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WTF-Iran Special Feature WTF-style analysis on why uranium enrichment in Iran is the geopolitical equivalent of buying a Ferrari and using it to deliver pizza during a fuel shortage. Pride, Pipes, and Plutonium Dreams If geopolitical absurdity had a mascot, it would be a rusted IR-1 centrifuge duct-taped to a 1970s blueprint, spinning away in an underground bunker while the Supreme Leader quotes 12th-century poets and the rial crashes through the Earth’s crust. Iran’s nuclear enrichment program is not just about uranium. It’s about ideology, insecurity, and insane economic math. It is the regime’s most expensive symbol—a $400 billion middle finger to the world disguised as a “civilian” project. And the punchline? It doesn’t even power their one nuclear reactor. WTF is Enrichment, and Why Is It So Damn Important to Iran? Enrichment is the process of making uranium useful—either for peaceful nuclear energy or for that “oops we accidentally developed a bomb, how did that happen?”...

WTF-Iran Special Report By the WTF Newsroom | June 29, 2025 | Tehran, London, Cyberspace They told her to shut up. She picked up her phone, looked directly into the camera, and said: “Let it burn.” That young Iranian woman — faceless to us, but fearless to a generation — didn't just go viral. She became a symbol of everything the Islamic Republic fears: Women who speak. Youth who question. Citizens who don’t chant on command. And 46 years of bottled-up fury, heartbreak, and trauma finally finding a voice...in selfie mode. Welcome to WTF Iran , 2025 edition — where ceasefires are temporary, oppression is permanent, and the question on everyone's mind isn’t “Why did this war start?” It’s: “Why the hell did it stop?” Tehran Isn’t Quiet — It’s Simmering From the streets of Karaj to underground VPN cafés in Mashhad, whispers are louder than state TV’s thunder. Our sources inside Iran — yes, actual Iranians, not exiled lobbyists sipping espresso in DC — say one thing loud a...

WTF Is Happening in Bangladesh? The July Charter & the Rise of Sheikh Khomeini: Is Muhammad Yunus Planning a Bangla Revolution... or Just a Coup in Flip-Flops? Dhaka to Dystopia: A Prelude Once celebrated for lifting millions out of poverty through microfinance, Muhammad Yunus now appears less interested in banking on women’s empowerment and more in channeling his inner Ayatollah . If reports are to be believed, Yunus is now leading Bangladesh not into a Nobel future—but into a 1980s Tehran-themed escape room with no exits, no elections, and a brand-new paramilitary force that sounds suspiciously like a Netflix villain unit: the Islamic Revolutionary Army (IRA) . Nope, not that IRA. This one comes with more turbans and less Irish whiskey. The “Londongate Conspiracy” According to leaks that have floated out like sewage from a broken pipe, the now-infamous June 13 meeting in London brought together Bangladesh’s most exiled, most indicted, and least elected minds. Tarique Rahm...

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By: Special WTF Correspondent | June 2025 Edition Welcome to WTF Times , where the headlines are real but feel written by a Netflix intern on LSD.  Today:  Iranian espionage in Israel has officially gone from cloak-and-dagger to broke-and-Telegram. From student masseurs cutting doll heads to immigrant dads playing James Bond for crypto, the new wave of Mossad's least-wanted is one for the history books.  So buckle up:  We're going inside the new "Spy Wing" at Damon Prison , where the air smells like cheap hummus and betrayal. Welcome to the X-Wing (No, Not the Star Wars One) The most secretive and surreal wing in Israel's prison system isn’t hosting supervillains or arms dealers — it’s packed with Uber drivers, masseurs, Telegram junkies, and alleged spies who thought $500 was worth snapping a picture of Haifa port. Located in Carmel’s Damon Prison, the new "X-Wing" (or officially: the Iran Spy Wing ) was established after 35+ espionage suspects popped u...

Middle East Desk | June 2025 | Peace Talks & Paintball Edition WTF? TRUMP SAYS CEASEFIRE NEXT WEEK. GAZA WAR SAYS, “WE’LL SEE.” You know things are weird when Donald J. Trump , standing in the Oval Office after brokering peace between Iran and Israel , takes a break from congratulating Rwanda and Congo to announce that Gaza might get a ceasefire too —by next week . Never mind that: 50+ hostages are still being held by Hamas. IDF tanks are advancing deeper into Gaza. Hamas just lost another mastermind , a Syrian-imported stealth terror trainer named Hacham al-Issa . The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) is dodging bullets, airstrikes, and conspiracy theories while handing out canned chickpeas and rice. So... ceasefire? Really? Welcome to 2025, where Middle East peace announcements happen between ribbon-cuttings and Truth Social epics about "refrigerator-door" precision bombings. The Ceasefire That Might Be (or Might Be Imaginary) According to T...

  India Affairs | June 2025 | Bureau of Borewells & Boldness WTF? A “Supplemental Award” for a Treaty on Life Support? In a development that has many in New Delhi squinting at international law like it’s written in Martian, the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague issued what it calls a “ Supplemental Award of Competence ” regarding the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) —a 1960 water-sharing agreement now halfway between a relic and a ritual sacrifice. NOTE: The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) , founded by treaty in 1899 , is an intergovernmental organization that offers dispute resolution services —such as arbitration, conciliation, and fact-finding—to help resolve international conflicts between states, state entities, intergovernmental bodies , and even private parties under international law. And who’s celebrating? Pakistan , the same country currently unable to provide 12 hours of electricity in a row, just hailed the ruling as a diplomatic victory , clai...