Iran Has Just Told Us How It Intends to Fight the West For years Britain has treated the Iranian threat as a collection of separate problems. An assassination plot here. An extremist charity there. Intimidation of an Iranian dissident somewhere else. A demonstration carrying the Ayatollah's portrait. Each incident is investigated and filed away. Put them together and a more troubling picture emerges. The IRGC has now supplied another piece. In an open letter to the American people (see link), it singled out "the scholars, the students, and the members of the media". The choice matters. Iran's most powerful military organisation has identified universities, student politics and journalism as audiences worth addressing directly inside the country it regards as its principal enemy. Nobody needs to pretend every student activist is an Iranian agent or every academic takes instructions from Tehran. That would be absurd. The more important question is why the IRGC believes these institutions provide fertile ground for its message. Its letter speaks in a vocabulary already familiar in Western political debate: distrust of government, hostility towards Israel, racial grievance, American decline and suspicion of Western power. Tehran doesn't need to teach the West a new language. It has learned to speak one already circulating here. Britain has seen the harder edge of the same strategy. MI5 has warned of more than 20 potentially lethal Iran-backed plots in recent years involving assassination, kidnapping and intimidation. Lord Walney's recent report describes a network of British charities with alleged links to Iranian state institutions and the IRGC, spreading Khomeinist ideology while some have benefited from Gift Aid. Iranian dissidents and journalists have been threatened on British soil. The Government designated the IRGC under new state-threat powers in July. Now consider RAF Fairford. Five British men were arrested after suspicious activity near the American airbase used during operations against Iran. On Wednesday, Burnham told the BBC there were "strong indications that Iran played a part in what happened over the weekend at RAF Fairford." The next day, a dual British-Iranian man was arrested in Westminster on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts, as part of the same investigation. Police are examining possible foreign-state involvement. No Iranian direction has been established and Tehran denies involvement. Those facts matter: suspicion must never be presented as proof, and the Prime Minister's words now sit inside that same unresolved picture. But they also sit inside a security picture that can no longer sensibly be examined incident by incident. Iran has spent decades developing methods that operate at different levels simultaneously. At one end lie covert plots, proxies and criminal intermediaries. Further along are religious and charitable organisations, political networks and influence operations. At the softer end comes propaganda directed at people who may have no connection with Iran whatsoever but whose existing beliefs can be harnessed to Tehran's advantage. This is where Western openness becomes both strength and vulnerability. A hostile state does not need thousands of agents when democratic societies provide universities, charities, demonstrations, social media and political movements through which ideas travel freely. It needs only to understand where the pressure points lie, cultivate useful relationships where possible, amplify existing grievances and exploit divisions already present. The IRGC's letter should therefore be read less for what it says about America than for what it reveals about Iran. Tehran has studied Western society closely. It knows which arguments resonate, which institutions shape opinion and which divisions can be widened. While Britain has spent years debating individual incidents, Iran has been thinking in networks. We should start doing the same. img9.irna.ir/d/r2/2026/09/29…

Open your eyes! There’s literally life long pilots showing in simulators how it’s bs! Soooo the masks didn’t deploy?! Ooops Bibi conveniently available upon landing! Yeh ooooook!

The British prime minister said that 'there is indeed a strong indication that Iran played a part'. He said it was a complex and serious police investigation 'but we can now confirm our belief that Iran played a part'. Read the full story: bit.ly/3Tg41Fr

Israel initiated attacks on Iran first. Irans response was retaliatory strikes only. That’s a fact.

Police never do anything about Pakistani thugs. That was my first real lesson in how the British justice system works. Like all good kids my age (19 at the time), I'd been indoctrinated with all the standard multiculturalist dogma, which robbed my of healthy racial biases - so I didn't think twice about moving into a flat in Manningham (A moslem ghetto in Bradford). Little did I realise I would have to put up with the Pakistani family next door blasting PakChav music through the walls. One day I knocked on the door to ask politely if they could please turn it down. An moslem woman in a headscarf answered the door. I asked if the music could be turned down, and a moment later, a Paki thug jumped out from behind her and punched me squarely in the face (for no reason) - smashing my glasses in the process. I called the police and he was arrested, but immediately released (of course). The following day, him and his mates did a slow drive-by in the customary chavved-out Honda civic, making throat cutting gestures toward me. I moved out immediately. I reported it but the police weren't interested. The case did go to court and he was found guilty, but given a suspended sentence (which he somehow successfully appealed) and I was awarded £15 for my trouble. This is how they force home owners to sell up at a loss so they can colonise an entire area. Basically, the Pakis have free licence to be as violent and antisocial as they like, knowing the police will do fuck all, and if the plod do anything, the courts will let them walk. This is why I was completely unsurprised by the Manchester Airport case. This is the reality for a lot of white working class kids in the northern slums. The lesson I learned quite young is that xenophobia is just instinct plus experience - and I've learned to trust it ever since. The colourblind liberal dogma I was indoctrinated with was a lie. I learned early on that Pakistani culture is vile and nothing in the thirty years since has persuaded me otherwise. Racism against them is completely justified. Britain will not be a functioning country again until every last one of them is deported. I have also learned that the justice system is a joke and the pigs are totally useless lazy wankers who will always take the path of least resistance, even if that means arresting the victim. This story below doesn't surprise me at all.

