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This is not a conventional conflict for Khamenei and his machinery of repression. It is a war of survival. They know that the fall of the regime would mean the collapse of every layer of power, from the top leadership down to the lowest enforcers, leaving none of them safe or at peace anywhere in the world. That is why this wounded serpent will fight to the very last for its own existence. Even if every country on earth were to sever diplomatic ties with Iran, the regime would still not voluntarily relinquish power. If preserving itself required the sacrifice of one million Iranians, it would do so without hesitation. The real question, then, is not about the regime’s brutality. That is already settled. The real question is about the rest of the world. Are Western governments and the Iranian opposition abroad truly prepared to commit to the cost of bringing this regime down? Will they go all the way and pay the price, or will they retreat when that price becomes politically inconvenient? Because toppling this regime demands more than slogans or sanctions. It demands a clear-eyed acceptance of one hard truth: There is no regime change without a very high cost. @PahlaviReza @AlinejadMasih

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@SimplyRosie1 Thank you. In difficult days, words like yours stay with people. I truly appreciate your prayers for my daughter and my family. May God bless your kind heart. Amen.❤️💙

@A_Protest_Wave Nasir, you sound real, not AI. I am leery these days. Your Creator loves you & your daughter. Keep praying. I am praying to Jesus. The Bible tells us of healing power. I pray for Healing & Peace & Love, in the name of Jesus. Amen.

Thirteen years. That is how long I waited to hold my daughter in my arms. And then, three weeks ago, she arrived like a small piece of light entering a dark room quietly changing everything without making a sound. In the world I come from, people do not always celebrate the birth of a girl. Sometimes the room grows quiet. Sometimes the smiles are forced. Sometimes people look at a daughter as if she arrived carrying disappointment instead of joy. But they do not understand what a daughter can be to a father. A daughter can become the gentlest part of a man’s life. The one who softens his voice without trying. The one who turns a hard home into a warm one. The one who brings tenderness back into places where life had slowly replaced it with exhaustion. For thirteen years, I waited for that kind of love. And now she is here. My little girl. So small that when I look at her, the whole world suddenly feels loud and cruel around something impossibly fragile. But for the past two days, she has been burning with fever. Somewhere inside her tiny body, an infection is fighting her, and I still do not even know exactly where. She is lying in a hospital bed while I sit here carrying the helplessness only a parent can understand. The worst part is that I have not even been able to see her yet. I have not touched her small hands. I have not kissed her forehead. I have not stood beside her and told her that her father is there. And it is strange how quickly life can humble a man. There were years when I thought I understood suffering. Years of pressure, disappointment, responsibility, and exhaustion. But none of those things feel heavier than the fever of a three-week-old daughter. Right now, nothing else matters. Not pride. Not money. Not the noise of people. Not the expectations of society. Only her. Only the tiny girl who entered my life after thirteen long years and filled parts of my soul I thought would remain empty forever. So if you pray tonight, pray for her. Pray that her fever breaks. Pray that her small body finds strength. Pray that this little light stays in this world a long, long time. Because some children are born into a home. And some children arrive like mercy. @JanEvelynCRE @arnoldroth

@IsraMum Nothing a man becomes in life will ever matter more than being a daughter’s father.❤️💙

Babies have a way to make you feel like the end of the world each time a small problem appears. Then they get well and forget all about it, and you're still catching your breath... When my superstar niece was born, a well0intnetioned neighbor told my brother "never mind it's good news. You've exhausted your bad luck for the whole year". WE still laugh about it with my niece.

@RachelGur 💙

@A_Protest_Wave A daughter is a blessing, especially for a father.

