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London Taxi Driver, electric Taxi, also a ❄️ proud Tanzanian and African & an immigrant

ÜT: 51.369413,-0.094617 Katılım Mayıs 2009
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Patricia Marins
Patricia Marins@pati_marins64·
Iran doesn't seem intimidated at all and has just released another Lego video mocking the coalition.
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Sony Thăng
Sony Thăng@nxt888·
There is a mythology the U.S. built around the American War in Vietnam. It goes like this: Young idealistic soldiers were sent into an unwinnable situation by confused politicians. They came home broken and unappreciated. It was a tragedy. A mistake. A lesson learned. Notice what that story does. It centers Americans. Their trauma. Their confusion. Their homecoming. Their feelings. In this story, the Vietnamese people are a backdrop. A jungle. An obstacle. An abstraction. Three million dead Vietnamese people are the scenery for a story about American self-discovery. They made hundreds of movies about Vietnam. The Deer Hunter. Apocalypse Now. Platoon. Full Metal Jacket. Born on the Fourth of July. Hamburger Hill. Count how many of them center a Vietnamese character with a full human life, a family, a name you remember after the credits roll. They turned our genocide into their coming-of-age story. They lost the war and still managed to make themselves the main character. And then, with extraordinary arrogance, they put their soldiers' names on a wall in Washington and call it a memorial, as if the dead to be mourned were the people who flew 10,000 miles to do the killing. Where is the wall for our three million? There isn't one. Because in their telling, we were never quite real enough to mourn.
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Blunt
Blunt@Shinamuller·
Trump never read the goddamn history. He looked at Iran and saw some cheap little Venezuela he could slap around. So he jumped in with Israel and started swinging. Back then Saddam had the whole rotten circus behind him. Every Arab king and sheikh. The West. Even the Soviets shoving guns and cash down his throat. All to protect those greasy family dictatorships in the Gulf. He attacked. For six long years he and his fat allies crawled on their bellies begging for a ceasefire. Iran spat in their faces and kept fighting. Now they try the same shit again. But Iran is no Cuba. Iran is a furnace. Oil and gas boiling under the ground. Scientists. Engineers. Philosophers. A whole people forged in fifty years of pure anti-imperial fire. Their kids get taught. Their sick get healed. They carry that old rage in their blood like dynamite. Trump and his stock-market whores. Those bloated billionaires jerking off to numbers on a screen. They forgot. They forgot that Iran will not sell Palestine. Will not sell Lebanon. Will not sell Yemen. Not for any ceasefire. Not for any peace. If this drags on for eight years like the last one, when the ceasefire finally comes the world will be something else entirely. Something uglier. Something truer. Something that will never go back to the way it was
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Ed Davey
Ed Davey@EdwardJDavey·
The government must finally proscribe the IRGC as terrorists. Antisemitism and those who fuel it have no place in our society.
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Bushra Shaikh
Bushra Shaikh@Bushra1Shaikh·
1100 killed in Lebanon. 2000 killed in Iran. 78,000 killed in Gaza. There is a common denominator. Not Palestine. Not Lebanon. Not Iran. It is Israel.
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Azi
Azi@realazadeh·
Why do some in the diaspora believe they know better than policymakers, legislative aides, and officials who have access to actual intelligence, trend analysis, and the real consequences of war? Launching a self-funded online show as an Iranian in the diaspora doesn’t make you an authority or expert on Iran. The idea that U.S. or European borders will just swing open is baseless - U.S. borders are closed. Other nations have their own strategic reasons. We don’t need to keep pushing a list of buzzword talking points, like threats of mass waves of refugees, as if that’s what drives their decisions or we are the only ones that have thought of this possibility. We don’t need sleazy used-car dealer rhetoric or a bazaari bargaining approach to justify regime change. It’s becoming embarrassing. No wonder Trump called us “menacing.” We’ve already lost credibility with the promises that foreign intervention would lead Iranians to pour into the streets and change the regime - twice. Iranians are going to change what they want, when they’re ready, and on their own terms. People in Iran are more than capable - clever, innovative, and resilient. And yes, that includes risking, even sacrificing, their own lives for the change they seek. Just because you aren’t doesn’t mean others are there to do it on demand for you. Can we stop stripping people inside Iran of their agency? Can we at least keep what’s left of our dignity?
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Bushra Shaikh
Bushra Shaikh@Bushra1Shaikh·
Take a look at the stark difference between how the @BBCNews covered the arson on Jewish ambulances versus on a Mosque. The arson attack on the Mosque had ONE visible article, while the empty ambulances had FOUR, ONE live blog and SEVEN videos. Analysis by @cfmmuk
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Amerikanets 📉
Amerikanets 📉@ripplebrain·