It still rankles me that after the USA murdered the Iranian leadership during ‘ negotiations’ that Albanese and Wong endorsed this criminal act. What a disgrace, what a failure of leadership.

I am politically homeless. I really wish this wasn’t the case because I do have time and energy to invest in politics, and quite a bit of useful experience - and I would prefer to be contributing rather than “sniping from the sidelines”. I’m told I should just pick the party that’s most aligned with my own values and support it, but that’s just choosing a political tribe. And even then, I still don’t see a right wing party that especially aligns with my views. The Tory party has not changed. It's still a one-nation liberal party, while Reform is pure slopuism that is never ever going to get serious. Restore, meanwhile, is a schizophrenic mess with a very large contingent of grotbags that will prevent it from ever being electable. If you were an investor, and you had to pick a company to invest in, you would do the due diligence or risk losing your investment. I feel the same way about my political energies. They are not to be squandered on dead ends. Certainly, if Reform UK was a company you wouldn’t invest in it. As a young start-up company it blows most of its capital on advertising, without devoting any serious time or resources to product development, while its management team are embroiled in corruption scandals and market rigging. If Reform were bidding for the contract to run UK PLC, I would not trust them to not cause a major crisis, not least because they lack the expertise, but also because they don’t attract it. As to Restore Britain, were that a company, you’d give it a hard swerve. It very much looks like the managing director goes on holiday too often, oblivious to a hostile management buy-out by people who are singularly unqualified to run any enterprise, not least their own. If the only metric were whether these enterprises could win an election, then Reform would be the safer investment, though in its current state, its chances are remote. But it’s not the only metric. Vote Leave Ltd existed as a special purpose vehicle to win a very particular vote and it did its job, albeit badly, but that didn’t really get us anywhere. The test of a political party is is its fitness for office and the likelihood of it achieving something. For that, you need the knowhow, the experience, and the people. Having done the due diligence and audited most of their policies (if we can call them that), it’s quite clear they don’t have the knowhow. That’s a drum I’ve been banging for some time. But they don’t have the people either. In their combined ranks, there is nobody we can take at all seriously. We were told that James Orr was going to bring some “intellectual heft” to Reform, but that never materialised, and he turned out to be something of a crook. Meanwhile, Danny Kruger is not nearly as impressive as The Spectator believes he is, and there’s no indication even his own party takes him seriously. That then brings us to the Tories, who do have the experience at least, but the people involved are oblivious to a major shift in market conditions. We have key figures in the party trotting out multiculturalist dogma just as everyone is beginning to hate it. They are selling VHS tapes in the age of streaming. Nobody would invest in that. Looking at the polls, it does not look like the right is winning, and in its current state, I don’t particularly care if it does (for all it will achieve). They’ve done nothing to deserve victory. In my view they should be kept out of power until they put the serious work in, and clear out the rot from within their own ranks - starting with the corrupt and useless leadership. If it takes a devastating loss for them to get the message then that’s how it has to be. Maybe then I will have a political home. The main reason we will not see any demands for improvement in the meantime, is largely down to their own supporters - who’ve consistently demanded that I stop criticising. Any objective individual can see the deficiencies but most would rather not admit them. Perhaps it’s pure desperation - to believe any port in a storm will do. It’s understandable if not forgivable. On that basis, I am routinely told that I should not let perfect be the enemy of good, but again I come back to the investor analogy. When you are certain to lose your investment, it’s better to wait for the market to improve. In the meantime, exposing their deficiencies is the public service I provide. It is not “sniping form the sidelines”.

If we are mealy mouthed on the matter of Israel and its right to self-defence, we cede that principle for ourselves, and cede ground to Pakistani moslems pushing their own ethnic agendas, and the far left pushing their own anti-nation agenda. You ought to know that you do not give these people even an inch. The moment we take the path of least resistance by conceding even a small lie, we are fatally compromised. What follows is a cascade of demands for concessions - on everything from Falklands sovereignty to slavery reparations, and many of our hard won common law rights - such as our right to freely criticise religions. It's not strictly about defending Israel. It is a matter of standing on a principle and standing for the truth. And yes, this is good versus evil. The Palestinian cause is not a nationalist aspirational struggle. That is an ahistorical malicious affectation. It is a religious war of extermination (with Iran at the heart of it) - and one which has already turned its eye on us - whether we choose to fight or not. Britain cannot retreat into isolationism and transactionalism where its only interest is its immediate material needs. A nation lives or dies on the principles it upholds. We are right. They are wrong. We're done if we begin to doubt that.

This is a stupid and bigoted take - disappointed to see Shapiro go down this Bush era rube like dead-end.

Never forget October 7. Hamas terrorists murdered an 18-year-old girl in front of her entire family, then they dragged her father away, kidnapped him, and murdered him in captivity. They proudly filmed every second of it.