Why would anyone negotiate peace with a rough state that will kill you for it?
Bernie Sanders, Jewish American Senator: Netanyahu began this war with his attack on Iran [Friday, June 13]. In the process, he sabotaged US-Iran negotiations on nuclear issues and assassinated Ali Shamkhani, Iran’s lead nuclear negotiator [set to meet with the USA on Sunday, June 15]. The US must not be dragged into another illegal Netanyahu war – either militarily or financially.
In 1948, Israel assassinated Swedish UN negotiator and diplomat Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg.
In 1995, Israel assassinated their prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin, for negotiating peace through the Oslo Accords
In July 2024, Israel killed Hamas negotiator Ismael Haniye and his entire family.
The West [UK and USA] destroyed Iran’s progressive democracy in 1953, deposing a leader beloved of the people, and installed a dictatorship in his place. The US and UK have been terrorising that country for as long as any of us have been alive. It’s sick. – Jason Hickel
Israel poses an existential threat to Iran, not the other way around
University of Oxford professor Avi Shlaim on the reasons why Israel, not Iran, is a threat to world peace. Iran has not attacked any nation in 300 years, while Israel, for 78 years, has been carrying out a genocide on Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, for the last 20 months on a more intense scale. Even before October 7, 2023, Israel killed one Palestinian child every three days – see the mediaclip from June 16 2013:
One of the Zionists’ favorite talking points is that Israel is a democracy and the “Arabs” have equal rights. It is offcourse only BULLSHIT:
MIDDLE EAST EYE:
Palestinians in Jaffa say they are being denied access by their Israeli neighbours to an underground bomb shelter which they had previously been allowed to use during Israel’s escalating war with Iran.
Iran’s attacks on Israel, launched in response to Israeli attacks on Iran which have killed hundreds of people, have highlighted how Palestinian citizens of Israel – who make up about 20 percent of the population – have been excluded from the country’s extensive system of public air raid shelters and legislation requiring safe rooms and shelters to be built into new buildings.
On Saturday, four Palestinian citizens of Israel were killed in the predominantly Arab town of Tamra, some 25km east of Haifa, after an Iranian missile unexpectedly struck their residential building.
Before Saturday’s strikes, Tamra’s residents had repeatedly complained of the lack of bomb shelters in the area. Residents told MEE that despite the town being home to more than 35,000 people, there were no public shelters. Meanwhile, according to reports, the nearby Jewish Israeli community of Mitzpe Aviv had at least 13 public shelters for its 1,100 residents.
Video footage published on Sunday showed a group of Israelis celebrating the Iranian missile falling on Tamra and singing an anti-Arab song “May your village burn”, popularised by the Israeli pop singer Kobi Peretz.
“This is the dirty work Israel is doing for all of us.” German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, in a ZDF interview on June 17, 2025
He elaborated that Germany, like other Western nations, is affected by Iran’s regime, which he accused of spreading “death and destruction” through support for groups like Hezbollah and Hamas, and enabling the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.
Merz praised the Israeli army and leadership for their “courage” in targeting Iran’s nuclear and military facilities, suggesting that without these actions, the world might face a nuclear-armed Iranian regime sustaining global terrorism. He also noted that Israel’s efforts have significantly weakened Iran’s leadership and nuclear program, though he speculated that completing the destruction of Iran’s nuclear capabilities might require U.S. intervention, as Israel may lack the necessary weapons. Merz offered diplomatic negotiations to Iran’s remaining leadership but warned that Israel would “finish the job” if Tehran refused.
A German A400M tanker accidentally revealed itself refueling Israeli jets over Jordan
President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, on X June 15 at 09.13 PM
Under an international rules-based order, Israel is the one that illegally attacked Iran.
It has made Iran retaliate as they have a right to defend against illegal attacks. To support peace, the EU should condemn any illegal attacks, including Israel’s illegal provocations. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/16/australias-claim-that-israel-has-a-right-to-defend-itself-against-iran-is-inconsistent-with-our-rules-based-order
Israel is the aggressor who launched an attack on Iran against all international laws, and in the middle of Iran-US negotiations. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/world-reacts-israeli-strike-iran-over-nuclear-programme-2025-06-13/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
Claiming Iran is the main source of instability ignores facts. U.S. intel (2024) found no evidence of nuclear weapons plans. Iran has promoted de-escalation, incl. the Hormuz Peace Initiative. https://www.reuters.com/world/us-still-believes-iran-has-not-decided-build-nuclear-weapon-us-officials-say-2024-10-11/
President Emmanuel Macron, on X June 13, 01:49 PM:
Israel attacked Iran in a US-sponsored war of aggression, and France’s oligarch President Macron condemned… Iran! What about Iran’s right to defend itself? It was attacked first! . . . Ben Norton, journalist
Prime Minister of Canada, Mark Carney on X June 13. 11.56 PM:
By Faisal Kutty:
Prime Minister Mark Carney, this statement is a moral failure.
