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Leaked presidency report shows how Iran plans to manage record public anger. 1/4

Arash Sohrabi

Iran International

Jul 16, 2026, 12:07 GMT+1

(Conclusion: Iran government and leaders are totally fucked, and the public agrees!)

A confidential report by Iran's presidency, leaked this week, records the highest public anger ever measured in any country and finds that nine in ten Iranians want change. Its advice to the leadership: manage the anger, not its causes.

The document, titled "What Iran Wants"and obtained by IranWire, was written by Ali Rabiei, aformer intelligence ministry official and government spokesman who now advises President Masoud Pezeshkian on social affairs. It is built on a survey conducted in April and May by the ARA research center and was circulated among senior officials in June.

Its timing matters. The survey was taken in the aftermath of the January protests,in which security forces killed tens of thousands of demonstrators within days, and during a war with the United States that has already claimed the life of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

Through all of it, state television has filled its evenings with images of packed squares and chants of revenge.

The report is the government's private mirror, and it shows something else entirely.Given four options for the country's future, only nine percent of respondents chose keeping things as they are; the rest split between reform, deep reform, and changing the system outright.

Thedocument discloses no methodology, and official polling in Iran is conducted among respondents who have every reason to fear giving an honest answer to a state questionnaire.

Sociologist Saeed Paivandi, who reviewed thefull report for IranWire, called its findings broadly plausibledespite those gaps. In practice, that means each figure below is best read as a floor, not a ceiling.Whatever the government's own instrument records, the reality is unlikely to be milder.

==The angriest country ever measured

The report's starkest finding is a number without precedent. Gallup's global emotions index has never recorded a national anger rate above 47 percent, a figure that belonged to Chad. Rabiei's survey puts Iran at 63.6 percent, up twelve points since December==, the month before the massacre.

The document itself acknowledges the record, placing Iran above every country Galluphas measured for both anger and grief.

Iran had appeared in those global rankings before, alongside war-scarred states like Iraq and Afghanistan. It has now left them behind.

No war, no surrender

On the confrontation with Washington, thesurveyed public fits neither of the stories told about it:the nation baying for battle that state television broadcasts,or the one ready to capitulatethat some in Washington count on.

Asked the best course in the current crisis, 44.3 percent chose preserving the ceasefire and continuing negotiations, roughly double the share that favored ending the talks and preparing for war.

Barely one in ten would accept all American conditions, and about two-thirds oppose a complete shutdown of uranium enrichment.

Yet this is not trust in the men at the table. Fewer than a third of respondents expressed high confidence in Iran's new negotiating team, andnearly half the country reports serious fear of another round of war.

What emerges is a population that rejects both another war and a capitulation, and trusts neither the diplomats nor the generals conducting either.

A society in freefall, and the myth of the rallying nation

The emotional data reads like a casualty report. Half the country reports hopelessness, up eight points since December.

https://www.iranintl.com/en/202607161900

>>24862369

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Nearly 48 percent report sadness and depression, 45 percent chronic fear and anxiety.Despair runs highest among the young and the educated, the very people a state would need to rebuild anything.

The same pages quietly dismantle the leadership's central wartime claim: that the nation has closed ranks behind it.

By the government's own count, 47 percent of Iranians never attended a single one of the nightly wartime rallies that state television presents as proof of unity. In Tehran, 61 percent stayed away.

Rabiei concedes that a much-promoted volunteer registration drive for national defense underperformed, and attributes the reluctance to people's fear of being judged.

It is an official admission that even gestures of patriotism have become politically fraught. The report's own data explains why: Iranians overwhelmingly separate defending their country, which a majority say they would do if attacked again, from defending the Islamic Republic.

Proud, secular, and packing

The most quietly radical section concerns who Iranians say they are. National pride is rising. More than 85 percent express pride in being Iranian, and the share who identify first as "Iranian" rather than "Iranian Muslim" has grown since the war, most sharply among the young.

Religious observance, the Islamic Republic's ideological foundation, is collapsing under the same roof.

In 1975, four years before the revolution, 79 percent of Iranians said they fasted through Ramadan. By 2023 it was 42 percent. This year it is roughly 30.

And the pride does not translate into staying. A third of Iranians say they would emigrate if they could, including nearly half of everyone under thirty and half of the university-educated. People are not leaving Iran, the report effectively concludes; they are leaving its future.

