Simin Rafati

Gaza: Skin diseases are spreading aggressively among children amid the collapse of the healthcare system. With limited access to clean water and medical care, children are facing worsening conditions that deepen their daily suffering.

Israël vernietigt de laatste verbinding tussen Zuid-Libanon en de rest van het land. Een cruciale brug bij Tyrus - kapotgebombardeerd. Geen zelfverdediging, maar het systematisch isoleren van een burgerbevolking. Wanneer gaat de wereld hier iets van zeggen? dagelijksestandaard.nl/nieuws/israeli…

مدیریت آقای دکتر پزشکیان، دولت، شهرداری تهران و سایر ارکان اجرایی در چهل روز گذشته کم‌نظیر بوده است. با وجود حملات گسترده و جنایتکارانه به ساختمان‌های دولتی، مدارس، بیمارستان‌ها، کلانتری‌ها، راه‌های ریلی، صنایع حیاتی و بسیاری از زیرساخت‌های کشور، روند اداره امور مختل نشد: حقوق‌ها به‌موقع پرداخت شد، کالاهای اساسی تأمین شد، خدمات عمومی بدون وقفه ادامه یافت، امنیت شهرها برقرار بود و نیروهای امدادی با سرعت و کارآمدی در مناطق آسیب‌دیده حضور پیدا کردند و به مردم کمک رساندند. با وجود حملات سنگین به ذخایر سوخت - در حدی که موجب بارش نفت بر سر شهروندان شد - بنزین بدون صف و مشکل در دسترس مردم قرار گرفت و بسیاری از تأسیسات و سازه‌های ضروری نیز بلافاصله پس از بمباران - در حین جنگ - بازسازی شد. در کنار این‌ها، رئیس‌جمهور شخصاً با حضور شجاعانه در خیابان‌ها و در میان مردم، موجب تقویت انسجام اجتماعی و حفظ وحدت ملی شد و تصویری از یک ایران مقتدر و متکی به خود به جهان مخابره کرد. شهرداری تهران هم - علاوه بر تداوم ارائه خدمات ارزشمند - بلافاصله پس از بمباران‌های سنگین و بی وقفه، با پاکسازی سریع ساختمان‌ها و مناطق آسیب‌دیده، اجازه نداد حتی یک روز چهره پایتخت رنگ و بوی یک شهر جنگ‌زده به خود بگیرد، تا زندگی جریان داشته باشد. ایران فرق دارد!

@sahouraxo 💔

Israel executed Saleh today in Gaza with a bullet to the head. He was only 9 years old.

@TurgayEvren1 Ameen

Türkiye is crying for the kids who were killed in a school shooting. They are all the birds of paradise now. May Allah grant their families patience. 🤲

Savage Israel

Savage Israelis

@HajNooredin ❤️

خیابان زند‌ شیراز-امروز دریاب دمی که با طرب میگذرد

Israel just blew up a public high school in Marwahin, South Lebanon. Not a military base. A school.

@aqolizadeh ❤️

نگارستان یزدان است ایران بهارستان ایمان است ایران #پاينده_ایران

@RamAbdu 💔💔

Child victims Naya Halloum and 7-year-old Mohammad Halloum were killed by Israel on September 20 during the massacre in the town of Al-Qaa, Lebanon.

Wederom een misdaad, goedgekeurd door; @mirjambikker @chris_stoffer @MonaKeijzer @lientje1967 @geertwilderspvv @DilanYesilgoz Deze walgelijke lieden nemen nóg steeds geen afstand.

@RnaudBertrand Hope Persian artefacts will be returned too.

