West Asia News and Discussions

[Mukesh.Kumar]

So if Iran falls and they revert back to Zoroasterianism!!

Chances are less. The Zoroastrians in Iran will be able to follow their faith with little bit more freedom. They will be a an Islamic country without wearing Hijab but abusing Kafirs under their new Shah. Following and living as per Islamic religious believes is difficult, but its cool to be using the powers against others. Don't belive the Narratives during the color revolution.

Very well put Uddu-ji. This is the crux of the issue when dealing with any society that has been radicalized.

Wish ShyamD was around. He was extremely knowledgeable with ground level information on this part of the world.

[A_Gupta]

I expect in the event that the Khamenei regime is overthrown, Iran just might try to become a secular though Muslim-majority country.

[A_Gupta]

The Chosun of South Korea reports:
Netanyahu Aims to Phase Out U.S. Military Aid Within a Decade
Israeli Prime Minister emphasizes military maturity, plans $110 billion investment to build independent defense industry
https://www.chosun.com/english/world-en ... TCSW4VLHQ/

The Economist, a British weekly magazine, reported in an interview with Prime Minister Netanyahu published on the 10th, local time, that he stated, “We want to gradually reduce U.S. military aid within the next 10 years.”

When asked if he would reduce U.S. military support to “zero (0),” Netanyahu responded, “Yes.”

Prime Minister Netanyahu has previously indicated that Israel should not rely on military aid. However, this is the first time he has publicly stated his position on U.S. military support.

[RCase]

So if Iran falls and they revert back to Zoroasterianism!!
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Here is a video from PGurus with a guy who is pretty well versed with Iranian life and belief system. Interesting insights to the strain of Zoroastrianism in Iran. Also an interesting perspective of bringing in a vedic perspective to that society.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7VpWBPhmlY

[drnayar]

So if Iran falls and they revert back to Zoroasterianism!!
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Here is a video from PGurus with a guy who is pretty well versed with Iranian life and belief system. Interesting insights to the strain of Zoroastrianism in Iran. Also an interesting perspective of bringing in a vedic perspective to that society.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7VpWBPhmlY
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Americans will bring in pahlavi and return back Iran into american orbit !

[A_Gupta]

I see an Iran that is not subject to American sanctions to be to India’s benefit. The northern route, route to Afghanistan, Chabahar port investment, etc., will be fruitful.

[Manish_P]

I see an Iran that is not subject to American sanctions to be to India’s benefit. The northern route, route to Afghanistan, Chabahar port investment, etc., will be fruitful.

There are no need for sanctions when the ruler will be merely a puppet with strings in the hands of the US

[uddu]

I see an Iran that is not subject to American sanctions to be to India’s benefit. The northern route, route to Afghanistan, Chabahar port investment, etc., will be fruitful.

There are no need for sanctions when the ruler will be merely a puppet with strings in the hands of the US

NOt that. what he meant is we could buy oil from the Iranians without the threat of sanctions. But yes Pahlavi will be a leader who may have to take approval from the Americans before he agrees for it. will be far worse than the current Venezuelan leadership.

[uddu]

The chants are Mashallah..Mashallah
https://x.com/SalmanSima/status/2010087848808976709
@SalmanSima
The people of Iran outsmarted the Islamic Republic:
The regime cut the lights and electricity in the major streets of Tehran to prevent the greatness of the protesters' crowd from being shown and to make it difficult for people to document their unity. But the brave Iranians turned on the flashlights of their cell phones and created an even more epic scene of unity.

https://x.com/i/status/2009988189876887624
@inside_nk
BREAKING | Iranian Azerbaijani Turkish political groups have issued a joint statement calling on Iran’s Turkic population to fully and actively join the ongoing nationwide protests.

Iran’s Azerbaijani Turks are not a small group - they are one of the largest ethnic communities in the country.

This marks a significant escalation, signalling potential ethnic and regional mobilisation alongside broader popular unrest in Iran.

