michael coogan

"I have never been as scared as I was today." BT’s @raniakhalek reports live from Lebanon, as Israel carpet bombs the country, launching 100 strikes in 10 minutes. Watch The Freedom Side Live on BT’s Youtube.

Today was a very hard day for my country lebanon. Rest in peace to our martyrs, and I hope for a fast recovery for the wounded. Our hearts are with everyone in the South, Bekaa, and Beirut. stay strong and teach your children who the real enemy is. History will remember that 100 air strikes in 10 minutes could not break lebanon spirit. Let’s Look at the Facts If we look at this from a military side: Did they win? No. Are they at the Litani River? No. Did they take the weapons? No. Today's strikes don't change the fact that over 140 of their tanks have been burned on our land. It doesn’t change the fact that they are walking into our traps and losing their soldiers. Their own military and politicians are still fighting because they know they can't actually occupy Lebanon. The pain is huge, but militarily, today changed nothing. The Resistance is still capable fighting, still launching rockets, and hitting their ships and planes. These air strikes are just about killing civilians to look "strong" and satisfy their own people. But the battlefield is the same, and the future will prove this. We also have to talk about the strange stance of Prime Minister Nawaf Salam. By acting the way he did, he weakened Lebanon. Instead of showing we are one united country, he made us look divided, which hurt us politically. He basically made it harder to reach a ceasefire. It’s a shame that what we win on the ground, our politicians lose at the table.

In an interview with Al Mayadeen, Professor Mohammad Marandi affirmed that there are currently no direct talks, adding that "The Iranians have said very clearly that we are not going to accept a ceasefire where the Americans can just simply produce more missiles and repair and overhaul their jets and prepare for more slaughter." Seyed Marandi explains that the only way to end this war is a permanent agreement that changes the facts on the ground, preventing the #US from using the region as a platform "to murder Iranian school children." He noted that this principle applies not only to #Iran but also to #Gaza, #Lebanon, #Iraq, and #Yemen. @s_m_marandi #IranWar #WarOnIran

💢 Iranian academic Hassan Ahmadian pushed back sharply at Gulf state critics during a heated Al Jazeera panel, when guests from Qatar and Kuwait accused Iran of not being a “good neighbor.” “Good neighborliness does not mean allowing others to kill your children on your land,” Ahmadian, a Professor of Middle East Studies at University of Tehran replied. He pointed to over 2,000 Iranian civilian casualties and said U.S.-made surface to surface HIMARS rockets “don’t launch themselves,” saying they can only be fired when “my neighbor is giving his land to my enemy to kill my children.” He noted the U.S. strike that killed 170 children at a school in southern Iran.

Trump is negotiating with Trump.

True.. So why does Iran still control its waters and its territory while continuing to fire missiles? Why has none of the war’s objectives been achieved? Why are you desperately begging other countries for help? Why are you asking for $200 billion to fight forces that have supposedly already been obliterated? In politics, you can manufacture truths. But in war, reality imposes itself.

RIP Dolores Keane

Who really closed the strait pf Hormuz?

Why did America go to war with Iran? #PredictiveHistory | @BreakingPointsN

Spain’s Ione Belarra: “First they went after Palestine-Lebanon-Syria-Yemen, then after Venezuela and Cuba, now once again after Iran.” “The US and Israel are humanity’s greatest threat.”

The leader of the Resistance against the Epstein Class.

My full AJ Forum speech last week: the common enemy of humanity is THE SYSTEM that has enabled the genocide in Palestine, including the financial capital that funds it, the algorithms that obscure it and the weapons that enable it.

@gemmacaddell86 Put a wee bit of sponge around the leg of the glasses. She might hate it but it’s worth a shot. Hope you get something that works. Good luck

@AllisonMorris1 can’t believe Nolan wouldn’t let you deal with that ignorant ballix McDowell on your own. A petty wee man

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@SaulStaniforth And so it begins… Eurovision countries didn’t actually get the chance to vote on Israel, despite what we were told. And so 11 countries refused to vote. Now watch the contest come apart over a country that shouldn’t have been near the contest in the first place. Nuts.

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This is brilliant 👌

@moi_cheree The best toast ever. You’ll be dead on in a day or two