🚨 Iranians are OUT IN THE STREETS CELEBRATING, cheering President Trump and the collapse of the brutal regime!
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) April 7, 2026
After decades of oppression, the people are dancing, waving flags, and thanking Trump for finally taking action.
Freedom is coming to Iran!pic.twitter.com/Cjn7GEwsr2
Abril 8, 2026
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Are these the same creeps who according to Bill Maher were dancing in the streets while their country was being bombed by Israel and the USA?
And what evidence is there of a new regime? I thought the new leaders were just like the old leaders.
If you can't celebrate what happened over the last 6 months you should move to Europe and go live with the other world losers.
You don't belong in a country as great as the United States.
We were always capable of this. We just had to stop electing Uniparty traitors.
RCOCEAN II said...
Are these the same creeps who according to Bill Maher were dancing in the streets while their country was being bombed by Israel and the USA?
And what evidence is there of a new regime? I thought the new leaders were just like the old leaders.
You belong in France.
I was reliably informed by the Althouse lefties and anti-semites that Iran has won and is declaring victory over the Great Satan.
Anyone who cheers their own country being bombed and their fellow countrymen, including women and kids, being massacrred (sic) isnt a good person. Even most White Russians, exiled by the Soviets, didn't cheer for Hitler invading the USSR.
But I can see why lots of 'muricans don't understand. They have no love of country and can't stand their fellow citizens. So...
There are lots of Iranian exiles in france. I dont see any footage of them celebrating. Maybe they don't want to go back.
Persian pride parade.
Isn't carrying pictures of the Shah and proclaiming freedom is coming to Iran contradictory?
Either the current regime follows through and completes the deal with Trump or the people rise up and kick them out. Either way, Trump wins.
My portfolio is up only 6% today. End of the year, it will be up 50%.
Freder Frederson said...
Isn't carrying pictures of the Shah and proclaiming freedom is coming to Iran contradictory?
I thought about the UK as an example of a free country with a hereditary head of state but unfortunately that doesn't work well any more...
RC you think we are "bombing women and children"? No wonder you don't understand why the Iranians are cheering, or why they blocked roads to keep IRGC from driving out to hunt for our downed WSO. The islamic fanatics were the small minority controlling a large diverse population. Like our marxist fanatic here want to do.
Freder Frederson said...
"Isn't carrying pictures of the Shah and proclaiming freedom is coming to Iran contradictory?"
They're not celebrating. It's a "No Shahs" protest.
American leftists rooting for Islamic Theocracy.
RC Cola buys all the lies. You really belong on the left.
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Freder said:
"Isn't carrying pictures of the Shah and proclaiming freedom is coming to Iran contradictory? "
Do explain - Freder. You tell us.
Here’s a thought. What if we handcuff Fredo Frederson to RCOCEAN, put placards around their necks saying in Fasi and English what is true — that they want the mullahs to defeat the US and retain control over the people of Iran — and just push them into this crowd?
Dang it… left out RCCollins II
American leftists support vote cheating in all its forms all over the globe.
The American left want installed regimes like Kim Jung Un - who won with 99% of the vote! That's how dems should win in the USA.
The democratic/dictatorial duality? Maybe, baby, a fetus... uh, feature of representative governance.
"Anyone who cheers their own country being bombed and their fellow countrymen, including women and kids, being massacrred (sic) isnt a good person."
I dispute that women and kids are being massacred, but if your country is being controlled by people who rape virgins before they execute them so that they cannot go to heaven, and execute 10,000 to 50,000 people for protesting the government then yeah, you might be able to cheer the destruction of the people oppressing you and not be a bad person. And in fact, during WWII many of the East European countries that were invaded by the Germans at first welcomed them as liberators. Yeah, I know that was a mistake, but life under the Soviets was that terrible. You might want to think about reading a book or two.
Farsi, not “Fasi.” I regret both my typo and weak proofreading skills
My portfolio is up only 6% today. End of the year, it will be up 50%.
How much is it up (or down) ytd?
Free the people.
Except the left are sad. The left love it when nations are under Islamic theocratic dictatorship &/or Communist thumbs.
7000+ Iranian killed by their own False god Theocratic bully bois.
Keep digging, fredo! You’ll either find a pony or emerge in China.
OMG. Just wait until RC hears about General Eisenhower and Admiral Nimitz.
Anyone who supports Islamic theocracy - and all of the horrible things they do to women and children - is a bad person.
Thanking Trump? OH NO! - the left demand they be rounded up and placed in solitary confinement - or worse.
