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ईरान पर ट्रंप: “हमें नहीं पता कि हम किससे डील कर रहे हैं। वे फ़ोन करते हैं, ‘यह मोहम्मद फलाना बोल रहा है।’ मैं कहता हूँ, ‘क्या आप लीडर हैं? हम ढूंढ रहे हैं… हम एक लीडर ढूंढ रहे हैं।’ यह दुनिया का अकेला ऐसा देश है — जहाँ कोई भी लीडर नहीं बनना चाहता।”

Just read through the Election Commission's long notification countermanding the election in 144-Falta assembly constituency in West Bengal. 1. The Returning Officer and the General Observer did not find anything amiss on 29 and 30 April 2. The DM and the Special State Observer (an IAS officer who will certainly be reverted to the Centre if BJP loses and elevated if it wins?) on 1 May 2026 found the RO's clean chit unreliable and untruthful 3. Black tape and perfume, the SSO noted, were used to tamper with EVMs. Apparently one black tape was recovered and an FIR lodged 4. Black tape was intended to hide the name and symbol of a particular party and candidate. No prizes for guessing which party 5. Perfume was sprayed on buttons of the ballot unit so that voters pressing on the specific button could be identified outside the booth--presumably by smelling their fingers 6. The SSO also found rampant incidence of 'companion voting' or companions assisting voters to cast their vote 7. Curiously, the notification cites that video footage from the Bihar election last year was produced in Falta (whose fault could it be?) @parakala @_YogendraYadav @Apoorvanand__ @Dipankar_cpiml @DrSYQuraishi @sumonseng

BREAKING: Iran’s Foreign Ministry says US President Donald Trump's description of the seizure of Iranian vessels as “piracy” is not a slip of the tongue, but a clear admission of a criminal act. 🔴 More on aljazeera.com

सावरकर के परपोते सत्यकी सावरकर ने कोर्ट में वही कहा जो दुनिया कहती है ▪️सावरकर ने ब्रिटिश सरकार को 5 माफीनामे लिखे ▪️सावरकर ने दूसरे विश्व युद्ध में ब्रिटिश सरकार में भर्ती के लिए अपील की ▪️सावरकर ने गाय को सिर्फ़ एक उपयोगी जानवर माना, पूजनीय नहीं सावरकर के परपोते ने नेता प्रतिपक्ष राहुल गांधी के खिलाफ मानहानि के केस में कोर्ट में क्रॉस एग्जामिनेशन के दौरान वो सच बयां कर दिया जो संघियों और भाजपाईयों को हमेशा शर्मसार करता है!

The Alternate Universe of Donald J. Trump: Few Americans buy his claim that the U.S. has “already won” the Iran war, “but I want to win by a bigger margin.” That disconnect helps explain his fury at media coverage, from calling @nytimes “seditious” and branding @CNN “the enemy.” Public sentiment is moving the other way. A @washingtonpost poll released yesterday found that 61% of Americans view the war as a “mistake.”

🇮🇷🇺🇸🇰🇼 Iran COOKED America’s military footprint in the Middle East. Tehran hammered at least 16 U.S. bases across 8 countries, that’s the MAJORITY of U.S. entire presence in the region. Once-bustling spots like Camp Buring in Kuwait went from karaoke nights to ghost-town rubble. They wrecked $500M E-3 Sentry planes, destroyed almost every giant radome, smashed key radars, and even hit Qatar’s massive Al Udeid war room twice. The“impregnable fortresses” are now sitting ducks. Oof. Source: CNN

"No … Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State". Article I, Section 9, Clause 8 of the U.S. Constitution

Sadly, Joe Walsh is spot on and absolutely correct! 😢

The Pentagon is lying. Netanyahu's gamble has directly cost America $100b so far, four times what is claimed. Indirect costs for U.S. taxpayers are FAR higher. Monthly bill for each American household is $500 and rising fast. Israel First always means America Last.

Absolute humiliation for the White House. A prominent US Senator reveals the Trump administration completely dismantled the State Department, replacing expert diplomats with two unqualified real estate developers. Their arrogant amateur diplomacy has yielded absolutely nothing.