You claim Iran’s missile attacks “threaten regional peace,” yet say nothing of the illegal, unprovoked Israeli bombardment that killed civilians, assassinated government officials in a foreign capital, and ignited this latest escalation. That is not peacekeeping—it is state terrorism.
By “reaffirming Israel’s right to defend itself” while staying silent on its aggression, you are not promoting restraint—you are enabling impunity.
Let’s be honest: This isn’t about defending peace. It’s about shielding Israel from accountability as it wages a genocidal war on Gaza and expands its military operations across the region—from Lebanon to Syria to Iran.
Canada cannot call for diplomacy while uncritically backing a regime that ignores diplomacy, defies international law, and openly dreams of territorial expansion (Eretz Israel).
You say you’re concerned about protecting Canadian nationals. What about the Canadian values of justice, legality, and human rights?
Stop reciting talking points crafted in Tel Aviv and Washington. Speak as the leader of a sovereign nation, not as a spokesperson for apartheid and escalation.
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Masud Gharahkhani meets with excil Iran Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi
by Siavash Mobasheri on Facebook: While the bombs fall on Iran and civilians lose their lives in city after city, Reza Pahlavi – the son of Iran’s former brutal monarch – stands at a safe distance and applauds. For years he has begged Israel to bomb the country he falsely claims to love, and now he gets his way. For those of us with family in Iran, this is deeply personal. What is new, and all the more serious, is that the President of the Norwegian Storting, Masud Gharahkhani, has met the monarch family – not once, but twice – and not as a private person, but as the Storting’s foremost representative.
In Paris in 2023, he met Iran’s former Empress Farah Pahlavi. In April 2025, he met her son, Reza Pahlavi, in the United States. The images from the meetings are clear: flag layouts with the old Shah symbol and the Norwegian flag, smiles, no reservations. For millions of Iranians, it does not arouse nostalgia, but trauma. Gharahkhani is not just any politician. He symbolizes Norwegian democracy. And it should be obvious that Norway’s democracy should not promote right-wing extremist dynasties – least of all those that carry a bloody legacy. One that happily collaborates with the leader of the genocidal state, Netanyahu.
We must remember what the Shah’s regime actually was. Under Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Iran was ruled as an extreme and authoritarian monarchy disguised as modernity. Opponents of the regime were imprisoned, tortured and executed. The Shah’s secret police, SAVAK, operated without law or trial. Amnesty and Human Rights Watch documented methods such as electric torture, isolation and forced confessions. This is what the people rose up against in 1979 – before the clerical regime took over and continued the oppression in a new guise.
And Reza Pahlavi has never distanced himself from this. On the contrary. He has old SAVAK advisors with him. He himself says that he wants to use the clerical regime’s Revolutionary Guard – the same brutal apparatus that today suppresses protests – to ensure “stability” in a change of power. And now he is siding with Netanyahu and the Israeli government, in the midst of a genocide in Gaza, and thanking them for bombing Iranian targets. This is part of a pattern: an exiled prince with a background of tyranny, who builds alliances with a genocidal power and who wants to be carried to power on the back of Western military support.
What is happening in Iran now is deeply serious. But at the same time we must understand this: Israel’s attack on Iran is not just about the countries being “bitter enemies”. It is also about moving the world’s eyes. Towards a new area of conflict, where Israel is once again allowed to define the narrative. Western media is of course following suit, and extreme politicians like Ine Eriksen Søreide are repeating Israel’s version, without any form of shame or morality. And in the meantime, the massacre in Gaza continues – with the same rhythm, the same brutality, the same silence from world leaders.
And this is what the President of the Norwegian Parliament has chosen to legitimize. By meeting Reza Pahlavi in the course of his office, he has cast a shadowy light on the entire role of the Parliament in foreign policy.
And it raises some very fundamental questions: Where is Jonas Gahr Støre? Where is the Parliament? Where are the critical questions from the media about why one of the country’s most prominent officials meets and legitimizes a figure who asks foreign states to bomb a sovereign country? Why hasn’t there been a clear signal that Norway stands with the people’s demands for democracy and freedom, not with the heirs of the dictatorship, and certainly not with their supporters in Tel Aviv?
Millions of Iranians have shouted it in the streets: “Death to the tyrant – either the Shah or the leader!” They are fighting for women, life and freedom. For a republic. For democracy. For a secular Iran that is ruled by the people, not by the West or authoritarian royal families. When Gharahkhani legitimizes and gives an exiled prince with Netanyahu’s blessing an honorable audience in Norwegian public life, it not only weakens Norway’s credibility. It fails the people who are actually fighting for freedom on the ground.
So to Gharahkhani and the Labour government: Can you confirm that Norway stands behind the people – not genocidal murderers and heirs to dictatorship?
Dutch prosecutors dropped assault cases against Maccabi Tel Aviv thugs in Amsterdam. Not because the victims lied, but because metro surveillance footage was mysteriously wiped just five days after the incident.
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