Jonathan Foreman

Today, in Iran, in the middle of a war, the regime executed a 19-year-old national wrestling champion for the crime of joining January protests. 💔 After signaling to the world, including President @realDonaldTrump, that they would halt executions of protesters, the regime has done the exact opposite. Three young protesters, Saleh Mohammadi, Mehdi Ghasemi, and Saeed Davoudi, were hanged in Qom after a sham trial. Reports indicate torture. Forced confessions. No access to chosen lawyers. Closed-door proceedings. No right to appeal. I call on @GlobalAthleteHQ to stand with Iranian athletes who are being silenced, imprisoned, and executed simply for raising their voices. This is not just about sports. This is about human dignity.

@RidgeandFrost @SophyRidgeSky @KamaliMelbourne Malloch Brown's opinion on the legality of a war is worthless. He is not a judge nor a lawyer & has no law degree. He's just a soft-left journalist turned PR man turned anti-American UN apparatchik (he lied about its Oil for Food scandal) who worked for Gordon Brown for 2 yrs.

Former Foreign Office minister and former deputy secretary-general of the UN, Lord Mark Malloch Brown, tells @SophyRidgeSky and @KamaliMelbourne that the beginning of this war, the U.S.-Israel attack on Iran, was illegal. trib.al/SQUr7uq

@PhillipAdams_1 Really? Like all the Bloomsberries VW was a terrible snob; she also notoriously looked down on the Jewish heritage of her remarkable husband Leonard who bankrolled her and her friend’s careers.

Didn’t realise she was reach a snob.

UAE and other Gulf states want the Iranian regime neutered before the war ends — so that they can never be battered with missiles and drones again. My analysis. wsj.com/world/middle-e…

@Frances_Coppola @DalrympleWill @SkyNews Ignorant & dishonest nonsense. The ‘82 invasion targeted the PLO, then entrenched in Southern Lebanon & Beirut & heavily raiding into Israel while taking part in the ongoing Lebanese civil war. (The PLO allied with SSNP, LCP, LNM & Sunni militias against the Xtian LF & Shia Amal)

Shocking error from Michael Clarke on @skynews just now. Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon wasn't to take out Hezbollah as he claimed. It was to remove Lebanon's government. Hezbollah didn't exist at that time. It emerged in response to that invasion.

The bizarre love affair between the BBC and the brutal regime in Iran will be studied by future generations

@gideonrachman @saadmohseni @FT The PAF’s Kabul hospital bombing & its toll of 400 must be one of those hospital bombings that’s OK- because, you know, it’s er different…

Shocking death toll and a new war emerging in South Asia. But hardly anyone seems to have noticed. ft.com/content/da1d82… via @ft

Labour’s attack on jury trials is the biggest assault on English liberty — especially free speech — in over 800 years. It will fundamentally alter our constitution. What Labour is proposing is a sinister betrayal of both its own traditions and centuries of legal heritage. None of Labour’s great leaders — Attlee, Wilson, Callaghan — would have dreamed of such an act of constitutional vandalism. Yet David Lammy appears all too willing to strip away this fundamental right. He plans to press ahead regardless, despite warnings from some of the country’s leading legal minds that these reforms will undermine trust in the criminal justice system — and despite there being no evidence they will work. In fact, the Institute for Government estimates the changes would save just 2% of Crown Court time — not the 20% claimed. The Government is hellbent on rushing this through Parliament. For context, MPs were given as much time to debate this as the Salmon Act 1986 — which made it an offence to handle salmon in suspicious circumstances. Meanwhile, the real issue is being ignored: more than 64 Crown courtrooms sit empty on working days — around 12% of the total across England and Wales. Read more from Shadow Justice Secretary @NJ_Timothy in @ConHome 👇

A petition to bring back the full District Line service to London's Kensington Olympia Station (idiotically stopped a few years ago after a dishonest assessment by #TFL) c.org/pKZzn6r5 via @UKChange

Tonight attacks on Al Rashid Hotel in Baghdad & US Embassy in Green Zone in Baghdad and Victory base in BIAP plus attacks on Erbil mean an all out war by the Iraqi militias to broaden the conflict and engulf the country in the current military conflict.

@jpodhoretz Diane Lane at 18(?) Willem Dafoe scary in rubber pants…I loved it.

@JonEForeman Man I love Streets of Fire.

Literally there was not a person on earth who even remembered Amy Madigan existed a year ago today.

@SkyNews @DominicWaghorn You can’t say that the Iranian regime doesn’t reward its friends and supporters.

Sky's @DominicWaghorn is among one of the only international journalists currently allowed into Iran. He witnesses the impact of the war on the ground, as it continues to escalate. ➡️ trib.al/SwaVKGX

Today is the anniversary of the Halabja chemical weapons massacre in Iraqi Kurdistan in 1988 - when Saddam Hussein’s army used poison gas to murder at least 3,200 Kurdish people, mostly civilians, as part of his regime’s genocidal ‘Anfal’ campaign.

@RepVindman @SecWar Is Hegseth actually ordering 'no quarter' or using the phrase as a figure of speech? It's important to be honest about this sort of thing.

Former Army JAG here. No quarter orders are a violation of the law of war and Geneva conventions. This is the same order reportedly given during the Caribbean boat strikes. @SecWar is establishing a pattern of issuing illegal orders. I’ve trained hundreds of soldiers on the law of war — our service members have an obligation to follow that law.

@DominicWaghorn Reporting on a country does not require joining in all of its official celebrations regardless of timing. This disingenuousness about the Iran embassy party is sleazy. If you had any integrity - & courage - you’d simply admit (as would @SkyNews) that you made a foolish error.

Just to be clear AGAIN yes journalists myself among them were at the Iran National Day event at the Iranian Embassy including ITV, CNN et al as they are every year. To commit journalism. I’m now in Tehran doing the same.

@DominicWaghorn @dailytelegraph Journalist & diplomats do go to embassies all the time but not to every embassy at any time. You know perfectly well that to visit the Iranian embassy while the demonstrators’ corpses were still warm would be taken by your regime hosts as a gesture of support - but went anyway.

Just to be clear again journalists and diplomats go to all kind of national day events at all kinds of embassies. The young staff at the @dailytelegraph may be forgiven for not knowing that yet but the rest of you for goodness sake behave

Iran has already assassinated dissidents abroad (and tried to kill yet more). We can now expect even more of it.

@NickWestbyNew @rebecca_ryder21 @NHSuk Can the UK's Health Ministers, including @wesstreeting be aware that the #NHS spectacularly overpays for just about everything it buys? And if so, have any of them tried to fix this core reason for the alleged unaffordability of beds, nurses, new treatments?

@rebecca_ryder21 My NHS physio used to buy support boots direct for £62. 2 years ago he was ordered to stop as they would now be bought centrally - same boot, same company - for £132! The same hospital pays £30 for Tesco computer paper that is £4.50. The @NHSuk isn't short of cash. It's badly run

NHS hospital: I noticed the clock on the wall showed the wrong time. A nurse told me they knew, but they wouldn’t report it because replacing the battery through the NHS would cost £70. A £2 battery... £70. How? Why? That's when I began to dig further. 🧵

Gun systems, like this C-RAM at a US base in Iraq, or the various types used in Ukraine, are by far the most effective as well as most economical last-ditch defense against Shahed type drones. They should be guarding not just every RAF base but all UK military installations.