Something sick about people who cheer the deaths of schoolgirls and cheer their stocks being up...
Peachy said...
American leftists rooting for Islamic Theocracy.
4/8/26, 8:48 AM
Not the first time. It’s shameful how far the Democrats have fallen. As Sen Fetterman said. The true leader of the Democrats is TDS.
No matter what you think of the Islamic Republic, it doesn't change the fact that the Shah was a brutal dictator and a bastard (but our bastard). The Cold War is rife with the U.S. and Britain installing dictators that turned out to be really bad (e.g., Pinochet and Idi Amin).
See, my first thought is this is AI because it kind of sort of looks like the salutes given at the Nuremberg rallies with the smartphone serving as the flat palm of the hand of the N_zi greeting.
The Iranian theocracy can survive as long as it can pay the irgc thugs to hang and shoot people who rebel. When the standard of living of the thugs is reduced to that of ordinary people the theocrats will lose.
Dave Begley said...
"My portfolio is up only 6% today. End of the year, it will be up 50%."
Same, same. YTD . Well, since Trump took office it's something like 37% I made a killing in Trumps first term. I don't expect the same this time around,but I'm not complaining.
Naw they were too soft, thats why the shah ended up in mexico
"Shah was a brutal dictator and a bastard "
Give us some examples - facts - Freder.
"No matter what you think of the Islamic Republic, it doesn't change the fact that the Shah was a brutal dictator and a bastard (but our bastard)."
And?
This video is a little dated, but gives a pretty balanced presentation regarding Iran and its recent history.
Oops. Here is the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIBrZL8t8n0
Book Review: The Fall of Heaven: The Pahlavi’s and the Final Days of Imperial Iran — Loki's Librarian https://share.google/qbYglXUZD6tGeczhZ
Freder is a historically ignorant boob.
Having a portfolio go up 6% today likely means heavy in (1) tech/Mag 7, (2) developed international, or (3) emerging markets. Emerging markets valuations (i.e., China, India) had been crushed by the Iran conflict and their need for Persian Gulf oil.
For the year, tech (NASDAQ) is not doing well while international is still crushing US stocks. The US dollar is falling and many are rotating away from US tech and growth.
Freder Frederson said...
No matter what you think of the Islamic Republic, it doesn't change the fact that the Shah was a brutal dictator and a bastard …
Stipulated. If (big IF) you were intelligent, you might wonder what life is like under the mad mullah’s theocracy to make the people of Iran nostalgic for the reign of a brutal dictator.
One of the big themes of "History of Western Civilization" classes was the big struggle between Greece and Persia and the eternal conflict between freedom and despotism. Are we naive in thinking that after 2500 years, democracy is finally coming to Persia -- even as its been crumbling in the West? Kandovan and Palangan are a long way from cosmopolitan Toronto.
Wow. A Idi Amin sighting. Been spending too much time on Bluesky again lately, Freder?
Enigma said...
For the year, tech (NASDAQ) is not doing well while international is still crushing US stocks. The US dollar is falling and many are rotating away from US tech and growth.
4/8/26, 9:53 AM
Google is your friend.
The USD is at about its 10 year average vs the euro.
QQQ is down about 1.5% for the year. In the past calendar year the Qs are up about 45%.
Ex-US is up about 45% for the past calendar year (after underperforming US stocks for more than a decade).
Turn off MSNBC.
You sure it wasnt forest whitaker
Ike and Nimitz were both several generations removed from Germany, and IIRC Nimitz was of Russian-German stock--the Germans who were planted in Russia under Catherine the Great in the 18th C. Not necessarily fans of the old and older country.
And Ike was known to detest Germany.
A better analogy would be those refugees from the Nazis, both Jewish and Gentile, who supported or aided the Allied war efforts.
The evidence is murky, but by the spring of 1945 there may have been as many as a dozen Soviet divisions made up of German defectors and used in the final Red offensives.
you might wonder what life is like under the mad mullah’s theocracy to make the people of Iran nostalgic for the reign of a brutal dictator.
When have I ever said anything positive about the current government of Iran? I haven't. You are just making shit up and imputing opinions to me without anything to back up your insults.
Bill, Republic of Yesteryear --
QQQ is down about 1.5% for the year. In the past calendar year the Qs are up about 45%.
Ex-US is up about 45% for the past calendar year (after underperforming US stocks for more than a decade).