A manual for management

What makes the document remarkable is less its data than its purpose. Rabies recommendations to the leadership contain no political change at all.

Officials should do a better job convincing people that sanctions, not mismanagement, caused their misery; state television should show a more inclusive face; the ration cards should continue. This, even as the report's own respondents name official incompetence, ahead of sanctions, as the main cause of their problems.

One recommendation stands out: state bodies should avoid policies that put them in confrontation with society.

That instruction has a visible form on Iran's streets, where enforcement of the small rules of daily life has gone relatively quiet. Many Iranians read theleniency less as tolerance than as triage, a state conserving its strength for a collision it can see coming.

Independent surveys suggest the private picture is, if anything, generous. The Netherlands-based GAMAAN institute, polling Iranians beyond the reach of official questionnaires,has found large majorities opposed to the Islamic Republic's continuation altogether.

Rabiei reaches for an older vocabulary to describe what his numbers show: a society trapped in the present, unable to desire its past or picture its future. ==The term he borrows, "presentism," was coined by an Iranian scholar to describe the national mood in 1975.

Four years later, that society produced a revolution.==

https://www.iranintl.com/en/202607161900

As Tehran debates, Iran's south lives the war

Jul 15, 2026, 17:30 GMT+1

Behrouz Turani

A screen-grab from a video published by citizen journalist Vahid Online, purporting to show the aftermath of a US strike on Iran's southeastern port city of Chabahar, July 15, 2026

A week of heavy fighting has left parts of Iran’s southern coast looking unmistakably like a war zone. Yet in Tehran, many still struggle to believe the country is at war.

Watching explosions on television and social media from hundreds of kilometers away,many see the confrontation with the United States as another familiar cycle of pressure that may yet give way to negotiations.

Fatemeh Rajabi, the news anchor who first reported the U.S. strikes on ports and military sites in southern Iran on the YouTube program Hasht-e Shab,says many in the capital find it difficult to grasp that a war is unfolding along the northern shores of the Persian Gulf— the region they casually refer to as “down under.”

Reporter Ali Pakzad, who visited the area during the strikes, says missiles hit targets from Abadan near the Iraqi border to Chabahar and Saravan near Pakistan.

He described damaged fishing vessels, battered ports and communities whose livelihoods have been shattered by attacks documentedin the program’s footage.

That contrast lies at the heart of an investigative report by journalist Mira Ghorbanifar in Toseh Irani, titledThe South in the Fire of War and Ashes of Ceasefire.

Ghorbanifar writes thatexplosions now puncture the dawn along Iran’s southern coast. Smoke rises from damaged docks, charred dhows lieabandoned, and fish markets once full of noise now speak only of “a war for which no one has yet chosen a definite name.”

While officials speak of “understandings,” “ceasefires” and “crisis management,” she argues,people in Iran’s south are grappling with damaged infrastructure and disrupted shipping, trying to adapt to what increasingly resembles a war of attrition.

She also asks whether the so-called Islamabad Understanding still exists. Is the fighting along Iran’s southern coast part of the same hundred-day conflict, or the start of a new phase of controlled escalation?And can both sides return to negotiations before crossing a point of no return?

The concerns extend well beyond independent journalists.

Government-aligned newspapers have increasinglyquestioned whether Iran can sustain a prolonged confrontationwhile struggling to protect civilians and critical infrastructure.

Moderate daily Sharq describesthe country’s predicament as “structural and accumulated,” arguing that damaged infrastructure, naval disruption and collapsing logistics have left even minor shocks capable of triggering major crises.

Centrist Etemadwarns that public trust has eroded while the state remains unprepared for cascading emergencies.

Economic newspapers have echoed those warnings.

Jahan Sanat argues that Iran’s deterrence is steadily weakening under sustained pressure, while Donya-ye Eghtesadsays military decisions are increasingly driven by political necessity rather than strategic advantage, leaving the country more vulnerable in a prolonged conflict.

Washington-based analysts Mohammad Ghaedi and Farzin Nadimi have voiced similar concerns in interviews with Persian-language media abroad.

Ghaedi argues thatIran’s governing system “has repeatedly refused to learn from past mistakes,” pointing to what he sees as a wideningdisconnect between insulated decision-makers and citizensbearing the costs of conflict.

Nadimi says Iran is confronting the United States at “a moment of maximum structural fragility,” with deterrence eroding and escalation driven more by political necessity than strategic advantage.

