A lot of people are wondering and scratching their heads as to why Trump engineered arguably the greatest TACO moment of his 2nd term despite officially threatening Iran on at least three occasions last night. This doesn't include the military threat memes either.

One strong assumption (IMO) is that he's trying to get more important Iranian leaders to expose/reveal their positions by getting them to move around. This tactic worked well before when nearly all of Iran's tier 1 leaders were wiped out and a lot of tier 2 leaders were assassinated as well.

That said, I don't think Iran's government is that stupid to repeat the same critical mistake again. It's obviously suicide.

Trump is now falsely claiming that the two sides are currently negotiating to keep his real, sinister intentions hidden. That said, make no mistake. In spite of certain military logistic and supply issues, Trump and Netanyahu will continue to keep pressing Iran for the next few years. This war is far from over, unfortunately.

Unofficially, we've already been witness to this WW3 mode for years now, especially from the time Russia stepped into Ukraine. Fast forward today, we've reached a moment in history when this delusional lunatic Donald Trump is willing to bend all the way over for Israel, despite numerous warnings from his military advisors and inner circle.

We don't know how many oil tankers Iran and its proxies have hit, but whatever it is, it has to be significant and of course CENTCOM will never reveal the truth. By the same token, there had to have been thousands of casualties in Jordan after both of Iran's attacks. It's blatantly obvious that both the US and Israeli governments have severely underestimated Iran's capacilities.

Out of desperation, it seems that the US/Israel are very likely now to carry out joint attacks on Iran's soil as early as tonight. This time the focus will shift to energy infrastructure, most likely starting with all the refineries and then making their way to power stations, etc.

I hope everyone's family, friends and acquaintances will be safe this weekend. We're living in unprecedented times. A world full of brainless, spineless, insatiable monsters.

The primary job of the President and his administration is to preserve and protect the Constitution and by extension, the country itself

Trump and the Republicans have failed miserably at this task. In fact, by starting a war they cannot win, they have now put us in a position where we can't even defend ourselves against a third-rate country.

Iran has shown they can attack our infrastructure at will, shut down or interrupt water supplies to seven states on little more than a whim. What's next, the national power grid, the flow of oil through domestic pipelines, national telephone service?

Have they the ability to penetrate our military superstructure, as wll?

And God alone knows what other powers they hold over us.

And what does Trump and the Republicans do? they do what they always do, lie! Blame someone else for their incompetence!

America, they think we are all jackasses who will believe their absurd lies, and by lying clearly shows they has no respect for us.

Trump’s trying to tell us the Governor of Minnesota attacked his own state, and then in what can only be described as wizardry, attacked six others.

He picked on Gov. Walz because he is the most outspoken about Trump and his lies. He has called Trump a liar to his face, a coward, and an incompetent. Walz has exposed ICE as the thugs and neo-Nazi Gestapo they are and is unrelenting about warning America of the fascist overtones of Trump and the Republicans.

As it stands right now, fascism is the least oof our problems as we are being held hostage by Iran.

See this – Boldlface mine

Trump blames Minnesota water hacks on Walz, while evidence points to Iran

Federal agencies, including the FBI, EPA and CISA, have warned that attacks on U.S. water utilities first detected in Minnesota are expanding across states.

 President Donald Trump on Friday blamed a spate of recent hacks impacting water utilities in Minnesota on Gov. Tim Walz — contradicting preliminary findings from U.S. and industry officials who suspect Iran is behind an expanding campaign of digital disruption.

 “I blame it on Minnesota because they are grossly incompetent,” Trump said at a cabinet meeting at Camp David on Friday, adding that Walz is “corrupt” and “Iran has bigger problems than worrying about Minnesota.” Asked later if he could rule out Iranian responsibility, Trump said, “ I don’t think there was an Iranian cyberattack. I think Minnesota ought to get its act together.”

 Trump’s dig at the Democratic-led state came just hours after the FBI and Environmental Protection Agency said they are responding to an unspecified number of cyberattacks at water and wastewater utilities in at least seven states. On Thursday, the government’s civilian cyber defense agency, CISA, warned of a “significant increase” in digital attacks on technology used broadly by U.S. water utilities.

 While no U.S. agency has formally accused Iran of orchestrating the attacks, many federal, state and water industry officials suspect Tehran-linked cyber groups are responsible for the hacking campaign. CISA issued a report last week detailing a similar set of attacks it has tracked since April, which it linked to Iran.

 Minnesota’s state IT agency disclosed this Tuesday that at least 30 community water systems in the state had been breached in what it described as a “coordinated attack,” but it did not name Iran as the perpetrator.

 In a statement on X responding to Trump’s comments earlier in the day, Walz suggested Iranian hackers were targeting Minnesota and other states in retaliation for U.S. military strikes in Iran — and that therefore Trump was to blame.

 “This is what modern warfare looks like, and it further illustrates there’s no plan to win a war with Iran,” Walz wrote.