[uddu]

https://x.com/i/status/2010100632955302179
@RudawEnglish
The Kurdish-led SDF said on Saturday that a Kurdish female fighter was executed and thrown from a building by the Syrian army.

The fighter was reportedly captured by armed men after resisting an army attack in the Kurdish-majority neighborhood of Sheikh Maqsood for hours.

https://x.com/KevorkAlmassian/status/20 ... 9308549299
@KevorkAlmassian
Egyptian activists are circulating this image of the terrorist who was present at the execution scene of the female Kurdish fighter.

According to these activists, he is the Egyptian national, Ahmed Al-Mansouri, wanted by Egyptian security services.

What is beyond dispute is the bigger picture: Syria has become a playground for foreign jihadists, where execution-style violence is filmed and celebrated, while Western and regional backers pretend this is a “new state” bringing stability.

https://x.com/i/status/2010081290897244297
@Kurdistan_AR
The new Syrian government is ISIS.

We Kurds fought ISIS for 15 years, and we know very well how they think. The Syrian government is extremist and terrorist.

They only pretend in the media that they have changed, but in reality their actions are exactly the same as ISIS. Remember what they did to the Druze, Alawites, and Christians, and recently to the Kurds through massacres.

They always tell their supporters that they are weak now and forced to deceive the United States and the world. They say that when they become stronger and build their army, they will declare Sharia and jihad, attack Israel, and “liberate” Jerusalem and even Andalusia.
Every day they also remind us that they will take revenge on us, the Kurds, because we defeated ISIS in Raqqa and Baghouz. They say they will free ISIS families from al-Hol camp.

Do not trust them. They are like cancer.


https://x.com/i/status/2009904120141111726
@AadiAchint
This is typical American freedom and democracy backed by Jolani in Syria.

https://x.com/KGG6766/status/2009230191252693342
@KGG6766
Videos show armed Islamist Syrian Army men escorting the Kurdish Female Fighter while grabbing her hair, hurling dehumanizing insults such as “pigs,”
This is exposing the reality behind claims of a “new Syria.”

[Vayutuvan]

I expect in the event that the Khamenei regime is overthrown, Iran just might try to become a secular though Muslim-majority country.

Oxymoron.

[uddu]

https://x.com/i/status/2009856695464251733
@jasminejoziy12
EXTREMELY IMPORTANT!

A leaked voice recording of a jihadist reveals a commander working for the ‘Syrian government’ ordered the massacre of ALL Kurds in Aleppo! INCLUDING NEWBORN BABIES!!

Jihadi ‘commander’ Abu Amsha is amongst those sanctioned by UK recently!

"We received an order from Commander Abu Amsha: Any child, any woman, whatever they are—virgin, young woman, girl, infant—if she's 6 months old or a day old, the important thing is that they belong to the Kurdish nationality, slaughter them, kill them immediately directly after you arrest them in Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafieh. Don't film anything, kill them on the spot, no filming—this is an order from Commander Abu Amsha."

https://x.com/i/status/2010067693224054786
@Shahrizor
Not Gazans this is Kurds getting ethnically cIeansed by the Syrian terror government as the International community continues praising Syria and removed all sanctions

No one is saving us but ourselves become united and let us stop these animaIs like we stopped their lsis

[A_Gupta]

I see an Iran that is not subject to American sanctions to be to India’s benefit. The northern route, route to Afghanistan, Chabahar port investment, etc., will be fruitful.

There are no need for sanctions when the ruler will be merely a puppet with strings in the hands of the US

Exactly. And I see no reason for objections about using the Chabahar port to get to Afghanistan.

[Manish_P]

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Exactly. And I see no reason for objections about using the Chabahar port to get to Afghanistan.

Well India didn't see any objection to refining and reselling Russian crude to Europe when they themselves were buying Gas directly from Russia, but then here we are...

[uddu]

How will Trump answer his Christian Fundamentalist base in the U.S?
https://x.com/i/status/1946545292691787852
@DanBurmawy
Pastor Khalid Mezher, leader of the Good Shepherd Evangelical Church, was killed in Sweida following the jihadist invasion, along with his entire family, his siblings, their children, and his parents.