“Iran is not in a position to manage a prolonged conflict,” he warns, adding that every new attack “burns away another part of Iran’s deterrent capability.”

Even hardline media have shown hints of concern. Resalat recently urged Iran to “rebuild its defensive capacity” after recent military losses — a rare acknowledgement from a conservative newspaper that the country’s deterrence has been weakened.

For now, the divide remains striking. In Tehran, politicians and commentators continue to debate negotiations, ceasefires and diplomatic understandings.

Along the southern coast, many residents have already stopped asking what to call the conflict.They are simply living through it.

https://www.iranintl.com/en/202607158334

The University of Minnesota is Paying ‘Diversity’ Staffers Almost $1.5 Million Annually

by Mike LaChance Jul. 24, 2026

The University of Minnesota is paying ‘diversity staffers’ almost a million and a half dollars every year.And people still wonder how college has gotten so expensive.

What exactly do diversity staffers even do? Does anyone know?

Parents and students must understand that when they take out massive government loans to pay for college, this is part of what they are paying for. The exorbitant salaries of these pointless employees.

Campus Reform reports:

University of Minnesota pays DEI staff nearly $1.5 million annually

The University of Minnesota pays its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) staff members more than $1.4 million annually, according to publicly available state payroll records.

Despite federal executive orders restricting DEI offices and activities, the University of Minnesota maintains an Office for Equity and Diversity, which consists “of over 15 offices and major initiatives.”

“Equity and diversity is fundamental to everything we do at the University of Minnesota,” the office’s website says.

The central office employs four leadership staff and five administrative staff.Five of those staff members are receiving six-figure salaries, according to OpenPayrolls.

Record from 2025 list Vice President for Equity and Diversity Mercedes Ramírez Fernández ($391,759), Associate Vice President for Equity and Diversity and Faculty Development Keisha Varma ($238,540), Associate Vice Presidents Tina Marisam ($230,444) and Malinda Lindquist ($196,267), and Chief of Staff Elizabeth Martinez-Podolsky ($164,800).

The payroll data also lists Kate Klosterman ($74,298), John Michael Bradshaw ($50,086.40), Jenna Olien ($47,237), and Tia Phan ($99,194).

Combined, the nine employees earn $1,492,625.40 annually, according to the publicly available payroll records.

The University of Minnesota has continued promoting DEI initiatives even after President Donald Trump signed a January 2025 executive order directing federally funded colleges and universities to end unlawful DEI programs.

In a February 2025 message to the university community,President Rebecca Cunningham said the institution would not make changes in response to the executive order.

Higher education in the United States is on a collision course with reality.

None of this is sustainable and eventually, the entire house of cards is going to come crashing down.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/07/university-minnesota-is-paying-diversity-staffers-almost-1/

WATCH: 'You can't fight it,' Trump tells Americans about data centers moving into their communities

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(I doubt this will be welcomed, kind of strikes me as a mandate that communities are dealing with the tech companies hiding the dangers. Maybe Trump could have said this in a softer way. I hardly disagree with Trump, but the tone “you don’t have a choice” kinda irks freedom loving Americans. No one cares if they are smart people, it doesn’t make them honest!)

https://youtu.be/B7kmEbWsDnE

>>24862676

Damn I didn’t know all the haters of Trump would jump on. Fuck you assholes

Secretary Rubio says the Iranian regime’s ‘bravado’ will fade out

A ‘Fox News @ Night’ panel discusses reports that President Trump is considering a ‘massive attack’ against Iran’s regime.

5:52

https://youtu.be/h7q1xsT8pD4

It's usually an eye for an eye, but Trump's policy is a 'HEAD for an EYE': Marco Rubio

Ret. Air Force Gen. Charles Wald discusses the Trump administration's potential next moves in the conflict with Iran

4:54

https://youtu.be/hCsYZCrBbvc

Mike Steger Explains Why U.S-Canada Trade Conflict Represents Much More

July 24, 2026 | Sundance1/2

In his most recent outline, Promethean Action PAC’s Mike Steger puts the U.S-Canada trade conflict into an accurate context where China is really the enterprise to gain or fail. This is a very well presented segment worth watching.

CTH readers will note our long track of this dynamic. In short, as NAFTA predictably evolved, and as the U.S. manufacturing base was deconstructed, suddenly things shifted. Canada and Mexico became important as entry doors into the U.S. consumer market for the products outsourced by the destruction of the American manufacturing base.

