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  👁️‍🗨️ WTF? House of Cards Edition The Last Pact Standing: Why the Iran–North Korea Axis Is Collapsing into a Radioactive Dumpster Fire By WTF Global Analysis Desk July 2025 | Washington, Pyongyang, and Definitely Not Bushehr 👁️‍🗨️ This Blog uses WTF strictly in the context of: Weird, True & Freaky. Not as profanity. Unless the Ayatollahs start tweeting it. Act One: Axis of Evil or Group Therapy for Failing Dictatorships? The year is 2025, the smoke from the 12-Day War still hangs in the air like a burnt kebab, and while the Ayatollahs of Iran are still claiming “victory” through interpretive poetry, the rest of the world has moved on—to North Korea. Forget “Axis of Evil.” What we just witnessed was more like “Axis of Oops.” The Iran–North Korea pact, once whispered about in Western war rooms and shouted across propaganda networks as the new World War starter pack, is looking more like a tragic Tinder date between two autocratic regimes swiping right on desperatio...

👁️‍🗨️ This Blog Uses WTF Strictly in the Context of Weird, True & Freaky — Not Profanity (Unless the Ayatollahs Are Tweeting) Act I: The “Blitz-Boom” That Should’ve Been a Revolution Picture this: you bomb someone’s nuclear plants, slay elite commanders, and splinter their air defenses—and boom , regime collapses, citizens take the streets, revolution ensues! At least that was the dream in Tel Aviv cocktail parties and exiled monarchy group chats. Instead, what we got was air raid sirens and six million Iranians scrambling for safety, not chanting “Down with the mullahs!” The streets didn’t revolt—they emptied. It was a prime example of “mass panic over mass protest.” Act II: Survival Beats Rage...For Now When missiles paint your skyline, your top priority isn’t regime change—you’re busy finding clean water, shelter, and matching socks. First raid day? Supermarkets gutted. Tehran to Caspian weekend travel boom. Then families picking through rubble. Hard to torch the syste...

👁️‍🗨️ WTF Means Weird, True & Freaky — Not Profanity (Unless the Ayatollahs Start Tweeting It) Act I: Meet The Mastermind (Cue Dramatic Music) Remember those quirky, self-destructing beeper gadgets that wiped out Hezbollah cells last fall? And what about the high-tech sabotage—electrical flashes and explosions—deep inside Iran’s nuclear complex in June? Turns out, the genius behind all that chaos isn't just current Mossad boss David Barnea—it’s none other than Yossi Cohen. Long before “the beeper era,” Cohen was busy as Mossad’s Iran Project Manager under Meir Dagan (2002–06), weaving the seedbed for massive covert campaigns that only fully bloomed decades later. Act II: The Original “Tamper Tech” Sitcom Back in 2002, while most of the world was still using flip phones, Mossad, under Cohen’s vision, began inserting stealthy upgrades into enemy gear. These weren't your run-of-the-mill spyware hacks—they were purpose-built to expose, disrupt, or explode when deemed n...

WTF Watch: When Nuclear Angst GTFO’d Solidarity – Iran’s October 7 Ghost & Now Playing Defense WTF? Weird, True & Freaky — just like Iran’s logic. 👁️‍🗨️ This Blog uses WTF strictly in the context of: Weird, True & Freaky. Not as profanity. Unless the Ayatollahs start tweeting it. Act I: The Great Proxy Flop – Tehran’s Surprise No-Show Imagine a superhero flop where the cape just flops—it’s that absurd. Enter Hassan Al-Moraib, a Lebanese Sunni Islamic scholar, who dropped the bombshell this June: Iran, despite claiming solidarity with Gaza and Lebanon, did not fire a single missile on October 7. The implication? If Tehran had acted then, perhaps Gaza wouldn’t be leveled, and Lebanon spared a bloody blow. But no, that “nuclear umbrella” only comes out now—solely to guard Iran’s nukes. Here’s the deal: Hezbollah, Iran’s so-called “long arm,” took catastrophic hits—Lebanese suburbs turned to rubble, thousands of fighters killed, the group’s leadership shattered. Even t...

