The Observer
The result was not independence but deeper isolation for Iran—an isolation that served both the domestic oligarchy and Iran’s external adversaries.
Without an active, transparent, and balanced foreign policy, Iran has neither truly aligned with the East nor reached sustainable understanding with the West. Instead, it remains stuck in a costly, exhausting middle ground—exactly what internal compromise-seeking currents, including a significant part of the reformist camp, aim for, ultimately pushing the country toward a negotiation table that leads to complete surrender.
Protests: Society’s Response to the Alliance of Corruption and Political Paralysis
The recent protests in Iran are society’s direct response to this undeclared alliance between internal corruption, political deadlock, and external pressure. A people growing poorer by the day rightly ask:
Who is responsible? Who benefits from this situation? Why is no one held accountable?
These protests—though exploited by Iran’s enemies abroad and steered by their paid media—are not a foreign project nor an internal conspiracy. They are the natural result of decades of destructive domestic policies that sacrificed the people, weakened the country, and made it more fragile.
What brought Iran to this point is the coexistence of sanctions and a corrupt oligarchy, combined with the absence of political will for change.
If this path continues, there will be no independence, no security, and not even a reformable system.
We have reached the end of the road.
Iran stands before a historic choice:
Either break the power of the corrupt oligarchy and return politics to serving society,
Or slide gradually into a collapse planned by others.
There is no third way.
Reza Fani Yazdi
January 16, 2026
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Without an active, transparent, and balanced foreign policy, Iran has neither truly aligned with the East nor reached sustainable understanding with the West. Instead, it remains stuck in a costly, exhausting middle ground—exactly what internal compromise-seeking currents, including a significant part of the reformist camp, aim for, ultimately pushing the country toward a negotiation table that leads to complete surrender.
Protests: Society’s Response to the Alliance of Corruption and Political Paralysis
The recent protests in Iran are society’s direct response to this undeclared alliance between internal corruption, political deadlock, and external pressure. A people growing poorer by the day rightly ask:
Who is responsible? Who benefits from this situation? Why is no one held accountable?
These protests—though exploited by Iran’s enemies abroad and steered by their paid media—are not a foreign project nor an internal conspiracy. They are the natural result of decades of destructive domestic policies that sacrificed the people, weakened the country, and made it more fragile.
What brought Iran to this point is the coexistence of sanctions and a corrupt oligarchy, combined with the absence of political will for change.
If this path continues, there will be no independence, no security, and not even a reformable system.
We have reached the end of the road.
Iran stands before a historic choice:
Either break the power of the corrupt oligarchy and return politics to serving society,
Or slide gradually into a collapse planned by others.
There is no third way.
Reza Fani Yazdi
January 16, 2026
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We are witnessing the death of liberal universalism. As Gramsci warned, "The old world is dying, and the new one is being born." Davos is the funeral parlor of the old world, where elites mourn the loss of a time when their word was law.
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Coralling the population into a monitored, desolate kill-box in the south, effectively emptying the north for annexation.
#Gaza #Palestine #Geopolitics #Imperialism
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toppling the ruling system would make the United States safer.
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At the NSIF Forum, Palantir co-founder Alex Karp stripped away the liberal veneer of "democracy" and "human rights" to reveal the raw, ugly engine of the American Empire.
Asked how the US can "stay in history" for another thousand years—a phrasing that echoes the darkest totalitarian ambitions of the 20th century—Karp didn’t speak of innovation, peace, or culture.
💬 “To dominate on the battlefield today,” Karp declared. “The way you dominate the future is you dominate the present.”
Let this be clear: The Silicon Valley elite are not building a global village. They are digitizing the Roman legion.
Western "civilization" has not evolved beyond the barbarian logic of conquest and plunder.
They have simply traded their clubs for AI-driven targeting systems and their war paint for PR campaigns. They do not want a better world; they want a subjugated one.
This is why the Resistance exists. Not just to fight an occupation, but to dismantle a hegemony that views eternal war as a strategy for survival.
#Imperialism #Palantir #NSIF #TheObserver
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Charles Ayoub — Ad-Diyar
With every political speech—whether from the opposition or supporters—speakers inevitably claim that the war in Lebanon is caused by Hezbollah’s weapons.
The reality, however, is that for over a year, Hezbollah has not fired a single bullet at the Israeli enemy. It remains committed to self-restraint and non-engagement.
This comes despite daily aggression against Hezbollah members. The Israeli army assassinates civilians in their cars or on motorcycles, simply announcing they are "Hezbollah elements."
These individuals are unarmed. They are not in a combat posture. They are not escorting or approaching Israeli occupation points in Southern Lebanon or elsewhere—whether in the northeast of Baalbek-Hermel, the Jezzine area, Zahrani, or the Sidon district.
Hezbollah’s members are, of course, brave. They are strugglers, fighters, and defenders of Lebanese soil.
Their history is a history of liberation and defense; the border strip is the greatest example of fighting against and liberating land from occupation.