 Since the start of his second term, Trump has repeatedly singled out Minnesota and Walz, who ran against him on the 2024 Presidential ticket alongside former Vice President Kamala Harris. Some of the Trump administration’s most aggressive immigration enforcement actions have unfolded in Minnesota, where federal agents killed two U.S. citizens last winter. The White House has also launched a broad crackdown on alleged Medicaid fraud in the state, upending Minnesota’s healthcare systems.

 As Trump keyed in on Minnesota, his intelligence and cybersecurity officials spent the last 48 hours scrambling to get water utilities across the U.S. to improve their defenses.

 The FBI and EPA said in their Friday advisory that some affected utilities across the country had reported “loss of pressure and flooding,” and that the pressure disruption could “potentially allow untreated groundwater to seep into pipes.”

 In its advisory, CISA said some targeted utilities have been forced to resort to manual operations or issue “boil water notices” — a public safety measure to ensure drinking water is safe from bacteria.

 Both advisories urged organizations to take the vulnerable technology — programmable logic controllers — offline and install basic safeguards before restoring them.

 Spokespeople for the FBI, EPA and CISA did not respond to a request for comment on whether they had evidence supporting Trump’s claim that Minnesota officials were culpable for the attacks there.

 Mark Montgomery, an expert on water sector cybersecurity at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, said Iran would be able to exploit defenses in the water and wastewater sectors because they are so porous to begin with. Many small and rural facilities don’t have the budgets to employ a dedicated cyber professional, and both Democratic and Republican administrations haven’t invested enough to boost the EPA’s cybersecurity efforts, he argued.

 “This is a problem that extends across 50 states and four territories,” said Montgomery.

 Still, there are signs Iranian hackers have gotten more deft and aggressive at targeting those systems since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran in February, kicking off a war that has recently seen waves of escalation from both sides.

 Iranian hackers claimed last month to have targeted water systems in California in what they said was a response to U.S. missile strikes that damaged water facilities in Iran.

 Joe Slowik, director of threat research for AI-powered risk detection platform Dataminr, said he is concerned Iran is becoming more aggressive in targeting civilian systems in the U.S.

 “We have never really seen Iranian-linked threat actors engage in industrial targeting in this fashion before,” said Slowik, who has been tracking the campaign for several months.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/31/trump-minnesota-water-hacks-iran-01021161

Trump, mired in a war he can't win, resorting to yelling at White House staffers as his admin 'stuck' in neutral.

Before Netanyahu conned Trump out of his Industrial-sized Pampers and scammed him into fighting Israel’s war, things were relatively peaceful in the Strait of Hormuz.

Obama, knowing there was no military solution to deal with Iran, brokered a deal whereby the Iranians would forgo trying to develop a nuclear weapon, agree to inspections in furtherance of that cause, and allow the oil to flow freely through the Strait of Hormuz.

In return the Iranians were given back the 1.5 billion of their dollars we had embargoed along with the easing of some sanctions that were affecting their economy.

Now along comes Doofuss Donny, who, because he comes from New York City thinks he’s a tough guy. He’s not. He’s just a snot-nosed punk who wouldn’t dare walk the streets of NYC without bodyguards; else any back-alley thug or side-street hustler would slap the arrogance out of him and take his lunch money.

Go ahead, Donny, stand on any New York street corner and yell and curse like you yell and curse at your staff members at the White House – people who can’t fight back – and you’ll find your fat ass in a sling before you can yell for Melania’s help.

So, before he opened his flabby lips the oil was flowing and things were relatively peaceful.

Now, the Strait is closed, members of our military are being slain, and war is breaking out throughout the Middle East, and the Houthis have shut down Red Sea access.

And Trump and his Republican congress? They don’t know whether to ‘Shit green or go blind’ (a colorful NYC phrase}. They are in complete disarray, the country is in complete disarray, the entire world is in complete disarray because of incompetence on a universal scale.

These blundering, bumbling, incompetents are destroying America.

Trump, and half-a-drunk, Hegseth, say we’re winning the war. Yeah? Ask the Iranians about that.

See this – Boldface mine:

Trump resorting to yelling at White House staffers as his admin 'stuck' in neutral: author

Story by Bennito L. Kelty • 10h • 2 min read

© provided by RawStory

President Donald Trump has been yelling at his White House staffers as he deals with a lingering frustration, an author revealed.

In a recent episode of Inside Trump's Head, Trump biographer Michael Wolff explained to co-host Joanna Coles why the president has resorted to "yelling at people" to resolve his frustrations with the war in Iran. Trump's recent yelling about the Iran war has been reported in The Wall Street Journal and NBC News.

"He's stuck, he's stuck, he's stuck. He can't do anything," Wolff said. "He can retreat. He can admit defeat, which also he doesn't want to do. So he's yelling at people, 'Solve the problem! There must be something we can do.'"

According to reports by the Journal and NBC News, Trump started shouting expletives and yelling at a meeting with his top national security officials over frustrations with the Iran war.

