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🇮🇷 Iranian MFA Spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei:
To every decent human being—regardless of religion, ethnicity, nationality, race, or any other distinction,
To Muslims, Jews, Christians, Sikhs, Hindus, Buddhists, and all others of faith,
And to those who follow no formal religion but hold deeply to the universal values of peace, justice, and human dignity:
The U.S. - Israel launched this war of aggression on 28 February 2026, for a second time in less than a year, while Iran-U.S. were engaged in diplomatic negotiations.
This is not merely a war over land, resources, or geopolitics. This is a war that will determine the very meaning of ‘good’ and ‘evil’ in our time and for future.
What has been unleashed upon our peace-loving nation is not just another conflict. On one side stand those who delight in violating every law of war and basic human decency—those who murder for sport, who slaughter children to torment their families, who fire newest missiles at women’s sports halls simply to test their destructive power.
This is a war between those who boast of torpedoing unarmed vessels “for more fun,” and those who go to extraordinary lengths to protect innocent lives.
This is a war between professional liars who fabricate justifications for atrocity, and a proud people who defend their homeland and human dignity relying solely on their own strength and resolve.
This is a war between those whose decisions are shadowed by moral compromise, and those who act with a clear conscience.
This is a defining struggle for the future of humankind. It will decide whether civilization’s hard-won achievements—human rights, the rule of law, and basic morality—will survive or be swept away.
We must choose:
Do we accept a world ruled by modern slave masters—arrogant, domineering, and unaccountable—who govern through coercion, lies, and extortion? Or do we stand for a world grounded in respect, justice, peace, and human dignity?
Humanity’s conscience is not yet dead. But in times like these, silence is complicity with evil.
If you reject the path of barbarism and domination, then find the moral courage to speak, to act, and to stand on the right side of history—before the world descends into an abyss of lawlessness and subjugation.
The choice is yours. And history will remember.
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Iran’s messaging continues to be exceptional throughout the war, and for the first time in a long time it feels like Iranian perspectives are widely known and often appreciated even in the west.
I’m fascinated to see this: “And to those who follow no formal religion but hold deeply to the universal values of peace, justice, and human dignity:”
It aligns with the tolerant, inclusive tone I’ve been seeing from their official messaging and through non-official channels like Prof. Marandi and others. I’ve also yet to see any anti-LGBTQ insults from any of these channels, it’s been helping people get past their preconceptions about Iran and about Muslims in general to engage with the core messages. They often address the western public too, appreciate the pro-palestine, anti-zionist movements and protests, and draw a distinction between Zionists and Jews.
I’m impressed at how they’ve shaped all this and I admit, my opinion of the Iranian system as it stands now has gone up although of course I can never fully support a non-socialist theocracy. The Islamic revolution has mellowed out significantly compared to the early years and has shown flexibility and the ability to prioritize the needs of the general public and to make good strategic moves.
I’ve also yet to see any anti-LGBTQ insults from any of these channels
Right? It’s been really nice actually. Makes me even more annoyed when Russia does it. You have Medvedev write a real banger harshly criticizing the West, and you agree with him 99% in terms of geopolitical analysis, but then for some unfathomable reason he goes and adds some stupid quip about LGBT people which is totally uncalled for and unrelated to what the piece was about. Why? Why, Russia, do you have to be so cringe sometimes? Just be more like Iran or China please!
Lmao, that’s very true, a lot of Russian commentators and analysts target the right leaning crowd, so we’re left dodging anti-woke bullshit and casual slurs. Some of them are still worth listening to, but it really puts the ‘critical’ in critical support.
Honestly I can only view modern Russia as a painful reminder that the revolution was ultimately betrayed. I keep wanting to poke it with a stick like “cmon, do something, become the USSR again” sigh
I appreciate that they’re helping dismantle western hegemony at least.
❗️Iraqi witness to secret Israeli base in Iraq found dead in Najaf desert
The assassination of Awad Hadi al-Shammari has ignited a firestorm across Iraq after the shepherd was found dead in his burned-out vehicle in the Najaf desert on 13 May. According to reports from Al-Araby TV and The Palestine Chronicle, Shammari was killed just days after his amateur footage of a secret military installation went viral. The footage provided the first visual evidence of a clandestine Israeli base operating deep within Iraqi territory, a facility later confirmed by a 9 May exposé in the Wall Street Journal.
