Iran: 80% of the people of Iran really do hate their government

Attitude Toward the Islamic Government:

• 2023 GAMAAN Survey: About 81% of Iranians inside Iran reject the Islamic Republic and prefer a democratic government. Only 15% support the Islamic Republic. [Source]
• 2024 Ministry of Culture Study: 73% of Iranians want a secular government, with 85% saying Iranians have become less religious in the past 5 years. Only 22.5% support a religious government.
• 2022 GAMAAN Poll: 74% of women and 71% of men oppose mandatory hijab, with 84% of those against it preferring a secular state.
• 2022 GAMAAN Survey: 41% want to overthrow the Islamic Republic, 21% seek structural change, and only 18% want to preserve its values.

Attitude Toward the West:

• 2024 Stasis Consulting Survey: 61% support a nuclear agreement with the West, and 68% favor normalizing relations with the US (but only 25% support ties with Israel). Iranians are split evenly (34% each) on preferring relations with the West (US/UK) versus China/Russia. [Source]
• 2023 GAMAAN Survey: 73% of Iranians inside Iran and 96% abroad believe Western countries should pressure Tehran to support protesters’ rights.
• 2019 CISSM Survey: Over 80% had negative views of the US, the highest in 13 years, due to tensions like sanctions.

Operation "Midnight Hammer" -- Yay!! 👍👍👍

Thunderbird pilot gives his take

Cool Op name. Cool planes. Cool outcome. 

Banging the hell out of nuclear facilities in Iran. 

Most Americans are on side -- by something like 70/30. Some are not on side, but are very loud. The "Horseshoe Coalition": of the "progressive" Lefties, Bernie, AOC, the Squad; and the kooky Righties, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Steve Bannon. 

To the booh-hoo whining and crying brigade, to all you Horseshoe Brigade: you can only not be welcoming and exulting in this strike because:

You don't mind that the world's largest promoter of terrorism is about to get the Bomb. 

You don't mind that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps say they'll use the Bomb to annihilate all Jews and to attack Europe, starting with Rome first. 

You don't mind that they jail, beat, rape and kill women for not wearing the hijab. That they don't allow women to travel without a male chaperone. 

You don't mind that they hang gays from mobile cranes in the town square. That those they don't hang, they forcibly castrate. 

You don't mind that they fervently believe that their time on this earth is to foment Islamic Jihadist terrorist overthrow to overthrow the west. 

You don't mind that they've spent all their oil revenues to establish and support proxies to commit murder and mayhem in their name, in the Middle East and the west.  

You don't mind any of that, all you whiners and moaners, all of you Hamas-nicks, all of you "impeach-Trump-nicks" . All you mind is that it's Trump that's doing it, and being against Trump trumps all else. 

That's what you don't care about -- you, Bernie Sanders and AOC, neither of you who has ever had a proper job, or you, Tucker Carlson, you Candace Owens, you Steve Bannon -- none of you care one jot about any of that. You cry "Peace" from the rafters, as if saying "peace" brings peace. It sure makes you feel virtuous. 

Revolting. Zero morals. Moral vacuity. 

I find it easy, super easy, to welcome, to exult, to congratulate, to revel, in the huge win for the American attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, in support of the equally easy to support Israeli Operation Rising Lion. 

Against what is turning out to be the Paper Tiger of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. 

As we await, with hope, the rising of the Iranian people against their tyrant. Who we know from all polls they do not like, they do not support -- by something like 80% against. 

Jing, Denpasar, Bali, 2017

Amazing Dance | Yana Kremneva

https://youtube.com/shorts/4AN-MGvh2mI?si=KyHJ86Wf-vxlSrU7

Tucker the dingbat, and the "horseshoe coalition" | Dan McLaughlin

 The ‘restrainer’ Right and the progressive Left sound an awful lot alike on Israel and Iran — but they are on the margins.

W

ith Donald Trump now loudly backing Israel’s war on the Iranian nuclear program and issuing increasingly hawkish warnings against the mullahs, there has been a lot of teeth-gnashing and garment-rending from the usual quarters — and these days, those usual quarters are a horseshoe-shaped alliance of doves and antisemites on the “restrainer” right and the progressive left. At times, it can be hard to tell their rhetoric apart. They form a uniparty of opposition to resisting America’s sworn enemies.

