aidanmarus
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🇱🇧Lebanon pulls off something no other country really does.
Morning swim in the Mediterranean.
One hour in the car. Standing in alpine snow by afternoon.
Ancient Phoenician cities, Roman ruins, cedar forests older than most civilizations, and mountain peaks. all packed into a strip of land the size of Connecticut.
Most people travel across entire continents chasing that kind of contrast. Lebanese people do it before lunch.
Source: PlanetVista 4k
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal
The complexity of the Lebanon issue in 1 map
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🇮🇷 Iranian President Pezeshkian:
"We are not seeking unrest.
We do not act against international law.
You should accept those same international laws.
They want to eliminate anything that leads to growth and awareness."
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal
🇮🇱🇱🇧 Heavy fighting is reportedly ongoing between Hezbollah and the IDF in Bint Jbeil, southern Lebanon. Bint Jbeil is a key area Israel is seeking to take control of before any possible ceasefire.
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@MarioNawfal The world economy has been along for the ride ever since ships were being shot at in the strait almost two months ago. You seem to forget who actually closed the strait.
I’m in Dubai, and it’s impacted us
heavily. It’s interesting that you’re complaining about a solution.
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🇺🇸 Stephen Miller on the Strait of Hormuz blockade: "The U.S. has the capacity to continue this indefinitely."
Big claim… considering the global economy would be along for the ride.
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal
🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump has declared the war with Iran is “very close to over.” The U.S. blockade of Iranian ports in the Strait of Hormuz is still rock solid. Zero ships have gotten through in the first 48 hours. Pentagon now confirms nearly 400 American service members have been injured since Operation Epic Fury started. Source: Fox
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@MarioNawfal I’ve been in Dubai since the war began. Shipments have been halted since day one to Jabal Ali.
I’m trying to wrap my head around how you ignore who’s been shutting the strait all these weeks, and yet all of a sudden seem to have an issue with IRGC ports being blocked.
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🇺🇸🇮🇷 CENTCOM says Iranian ports are basically locked down.
10,000+ troops, warships, aircraft involved, and in the first 24 hours not a single ship got through, 6 were turned back.
Applies to everyone, not just Iran.
Ships going to other countries can still pass through, as long as they’re not heading to Iranian ports.
Source: @CENTCOM
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal
🚨🇮🇱🇱🇧 Israel and Lebanon are talking directly in Washington right now. First time since 1983. Rubio is in the room. Two ambassadors who've never sat across from each other are sitting across from each other. 43 years of no contact, a live war, and somehow this meeting is happening anyway. Let's go! @officialrnintel
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@MarioNawfal This is a misleading post.
There’s a long backlog on orders from the US, and Ukraine has years of experience with cheap anti-drone tech. South Korean equipment is cheaper and available now.
These are practical needs, not some geopolitical play.
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🇸🇦🇶🇦 6 weeks is all it took for Trump's Gulf allies to turn away from the U.S and look to other countries to help restock their defenses against Iran.
Saudi, Qatar, and the UAE are turning to South Korean missile-defense systems and Ukrainian interceptor drones.
Riyadh and Qatar have also signed defense-cooperation deals with Ukraine.
Source: WSJ
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal
🇮🇱🇺🇸 Netanyahu reveals he receives daily briefings from Trump's team: “I spoke with VP JD Vance. He briefed me in detail, as officials of this administration do on a daily basis.”
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@sciencegirl Why didn’t you write where this city is and what it’s called?
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@MarioNawfal Why does anyone care? She seems to be enjoying herself.
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Most embarrassing moment in TV history?
Not sure what people are so upset about tbh...
x.com/MattWallace888…
Matt Wallace@MattWallace888
A news anchor is facing calls to be fired, after what many are calling the most embarrassing moment in live TV history!
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@4thOfJuly365 Missing:
Spaceships
Vaccines
Canned food
Semiconductors
Transistors
Electric engines
Combustion engines
Photometers
Gravimeters
Seismographs
Hydraulic systems
Feild of Physics
Robots
Feild of Quantum Physics
The Scientific Method
Pianos +++
Radar
Sonar
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Joy Reid: "Whites can't invent anything"
Inventions by "white" people 👇🏻
Printing press (Johannes Gutenberg)
Telescope (Hans Lippershey)
Mechanical calculator (Blaise Pascal)
Electric battery (Alessandro Volta)
Incandescent light bulb (Thomas Edison)
Telephone (Alexander Graham Bell)
Phonograph (Thomas Edison)
Airplane (Wright brothers)
Automobile (Karl Benz)
Steam engine (James Watt)
World Wide Web (Tim Berners-Lee)
Alternating current system (Nikola Tesla)
Radio (Guglielmo Marconi)
Television (John Logie Baird / early contributors like Karl Ferdinand Braun)
Computer (Charles Babbage / Konrad Zuse)
Bicycle (Karl von Drais)
Motorcycle (Gottlieb Daimler)
Diesel engine (Rudolf Diesel)
Jet engine (Frank Whittle / Hans von Ohain)
Rocket (Wernher von Braun)
Parachute (Louis-Sébastien Lenormand)
Hot air balloon (Montgolfier brothers)
Submarine (Cornelis Drebbel / John Philip Holland)
Helicopter (Igor Sikorsky)
X-ray machine (Wilhelm Röntgen)
Barometer (Evangelista Torricelli)
Thermometer (Daniel Fahrenheit / Galileo contributions)
Microscope (Zacharias Janssen / Antonie van Leeuwenhoek improvements)
Eyeglasses (Salvino D'Armate / Italian inventors)
Contact lenses (Adolf Eugen Fick)
Pasteurization (Louis Pasteur)
Antiseptic surgery (Joseph Lister)
Penicillin (Alexander Fleming)
Aspirin (Felix Hoffmann / Bayer)
Insulin (Frederick Banting)
MRI scanner (Raymond Damadian / Paul
Lauterbur)
CT scanner (Godfrey Hounsfield)
Refrigerator (Carl von Linde)
Air conditioning (Willis Carrier)
Microwave oven (Percy Spencer)
Vacuum cleaner (Hubert Cecil Booth)
Washing machine (James King / later electric by Alva Fisher)
Sewing machine (Elias Howe)
Typewriter (Christopher Latham Sholes)
Zipper (Whitcomb Judson)
Velcro (George de Mestral)
Ballpoint pen (László Bíró)
Pencil (modern version by Nicolas-Jacques Conté)
Postage stamp (Rowland Hill)
Christmas card (Henry Cole)
Assembly line (Henry Ford)
Interchangeable parts (Eli Whitney)
Cotton gin (Eli Whitney)
Reaper (Cyrus McCormick)
Steel plow (John Deere)
Elevator safety brake (Elisha Otis)
Air brake (George Westinghouse)
Morse code/telegraph (Samuel Morse)
Radar (Robert Watson-Watt)
Sonar (Lewis Richardson)
Atomic bomb (Manhattan Project team, led by J. Robert Oppenheimer et al.)