The clandestine site was reportedly established with US knowledge to serve as a forward operating hub for the Israeli Air Force during its ongoing war against Iran. Iraqi security officials who initially investigated al-Shammari’s report in March were met with Israeli airstrikes, confirming that the base was being protected by active kinetic force. While the Iraqi government initially blamed the US for the violation of sovereignty, recent journalistic investigations have identified the site as an Israeli special operations outpost used for pilot recovery and drone launches.
Local resistance factions and political leaders have branded the killing of Shammari as a blatant act of war and a failure of the state to protect its citizens from foreign intelligence agencies. By silencing the whistleblower on Iraqi soil, Israel has underscored its intent to maintain a military footprint in the country through the use of force.
https://t.me/thecradlemedia/59567
— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: One of Iran’s underground missile bases, located near Esfahan, was bombed almost 20 separate times during the war, an average of once every two days, with bunker busting ammunition and smart bombs, including from B-2s and B-52s
Despite the immense amount of firepower used, the base never stopped firing for more than half a day, before returning back to operations.
One Esfahan resident said:
‘This mountain, we see it get bombed almost every night, we see the smoke rise. Yet when we wake up in the morning, it’s from these very same mountains that we see missiles rising into the sky’
@Middle_East_Spectator
🇮🇷🇨🇳🇺🇸| The Chinese satellite company MizarVision, who shared satellite images of US bases, says they don’t give a flying damn about US sanctions against their company.
❗️After 13 hours of deliberation, British jury fails to convict activist for posts supporting Palestinian resistance
A Birmingham jury has failed to reach a verdict in the high-profile trial of Majid Freeman, an activist accused by the British state of supporting Hamas through his social media advocacy. After more than thirteen hours of deliberation, the court was forced to order a retrial as jurors could not agree that Freeman’s posts on X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram constituted a criminal offense. The prosecution attempted to paint the thirty-eight-year-old as an effective propagandist for proscribed groups, but the defense successfully argued that his content was a legitimate expression of support for the right of an occupied people to resist genocide.
During the two-week trial, the Crown focused on Freeman’s use of specific symbols and his amplification of videos showing Israeli atrocities in Gaza, claiming these were tools used to humanize armed resistance. However, Freeman maintained that his posts were intended to raise awareness of the ongoing war crimes being committed against Palestinians rather than incite violence. He told the court that while he does not support any specific group, he believes every Palestinian has the inherent right to defend themselves against Israeli aggression through the use of force, a position grounded in the context of the broader liberation struggle.
Outside the court, Freeman welcomed the prospect of a 2027 retrial, noting that it provides another opportunity to place the evidence of Israeli war crimes before a jury of the British public. The activist, who was previously acquitted of charges related to the 2022 Leicester riots, slammed the state for exhausting massive resources to prosecute him over emojis and religious prayers.
https://t.me/thecradlemedia/59407
They are teaching how to handle a gun on Iran’s national TV.
This could mean that Iran is expecting a ground war and is therefore teaching the general population the basics.
PS: The anchor, while being taught to handle a gun, did a live shot aiming at the UAE flag :)
❗️Israeli soldier/illegal settler killed by resistance in southern Lebanon, bringing admitted-to total to 20 since March
Israel’s military identified yet another soldier killed in south Lebanon as Captain Maoz Israel Recanati, 24, a platoon commander in the Golani Brigade’s 12th Battalion from the illegal settlement of Itamar.
He was killed on Friday, 15 May, in a Hezbollah explosive drone attack in southern Lebanon.
He is the seventh Israeli soldier killed in southern Lebanon since the so-called “ceasefire,” and the 20th admitted-to killing since the start of Israel’s ground assault in Lebanon.
https://t.me/thecradlemedia/59768
— 🇮🇷/🇮🇱/🇱🇧 NEW: Hezbollah announces that if Lebanon and Israel reach a comprehensive ceasefire agreement, Hezbollah will not consider Israeli bases and troops occupying Lebanese territory to be a part of it
@Middle_East_Spectator
Major Scandal of Hidden Ties Between Zionism and the UAE Revealed with the Exposure of Samuel Shay
In one of the most significant cyber operations of recent years, Samuel Shay, the mastermind behind Netanyahu’s trip to the UAE and the chief architect of the Abraham Accords, has been completely hacked, and his clandestine network has been dismantled.
This individual is not only the main coordinator of all backchannel agreements between the Zionist regime and Persian Gulf states, but also serves as a key facilitator of covert economic, political, and security relations between Tel Aviv and Abu Dhabi.