I rarely have reasons to be proud of France these days, but this is definitely one. France's parliament just voted - unanimously, 170 votes to 0 - a law that institutionalizes the restitution of cultural artifacts looted during the colonial era (the law covers a massive 157-year period). It's going absolutely viral in Chinese social media because of this speech 👇 by MP @JPatrierLeitus who noted in Parliament that it included items stolen to China during the joint British-French sack of the Summer Palace in 1860. Patrier-Leitus cites Victor Hugo's famous 1861 letter to Captain Butler, the British officer who wrote to him seeking his endorsement of the expedition - and got the exact opposite. Hugo wrote (whole letter here: yuanmingyuan.eu/en/the-looting…): "One day two bandits entered the Summer Palace. One plundered, the other burned. Victory can be a thieving woman, or so it seems. The devastation of the Summer Palace was accomplished by the two victors acting jointly. Mixed up in all this is the name of Elgin, which inevitably calls to mind the Parthenon. What was done to the Parthenon was done to the Summer Palace, more thoroughly and better, so that nothing of it should be left. All the treasures of all our cathedrals put together could not equal this formidable and splendid museum of the Orient. It contained not only masterpieces of art, but masses of jewelry. What a great exploit, what a windfall! One of the two victors filled his pockets; when the other saw this he filled his coffers. And back they came to Europe, arm in arm, laughing away. Such is the story of the two bandits. We Europeans are the civilized ones, and for us the Chinese are the barbarians. This is what civilization has done to barbarism. Before history, one of the two bandits will be called France; the other will be called England. But I protest, and I thank you for giving me the opportunity! the crimes of those who lead are not the fault of those who are led; Governments are sometimes bandits, peoples never. The French empire has pocketed half of this victory, and today with a kind of proprietorial naivety it displays the splendid bric-a-brac of the Summer Palace. I hope that a day will come when France, delivered and cleansed, will return this booty to despoiled China. Meanwhile, there is a theft and two thieves. I take note. This, Sir, is how much approval I give to the China expedition." Hugo's letter is so revered in China that a bronze bust of him stands today at the Summer Palace ruins - I believe the only instance of a Westerner honored in China at the site of his own country's crime. A powerful testament of how much a single act of intellectual honesty can redeem, if not a nation, then at least a name. Hugo was also prescient: as Patrier-Leitus notes, that day "when France, delivered and cleansed, will return this booty to despoiled China" has indeed come (even though the "delivered and cleansed" part is, overall, pretty questionable in the current context). This new law doesn't only concern China and the Summer Palace: it concerns ALL stolen artifacts by France during the period ranging between November 1815 and April 1972 - corresponding to the start of the second French colonial empire to the entry into force of the UNESCO convention on cultural property. It's a massive scope: 157 years, thousands of objects and dozens of nations with potential claims. It's France reckoning with its colonial past in an unprecedented way and the fact ALL of France's MPs voted in favor of the law, without a single exception, is also pretty remarkable. Hopefully this will also serve as a signal to other countries, especially the UK - the other "bandit" in Hugo's letter. There is this Chinese saying from the Zuo Zhuan (左传), one of the foundational Confucian classics: "To err and be able to correct it - there is no greater virtue." ("过而能改，善莫大焉", "guò ér néng gǎi, shàn mò dà yān"). France, with this law, proved its virtue.

🚨 Body Cam footage of NYPD officers killing a Black man. Body camera footage released by New York's Attorney General shows correctional officers brutally beating 43-year-old Robert Brooks while he was handcuffed on a prison infirmary bed. Brooks died the next day.

@_TCMH_ 💔💐

این تصویر معلمان شهید مدرسه‌ی مینابه. خیلی ازشون گفته نشده. اون‌ها سر کلاس و تا آخرین لحظه کنار شاگردهاشون بودن و شهید شدن.

@AmirT_HK همه مون فکر کنم. اما متاسفانه موقته تا وقتی سدهای روی رودخانه های که بهش می‌ریزند برداشته نشه باز خشک میشه.

بچه‌ها شما هم دیدید؟ چقدر دریاچه ارومیه زنده و خوشحال‌کننده شده این روزا! واقعا دلم براش تنگ شده بود من که کلی ذوق کردم، شما چی؟

@samane_salehi ❤️💐✌️🚼

کوچیک‌ترین پرچم‌دار ایران یک ماه دیگه به دنیا میاد. این مادر باردار باغیرت مشهدی در حالی یک ساعت پرچم عزیز کشورمون رو نگه داشته که فرزندش یک ماه دیگه متولد می‌شه و به گفته‌ی خودش اینجا دو نفری پرچم رو نگه داشتن. ما حتی فرزندان به دنیا نیومده‌مونم پرچمدار این میدان هستن.

@sahouraxo @ArnoudvDoorn 💔💔

Israel executed Mahdi and Fadl today in Mayfadoun, South Lebanon. Not combatants. Not armed. Just two paramedics on the front lines saving lives. Israel dropped bombs on their ambulances, killing him them instantly.

My interview with Art News about what has been done to Iran's cultural heritage in the past 40 days, and our letter: مصاحبه امروز من درباره نامه امضا شده و درباره نابودی به میراث ایران با روزنامه هنر لندن theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/15/mor…