To illustrate the failure of the US-Israel war in Iran, it is not necessary to talk about the lifting of oil sanctions, which will allow Iran to sell oil more expensively and to more countries than before the war, nor the enriched uranium that it will keep. Another of those Trump red lines that have come to nothing.
We do not need to measure Trump’s failure that Iran will charge a toll in the Strait of Hormuz that did not exist before the war or that the memorandum commits the United States to support a $300 billion reconstruction fund for Iran, and opens the door to the unfreezing of billions of dollars in Iranian assets and the lifting of banking sanctions.
Not in number of ballistic missiles. In March, Trump said, also echoed by all his fans, that destroying Iran’s ballistic missiles was one of the main objectives of the war. Iran retains 70% of those missiles with which it has been bombarding its neighbors.
Because instead of counting the number of ballistic missiles, we can verify the failure of this war in the number of lashes. It will be better understood this way. Iran has sentenced Iranian artist Parastoo Ahmadi to 74 lashes for singing Persian poems on YouTube without a veil.
Parastoo’s concert was in the city of Qom, in December 2024, but the Iranian regime has chosen this week to make the sentence public. To make it clear to us that the Iran of the ayatollahs is still the Iran of the ayatollahs. The BBC told it yesterday, the day Trump signed his memorandum with the regime in Versailles.
In March, Trump’s defenders accused feminists of failing to understand that his bombs would free Iranian women from oppression. Today you can confirm your failure by counting the number of lashes that Parastoo Ahmadi will receive for her bravery, yes, against the Iranian regime.
Moral?
Trump crosses his arms
before the 74 lashes
