It’s hard to imagine, but it’s true.
Month 3.
Mamdani orders flags flown at half mast on all state buildings to honor a brutal dictator.
It’s hard to imagine, but it’s true.
— Tosca Austen (@ToscaAusten) March 1, 2026
Month 3. Mamdani orders flags flown at half mast on all state buildings to honor a brutal dictator.
Picture this: a powerful regime, armed to the teeth, ruled by men who openly declare their goal isn’t just nuclear power or territory—it’s… pic.twitter.com/pkLShIRc7t
Picture this: a powerful regime, armed to the teeth, ruled by men who openly declare their goal isn’t just nuclear power or territory—it’s engineering the end of the world as we know it.
Back story… The Iranian regime is rooted in Twelver Shia Islam, centered on the belief in the hidden 12th Imam, the Mahdi—a messianic figure who vanished centuries ago and is prophesied to return in a time of ultimate chaos to establish global Islamic rule, justice, and dominance.
Mainstream Twelver doctrine holds that his reappearance is divinely timed, hardline factions—especially within the IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps)—have elevated a militant form of Mahdism.
They view themselves as warriors paving the way for his arrival, by actively accelerating the apocalyptic conditions required: widespread conflict, destruction, and the defeat of Islam’s greatest enemies. And who are those enemies?
Israel, branded the “Little Satan” and a “cancerous tumor” that must be eradicated before the Mahdi can emerge. And America, the “Great Satan,” standing as the chief obstacle to this divine revolution.
When regime leaders and crowds chant “Death to Israel” and “Death to America,” it’s not empty theater or mere politics. For many in power, in the IRGC’s apocalyptic wing—it’s a literal religious imperative. Continue reading Mamdani orders flags flown at half mast on all state buildings to honor an Iranian tyrant