Yes we all know that. It's called history. I am looking toward the FUTURE, not performance over the last 10 years. Investing today does have follow from rear-view mirror performance. Chart readers look to the past to divine the future, and they hope that their trees to grow to the moon. They also fall for the Gambler's Fallacy.
How is your GM, GE, and Enron stock doing? Peloton?
Put down your crystal ball. It will often fail. Diversify.
I don't think they get how Trump operates. He kills the chicken and lets the monkey watch. He arrested Maduro, but now we're in bed with Delcey Rodrigues, his old partner in crime. But now we control the oil. The Ayatollah is dead. But now we're in bed with the IRGC. But the oil is flowing again.
Trump didn't build all those buildings without learning how to get along with crooks.
"... I thought...". This is the point you went astray. But at least you can claim to have tried.
When have I ever said anything positive about the current government of Iran?
You are a tiresome clod, Fredo. You try to denigrate the justified euphoria of the Iranian people by dumping on the late Shah (ignoring that the people in the demonstration are waving pictures of his son, not of him). Ignoring the clear fact that the mad mullahs’ theocracy is hated by the ordinary people of Iran even more than the Shah ever was is not saying something positive about the theocrats. It merely means that you lack judgement and perspective, as you demonstrate every time you comment here.
Freder - Say something - anything- about the Islamic Theocratic thugs - who have slaughtered protestors by the thousands.
Go on.
we wait.
We also wait for the Pope.
"@grok Has Pope Leo spoken out about the tens of thousands of protestors recently murdered by the regime in Iran and specifically condemned the regime for those murders?"
Trashing the late Shah without noting (perhaps without noticing) that the Mullahs who followed were at least 1,000 times worse is stupid. It's like people who go on about the horrors of the last Tsar of Russia: the number of murders and tortures and the amount of oppression is impressive, until you remember that the Bolsheviks who overthrew him (and massacred his whole family) killed and tortured at least 1,000 times more people, maybe closer to 10,000. The late Shah and the last Tsar were indubitably the lesser of two evils. Only Bolshies, tankies, Islamists, and morons deny it.
I think so too
Big Mike said...
"I regret both my typo and weak proofreading skills"
Thaks OK. No prolblem.
Narr said...
"Ike and Nimitz were both several generations removed from Germany, and IIRC Nimitz was of Russian-German stock--the Germans who were planted in Russia under Catherine the Great in the 18th C. Not necessarily fans of the old and older country.
And Ike was known to detest Germany."
My grandfather served in the AEF in World War I, and he was the son of a German immigrant and spoke German in the home.
On the other side, my great-great-grandfather signed a Declaration of Intent where he foreswore any loyalty to the Duke of Nassau; he did this within a year of hopping off the boat.
For the vast majority of German-Americans, disagreement with the government of the places they came from was a significant factor - not the only one, but a significant one - in why they came her in the first place.
Narr said...
"Ike and Nimitz were both several generations removed from Germany, and IIRC Nimitz was of Russian-German stock--the Germans who were planted in Russia under Catherine the Great in the 18th C. Not necessarily fans of the old and older country.
And Ike was known to detest Germany."
I think Stephen Amberose once claimed that something like 1/3 of the US military forces who served in Europe were of at least partial German descent.
Apropos of the comments about the body counts of left-wing governments versus the right-wing dictatorships that preceded them: I wish I could remember where I heard or read it, but I believe it was a historian pointing out that oppressive right-wing governments tend to have much shorter lives than oppressive left-wing governments. The person didn't speculate as to why, and I haven't thought hard about examples and counterexamples, but certainly we can point to the big oppressors of the 20th century, anyway.
The mullahs - I suppose they now constitute a "right-wing" or at any rate socially conservative, government, as did the Shah before them. But they started as a student revolution and - if my middle-school memory serves - had lots of lefty support.
Germany is the country of origin of more Americans' ancestors than any other place by a good margin, according to some demographers, so of course they'll be prominent in great national crises.
My father was the son of two German immigrants, and spent the period from late 1944 to May 1945 dropping bombs on Germans--some of whom might have been his cousins. (But my father knew only a few words of German.)
William S. Triplet's memoir "A Youth in the Argonne" recounts
an incident where a squad of German-speaking Yanks from St. Louis encounter a force of the kaiser's guys, with both sides cursing a blue streak auf Deutsch.
Israel ended the Trump cease fire by bombing Hezballah in Lebonan. The strait was then shut and a Saudi pipeline was hit and a Kuwaiti oil facility was struck by drones.