Through companies like Gulf Technology Systems, Samuel Shay created a complex web of joint projects in technology, energy, investment, agriculture, and strategic infrastructure between Israel, the UAE, and even other Arab countries.While “normalization” was widely promoted as a bridge of friendship, the real network behind these ties is nothing but corruption, money laundering, the transfer of Israeli security technologies for the suppression of regional peoples, and betrayal of the Palestinian cause.
All secret contracts, financial transfers, training of security forces, and even economic and intelligence espionage against the Resistance Axis were managed directly by this individual and his team.Samuel Shay’s role in blocking Hezbollah’s assets and assisting in the weakening of the Resistance in Lebanon is fully documented and indisputable.
And most notably: Samuel Shay introduced Epstein to Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem, and through Sultan, many corrupt Emirati rulers were ensnared in the Epstein network. Mossad used this very path to coerce them into accepting its demands.Today, 265 pages of Shay’s contacts, financial partners, and secret communications have been published in full on the Handala website, and all information related to his financial network in Resistance countries has been sent to the intelligence services of friendly nations.
Samuel Shay is the pillar of normalization and the main link between the Zionist regime and the UAE at security, economic, and political levels. Without him, none of these infiltration and betrayal projects could have succeeded
A Message to the People of America and Europe:
Know that the truth is not as it has been portrayed by lavish spending, corrupt media, and joint projects.
Epstein and Kahanist cult leaders have spent billions trying to present regional lackeys and cowards as “honorable models and champions of prosperity” under the banner of the Abraham Accords.
But all this money has simply lined the pockets of these same corrupt leaders, resulting only in more poverty, corruption, repression, and betrayal in Muslim lands.Be aware:
The true leaders of the world’s free and Muslim peoples are those who stand, body and soul, for justice until the very end: Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Deif, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, and the great mujahid Sayyed Ali Khamenei.Today, in honor of the eminent leaders of the Resistance, Handala’s cyber team has exposed a treacherous agent and key figure in the Zionist and Epstein infiltration project, so that the world knows:
Behind the façade of Israeli-Emirati friendship lies only corruption, collusion, espionage, and betrayal, not peace and prosperity.Source -> https://handala-hack.tw/handala-hacks-reveal-samuel-shays-key-role-in-netanyahus-uae-mission/
🇮🇷| Iran’s Parliament Speaker, Ghalibaf:
There is no alternative but to accept the rights of the Iranian people as laid out in the 14-point proposal.
Any other approach will be completely inconclusive.
🇮🇷🇨🇳⚡️ — Iranian Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf: The world stands at the cusp of a new order.
As President Xi said “The transformation unseen in a century is accelerating across the globe,” and I emphasize that the Iranian nation’s 70-day resistance has accelerated this transformation.
The future belongs to the Global South.
https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/32134
❗️Another Israeli soldier killed in Hezbollah drone attack near Lebanon border
According to Israeli Army Radio, the soldier was killed after Hezbollah launched several explosive-laden drones that penetrated into the Galilee at around 16:00 on Saturday and detonated near the border with Lebanon.
The report said the soldier was struck directly by one of the drones. The drones were not detected by Israeli military systems, no warning sirens were activated in the area, and the soldier was unable to defend himself.
The Israeli military later identified the soldier as Warrant Officer (res.) Alexander Glovanyov, 47, a driver in the Transport Center’s 6924th Battalion from Petah Tikva. His surname suggests Russian or Eastern European origins.
https://t.me/thecradlemedia/59322
Another Settler Down. Hopefully more to come.
VIDEO | Knesset Member Tzvi Sukkot recently disrupted a Nakba commemoration event at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he was filmed issuing threats to Palestinian students marking the 78th anniversary of the forced displacement and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.
Video: https://t.me/thecradlemedia/59405
The day these fuckers are strung up by a free Palestine, I’m celebrating.
🇺🇸🇮🇷| According to Fars News, US has given Iran 5 conditions in response to Iran’s proposal:
• No war compensation from US.
• Give up 400kg of HEU to US.
• Iran can only have 1 nuclear facility to remain active.
• Not more than 25% of frozen assets to be unfreezed.
• Halting war on all fronts depends on negotiationshttps://t.me/FotrosResistancee/21640
I must say, this is beyond even wishful thinking 😂
Clown shit from a clown regime.
— 🇮🇷/🇦🇪 BREAKING: The Wall Street Journal confirms, based on informed sources, that the UAE has been carrying out strikes on Iran
One of the strikes back in April targeted the Lavan Oil Refinery Company (LORC) on Lavan Island.
The UAE had long been suspected of carrying out the attack, but it was unconfirmed until now. At the time, Iran responded by targeting an Emirati refinery.
@Middle_East_Spectator
https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/31970
