Iran - full evacuation of Tehran?

I mean people on this thread (in the beginning) going on about how they hope people will rise and this might be a new era for Iran
Unbelivable

I’m not sure this is the main aim. It could be to get power that’s not so tied to getting nuclear weapons.

The West and their pipe dream about “people rising” and new beautiful democracy 🫣 especially after military threats by a foreign power

yeah that’s exactly what happened in Iraq and Lybia and Syria… and Afghanistan…
all hunky dory!

some people just never learn

Most people are radicalised on-line or, in UK, in prison

I am glad that the U.K. foreign office has shown a mature response. From the Foreign Sec’s statement yesterday:

‘Ours is a hard-headed realist assessment of how best to tackle this grave threat. Fundamentally, no military action can put and end to Iran’s nuclear capabilities.’

I am glad that U.K. recognises military action is absolutely not gonna do this job.

No. I am not. This was extensively reported in both Israeli media and English.

hamas is still responsible for Oct. 7th. They did it. Israeli intelligence underestimated the threat.

that was the conclusion of the Shabak, no less.

Israel spy agency lists failures in preventing Oct. 7 attack

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/05/nx-s1-5318591/israel-shin-bet-security-failure-october-7-attack

Because Hamas were the cause of the current conflict?
Because Hamas think more of a pathetic sky fairy than they do actual humans?
Because Hamas refuses to release hostages?

It's not surprising. News outlets are not being allowed into Gaza to see anything for themselves or report back independently. This means both that Israel looks suspicious for not allowing it, and Hamas can say what they like without it being contradicted. It's a breeding ground for misinformation and propaganda.

There's no need to be snarky. It's common sense, read any article or book on how people are radicalised.

The people of Iran deserve better than their current leader, Netanyahu and Trump. They’re all callous bastards.

It drew attention to the situation and the blockade.

So Thunberg didn't say October 7 was propaganda? I can't find any information on members of her crew saying October 7 was propaganda either. I'm not sure how tensions could be inflamed further given the situation though I suppose they're lucky they escaped with their lives, given what's happened to activists in the past.

Oh god the people on that convoy, I felt really sorry for those police officers, some of the stuff was just deeply culturally inappropriate and also extremely rude. They had no awareness of how to behave, the narcissism and entitlement was something to behold.

I think they genuinely believed the IDF had built and were policing the border. Right at the beginning of the war in Gaza there were news reports showing Egypt reinforcing their side. I mean how can you miss it if you actually read or watch the news.

It's horrific. The overwhelming majority of those people are normal, loving, good people who have suffered under the Iranian regime and do not deserve to die for it. Telling a city of ten million to evacuate is pointless - imagine asking the entirety of London to leave in one go. Logistically impossible. This is an evil situation.

It’s depressing. No one seems to have read anything or talked to other people. They just watch over inflammatory videos.

It’s an idiocracy.

She was but others in her party who also refused were kept. They were told they needed to as part of the agreement for their release. This was in the few hours between them being arrested and Thunberg being out on a plane.

I admire and respect her work on climate change but the whole boat stunt was enormously misguided, as are all these attention grabbing activist social media things.

What did it do except inflame the situation?

Quite far down a rabbit hole. That’s the problem.

I think they just don’t think to check if something is true, I was watching one of these street interviews on a pro-palestine protest. Some moron claimed that millions of children had died in Gaza, the interviewer had to gently point out that there were only 2 million people in gaza. i mean the fatalities are awful and I never want to see another child amputee ever again. But you should know some very basic facts before you form a conclusion. I mean you may still hold the same view which is fine but at least try to understand whats going on.

She was almost immediately deported. Were they trying to get her to watch it on the plane?

Yup can confirm, not Jewish, never been to Israel but have lived in the middle east and a fair few people from the region are rabidly anti-semitic, same in Pakistan.

They hang it on Israel but a lot of people really really just hate Jews and they fucking love a conspiracy theory. Perfectly lovely and otherwise sane people will start frothing at the mouth and banging on about Jewish conspiracies. Not Israel mind, Jews. It’s actually insane for someone who doesn’t really do racism to understand.

Anything they don’t like, some Jew did it. Personally if I were Jewish I’d take the apparent faith in my ability to run the world on the sly as a really really big compliment. 15 million Jews in the world, they must be scheming in shifts to attain such world domination. It’s pathetic really, total loser mindset.

It is truly amazing that the real world isn’t as simple as their Tik Tok bubble makes out, isn’t it.

I have seen reports that Greta Thunberg and her crew refused to watch footage of the October 7th attacks because they thought it was propaganda.

Imagine how far down the cult/ conspiracy theory rabbit hole you have to be to believe that. Bonkers.

Oh yeah as i said “well akctuuuuly it’s er metaphorical dontchaknow” I mean no-one who has an actual clock counting down to the destruction of your nation could possibly mean it, don’t you understand NUANCE!?

@Thegreyhound It’s a made up word from whatever echo chamber of the internet pumps out propaganda for the Iranian government.

It coke across as highly misogynistic in intent because it is telling the reader that feminism is just a front for Western war mongering.

It undermines the plight of women in Iran so that the rabid anti- Israel groups can make themselves feel better about their tacit support for a country with the worst record on right for women and the LGBTQ+ community in the world.

It’s bollocks.

I mean it’s not like you have to intuit anything about the Iranian regime from vague statements, hamas, hezbollah, houthis, doomsday clocks, nukes, erm “death to america” “death to israel”, I believe “death to the UK” has come up. I means they are basically islamo facists spreading extremism and misery. Estimate is 3 billion a year poured i to proxies (weapons, training, funding).

But you’ll have people who either very stupid, ideological or just malignant arguing that you don’t reeeaaaaaalllllly know, you couldn’t possibly ackkkktulllyyy knooooow what the regime is thinking. They’ve never hid it.

Someone posted this has been misinterpreted, as well as other rhetoric. I don’t see how. It’s pretty clear.

If it really was a question then the answer (for air delivered muntions) would be a very well protected storage facility very adjacent to or on the airfield tasked with delivering the devices (you can still see the UK cold war UK type facilities at Scampton and Waddington, either side of Lincoln)

There's no point in hiding the things in the middle of the civilian population.