The truce never included Lebanon or Hamas. After the truce supposedly started, Iran continued hitting Kuwait, UAE, and one more (Qatar? Bahrain? Saudi Arabia? I forget), and the UAE then hit Iran back. gadfly is, as usual, repeating lies.
Google SAVAK if you want to see the kind of "freedom" that the Shah generously bestowed on his people, or you could just save time and think of the Gestapo.
"The truce never included Lebanon or Hamas."
Trump tweeted that it did, he included the ten points with his announcement by retweeting the Iranian statement of what they were. I can't believe how you guys can just be lied to and accept new and contradictory realities on the fly.
Fearless prediction - sometime around Memorial Day, I expect Freder to issue a full-throated denunciation of Fulgencio Batista.
Ike and Nimitz weren't Germans. They were Americans born in America. Neither spoke German. Ike's father didn't either. Judas Priest. Nimitz's Grandfather came to the USA at the age of 14 in 1840 and served with the Confederate army. His father was born in Texas.
And Germany wasn't a country till 1870.
One more time: If you "Google SAVAK" you will find they did a lot of very nasty things. No one denies that. It is still true that the Mullahs and their agents have done 1,000 times nastier things. And the same is true if you compare the last Tsar to the Bolsheviks. The Shah was in fact the lesser, by far, of two evils, compared to the Mullahs who replaced him.
As for the truce, have the Iranians in fact stopped firing at the Gulf states? Yes or no. And the twelve points have not been accepted, as in agreed upon: that's what two weeks of negotiations are for. Trump only said they would be a useful basis for negotiations. All a truce means is that the US and Israel stop bombing Iran, Iran stops bombing Israel and the Gulf states, and both sides allow ships to go in and out of the Gulf unmolested. (As for Lebanon, if Hezbollah does not stop firing at Israel, Israel has no obligation to stop firing at them. Also, whether ships loaded with Chinese or Russian weapons headed for Iran should be allowed in is an interesting question.)
I misunderstood something I saw about Trump "re-truthing" a document, but it is interesting that he says now that they are going to discuss the ten points "behind closed doors."
I know that one guy has been reliably a liar in this, and his word means less than nothing. Everybody else involved says that the Lebanon conflict absolutely was included.
Israel is once again dragging us back into this war that only they want.
I also think it's interesting that Trump now says that the nuclear material was buried from the earlier airstrike, which means, of course, that Iran was not working on a weapon. Or at least that is what Trump claims to believe.
The supposedly-moderate President of Iran was insisting in December that they were already in fact "at war" with the US. The only country dragging the US into war with Iran is Iran, and only Jew-hating bigots and morons claim that it's Israel. The fact that Iran has hit three different Gulf countries during the supposed truce would also provide a clue to anyone not totally immune to clues.
Isn't carrying pictures of the Shah and proclaiming freedom is coming to Iran contradictory?
Maybe you should just shut the fuck up for a change.
Spot on
"World In Shock As Trump Takes Seemingly Extreme Position To Negotiate Best Possible Deal"
That was fordow dutch boy
As pointed out in my earlier link, savak was probably within their limits
Wikipedia's SAVAK article gives the total number of prisoners killed by SAVAK in the '70s as under 500, and indicates that most of them were actual terrorists who were trying to overthrow the regime. The current regime slaughtered ~35,000 unarmed civilians begging for freedom in two days, and has publicly hanged hundreds more, while thousands more haven't been heard from since they were arrested. As I said, bad as the late Shah was, the Mullahs are in fact 1,000 times worse.
Surprise, surprise! The number of missiles and bombs Iran fired at 5 different Gulf states today (159) is a large increase from previous days (link). Apparently, like their Hamas, Hezbollah, and Houthi puppets, the Mullahs think cease-fires are only binding on the other side. They're also letting fewer ships through the Strait: only 4 today.
When have I ever said anything positive about the current government of Iran? I haven't.
Your silence speaks volumes.
Here's the ACLU report on the mass atrocities in Iran, pre-war. And yet your sympathies remain with the Iranian government and you mock the protestors.
The Shah brutally murdered 3,000 Iranian protesters, which ultimately led to a revolution.
The current government is 10 times worse. And here you are, mocking Iranians for being opposed to an evil military dictatorship?
