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Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Fucking Reza

Iran: Podcasts

 


Fucking Reza
Yesterday, I watched Reza Pahlavi address what looked like 20 white people in a small room in Sweden. This dude has no clue. The white people in Sweden can't do shit for you. Especially if there are only 20 of them. Do you know how big Iran is? It is half the size of the US.
A full ceasefire and a full reopening of the Strait of Hormuz would be an excellent development for this juncture. But this is no resolution.
What can move the needle is the Iranian diaspora. There is no military way to get the regime to accept the four demands. The Iranian demands during the Islamabad talks were so utterly maximalist; obviously, the Iranian side thinks they are winning the war. Why are they thinking they are winning the war? Because they have been watching YouTube. Their own propaganda? No, they have been watching Americans on YouTube. There are all sorts of talking heads on YouTube, blue eyes, blonde hair, men who have been making strong cases that the US is losing the war right now. Who do you believe if not Americans talking about America?
John Bolton has been arguing for an attack on Iran his entire adult life. When nobody else was. Now when there is an attack on Iran, he is anti-Trump! Why? Because being pro-Trump does not sell books. He wrote a book! Welcome to capitalism.
There is no military way to get the regime to bow down. A Hezbollah leader said it best years ago: "We love death like you love life. How do you expect to defeat us?" There are tens of thousands of IRGC soldiers in underground missile cities who want to die. They don't care to win. They just want to get martyred. Because martyrdom is the pinnacle of life.
Look at the Ayatollah. Why was he in the most visible building in Tehran? Because he wanted to die. He attained martyrdom. You can't accuse the guy of not eating his own dog food.
Economic sanctions will not do it either. The IRGC controls half of the Iranian economy. The Pakistani military has nothing on the IRGC. Munir's men control only about 20-30% of the Pakistani economy. That is how they roll. The IRGC is ExxonMobil, Microsoft, McDonald's, and about 100 other Fortune 500 companies all under one corporate umbrella. The IRGC is a corporation pretending to be an army. There is no vocabulary to describe the IRGC. No, it's not a monopoly. A monopoly is when one company dominates one sector of the economy. Google is a monopoly in search. The word does not exist. What is the IRGC?
The only saving grace is the Iranian diaspora. And not Reza. But ordinary Iranians in the diaspora. Joining organizations. Doing small events. House parties. Launching organizations. Getting organized. Doing small, doing big events, doing street events. And forming an umbrella organization with a common minimum program. An interim government. And an interim constitution that guarantees human rights and democracy.
And a 12-month roadmap to elections to a constituent assembly. And then networking inside Iran to the fullest. Giving maximum logistical support to those inside Iran. To get people back into the streets. If the people take to the streets, the regime falls. If the people don't take to the streets, the regime does not fall.
There is a role for the US. Do not vacate the crime scene just yet. Stay put. If and when the people do take to the streets. How do you make it happen? Fucking Reza. The diaspora needs to call people inside Iran en masse. Make a million phone calls. Ask people to take to the streets. That is how. You don't wait and hope it happens. You make it happen.
This time will be different. Don't worry about Basij goons on motorbikes showing up with machine guns. If they do, they get taken out aerially. The US is at the ready.
If Reza starts talking to Iranians instead of white people, maybe this will come to be.
Otherwise ..... well, the Strait is open. That is all one can be thankful for. To which some say, but the Strait was already open before the war started.


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