Having to say RSS “is not the Indian version of the Ku Klux Klan.” And on using the Indian state and public money to try and rebrand itself abroad. @NilanjanUdwin

NEW: 🇺🇸Trump says Seizing ships by rhe US navy is very profitable business and that the United States are the world biggest pirates now: “It’s a very profitable business. We’re like pirates.” Yes he said that

Trump's naval blockade of Iran is obscuring his other blockade — the one against Cuba that has entered its fourth month and is causing a worsening humanitarian crisis marked by blackouts, water scarcity, failing hospitals and food shortages. The current U.S. strategy is the first time a modern superpower has used simultaneous, open-ended naval blockades as a primary coercive tool against two separate nations in different hemispheres during peacetime or while a ceasefire is in effect.

Canada : you wonder why Trump is acting the way it does? Constantly making the decision that benefits Russia, even to the detriment of the USA and -always- to the detriment of its allies like Canada? This Guardian exclusive explains it all : "Vladimir Putin personally authorised a secret spy agency operation to support a “mentally unstable” Donald Trump in the 2016 US presidential election... according to what are assessed to be leaked Kremlin documents." "There is also apparent confirmation that the Kremlin possesses kompromat, or potentially compromising material, on the future president, collected – the document says – from Trump’s earlier “non-official visits to Russian Federation territory”." "There is a brief psychological assessment of Trump, who is described as an “impulsive, mentally unstable and unbalanced individual who suffers from an inferiority complex”." TRUMP, TO THIS DAY, WHO SUES EVERYBODY AND THEIR MOTHER, HAS NEVER SUED THE GUARDIAN. #Trump #Russia #cdnpoli #euronews theguardian.com/world/2021/jul…

Encouraging. #Syria jumped 36 places on the Press Freedom Index in the past year — the single biggest climb on record. It now stands higher than most of its regional neighbors — #Saudi, #Bahrain, #Egypt, #Yemen, #Turkey, #Iraq, #Sudan, #UAE, #Palestine, #Algeria & #Jordan.

मनमोहन सिंह सरकार : प्रधानमंत्री मनमोहन सिंह सितंबर 2013 में अमेरिका गए। राष्ट्रपति बराक ओबामा से मुलाकात के दौरान कहा कि "पाकिस्तान आतंकवाद का केंद्र बिंदु ("Epicenter of Terrorism") है।" मनमोहन सिंह कार्यकाल में अमेरिकी राष्ट्रपति ने अनेक बार दोहराया कि पाकिस्तान का आतंकवाद स्वीकार्य नहीं है। नरेंद्र मोदी सरकार : पहलगाम हमले के एक साल बाद अप्रैल, 2026 में रक्षामंत्री राजनाथ सिंह SCO की बैठक में कह कर आए हैं कि "आतंकवाद का न कोई देश होता है, ना कोई धर्म होता है।" पहलगाम नरसंहार के बाद भारत ने पाकिस्तान पर कार्रवाई की तो ट्रंप ने युद्धविराम की घोषण कर दी। ​तबसे पाकिस्तानी सेना प्रमुख लगातार ट्रंप का दुलारा बना हुआ है। ट्रंप बार बार उसे महान बताता है। ट्रंप कभी युद्धविराम के बहाने और कभी तेल खरीद के बहाने भारत को अपमानित करता है। आप फैसला कीजिए कि किसने भारत को मजबूत किया, किसने कमजोर किया।

The Iran war has exposed systemic vulnerabilities in the American way of war, offering China a real-time tutorial in how to exploit them. Iranian reprisals degraded U.S. air defenses, blinded early-warning systems and left many of its 13 regional bases inoperable. Just as consequential is the drain on U.S. munitions, forcing the Pentagon to divert stockpiles from Asia. This has thinned deterrence in the Indo-Pacific just as China’s coercive power expands. Replenishment will take years, not months. And the problem is not just quantity — the war has exposed deeper weaknesses such as vulnerable forward bases, the difficulty of countering drone swarms and how quickly maritime superiority erodes in narrow seas. thehill.com/opinion/intern…

Absolute insanity. Donald Trump admits he judges the Chairman of the Federal Reserve not on economic policy or interest rates, but because the Fed didn't give Trump's real estate company a massive building renovation contract! The corruption is completely out in the open.

BREAKING: Cost of the US-Israel war on Iran is closer to $50 billion, or nearly double the estimate revealed on Wednesday, according to US media reports citing US officials. 🔴 Follow aljazeera.com for more

Good morning, Asia. While you were sleeping, one of our most-read stories was about how lawmakers from the president's own party have begun to demand accountability over the increasingly unpopular conflict. ft.trib.al/1gbKMhM