👁️‍🗨️ This Blog uses WTF strictly in the context of: Weird, True & Freaky. Not as profanity. Iran, however, uses it as a Foreign Terrorist Fundraiser. By The WTF Desk | July 4, 2025 | Somewhere Between Baghdad and a Blind Eye

👁️‍🗨️ This Blog uses WTF strictly in the context of: Weird, True & Freaky. Not as profanity. Unless Zelensky starts TikTok dancing it. By The WTF Foreign Desk | Kyiv–Scranton–Mar-a-Lago Axis | July 2025

👁️‍🗨️ This Blog uses WTF strictly in the context of: Weird, True & Freaky. Not as profanity. Unless the Ayatollahs start tweeting it. By The WTF Desk | July 2025 | Geneva | 🗞️ Special Report If the United Nations were a sitcom, this season would be written by the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence, directed by Al Jazeera Arabic, and fact-checked by Francesca Albanese’s Twitter feed.  In a year already saturated with nuclear standoffs, proxy wars, and U.N. resolutions written by countries that can’t spell “human rights,” the latest episode in Geneva has audiences across the free world saying exactly one thing: WTF?

How Iran, Francesca Albanese, and the UN Form the Axis of WTF in 2025 By The WTF Foreign Desk | July 2025 👁️‍🗨️ This Blog uses WTF strictly in the context of: Weird, True & Freaky. Not as profanity. Unless the Ayatollahs start tweeting it. Welcome back, citizens of sanity. The year is 2025. Donald J. Trump is back in the White House, McDonald's has reintroduced the McRib, and the United Nations is once again hosting its annual Festival of Hypocrisy, Bias, and High-Calorie Finger Pointing — otherwise known as “Geneva Session #WhoCares.” What’s on the absurdity menu this time? Iran’s masterclass in soft-power sabotage, Francesca Albanese’s cosplay as a human rights lawyer, The UN’s chronic allergic reaction to facts, Jews, and anything that smells like accountability. Let’s dive into the pool of diplomatic dysfunction. Bring floaties — there’s a lot of hot air. Iran at the UN: Welcome to the Mullahs’ Met Gala When Iran shows up to the United Nations, it’s no...

👁️‍🗨️ This Blog uses WTF strictly in the context of: Weird, True & Freaky. Not as profanity. Unless the Ayatollahs start tweeting it. By The WTF Desk | Geneva Bureau, July 2025 Welcome to the International Theatre of the Absurd, starring Francesca Albanese, a special rapporteur so “special” even her job title sounds like it came from a rejected Marvel script. If you thought the United Nations had finally run out of surreal performances to offer, Albanese just proved that Geneva still runs on drama, not diplomacy. In a blistering statement issued on July 1, 2025, the U.S. Mission to the United Nations doubled down on its demand for the immediate removal of Francesca Albanese from her role as UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories. The statement, addressed to UN Secretary-General António Guterres, warned that Albanese’s continued tenure not only undermines the credibility of the UN but may compel the United States to consider “sign...

 👁️‍🗨️ This Blog uses WTF strictly in the context of: Weird, True & Freaky. Not as profanity. Unless the Ayatollahs start tweeting it. WTF is Left of the IRGC? Iran’s Terror Army Gets Wrecked, Rethinks Its Purpose, and Retreats Into the Shadows From Vanguard of the Revolution to Vanguard of Unemployment Benefits By: The Ministry of WTF Affairs Once, they were feared across the Middle East. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps — aka the IRGC, aka Tehran’s Most Extra Boys — controlled everything from missiles to memes. They bombed embassies, propped up dictators, and issued fatwas from aircraft hangars. Now? They're holed up, hiding from Israeli drones, TikTok hashtags, and Donald Trump’s tweet drafts. That’s right. President Trump signed off on the most extensive joint US-Israeli air campaign against Iran’s security infrastructure since 1979. And the IRGC, instead of fighting back like the Guardians of the Revolution they’re supposed to be, just... folded like cheap c...