https://x.com/siaxares/status/2041390849620079021?s=20
As an Iranian who stayed connected through Starlink during the total internet blackout, I want to wholeheartedly confirm what President Trump just said:
"The Iranian people want to be free. They have lived in a world that you know NOTHING about."
For 47 years, my people have endured systematic torture, rape, murder, humiliation, anxiety, suppression, and grief under the Islamic Republic. It’s been a long, grinding suffering — punctuated by brutal spikes like the January protests, mass executions, and now war. The world has no idea of the scale or depth of these horrors. Only when this evil regime finally falls will the full truth pour out — in quality and quantity that will shock humanity.
We have now reached a point where almost no cost is too great if it rids us of this regime. Because the cost of it staying in power is infinitely higher.
If you’re reading this and you can’t understand how any Iranian could feel relief at their own country losing a war and getting bombed… I envy you. You have never lived what we have lived. You have never watched your people, friends, family, and loved ones get tortured, raped, or killed almost daily and over half a century. You have never seen an entire nation slowly but brutally suffocated like this.
We tried every alternative imaginable: massive protests, dissent, peaceful reform, negotiations — everything. None of it worked. The regime’s answer has always been bullets, gallows, and more terror.
Now, less than 24 hours before Trump’s deadline, I write this with a heavy heart from inside Iran:
Whatever happens next — if there is still an Iran left to save and this regime is gone — the Iranian people will be happy with the result. No matter the cost. Because the cost of the regime remaining is higher, and for many of us, death itself is preferable to another day under this nightmare.
This is the true sentiment of the majority of Iranians — the voice of a people who often have no internet, no platform, and no way to be heard.
The world will soon understand why we say:
Anything to be free. Anything to end this evil.
#IranMassacre
#IranRevolution2026
I would wager that they had their limits. If it was their kids on the bridge or surrounding the power plant, they would put up with the regime to keep them alive.
Yes I would imagine there is a limit that could be found, but at least for now we only have to worry about IRGC militant families in danger. What is worse, those being brainwashed and led as a lamb to the slaughter or people forced at gunpoint to be human shields. Either option is tragic enough in my mind so I don’t care but I personally think they are likely IRGC families since there was a call to surround the bridges and power plants.
In dealing with human shields standing on bridges, does the U.S. military have the option of using soft weapons?
We know there are sonic and microwave crowd control weapons that can be used in short to medium range to disperse large crowds. Since we can't set up on ground, is it possible to use something like the directed energy weapons deployed on Maui, but instead of set to "burn", drop the setting to "ouchie". Once the crowd is dispersed send the precision missiles.