Seeji Sundarakshan
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@Sseeji
interest in geopolitics, economics, independent media and people. https://t.co/LKajXnh2cF
🇮🇷/🇺🇸/🇸🇦🔻Following an F-35 being struck by Iranian air defense, Look like a CH-47 Chinook helicopter conducted a search and rescue operation in Saudi Arabia, suggesting the aircraft crashed rather than landing safely.
🇮🇷 I just found out that the man set to succeed Ali Larijani is - Saeed Jalili: >PhD in Political Science >Former Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council >Chief nuclear negotiator of Iran >Academic and lecturer in political theory >Author of multiple books and research works >Iran–Iraq war veteran (lost part of his leg in combat) >Long-time strategist within Iran’s power structure 🔥 Mann… there’s something in Iran’s soil- they don’t produce politicians, they mass-produce PhDs 🔥 🔥 🔥
The moment Modi hugged Netanyahu & later told Knesset that India stood with Israel "in this moment and beyond" one knew rupee had begun its downhill journey towards 100 in the near term.
Spoke with my dear friend, President Emmanuel Macron, on the situation in West Asia and the urgent need for de-escalation, as well as a return to dialogue and diplomacy. We look forward to continuing our close coordination to advance peace and stability in the region and beyond. @EmmanuelMacron
In all this waffle, Mr. @ShashiTharoor ignores the basic fact that we haven’t been silent. We have explicitly taken a side, when our Prime Minister publicly stated that he stood with his ‘good friend’ Netanyahu; a man who represents the most grotesque regime in modernity and is wanted by the ICJ for crimes against humanity. Our performative antics have lost us the trust of a valuable and long standing ally, and forfeited national interest in exchange for some surveillance equipment, likely to be used against our own citizens. Advocating a departure from morality is not and never can be the starting position for any policy, foreign or domestic. It is certainly unacceptable to make immorality the corner stone of policy, particularly when it doesn’t serve the interests of the Indian people. A terribly disappointing but increasingly predictable position from Mr. Tharoor. He should be grateful he belongs to a political tradition that permits intellectual divergence, of this magnitude and despite his direct challenge to the vision articulated by the @INCIndia leadership, through Mrs. Sonia Gandhi’s article some days ago.
Israel has been pummeled all night. Based on my counts of alerts and reports of landings from open sources the number increased tonight, though there are no reports of casualties. My Whatsapp groups are filled with people having breakdowns after not sleeping for two weeks. In Jerusalem 4 alerts were heard in a 90 minute span. Iran has been able to increase the number of launches daily. Everyone seems angry at the IDF and Netanyahu for lying about the destruction of Iranian capabilities.
WATCH LIVE: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's statements to the media (in both English and Hebrew) twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
@KanwalSibal The USA should have kept the South Block in the loop.