Steger appropriately uses the auto-sector as an example because it is the easiest sector to quantify damage. By playing the long game, China has thoroughly compromised the EU and U.K auto market. In 2025 China exported 1.2 million vehicles into Europe. Europe only exported 200,000 vehicles into China; a net trade deficit of 1 million vehicles in Beijing’s favor.

Chinese cars now represent over ten percent of all EU vehicles on the road, and this is only the beginning stage of the collapse of the EU industrial base that Germany and Brussels have only recently started to grasp. The pace is irreversible at this point for Europe, and now China has turned their attention toward Canada. This is why the U.S-Canada trade conflict matters!

Canada is the entryway to do in North America what China has done in Europe. WATCH:

In the graph below, look at how fast things move once the foothold is established by policy. This is stunning.

When President Trump left office in Term-1 (Jan ’21), Europe was exporting around 400,000 cars to China, and China was exporting around 175,000 cars to Europe.

Just five years later, Europe is exporting 200,000 cars to China, and China is exporting 1.2 million cars to Europe.

This is why Germany’s auto-sector is in a state of rapid collapse, represented by Volkswagen’s recent announcements to close factories, chut down models and eliminate up to 100,000 jobs. LOOK:

Beijing's Trojan Horse vs Trump's New Bretton Woods

15:53

https://youtu.be/eQAlzJgeCs8

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/07/24/mike-steger-explains-why-u-s-canada-trade-conflict-represents-much-more/#more-285519

>>24862840

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When Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney tells President Trump that there are limits on the Chinese EVs Canada is currently allowing, no reasonable person can look at the recent history of both BYD/GEELY and not understand what is likely from Carney’s decision.

In many ways Canada’s antagonism is creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Trump needs to immediately protect the vulnerable U.S. position to restart strong manufacturing. That’s the reason for the Sec.301 Steel and Aluminum tariffs.

Additionally, the Sec.338 tariffs (50%) are necessary to close the access point, not because Canadian imports pose a threat, but because they are indistinguishable from Chinese component parts that are assembled into finished goods and exported from Canada.

Here’s an example of a possible scenario:

(1) Toyota and Honda have both told Canadian trade officials that without USMCA access to the U.S. market, there is no reason to maintain auto plants in Canada.

(2) The most effective protectionist position that Trump can take would be to terminate the USMCA.

(3) If Trump terminates the USMCA, auto plants in Canada will close.

(4) That’s the moment when Chinese EV companies BYD/GEELY, subsidized heavily by China, will swoop in and purchase those Canadian facilities for pennies on the dollar – based on the entry agreement that Mark Carney has already authorized.

President Trump needs to protect the USA from globalist trade policies on our border. This is why the U.S-Canada trade conflict matters more than any other trade friction in the world. There are trillions at stake.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/07/24/mike-steger-explains-why-u-s-canada-trade-conflict-represents-much-more/#more-285519

USTR Greer Announces Results of Sec.301 Investigation – Tariffs on 60 Countries Including Canada, Mexico, Europe

July 23, 2026 |

As expected, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer has completed theSection 301 review of “forced labor practices” in manufacturing and trade. [USTR Announcement Here]

As a result of the findings,a tariff rate of 10% to 12.5% is being added to the goods from a host of countries evaluated. These 301 dutiesare in addition to currently existing tariff rates. [FACT SHEET] Trading partners that have made commitments to adopt, andeffectively enforce, forced labor import prohibitions will have a 10% tariff, and trading partners that have failed to adopt a forced laborimport prohibition will have a 12.5% tariff rate.

• The following 54 economies have failed to impose and effectively enforce a prohibition on the importation of goods produced with forced labor:

Algeria; Angola; Argentina; Australia; the Bahamas; Bahrain; Bangladesh; Brazil; Cambodia; Chile; China, People’s Republic of; Colombia; Costa Rica; Dominican Republic; Egypt; El Salvador; Guatemala; Guyana; Honduras; Hong Kong, China; India; Iraq; Israel; Japan; Jordan; Kazakhstan; Kuwait; Libya; Malaysia; Morocco; New Zealand; Nicaragua; Nigeria; Norway; Oman; Peru; the Philippines; Qatar; Russia; Saudi Arabia; Singapore; South Africa; South Korea; Sri Lanka; Switzerland; Taiwan; Thailand; Trinidad and Tobago; Türkiye; United Arab Emirates; United Kingdom; Uruguay; Venezuela; and Vietnam.

