One thing is certain, Iran is not a country I would like to live in.

Try listening to e.g. The Cure in Iran...

QuoteAfter the 1979 Islamic Revolution, music was criminalised in Iran.

Western songs were forbidden, record shops vanished and concert halls fell silent.

Anyone caught with music deemed 'un-Islamic' could be fined, lashed or imprisoned for 'causing corruption on earth' under Iranian law.

But this did not stop people from listening - far from it.

https://www.euronews.com/culture/2022/05/26/what-happens-when-a-country-criminalises-music

Ursula Von der Leyen just published on Twitter: "Europe urges all parties to exercise maximum restraint,  de-escalate immediately and refrain from retaliation"

If it was Iran attacking Israel, I am sure she would have written "Israel has the right to defend itself" 

Yet another war thread, couldn't we just put them all into one big "war" topic? 

Looks like Israel's genocidal campaign in Gaza is not enough: They just launched hours ago an unprovoked attack on Iranian soil which risk of dragging the whole region to a darker time. Parsi summarizes it pretty well:

https://x.com/tparsi/status/1933355816415080617

QuoteIsrael is conducting a war against international law itself.

And because of Western complicity and support for Israel when it killed 100s of civilians to get one (!) alleged militant in Gaza or Lebanon ("Israel has a right to defend itself"), Israel is not continuing this conduct in Iran.

In the middle of the night, Israel bombed residential buildings where Iranian scientists or military officials lived with their families - as well as scores of other completely civilian families.

If any country targeted American soldiers - not on the battlefield and not even in their barracks - but in their homes together with their children, the US would rightfully call that terrorism.

But Israel has systematically tried to erase all the norms around the use of force and international law that have painstakingly been created over the course of the decades after WWII.

The world that emerges from that is one of chaos, anarchy, and the law of the jungle - all things the US asserts it stands against.

Thanks for posting it! 

Posting the link here in case anyone wants to see the tracklist:

https://www.nts.live/shows/the-cure/episodes/the-cure-robert-smith-12th-june-2025

Quote from: Sacha8 on June 12, 2025, 16:26:51Sounded more like sth he did to promote the music of those who remixed SOALW than anything...

Some of them anyway...

Right now it's Mogwai with 1990-1996, started with "This Twilight Garden"! 

Then I guess I listened to the wrong bit, if you found Joy Division's Transmission and The Cure's Hanging Garden in the mix...

I listened to the programme for a while myself, but honestly wasn't impressed by the choice of tracks (apart from Mogwai's Haunted by a freak, and the track coming bf that whose title unfortunately I can't remember now...). Sounded more like sth he did to promote the music of those who remixed SOALW than anything...