The 2006 war was another major example of the resilience of Hezbollah’s forces against an Israeli army that mobilized its full strength to attack Lebanese territory, yet failed.
Today, Hezbollah adheres to "strategic patience." It remains on high alert to defend occupied Lebanese lands on the ground should Israel attempt a land invasion.
Israel, however, limits itself to air attacks and occasional naval shelling—though the latter is rare.
Then we come to the "Mechanism" (the monitoring body). It is headed by an American general, assisted by a French general, and includes a Lebanese civilian figure, Ambassador Simon Karam, and an Israeli civilian figure.
This Mechanism neither helps nor harms; it is simply a false witness to one Israeli aggression after another.
The international forces (UNIFIL) are more than just witnesses—they are targets, coming under Israeli fire during their movements in southern Lebanon.
Consequently, the Mechanism is useless. By its mandate, it is obliged to inform the concerned states and the UN Security Council about the clashes in southern Lebanon and identify the aggressor. Yet, so far, it has yielded zero results.
Even the United States, which heads this Mechanism, turns a blind eye to all acts of the Israeli enemy on Lebanese soil and in the areas occupied by the Israeli army.
Every day, we hear an American statement claiming the problem is Hezbollah and that Hezbollah’s weapons are responsible for the war in the South.
The US refuses to state the truth as it is:
That the Israeli enemy is the one conducting the aggressions.
That the war being managed in southern Lebanon is being waged by the officers and soldiers of the Israeli enemy army.
But the United States and Israel are committed to a unified stance and aggression. They agree on striking the Resistance and Hezbollah in Lebanon, aiming to completely annul the weapon of the Resistance.
The proof is that Lebanon and its army, in coordination with the Resistance, implemented the "exclusivity of weapons" south of the Litani River.
It was expected that the United States, and even the Israeli enemy, would withdraw from certain points as a temporary, small step toward peace.
Instead, Tom Barrack, the envoy of US President Donald Trump, visited the South and Lebanon several times...
Only to conclude by saying that the entire problem lies in the "reputation of war" that Hezbollah violates in southern Lebanon.
This is despite Hezbollah responding positively to the Lebanese Army and international forces, and implementing weapons exclusivity in the south.
When the US Presidential envoy Tom Barrack returned from Tel Aviv and met with Speaker Nabih Berri—who was waiting for a positive answer based on a "step-for-step" approach—President Berri became angry and uttered his famous phrase:
“We were waiting for a positive answer, but they brought us the opposite.”
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The Observer
Since then, the assassination of the people of the South, the Bekaa, Sidon, Zahrani, and others continues. The Israeli army does not retreat from occupying the "Five Hills." It does not stop assassinating villagers in the South, nor does it stop sending its warplanes to bomb the northern and eastern barrens of Hermel and Baalbek.
In the face of all this, we hear only that Hezbollah is responsible for the "reputation of war" in the South.
Hezbollah does not fire a shot. It is committed to strategic patience, waiting to see what the government will do with the world and the nations responsible for the Mechanism.
Meanwhile, many parties place the "reputation of war" on Hezbollah, claiming it is responsible for the war in the South.
This is contrary to the truth and contrary to the facts.
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In the face of all this, we hear only that Hezbollah is responsible for the "reputation of war" in the South.
Hezbollah does not fire a shot. It is committed to strategic patience, waiting to see what the government will do with the world and the nations responsible for the Mechanism.
Meanwhile, many parties place the "reputation of war" on Hezbollah, claiming it is responsible for the war in the South.
This is contrary to the truth and contrary to the facts.
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The News:
Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed (MBZ) in Moscow today. The priority agenda? "Tensions regarding Iran." This comes as the Kremlin explicitly warned that any US military action against Tehran would unleash "chaos" with dangerous, irreversible consequences.
The Commentary:
Notice the direction of travel. When the region heats up, Gulf leaders are no longer just waiting by the phone for orders from Washington; they are flying to Moscow.
Why? Because the UAE understands what the Americans refuse to admit: Iran is the pivot.
The Kremlin’s warning of "chaos" is not a plea for peace—it is a strategic reality check. A war on Iran is not a "surgical strike"; it is the detonation of the global energy market and the collapse of the security architecture the Gulf monarchies rely on for survival.
The Axis of Resistance has successfully created a balance of terror. The cost of war has become so high that even US allies are scrambling to mediate, knowing that if the American Empire decides to burn down the house, they are the ones living in it.
Washington offers escalation. The rest of the world is looking for an exit strategy.
#Geopolitics #Russia #Iran #UAE #TheObserver
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The News:
Axios reports that senior defense and intelligence officials from both Israel and Saudi Arabia are currently in Washington. They are huddled in meetings with the Trump administration to discuss potential military strikes on Iran.
This comes as Trump waves the threat of an "armada" moving toward the region.
The Commentary:
The masks are not just slipping; they are being trampled on the floor of the Oval Office.
For decades, we were told that "normalization" was about peace. Today, we see the truth: normalization is a military pact for war. The "Custodians" of the Holy Mosques are sitting at the same table as the occupiers of Jerusalem, planning an assault on a Muslim neighbor.
