Important read by showing that while protests have created the biggest legitimacy crisis yet for the regime, thus far, the result is that Iran's hardliners have gained strength. This creates numerous problems for the West & the Iranian people
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2010 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order Recipient. Executive VP . Author of Losing an Enemy & Treacherous Alliance. Views are my own.
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EU’s Top Diplomat Says Iranian Deal Is Only Way to Stop Tehran’s Nuclear Program
Mr. Borrell says critics of his efforts to revive the pact perhaps “don’t value enough” the dangers of a nuclear Iran.
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⚡️Video of a building in Turkey collapsing after 7.5 magnitude aftershock that happened roughly an hour ago.
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This TV crew was broadcasting live when a second magnitude 7.5 earthquake hit Turkey ⤵️
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Ouch: "No one embodies the collapse of the party as well as Nikki Haley. She said that Donald Trump was everything that she taught her children not to be, and she went from that to saying that she wants to carry on the Trump legacy. It's just so sad.”
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ما بُردیم🤍🎵
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Shervin Hajipour's ‘Baraye,’ the Anthem of Iran’s Protest Movement, Wins a Grammy! Incredibly moving. Best Song for Social Change.
“The biggest miracle in my life has been music,” said Shervin in a documentary about him.
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Iranian musician #ShervinHajipour is a frontrunner for the newest category at Sunday’s #GRAMMYs-“Best Song for Social Change.” His song “Baraye” helped inspire the mass protests inside #Iran, as well as galvanizing millions abroad. #MahsaAmini #مهسا_امینی
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BREAKING: A magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck Turkey early Monday and was followed by a powerful aftershock that was felt across the region in Syria and Lebanon.
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Now Available: "The One State Reality: What Is Israel/Palestine?" Exploring how best to view Israel/Palestine and implications of that reality, including: Is Israel an Apartheid State? Co-edited with by , Nathan Brown, Michael Barnett, and me.
smile.amazon.com/One-State-Real
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Fascinating interview with Israel's Naftali. He claims that his mediation secured 2 concessions from Putin - dropping denazification & demilitarization of Ukraine - and 1 from Zelensky (NATO membership) to secure a ceasefire. But West blocked it, he says.
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When you love accusing others of being paid agents of the Islamic Republic of Iran, yet your digital marketing agency functions as paid lobbyists for Israel 🙃🤷♂️
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خاتمی، میرحسین، تاجزاده، میثمی، صمیمی، ستوده، مدنی باید سکوت کنند تا فقط کارمندان تلوزیون عربستان حرف بزنند.
واقعا تاسف میخورم افکار عمومی کشوری با ۲۵۰۰ سال تمدن آنقدر بیتفاوت شده که اجازه میدهد عمله دولت خارجی اینطور برایش باید و نباید کند.
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⚽️ Alireza Jahanbakhsh!
Alireza scores his second goal of the game with a brilliant shot from outside the penalty area, helping Feyenoord level the match against top-ranked opponents PSV.
Feyenoord maintain their position as league leaders.
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Really looking forward to participating in this Zoom webinar about Brazil's foreign policy under Lula, who will be at the White House on Friday. Join us online this Tuesday, Feb 7, 12-1 pm EST.
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We're live with the 's Miles Yu and the 's Michael Swaine.
Tune in for a discussion about the state of United States-China relations.
Watch here: bit.ly/40oSvWV
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“We had a great degree of freedom...However, these days, you have to go to the office before 8am and stay there till 4pm...In our ministry, there’s little work for me to do...Many mujahedin, including me, are addicted to the internet, especially Twitter.”
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Good! Perhaps we will find some time now to discuss far more serious threats facing us all, such as Climate Change...
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The Chinese High-Altitude Surveillance Balloon is Confirmed to have been Shot Down off the Coast of South Carolina.
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Breaking: issues ground stop at three airports near coast amid reports Pentagon could make attempt to take down Chinese balloon
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1/India has portrayed itself as the place to invest & do business for companies leery of China. Now its richest businessman, Gautam #Adani, has lost $100-plus billion (b/c of short selling by the Hindenburg hedge fund via its damaging report) & he’s closely linked to India’s PM.
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Indonesia tells great powers - don't use Southeast Asia as a site for your proxy conflicts.
I couldn't agree more!
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This week's Earthling--the weekend edition of --asks why approves of transborder aggression that violates international law in some cases but not others.
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Twitter claims to take doxing seriously cc:
In Jan 2019, my home address & that of my family members was shared by
Since then, I have been followed and & have had a family member physically attacked (report filed with NYPD)
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As Lula prepares to visit DC, we're delighted to host Filipe Nasser, advisor to Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieria, in conversation with , Claudia Antunes, and .
Sign up now!
quincyinst.org/event/as-lula-
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how cable news is treating the balloon
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Really important perspective from :
There's a lot of hot air flowing about in Washington over an alleged Chinese surveillance balloon
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#فرهادمیثمی اقدام خودش را «امساک در خوردن غذا» مینامد نه «اعتصاب غذا».
این انسان آنقدر شریف و درست و صادق است که اندازه سر سوزنی اغراق نمیکند و از حقیقت فاصله نمیگیرد.
همین صداقت سلاح مبارزهای است هزار بار قویتر از شارلاتانیسم کسانی که به دروغ ادعای اعتصاب غذا میکنند.
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Since "Chinese Spy Balloon" is trending: In 1945, the crew of USS New York spotted a sphere that they thought might be a Japanese balloon weapon. The captain ordered it shot down but none of the guns could score a hit. Finally, a navigator realized they were attacking Venus.
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I remember when I reflexively took Saddam Hussein's side by saying Iraq didn't have any WMD
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Of course the Quincy Institute would reflexively take the Chinese Communist Party's side.
No American lawmaker should take the Quincy Institute seriously. twitter.com/QuincyInst/sta…
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He wants a war soooooo bad.
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Of course the Quincy Institute would reflexively take the Chinese Communist Party's side.
No American lawmaker should take the Quincy Institute seriously. twitter.com/QuincyInst/sta…
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The Washington Post dressing up the world's worst humanitarian disaster as a progressive victory. 🙃
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"Men ska en ärligt menande Erdogan-motståndare, eller en övertygad antimilitarist, stilla sig bara för att Sverige, utan folklig inblandning, har bestämt att vi ska gå med i en kärnvapenallians?" -
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Great powers gathering intelligence on each other is one of the most banal and universal facts of international relations. It in no way threatens regular people UNLESS those countries are on the road to serious conflict.
One way to judge whether serious conflict is approaching…
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This is a bit misleading. Only 52% want to stay involved in the "war." The other 48% either want to "get out of it completely" or use sanctions "and stay out of direct military contact altogether."
New headline: Americans are split on staying involved in Russia's war in Ukraine.
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76% of Americans want the US to stay involved in Russia's war in Ukraine, @themarugroup found
"Involved" can mean a lot of things. Where do you stand?
#GraphicTruth
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“In the past, the U.S. government was worried that Israel would conduct attacks that could spark a war. Now, it seems like the United States is implicitly endorsing these attacks and that is a significant change,” said Parsi.
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Meet : a Harvard-educated lawyer who uses artificial engagement to harass Iranian-American women journalists
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This is what hardliners in the Islamic Republic are afraid of. Not some clown who rushes from one Western capital to another just to beg Western governements to add to sanctions on Iran.
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He is not an Auschwitz prisoner. He is imprisoned in the Islamic Republic, for opposing the compulsory hijab in Iran.
#FarhadMeysami
#فرهاد_میثمی
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