Mahmud Tarzi’s life was shaped by exile, ambition, and ultimately disappointment. He was born in 1865 into an influential Afghan political family tied to Amir Sher Ali Khan. But when Abdur Rahman Khan seized power, the old political order collapsed and the Tarzi family was forced into exile. For the young Tarzi, this was not just a loss of homeland — it was an early lesson in how fragile power and states could be in Afghanistan. The family eventually settled in the Ottoman Empire, and that changed him completely. In Istanbul, Tarzi encountered a world Afghanistan barely knew existed: newspapers, constitutional politics, modern education, nationalism, and industrial progress. He learned Turkish, Arabic, and French, translated foreign works, and became fascinated not simply with Europe itself, but with the machinery of strong modern states. He came to believe that Afghanistan could not survive in the modern world through tribal politics and isolation alone. When he returned to Kabul years later, he carried those ideas back with him. But instead of confronting traditional society directly, he tried to reshape elite thinking through journalism. His newspaper, Seraj al-Akhbar, became the intellectual center of early Afghan reformism. Through it, Afghans read about world politics, science, Japan’s modernization, anti-colonial struggles, and new political ideas. Tarzi also transformed political writing itself. He abandoned overly ornate court language and wrote in a clearer, sharper style meant to persuade rather than merely impress. His influence expanded dramatically when his daughter, Queen Soraya, married Amanullah Khan. Together, Amanullah and the Tarzi circle envisioned a modern Afghanistan — independent, educated, centralized, and connected to the outside world. For a brief period, Tarzi seemed triumphant. He became foreign minister, Afghanistan gained greater independence after the Third Anglo-Afghan War, and reforms accelerated across the country. But this became the great turning point of his life. Tarzi and the reformists underestimated how deeply conservative and decentralized Afghan society remained. Rapid reforms in education, women’s visibility, dress, administration, and public life created backlash far beyond Kabul. Many Afghans saw the reforms not as modernization, but as an attack on religion and tradition. When Amanullah’s government collapsed in 1929, Tarzi’s entire intellectual project collapsed with it. And so, history repeated itself: the man whose life had begun in exile ended in exile. He spent his final years in Turkey, far from the country he had tried to transform. Yet even in failure, his influence endured. Modern Afghan journalism, diplomacy, reformist politics, and the very language of modernization in Afghanistan all carried his imprint. Mahmud Tarzi never fully succeeded. But he permanently changed the direction of Afghan political thought.

@JanEvelynCRE Lema.

@A_Protest_Wave What did you and your wife call her?

@JanEvelynCRE Thank you so much.❤️

@A_Protest_Wave Congrats on the birth of your daughter! She's beautiful. 🙏🙏🙏

A USAID Inspector General investigation confirms UNRWA staff involved with Hamas and the Oct. 7 massacre - including teachers and a social worker part of hostage-taking. This isn’t a lapse. It’s a system that allowed terror to embed itself inside a “humanitarian” agency. UNRWA in particular and the UN in general, have always been part of the problem in Gaza and can never be trusted.

I asked Grok to take me back to the ‘60’s. The 1660’s.

Show that you care... unlike the Beltway insiders who don’t. Please sign the petition calling on the Secretary of State to tell US-ally @JordanGov what the treaty requires the kingdom to do. It’s at change.org/ExtraditeTamimi. If not now, when? And if not us, then who?

Koledzy wyszli na spacerek. Wiekowi, po przejściach, a teraz już szczęśliwi. Bakcylek robi, co może, by dotrzymać kroku❤️ #TeamBakcylek pomagam.pl/7hgy6g

A History Lesson ⬇️

W marcu Kinga zorganizowała benefis księgarski dla naszego kolegi. Ten benefis nadal trwa :-) To multum skarbów z jej księgozbioru-- Kinga odstąpi je za bezcen, jeśli wesprzecie naszego kolegę, ppłk afgańskich Sił Powietrznych z okresu natowskiej misji w tym kraju, i zasilicie zbiórkę. Zajrzyjcie na jej profil i marcowe wpisy i znajdźcie coś dla siebie. Proszę Was też serdecznie o propagowania tej zbiórki wedle natchnienia. Nasz kolega wraz ze swoimi dwoma braćmi, oficerami, musi się ukrywać razem z całą rodziną. Orki władające dziś ich krajem nie znają się na żartach. Ani trochę

There are two kinds of people. First, those for whom honesty and integrity are not a performance, but a part of who they are. They don’t tell the truth to impress others or win approval—what people think of them isn’t their driving force. They remain sincere in every situation, no matter who they are facing. Second, those who only appear to be good. They carefully craft a positive image of themselves in your mind, earn your trust through that image, and then use that trust for their own advantage. To me, this kind of person deserves no respect. Nakamura, the Japanese man who devoted years of his life to serving Afghanistan and was later assassinated by the enemies of our country, belonged to the first group. He was a man of rare integrity—genuine, selfless, and deeply honorable. @japantimes

@kinga_suszka Thank you so much dear Kinga.💙

Afghan carpet.💙🥰

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Taliban administration has announced the dispatch of a 530-ton humanitarian aid shipment to the people of Gaza, stating that this package will support 22,000 families in Gaza. The value of the shipment is reported to be $500,000, and according to the ministry, it includes food items, clothing, and other essential supplies. @marklevinshow

Afghanistan.🇦🇫🥰

This Afghan blogger, Zahra, lives in Germany. At a protest rally held in support of the Islamic Republic of Iran, she described the current conflict between the United States and Israel on one side and Iran on the other as a war between Islam and disbelief, and openly declared that she stands with the Islamic Republic. This raises a serious and uncomfortable question. How does someone who sought refuge in a democratic country, most likely to escape extremism or ideological pressure, end up publicly aligning with the same kind of narratives many people run from Freedom of speech is a core value in Germany. But freedom also invites accountability. When words promote division and absolutism, people will question the consistency and the integrity behind them. @simonmontefiore @BillAckman @marklevinshow