• Thefollowing six economies have failedto effectively enforce a prohibition on the importation of goodsproduced with forced labor:

Canada, Ecuador, the European Union, Indonesia, Mexico, and Pakistan.

After consideration for current Free Trade Agreement parameters and Most-Favored-Nation (MFN) reciprocity internals, the basic outcome is this:

10 percent is the appropriate rate of Section 301 duties for investigated economiesthat (i) impose a forced labor import prohibition; (ii) have committed to impose and enforce such a prohibition through an Agreement on Reciprocal Trade; or (iii) have imposed a partial regime with the effect of preventing the importation of certain forced labor goods.

These economies are:. Argentina, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Canada, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Malaysia, Mexico, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Trinidad and Tobago, and the United Kingdom;

10 percent or 12.5 percent, net of Most-Favored-Nation (MFN) rate is the appropriate rate of Section 301 duties for certain products of the European Union, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, and Switzerland that are not otherwise exempted, as explained in greater detail in the Federal Register Notice; and

12.5 percent is the appropriate rate of Section 301 duty for all other investigated economies.

[SOURCE]

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/07/23/ustr-greer-announces-results-of-sec-301-investigation-tariffs-on-60-countries-including-canada-mexico-europe/

(It’s hard to believe Western countries are will to buy slave trader products, and have no problem with selling those products!No wonder Freedom is not their primary belief)

Canadian Government Cancels Joint Ceremony for Gordie Howe Bridge Opening Because Trump Hurt Their Feelings

July 23, 2026 | Sundance

The Canadian government hascancelled their participation in a joint U.S-Canada ribboncutting ceremony because PresidentTrump has hurt their feelings with a new tariff announcement.

It is the official position of the Canadian government not to join in any collaborative celebration.

This comes on the heels of the Premier of British Columbia,David Eby, asking his staff to revokethe Canada statement celebrating America’s 250th Independence Day.

Take that Trump! {{harrumph}}

• CANADA – A planned joint ceremony on Friday between the U.S. and Canada marking the opening of the Gordie Howe International Bridgehas been canceledafter President Trump announceda 50 percent tariffon certain Canadian imports, including alcohol and dairy.

• “In light of trade action threatened by the United States earlier this week,it would be inappropriate to proceed with a celebratory event between the two countries,” Jenna Ghassabeh, a spokesperson for Canadian Infrastructure Minister Gregor Robertson, said in a statement to the Associated Press.

• “We remain committed to opening the bridge on July 27th, and to celebrating this milestone among Canadians on July 24th,” she continued. (read more)

(The problem the Canada citizens have, is their government is not telling them the truth, it was their government leaders had an opportunity to resolve with the U.S., but they were too arrogant under the UK rule. Yes the useless English King designed this with Carney. Plus Canada media only prints what Carney and others say, so our brothers and sisters of Canada get pulled into the hatred of America.)

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/07/23/canadian-government-cancels-joint-ceremony-for-gordie-howe-bridge-opening-because-trump-hurt-their-feelings/

This is genuinely INSANE: Rep Brandon Gill(I love this guy, he asks questions that are always responded with the wrong answer)

Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, discusses confronting the radical left's anti-American agenda, the rise of socialism.

7:43

https://youtu.be/zwa9sVikUpU

FDA investigates MASSIVE parasitic outbreak(DS is still in FDA)

Acting FDA Commissioner Kyle Diamantas discusses the FDA’s ongoing investigation into a cyclospora outbreak across the United States on ‘America’s Newsroom

5.31

https://youtu.be/GvQ5ThemwJ8

‘Blue MAGA?’: Far-left turns on establishment Democrats

Former Jill Biden spokesperson Michael LaRosa analyzes the far-left's ‘Blue MAGA’ label for establishment Democrats and Kamala Harris deemed as 2028 front-runner on ‘America Reports.’

(So the Dems don’t want losers in their group…KEK)

5:11

https://youtu.be/9QBgeUJN-zY

'SICK AND TIRED': Candidates on the attack in Oregon gov race

Oregon Republican gubernatorial candidate Christine Drazan joins 'Fox & Friends' to discuss the race against Democrat Tina KotekDrazan criticizes Kotek's record on homelessness, cost of living, and failing schools, stating Kotek has a 'record of failure'.

4:09

https://youtu.be/1mQ0v_zcV_M