I continue to see influential accounts on here insist that this war is not primarily driven by Israeli foreign policy goals. It's possible to argue against this by sifting through media reports about who called who in the lead up to the war, and this is the tack most people take. But I'd like to build a case for Israeli strategic primacy through a different route. Place yourself in the shoes of an Israeli strategic planner, and assume that your principal strategic goal is Israeli hegemony over the Middle East. It should be uncontroversial to assert that eliminating Iran is a necessary (and perhaps the most important) component of this goal, so I'll skip over justifying that. How can this be accomplished? The IDF consists of 170k active duty personnel, and is suffering recruitment and retention issues. The IAF packs an outsized punch considering Israel's size, but it's ultimately a mid-tier air force with ~250 fighter airframes (most of which are F-16s and F-15s), no bombers, and only 11 refueling tankers. The Israeli Navy is a souped-up coastal defense force and can't be expected to operate in the Persian Gulf. Compare this to Iran, which has a manpower pool an order of magnitude larger, tens of thousands of drones and thousands of ballistic missiles, an asymmetric naval force focused on area denial, extensive proxy forces, and hugely favorable terrain for defensive operations. There's no chance of deploying an IDF ground component onto Iranian soil. It's an impossible prospect on a political level for any other state in the region to support this, and Iraq and Syria stand between Israel and Iran. Even if the Iranians didn't outnumber the IDF by a huge margin, sustaining some kind of invasion simply isn't on the table. The best you can do in terms of direct offensive operations is the following: • Launch a short campaign (remember you're limited by refueling aircraft) of aerial attacks using standoff munitions like ALBMs • Insert agents into Iran and have them launch drones from within the country • Try to arm and support proxy forces within Iran, or organize multiple small invasions • Orchestrate political violence, protests, terrorist attacks, etc The Israelis have attempted all of these, and so far none of them have seemed to fundamentally shift the strategic picture. This leaves one option on the table: get the United States to fight Iran for you. Considering this has been an Israeli goal for decades, and one administration after another has balked at the prospect, it's not an easy task. You'll draw vast sums of money out of a network of American Zionist billionaires to influence an election. You'll need the closest possible connections to US leadership, ideally agents within the executive's own family. You'll want to have your people involved in the US foreign policy apparatus, putting them in between the US government and Iran, so you can control negotiations. You'll need people within the Department of War, though having an agent as Secretary of War would draw too much attention. Once all of this is achieved, you'll stand a chance of orchestrating events to suck the US gradually into direct combat with Iran. You start off by provoking the Iranians into attacking you. Hit some embassies, assassinate IRGC personnel, launch airstrikes on Tehran. Keep pushing about the dangers of an Iranian nuclear weapon, make sure the US treats it like a red line. Pressure the administration into participating in a limited strike. Bide your time when necessary, then suddenly escalate again. When it seems like an off-ramp might be coming up, find a red line and cross it. Keep going until American hegemony itself is on the line. The sunk cost fallacy will ensure events unfold in your favor until American boots hit the ground. This is, of course, exactly what we're seeing. You can make a case that this war is really about China, or energy markets, or defense industry profits. There are sound arguments that some US interests overlap with Israeli goals. But it is *very* hard to make a case that this war isn't significantly the result of decades of Israeli soft power, influence operations, and espionage.
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Martin Williams
Martin Williams@martinrw·
🚨SCOOP: Man filmed in Al Jazeera ‘intimidation’ mob is a serving Metropolitan Police officer @declassifiedUK has identified him as Special Constable David Soffer. He was filmed calling a Palestinian journalist a "dog" and telling him to "go back to Qatar".
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Saeed Ghasseminejad
Saeed Ghasseminejad@SGhasseminejad·
I place my trust in President Trump and firmly believe there will be no deal between the United States and the Islamist regime in Iran. However, let there be no mistake: after promising the Iranian people that help would be on the way, signing a deal with murderers who killed 40,000 Iranians in a span of just two days, and who are currently planning to execute thousands more who remain in prison, with no mention of human rights and the fate of 100,000 imprisoned protestors would be a profound betrayal. Such an action would not only be a moral failure but a strategic disaster. It would miss the opportunity to topple a longtime enemy of America and would turn the most pro-U.S. population in the Muslim world against the United States for decades to come. It will be an enormous mistake, much bigger than what Carter did.
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Divyesh Ruparelia💙🇹🇿🇮🇳
We always used to laugh at the Americans not knowing their geography but it seems even the UKG and the @10DowningStreet is clueless about the geography of the #persiangulf
Iran (I.R.of) Embassy in UK@Iran_in_UK

First, every geographical location has a name, and the name of the gulf located south of Iran is the #PersianGulf، repeat this to yourselves every day so you don’t forget it. Second, if you have courage and fairness, it is better to condemn the regimes of the United States and Israel instead of condemning Iran, as they started the war and now its consequences are affecting everyone. Iran is merely acting in legitimate self-defense.

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