Consider a sampling, culled mostly from X/Twitter, of commentary since Israel launched its strikes on Natanz:

Tucker Carlson is a complete dingbat.

Or, as Trump calls him, a “kook”. 

Evidence: 

- Aliens and Government Agreements: Believes the U.S. government hides evidence of non-extraterrestrial, possibly spiritual entities.

- Demonic Nuclear Weapons: Claims nuclear weapons were invented by demonic entities, not humans.

- Nagasaki as Christian Target: Suggests the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki to target Christians.

- Demonic Personal Attack: Says he was physically mauled by a demon in his sleep, causing bleeding.

- Hurricanes Caused by Abortion: Asserts hurricanes are God’s wrath for abortion, not natural phenomena.

- Fentanyl as Chinese Bioweapon: Alleges China uses fentanyl as a bioweapon to destabilize America.

- Wind Turbines as Elite Plot: Claims wind turbines kill birds to control energy markets.

- Mothman as Real Entity: Speculates Mothman is a real creature tied to government secrets.

- Bigfoot Cover-Up: Suggests Bigfoot is a real, possibly supernatural entity hidden by the government.

- Fluoride for Mind Control: Implies fluoride in water is a government tool to pacify populations.

- Flat Earth Sympathies: Questions dismissal of flat-Earth theories, suggesting hidden truths.

- 5G Health and Control Conspiracy: Links 5G towers to health issues or government mind control.

- Lyme Disease as Bioweapon: Claims Lyme disease was engineered in U.S. bioweapons labs.

- Trans Movement as Anti-Christian: Calls transgender rights a “natural enemy” of Christianity.

Tucker Carlson is a dingbat

Believes:

Alien bodies and machines are being held by the U.S. government. 

Nuclear weapons were developed by “demons”. Not by horrid Jews like Oppenheimer.

Bombing Nagasaki was done to kill Christians

Flat Earthers have a point

Churchill was “chief villain” of WW2. The Holocaust was a technical mistake, not a deliberate act of genocide.

Believes Mothman exists, a cryptic from Virginian folklore. Like BIGFOOT.

Trump helping Israel to finish off the Iranian nuclear threat will end Trumps presidency and destroy the U.S.  

And this is the guy that Trump is listening to?? That has the MAGA movement in a tizz? This guy is now certifiably crazy. Not to be trusted. 

He did an interview with Ted Cruz, that was a real shocker. Carlson acting all self-righteous and asking flat-out Gotcha questions. Crazy stuff. Used to be a heterodox anchor on Fox. Now let out into the freedom of his own platform, just shows that he was always crazy, just never showed it. 

Then again, this war is much bigger than we thought...

Click above for the video

From Caspian TV. Via SaharTV. 

A truly interesting and somewhat scary explanation of what's going on. 

Definitely more complex than I'd thought. Sitting here at my desk in Hong Kong, running quarter-back to the US armed forces. Telling them, hey, it's easy, just get in there with those Bunker Busters! No, it's rather more complex than that. The Iranian Islamic government has been building underground nuclear facilities way more than just the Fordow facility in inside the mountain. There's now one called "Pickaxe" and much bigger and even deeper. 

The video is a bit of must-watch if you're following this amazing, crazy, historic, situation in the Israel-Iran war. 

https://youtu.be/eqT2IFkiqx4?si=276N4fxZWel1Kg7p

Is Trump going to wimp out ?

My goodness me I hope not.

Surely the likes of Kooky tucker Carlson and Mad Steve Bannon aren’t going to win the day with their pacifist agenda? 

The U.S. is there all ready to go with its B2 bombers and Bunker busting MOPs.

Ready to take out the final nail in the coffin to seal the death of the Iranian nuke program.

If he doesn’t, he’ll forever earn the moniker TACO — Trump Always Chickens Out.

He’ll be in the same category as Obama and his “Red Line”, which was crossed by Syria with impunity.

Oh dear….

I hope I’m wrong. 

Time for the death knell of Fordow.

Rise to be a Lion, DJT.