As for cheering the bombing of one's own country, it's not always wrong. Hans Jonas, later an eminent scholar of Gnosticism and History of Science, left Germany as a teenager in the late '30s, swearing that he would never return except as part of a conquering army. He did just that a few years later as a soldier in the US Army, and was happy to be able to use his native-speaker German to interrogate high-ranking Nazis. Yes, he was Jewish, but so what? He was a German citizen, and many of the Iranians cheering on the bombing of the fanatical Muslim thugs ruling their nation are Zoroastrians or non-religious. They're still patriotic Iranians.
Aktually the loki link clarifies that precursor event and 500 -3]00 is a pretty big range no?
My progressive democrat friends insist human rights are absolute, unless it conflicts with absolute TDS.
RCOCEAN II said...
Ike and Nimitz weren't Germans. They were Americans born in America. Neither spoke German.
Nimitz was American, not German, as you say. But his first language as a boy was German. He learned English in the 4th grade or so. From a biography I read years ago, I seem to recall that he went to a German language elementary school where English was taught as a second language.
In late 19th century Fredricksburg when Nimitz was a tad, you were more likely to hear German than English.
Nimitz remained fluent in German all his life.
John Henry
Hooray!!! Now they can go HOME!!!
OK, but the whole point is that Nimitz wasn't German. His Grandfather left Germany before "Germany" even existed. His father was born in the USA, and the fact that his father and Grandfather were bi-lingual doesnt make him a German. When Pearl Harbor happened the Nimitz family had been in the USA for almost 100 years.
That reminds me of that fake Bernie Sanders claiming to be "The son of immigrants" in 2020, when his mother was born in NYC and his father had come to the USA almost 100 years ago.
Progressive liberal Democratics believe that human rites are indeed absolute. It was a neat trick to draft women in selective-child, her child. A novel, green handmade tale to delegate one-child under her conscience.
Narr: "incident where a squad of German-speaking Yanks from St. Louis encounter a force of the kaiser's guys, with both sides cursing a blue streak auf Deutsch"
Nothing is more German than different German tribes fighting each other. It's the historical norm. That's why the dream of uniting all Germans in one polity has so much emotional pull - and why so many bad things happen when that unity is attempted or (briefly) attained. CC, JSM
The oh-so-precious Westphalian Order that Trump (half German!) keeps being accused of upsetting was established to keep German-v-German wars down to a dull roar, for example.
And oh by the way, a cease-fire with the mullahs/IRGC is a pretty Westphalian thing to do....a case can be made that he and all the other no-nation-builders are the ones who really defend that norm....CC, JSM
Some data points:
Iran launched no missiles at Israel today as of 8:30pm EST. And none at the Gulf States. It closed the Strait of Hormuz but opened it again after distributing maps of the mine fields.
This according to the Times of Israel which has been posting daily accounts of missile attacks.
It is not a friend of Trump. It's made up of leftys presently pretzeling in an effort to be on the left as understood by Rashida Tlaib without betraying their sons who are fighting vigorously for Israel. (So very strange; so now) Anyhow, you could look at the Times' accounts of the present situation without changing whatever in you has made you vulnerable to TDS.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
It is hard to see the Iran--Israel component of the ceasefire holding. Whether that would break the broader U.S.--Iran agreement remains an open question.
I doubt this war will end, as long as Netanyahu remains in power, because a continuation of war has been his "get out of jail" card for several years. The fact that Trump kept hounding Israeli politicians on the "pardon Netanyahu" issue even at the start of this war -- speaks to the degree to which one man's personal legal troubles are driving the world towards an even greater catastrophe.
If you want to solve the problem, you have to fix it at its source. Iran did not start this war and has worked in good faith over two years of negotiations to prevent one from occurring. The same is not true of Israel under Netanyahu.
Yes the times of israel seems rather quixotic about the way forward
“If you want to solve the problem, you have to fix it at its source. Iran did not start this war and has worked in good faith over two years of negotiations to prevent one from occurring. The same is not true of Israel under Netanyahu.”
Total BS. The Iranians haven’t been dealing in good faith for nearing 50 years now. Up until we dropped some very big bombs on them, they were working very hard to enrich enough uranium for several nuclear weapons. We had a deal with them - we gave them $billions$ in trade for not doing just that - developing nuclear weapons.
And where were all of the missiles coming from, that were killing people across the Middle East? Iran, of course. And now drones too. And, the numbers and frequencies of attacks have been increasing. The attacks by the Houthis? Iran again, including all of the missiles that they have been using.
Hopefully the next two weeks will pass quickly and we can go back to bombing the crap out of them. Then send the the 101st Airborne and maybe 100 Marines; that should be enough boots on the ground to finish of the irgc
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