“I Really Don’t Care, Do you?”

Posted on March 6, 2026 by Muller

On Monday, 2 March 2026, First Lady of the United States, presided over a session of the United Nations Security Council meeting about Maintenance of International Peace and Security, Children Technology and Education in Conflict. The transcript of the meeting can be seen here. Trump’s opening remarks read,

“Good afternoon. The 10113th meeting of the Security Council is called to order. I would like to take this opportunity to pay tribute on behalf of the council to the delegation of the United Kingdom for its service as president of the council for the month of February. I’m sure I speak for all members of the council in expressing deep appreciation to the entire United Kingdom team for the great diplomatic skill with which they conducted the council’s business last month. The provisional agenda for this meeting is maintenance of international peace and security, children, technology, and education in conflict. The agenda is adopted. In accordance with the Rule 39 of the council’s Provisional Rules of Procedure, I invite Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, to participate in this meeting. It is so decided. The Security Council will now begin its consideration of item two of the agenda. I now give the floor to Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo.”

It is Day 3 of the joint attacks of her husband Donald Trump’s U.S. and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s war on Iran (either called Operation Epic Fury or Roaring Lion) after negotiations about its nuclear program and ballistic missiles got not the desired results.

Many were confused about the aims of the war. According to Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, it was a pre-emptive strike influenced by Israeli plans. So Israel were steadfast of a decapitation strike and the United States feared Iran’s retaliation maybe even on mainland USA. So, they had to join the attacks. In fact, Ayatollah Khamenei and at least twelve senior officials were killed in an Israeli strike on the compound harbouring his residence and office.

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No Rhyme Or Reason?

Posted on March 3, 2026 by Muller

UPDATE BELOW

Many doubt about Donald Trump’s aims in the present war of Israel and the United States of America on Iran. It’s not only the end of Iran’s nuclear program and its ballistic missiles.

But maybe it’s rather regime change?

Is Trump aware of Iran’s complicated constitution? It’s unusual checks and balances? Did they tell him that there are the Iranian Revolutionary Guards who may now be in charge? After the Ayatollah had been eliminated, did Trump notice that the regime is still painfully (for neighbouring countries) functioning?

Does he know about the Iranian soul? Haqq, taqiyyah, ta’arouf?

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Will Imam Husayn Embrace Ayatollah Khamenei?

Posted on March 2, 2026 by Muller
The above is a picture of Imam Husayn embracing Qasem Soleimani which had been distributed by Iran's late Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, after the assassination of the top IRGC general by an US air strike in Baghdad, January 3, 2020. The Imam is almost depicted as a supernatural being.
A picture of Imam Husayn embracing Qasem Soleimani which had been distributed by Iran’s late Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, after the assassination of the top IRGC general by an US air strike in Baghdad, January 3, 2020. The Imam is almost depicted as a supernatural being.

In 2010, I wrote a critical blogpost about political assassinations which might be solved, in particular, when asking who benefits. It was one year after the killing of a young woman, Neda Agha Soltan, during the bloody protests after the rigged Iranian election in 2009 which secured President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s second term. I compared two incidents.

“On 2 June 1967, the Iranian Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi visits, together with his wife Farah, West-Berlin. They wanted to attend a performance of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” at the Deutsche Oper. There were hundreds of demonstrators, both German students and Iranians protesting against the Shah, an oriental puppet of the western powers, in particular the U.S., usually wearing ludicrous fantasy uniforms. So-called Jubelperser represented the Iranian establishment, members of the Shah’s secret police and terror organization SAVAK. German and Iranian protestors were brutally beaten by these Jubelperser, unhindered by German policemen who only watched them but did not interfere.

Then a shot was fired. A German student, 26-year old Benno Ohnesorg, had been shot in his head from a distance of one or two meters by a German plain-clothes police officer, Karl-Heinz Kurras. Ohnesorg died on the spot. In two separate trials, Kurras was cleared of all charges. It was a huge scandal in the still young Federal Republic of Germany.

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Greenland Again

Posted on February 22, 2026 by Muller

Trump’s defeated by SCOTUS. Trump turns to Greenland again. Tweets, Tweets, Tweets, every night the same. At 1 AM this morning, he tweets (on his notorious TruthSocial platform),

“Working with the fantastic Governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry, we are going to send a great hospital boat to Greenland to take care of the many people who are sick, and not being taken care of there. It’s on the way!!! President DJT”

Haven’t Greenlanders told him, get out? (Too polite to shout, Go Fuck Yourself!)

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BTW, I asked AI Gemini a certain question about TruthSocial. Here is the answer I got.

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Homecoming – Exiled Again

Posted on February 19, 2026 by Muller

Hooman Majd has got a questionable reputation during the so-called Green Movement in Iran, brutally crushed by the regime (similar to what had happened only a couple of weeks ago), when the election of 2009 in Iran was probably rigged and Iran’s firebrand President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was “re-elected” for a second term. Author and journalist Majd, frequently writing for mainly US media outlets, was, in particular for the Iranian diaspora, way too apologetic of the regime.

Anyway, I’ve read his two books, The Ayatollahs’ Democracy of 2008, and The Ayatollah Begs to Differ of 2010 with great interest and, well, admiration. I have written about them here and here.

Without doubt, Majd has had an interesting life in the West and East. So, I anticipated his memoir which appeared end of last year, Minister Without Portfolio – Memoir of a Reluctant Exile.

But having finished it, I have to admit that I was wondering who was actually to be addressed, who should read that memoir? The mainly two parts of his book describe his life in the music business as, well, his boss’s, Chris Blackwell’s, minister without portfolio at Island Records and its numerous offshoots in 50 years or so; as well as his second career as author and journalist in and about Iran under the presidents Mohammad Khatami (Majd’s relative by marriage) and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. I have written about Ahmadinejad’s biography of 2008 by Kasra Naji here.

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