But look closer at this picture. Why are they in Washington?
Because neither Tel Aviv nor Riyadh has the courage or the capacity to face the Axis of Resistance alone. They are begging the American Emperor to fight a war they know they cannot survive.
They believe an American "armada" is a shield. They are mistaken. If the skies over Tehran light up, the glass towers of the Gulf and the military bases of the occupation will be the first collateral damage.
They are plotting fire, forgetting that the Resistance holds the matches to the world's energy supply.
#Geopolitics #SaudiArabia #Israel #Iran #TheObserver
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The foreign ministers of the European Union, during their meeting in Brussels, approved the inclusion of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on the list of terrorist organizations. The decision is considered an initial political step, to be followed by formal procedures for its adoption and for placing the IRGC on the blacklist in the coming days.
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The Fed, The Files, and The "Swamp" That Never Drains
Donald Trump campaigned on "America First," but his latest move for the Federal Reserve screams a different allegiance entirely.
Trump is preparing to nominate Kevin Warsh as the next Federal Reserve Chairman. The mainstream media will call him a "financial expert." We call him what he is: a direct conduit to the heart of the Zionist oligarchy.
Connect the dots:
1. The Bloodline: Warsh is the son-in-law of Ronald Lauder, the billionaire heir to Estée Lauder and, more importantly, the President of the World Jewish Congress.
2. The Deep State: Warsh isn't just a banker; he is a former steering committee member of the Bilderberg Group—the very engine of Western liberal hegemony.
The Question No One in Washington Will Ask:
Why hand the most sensitive economic position in the world—control over the dollar and global interest rates—to a man embedded in the deepest circles of Zionist influence?
Is this a free choice, or is it a forced move?
We must look at the leverage.
What does the lobby hold over Trump to ensure this level of capitulation?
The shadow of the Epstein Files looms larger than ever. When the archives are sealed, and the "lists" remain hidden, political appointments stop looking like governance and start looking like blackmail payments.
The swamp isn’t being drained. It’s being restocked by the same people who own the debt.
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If you want to understand the hollowness of Western diplomacy, look no further than today’s theatrics in Ankara.
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan stood alongside his Iranian counterpart, Abbas Araghchi, calling for a "resumption of nuclear negotiations" to avert regional war. It was a performance of "responsible statecraft" perfectly timed for the cameras.
But diplomacy without leverage is just begging. And diplomacy conducted while the enemy loads his weapon is not a negotiation—it is a surrender ceremony.
The Islamic Republic, speaking for the Axis of Resistance today, refused to attend it.
The Geography of Coercion
While Fidan spoke of "stability" and "dialogue," the United States Navy was busy rewriting the security architecture of the Red Sea. The arrival of the guided-missile destroyer USS Delbert D. Black in the occupied port of Eilat today is the only diplomatic cable that matters.
Washington’s strategy is transparent. They are using the "Good Cop" (Ankara) to offer a path of de-escalation, while the "Bad Cop" (the US-Israeli military combine) tightens the siege. They believe that the mere sight of American steel in Eilat will terrify Tehran into conceding what it refused to give up on the battlefield.
They are wrong.
The docking of the destroyer does not signal US strength; it signals the fragility of the Zionist entity it has come to protect. An empire that must park its destroyers directly in the ports of its proxy to ensure their survival is an empire on the defensive.
The Turkish Dilemma
We must be clear about Türkiye’s role. Ankara is not a neutral arbiter. It is a NATO member state terrified of the fire spreading to its borders. Fidan’s opposition to "foreign intervention" is genuine only insofar as he fears the economic and refugee fallout of a war on Iran.
By pushing for "nuclear talks" now, Ankara is inadvertently doing Washington’s bidding—framing the crisis as one of Iranian compliance rather than American aggression.
Fidan asks us to look at the nuclear file; we look at the genocide in Gaza, the strikes on Lebanon, and the armada in the Red Sea.
The files are not separate.
Resistance as a Negotiating Posture
Foreign Minister Araghchi’s statement today—that Iran is open to talks in principle but will not negotiate with Washington now ´under threat ‘ —is the only rational stance. To negotiate today would be to validate the coercion.
The liberal delusion is that peace comes from "talking." The historical reality is that peace comes from deterrence.
The Axis of Resistance has spent the last two decades building an asymmetric capability—from the tunnels of Gaza to the missile silos of the Zagros—precisely for this moment.
President Pezeshkian’s warning today was not rhetorical bluster. It was a statement of doctrine. The West assumes Iran’s restraint is weakness. They fail to understand that in the calculus of the Resistance, survival is not about avoiding war at all costs; it is about refusing to live on our knees.
The Verdict
The "nuclear talks" are a phantom. The US does not want a deal; it wants to strip the Axis of its deterrent capabilities before it launches its next phase of aggression.
Tehran’s rejection of this coercive diplomacy is not a rejection of peace. It is the delayed assertion of a new regional order—one where the West can no longer dictate the terms of our existence from the deck of a destroyer.
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