Aaaah, you are pouring honey on my ears, BB.

... and it is rather leftist-leaning too.

to stay longer than expected.

You continually disprove that a Prussian heart is dark, rigid, and militant.

Although not perfect, the dome has performed well from what I can tell.

but Medvedev came crawling out of his den yesterday with what amounted to a public apology.

it was Putin that told him to shut his trap

The Times this morning said that Khameini is hidden and uncontactable.

however they are unpredictable enough to try it and could bring a bomb into any country they have an embassy

nothing whatsoever to stop them.

The U.S. Embassy in Qatar has instructed all Americans in the country to shelter-in-place until further notice, "out of an abundance of caution" with no further details so far from the State Department.

Iran are wrong to police clothing,

The Middle East is not a 'one size fits all' place.

when you're all listening to farmer pop music with accordions in it.

It's generally self enforced among women.

Iranian woman dies 'after being beaten by morality police' over hijab law
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Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurd, dies after 'violent arrest' for infringing hijab rules amid Iranian crackdown on women's dress

Independent UN Human Rights Council-appointed experts said in a statement that it represents a fundamental attack on women's rights.

The legislation, which applies to children as young as 12, combines severe criminal penalties with mandatory citizen surveillance and systematic enforcement across all sectors of society, the experts added.

The Law on Protecting the Family through the Promotion of the Culture of Chasity and Hijab, represents what experts describe as "an intensification of State control over women's bodies in Iran and a further assault on women's rights and freedoms".

The new legislation expands existing restrictions, targeting women and girls who fail to wear a hijab in both physical and online spaces. While the hijab requirements were already mandatory under Iran's Islamic Penal Code, this new law introduces dramatically harsher consequences.

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"The law constitutes clear violation of fundamental human rights, legal norms and principles, including women's rights to equality, freedom of expression, religion and belief, bodily autonomy, liberty, security and privacy, "the experts emphasised....

....The minister's strategic analysis is equally sober: "If what we know from the Israelis and the Americans is true, then Iran has never stopped working on its own nuclear weapons and is apparently significantly further ahead than it was just a few years ago."

"At the same time," Pistorius succinctly stated, "Iran is the greatest threat in the Middle East to all its neighbors, but especially to Israel. One must remember that for 45 years, Iran has declared the destruction of Israel as its national goal in its state doctrine. So, there is a huge threat!"

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His verdict: "The Americans have assumed responsibility here in the region. They are the only ones who can do that. The crucial thing is that a major threat has been eliminated. That is good news for the Middle East, the Near East, and also for Europe."

Israel's unprovoked attack has rallied the people around the regime. Even liberal Teheranis, in interviews quoted by the media,

Iran Sees 75% Increase in Executions During First Four Months of 2025 over 2024

"Iran's crack­down on polit­i­cal pris­on­ers fla­grant­ly vio­lates inter­na­tion­al human rights law, includ­ing the rights to a fair tri­al and free­dom from torture."

Joint Letter by 365 indi­vid­u­als and orga­ni­za­tions con­demn­ing the exe­cu­tion of polit­i­cal pris­on­ers, released May 2, 2025.

Question is how and with what goal?

No big surprise, that's what America does with no plan to what comes next.