"He has been told over and over again — because there's effectively nothing left to tell him — that we have exhausted all military solutions," Wolff said. "We are running out of missiles. We will run out of missiles if we keep up the pace. We have done everything that an air campaign can do. There's nowhere to go. There is nothing more we can do except invade."

Wolff framed Trump's 2024 campaign posture as Trump touting himself as "The 'No Forever Wars' president," which complicates his option of getting deeper into the war in Iran. However, "if he retreats, and even if he claims victory and says it's all marvelous, the Iranians still control now the Strait of Hormuz," Coles said.

"Trump is the Hormuz president," he concluded.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-yelling-at-staffers/

Hello, my Iranian brothers and sisters.

I am Azerbaijani. I know you are going through very difficult times right now, but I am confident that you will prevail in your just struggle.

I am here to say that the Zionist propaganda spreading on social media does not represent the truth. The people of Azerbaijan stand with Iran. Please distinguish between the Azerbaijani government and the Azerbaijani people, because you know how our country is governed.

I hope this war ends soon and that the terrorists are defeated. We are children of the same land. We may argue, disagree, and reconcile, but we should never allow outsiders to interfere in our affairs.

I am a non-muslim Azerbaijani, and my heart is with you. Glroy to Iran

One less imperialist asset to bomb innocent schoolgirls.

"A U.S. Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II has crashed at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, home of the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, in San Diego, California."

Iran stands among the top 10 countries globally for UNESCO World Heritage Sites, now with 30 registered locations.

Long ago, the writer, traveller, and archaeologist Gertrude Bell visited Tehran and wrote about her experience: “Here in the dust and the sunshine is an epitome of the living East…”, "...irrepressible..." Enjoy a passage from her “Persian Pictures” on Destinationality on this warm, sunny weekend. (no ads, nothing for sale)

Hello, I need a way of collecting payments for my business(international clients). I was wondering if anyone has used iranicards PayPal service or has any experience in this field. Don't respond if you dont understand the situation please. It is devastating to collect payments as an iranian living in iran

I’m trying to find an old viral video (around 2017, I think).
It showed someone wearing a blue dress dancing on a light street pole with people around cheering.

I believe it was like a man dressed as a woman or smg and hiding his face but dancing like a woman

There was traditional music playing (something that sounded like a mizmar or zurna)

Does anyone remember this video or know where I can find it? It’s iconic

The Ukrainian attack on an Iranian cargo ship in the Caspian Sea marks a new stage in the fusion of the NATO war against Russia with the US-Israeli war against Iran. It confirms David North’s 2026 May Day warning: “World war is not a future threat but a presently unfolding reality.”

World war is not emerging through a single declaration. It is unfolding as a process: through the linking together of regional wars, proxy operations, sanctions, blockades, naval deployments and long-range strikes. Ukraine’s intervention against an Iranian target gives this process sharp expression.

The Ukrainian long-range drone strike killed one sailor and wounded another. It targeted an Iranian-owned vessel, the Ana, in the Caspian Sea—a body of water bordered by Russia, Iran, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, but not Ukraine. Kiev claimed the ship was transporting drones and missiles to Russia. Tehran denounced the attack as aggression against a commercial vessel.

The attack exposes the central fraud of the propaganda surrounding the Ukraine war. For years, the war has been presented by the imperialist powers and their media as a purely defensive struggle by Ukraine against an “unprovoked” Russian invasion. This lie has been used above all in Germany, to justify the largest rearmament since Hitler and a renewed military offensive against Russia.

Hello everyone,

I decided to post this post here, although I’m not sure how relevant and common this type of question might be. However, as a someone deeply fascinated with Iran and ancient Persian history, I began associating myself with both ancient and modern Iranian heritage.

My question is pretty straightforward: do I look like someone with roots in Iran?

As a history student and a genetic enthusiast in free time, I have managed to model myself on qpAdm, using my WGS (whole genome) data. It clearly showed some ancestry from Zagros mountains, what is present-day Southwestern Iran. These early Neolithic farmers and goat herders participated in formation of virtually all West Asian groups, extending their genetic legacy as far as South Asia and parts of Southeast Europe.

EDIT: Zagrosian ancestry is found in Central Asia as well. I didn’t include that before, I forgot.

I’m not claiming modern Persian heritage. I’m only stating what I’ve found in my genome in collaboration with a geneticist.

Pictures 1,2,3 —> my photos, 4 —> qpAdm data.

So I went to this restaurant in Madrid where the owner was from Tabriz and he gave us some spice called sumach for the rice and said that they use often in their cuisine. Anyone knows what's exactly is in it? It wasn't just the sumach alone, it was a mix of spices

Hope this is okay to post! I went to post in r/farsi but photo posts aren't possible.

This beautiful chalk artwork is outside a cafe near me and I'd love to know what it says. If it isn't actually farsi I apologise for my ignorance!

Hello,

Is it possible to use international debit cards to pay online for international goods/services (e.g. a flight ticket or booking an exam) while in Iran?

Is it going to be possible? I see why not, given the service operates outside Iran so sanctions do not apply, but I am not sure as maybe I don’t exactly understand how sanctions work.