Israel-Iran war reports

• Iran’s Assassins in Europe UN Watch
• Israel destroys Iranian nuclear plant The Enforcer 
• Jew haters revealed J-TV
• Arab world stays quiet. JNS TV
• This is a religious war. Oren Cahanovitc
• Greta Thunberg: genuine or grifter? Dave Rubin 
• Tucker Carlson’s tiresome gotcha. The State of Daniel
• Iran missile strikes. TBN Israel 

These are pro Israel, to reflect my bias. Which is strongly pro-Israel, strongly anti theocratic dictatorships. Strongly anti virulently genocidal Jew-hating outfits like Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Strongly against ideologies that hate all those that are not them, that oppress women, that kill minorities, that butcher gays. Strongly against all that. 

If you want the pro-all-of-the-above, the pro-Iran, the pro-Hamas, the pro-Jihad, the pro-terrorism, etc… side, go to BBC, CNN, MSNBC… pretty much anywhere in the MSM. 

Important Note: this Israel-Iran war is not a new war. It’s not Israel suddenly attacking Iran. It’s Israel reacting to a long-ongoing war, begun by Iran, both direct and via its proxies. 

It is no more a new war than was D-day in the second World War a new war. It was a new battlefront. As is the current Israeli operation in Iran. A new front. A new counter-attack. 

Iran's grim record (II)

Below is a list of estimated deaths caused by Iranian actions outside Iran since 1979, focusing on terrorist attacks, proxy warfare, and military operations, broken down by country.

The data is drawn from available web sources and posts on X, with estimates varying due to differing reports and incomplete records.

These are conservative estimates to avoid inflating numbers. I’ve noted where figures are contested or uncertain.

Estimated Deaths by Country (1979–2025)

• Lebanon:
  • ~1,500–2,000 deaths
  • Key incidents: 1983 Beirut barracks bombings (241 U.S., 58 French troops), Hezbollah attacks on Israeli targets (1980s–2000s). Iran’s support for Hezbollah, including funding and weapons, is widely documented.
• Israel:
  • ~1,500–2,000 deaths
  • Includes Hamas/PIJ attacks (e.g., Second Intifada, 2000–2005), Hezbollah rocket attacks, and 2023 Hamas attack (~1,200). Iran’s role via funding and arms is significant but debated in scope. 2025 missile strikes killed ~24.
• Argentina:
  • ~114 deaths
  • 1992 Israeli Embassy bombing (29), 1994 AMIA bombing (85). Iran and Hezbollah are widely blamed, though Iran denies involvement.
• Iraq:
  • ~1,100–1,500 deaths
  • U.S./coalition deaths (2003–2011) from Iranian-supplied EFPs and Shia militias (~603–1,100 U.S. troops), plus civilian tolls from Iran-backed groups.
• Syria:
  • ~100,000–500,000 deaths (highly contested)
  • Iran’s support for Assad’s regime (2011–2024) via IRGC, Hezbollah, and militias contributed to massive civilian and combatant deaths. Estimates vary widely; Iran’s role is significant but not sole.
• Yemen:
  • ~10,000–50,000 deaths
  • Iran’s backing of Houthis (2014–2025) fueled civil war, with deaths from airstrikes, starvation, and combat. Precise attribution is challenging.
• Saudi Arabia:
  • ~100–200 deaths
  • 2019 Abqaiq attack and earlier Khobar Towers bombing (1996, 19 U.S. troops). Iran’s involvement is alleged but not fully confirmed.
• Afghanistan:
  • ~100–200 deaths
  • Iranian support for Shia militias and some Taliban factions against U.S./coalition forces (2000s–2020s). Limited data on direct casualties.
• Other Countries (e.g., France, Germany, Thailand):
  • ~63–100 deaths
  • Assassinations of dissidents and smaller terror plots (1980s–1990s), e.g., Mykonos restaurant attack (Germany, 1992).

Total Estimated Deaths

• Range: ~115,000–557,000
• Conservative estimate: ~115,000 (summing lower bounds, focusing on direct attacks).
• Upper estimate: ~557,000 (including high-end Syria/Yemen tolls, where Iran’s role is partial).
• Syria’s high toll dominates the upper range but is contentious due to multiple actors.

Notes

• Sources: Figures are compiled from web sources (e.g., Wikipedia, BBC, Amnesty) and X posts, but data is incomplete, especially for Syria and Yemen.
• Attribution Challenges: Iran’s use of proxies (Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthis) complicates direct responsibility. Some estimates may include deaths from broader conflicts.
• Exclusions: Iran-Iraq War (1980–1988) deaths (~1–2 million) are excluded as it’s a state-on-state conflict, not proxy/terror actions.