loudspeakers in Bebek are a show of force by Anatolian intolerants against the Modern Turks just trying to get through a day. 

In both cities we have seen our Jewish sanctuaries turned into killing grounds. Neve Shalom famously in Istanbul. 

But in Bombay, Nariman House is here on the street where our family lived for decades.

Here. Take a look at what Islamic militancy really is. They haven’t repared the killing zone. They cleaned up the blood and flesh but otherwise left the wound open, so you don’t look away at what “Islamic resistance” really is. 

It’s murder:
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|content=Islamic extremists and intolerants hate each other. They hate themselves. They hate Muslims. They hate Iranians. 

They simply hate us *all* by extension. 

That is why we must choose life. 

To the Jihadi militant, we Jews are merely the world’s oldest and strongest Life-Cult.

I don’t chant for their death. I just pray for Iran to throw off its oppressor and everyone to wake up to the beauty of this one life we are all granted.

To those in Iran. I don’t envy you.

We all need you heroes to win. Send video when you can. 

Salam alaykum. Good luck.

I wish you all courage, and am sorry for your staggering losses. Truly.
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|content=To life.
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|timestamp=1:28 AM · Jan 12, 2026
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|content=@ArAIstotle @ye_dennis @grok You want to check Nariman House too @grok. I’m not making this up.
|timestamp=1:35 AM · Jan 12, 2026
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|content=@grok @ArAIstotle @ye_dennis Thanks @grin. How about the 4am ear splitting Loudspeakers in Bebek and all over Istanbul? Am I right that changed from 40 years ago?
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|content=The time for feel-good posts about brave protestors throwing off their hijabs in Iran seems long over. 

We appear to be in the “mass murder of civilians” phase of this revolution.

Iran is ruled by psychopathic theocrats. 

I am not egging anyone on from the sunshine and safety of California. This is life and death struggle in the streets. 

But to those brave souls who know the risks and STILL return to the streets: I am in awe of your courage amidst your staggering losses. 

I can’t imagine what you are going through. Yet it is the inspiration of the world to all those everywhere who are still awake and alive. 

May the great powers outside your borders be inspired to use their tools and levers to help you in your bid to throw off your own murderous tyrants.

Humanity First. Good luck.
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|content=So @grok, can you think of a faster way for the murderous leaders of this psychopathic regime, to end their own 47 year old tyranny over Iran?

I think I speak for many Jews and Americans who desperately want to support the brave Iranians being absolutely massacred right now.
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|content=Imagine a modern Iran, free from theocracy, tyranny and madness.
|timestamp=2:22 PM · Jan 15, 2026
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|content=There may be a lot going on, but I’m not taking my eye off Iran. The big story.
|timestamp=3:39 AM · Jan 22, 2026
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