Originally from a Druze background, Pastor Mezher and his entire family had embraced Christianity many years ago. They remained in Sweida, where they established a local evangelical church.

They were never harassed by their Druze community. But after the jihadists invaded Sweida, Pastor Khalid and twenty members of his family were brutally murdered.

[uddu]

https://x.com/ThePollLady/status/2011138378108916038
@ThePollLady
Here is what is going to happen in Iran

U.S. proudly published this roadmap years ago in a Brookings Institution paper titled “Which Path to Persia?”

The paper begins with strategy of starving Iran into submission. The paper explicitly discusses the use of “harsh sanctions” and secondary sanctions on countries trading with Iran as part of a so-called “persuasion” strategy designed to cause “real pain in Tehran.” Crucially, this approach is predicated on the assumption that if the Iranian people are “threatened with the ruin of their economy, they will do anything to prevent it.”

Consequently, the paper moves on to analyzing methods for “inspiring an insurgency.” It openly acknowledges that the U.S. could engage Iran through “unconventional warfare” and terrorism by backing groups such as the Kurds to pressure or overthrow the current government.

Following this, the paper suggests that a performative show of “diplomacy” may be necessary before pursuing a military option. The purpose is to build international and domestic support by creating the narrative that Iran rejected a “very good deal.”

Most strikingly, the paper states that efforts to promote regime change might be “intended by the U.S. government as deliberate provocations to try to goad the Iranians into an excessive response that might then justify an American invasion.”

We are now at the last stage.

Throughout the document, they repeatedly admit that International public deception is required to manufacture consent for regime change, and that the opposition groups they support are neither popular nor viable without continuous U.S. backing.

[uddu]

https://x.com/D_abdulkader/status/2011240943253667928
@D_abdulkader
Let’s not forget, our NATO “ally” Turkey is doing everything in its power right now to save the regime in Iran.

They met a few weeks ago reaffirming their support for one another.

Turkey’s foreign minister, Fidan has been working nonstop making calls to Arab leaders and U.S. ambassador to Turkey, Tom Barrack to try to convince President Trump to not attack Iran.

Turkey fears regime change will allow the Kurds to carve out their own territory and allow U.S. and Israel to have a huge influence in Tehran, sidelining the Turks.

https://x.com/D_abdulkader/status/2003962527018111103
@D_abdulkader
Turkish military officials visit Iran, guess what the Turks said to the IRGC?

“The security of the Islamic Republic of Iran is the security of Turkey.”

Y’all better wake up, I’ve been saying this for years—Islamist Turkey is the Trojan horse of NATO, they are not our ally.

[uddu]

https://x.com/MOSSADil/status/2011380952501551479
@MOSSADil
SETTING THE STAGE FOR AN ATTACK ON IRAN

REPORT: U.S. troops were instructed to leave Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar by the end of the day, according to multiple diplomatic sources cited by Reuters.

Al Udeid is the largest U.S. military base in the Middle East, hosting around 10,000 American personnel.

No official explanation has been given yet.
But moves like this rarely happen without a reason.

Stay connected, follow
@MOSSADil

[uddu]

https://x.com/theskindoctor13/status/20 ... 8621726798
@theskindoctor13
The Indian Embassy in Tehran asks its nationals to leave Iran.

But trust me, many of them won’t leave, and when and if war breaks out, they’ll be making emotional and/or taunting videos about India not rescuing them. Then special IAF flights, along with a minister, will go to pick them up. They’ll be received in Delhi/Mumbai by another minister, who will welcome them a rose and a namaste.

Thereafter, many of them will complain in the media about how they weren’t given a seat on the plane en route to India, no snacks were provided, and that instead of arranging special flights to take them from Mumbai/Delhi to their homes, they were sent in state transport buses

[uddu]

https://x.com/EYakoby/status/2011140936085250335
@EYakoby
Why isn’t this the front page of the New York Times?

[Jay]

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2026/01 ... e/scan.pdf

It is in the NYT, both in the world and US editions too.