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Travis
@someforeignfield.bsky.social
USAID, refugee resettlement, and humanitarian assistance veteran.

Missile and tank weirdo, posts stuff about missiles, the Middle East, and why it matters at https://substack.com/@someforeignfield
Corbyn has repeatedly condemned the killing of protesters by the Iranian government.
January 17, 2026 at 4:07 PM
And in the end, there's nothing anyone outside of Iran can really do. All this fighting about the left not being loud enough is irrelevant. The left has no power to do anything, even bomb. Should we post more? Write more articles in the Atlantic?
January 17, 2026 at 3:52 PM
The loudest voices in the opposition have explicitly and repeatedly chosen the far right, Trump, Netanyahu, as their benefactors. Those same ppl then insult and threaten Iranian opposition figures who disagree w/them. The things they say about Narges Mohammadi do not bear repeating.
January 17, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Add in the fact that people are increasingly aware of the... interesting... nature of Iranian opposition groups, esp the monarchists, and many on the left have seen Iranian monarchists waving Israeli flags at Palestine protests and loudly threatening to kill, beat, or rape them...
January 17, 2026 at 3:52 PM
A breakup of Iran wouldn't simply "frustrate Russia," it would result in decades of ethnic cleansing and the deaths of millions, and the impoverishment of everyone else - as well as more mass migration to Europe and elsewhere.
January 16, 2026 at 8:57 PM
He might still bomb Iran, so the warcrazed murder freaks of the Beltway may still get their wish, but they should also remember that there's way way way less BMD in the AO right now than in June
January 15, 2026 at 4:45 AM
Honestly the various groups loosely affiliated with the KCK might be the most prolific employers of suicide bombers in the world next to ISIS.
January 14, 2026 at 1:07 PM
I think it's certain they are indeed arming groups in Iran taking part in the protests, but I think these public declarations of such (and the Pompeo tweet) are more about making the security forces more paranoid and likely to use deadly force.
January 14, 2026 at 12:56 PM
"this 19th century English flamboyant adventurer spoke Persian, Arabic, French, Russian, Portuguese, and three African languages"

No he didn't
January 13, 2026 at 3:24 AM
And this goes beyond simple "☝️🤓 actually according to Wikipedia Iran has numerous ethnic minorities"

Iran as a polity has never been a Persian ethnostate. The last pre-Islamic Persian Empire ended 1000 years before some insane Europeans cooked up the idea of ethno-nationalism.
January 12, 2026 at 6:27 PM
The high of posting must be resisted. Bottom line - most of what you're seeing about Iran, including sometimes from very well informed and 100% correct ppl like me, is misinformation or disinformation.

Learn to sit back and observe. Not everything needs a post.
January 10, 2026 at 5:59 PM
This is true of both English and Persian language posts by the way, perhaps even more in Persian than English. Then add in the Internet and communication outages. Any video or news sent out of Iran is done via means not accessible to the "average" Iranian. Anything you see is curated by someone.
January 10, 2026 at 4:37 PM