Laser (Theodore Maiman)
LED (Nick Holonyak)
Bluetooth (Jaap Haartsen)
Wi-Fi (Vic Hayes / Hedy Lamarr contributions to spread spectrum)
Compact disc (Philips and Sony teams)
Photography (Nicéphore Niépce / Louis Daguerre)
Motion picture camera (Lumière brothers)
Phonograph record (Emile Berliner)
Synthetic dye (William Henry Perkin)
Plastic (Leo Baekeland - Bakelite)
Nylon (Wallace Carothers)
Kevlar (Stephanie Kwolek)
Dynamite (Alfred Nobel)
Gunpowder formula in Europe (Roger Bacon description)
Match (sulphur-tipped, English inventors)
Fire extinguisher (George Manby)
Safety razor (King C. Gillette)
Electric razor (Jacob Schick)
Earmuffs (Chester Greenwood)
Jeans (Levi Strauss)
Swiss Army knife (Karl Elsener)
Cuckoo clock (German inventors)
Metronome (Johann Maelzel)
Piano (Bartolomeo Cristofori)
Violin (Andrea Amati)
Accordion (Cyrill Demian)
Saxophone (Adolphe Sax)
Braille (Louis Braille)
Analytic geometry (René Descartes)
Calculus (Isaac Newton / Gottfried Leibniz)
Logarithms (John Napier)
Slide rule (William Oughtred)
Mercator projection (Gerardus Mercator)
Gregorian calendar (Pope Gregory XIII commissio
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@MarioNawfal The US agreed to a fragile ceasefire with a sectarian government currently dominated by decentralized ideologues. I hope the ceasefire lasts and ultimately results in a long lasting peaceful outcome for all people in the region.
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BREAKING:
A very important Saudi pipeline was struck by a drone attack while the UAE and Kuwait were attacked as well
Someone is trying to sabotage the ceasefire
Could be factions within Iran or Israel, who fkn knows anymore!
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal
MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS IN THE PAST HOUR: Heavy bombing throughout Beirut, possibly the most aggressive to date, and is also reaching non Hezbollah areas The bekaa, south, southern beirut, Rouche, and Ain mreisseh all reported heavy bombings I'm also hearing reports that Iran attacked Kuwait and the UAE, and that Iran's oil facilities on Siri Island were targeted Iran is blaming the UAE, and some unreliable accounts are even claiming UAE warplanes flying over Iran today Others are claiming this is an Israeli false flag On the attacks in Iran, I find the former almost impossible to be true, but we're working to get more information and will update everyone asap Clearly not everyone wants a ceasefire
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@JohnOzOzOzOiOiO @MarioNawfal I doubt it. Their fighters have only been intercepting drones. And UAE has been on the defensive all this time. Could be debris or just an excuse to justify aggressions.
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@aidanmarus @MarioNawfal Apparently UAE had sent their bombers into Iran. Hence the retaliation. Lots of fog of war at the moment how things are shaping out.
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🚨BREAKING:
🇮🇷 A senior Iranian official says Hormuz could reopen as early as tomorrow or Friday if a ceasefire framework is reached ahead of Pakistan talks.
The catch: any reopening would be limited and all vessels would still need to coordinate with the Iranian military.
Source: @DeItaone
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal
🚨🇱🇧 All hospitals across Lebanon are open for blood donations. If you're in Lebanon, please consider donating today.
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🚨BREAKING:
🇮🇷🇦🇪 Iran has struck the oil terminal in Fujairah, saying it's retaliation for strikes on the Lavan oil refinery and Siri Island.
Fujairah is on the UAE's eastern coast and one of the world's largest oil storage hubs.
Something is not adding up!
Source: Counter Intelligence Global TG
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal
MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS IN THE PAST HOUR: Heavy bombing throughout Beirut, possibly the most aggressive to date, and is also reaching non Hezbollah areas The bekaa, south, southern beirut, Rouche, and Ain mreisseh all reported heavy bombings I'm also hearing reports that Iran attacked Kuwait and the UAE, and that Iran's oil facilities on Siri Island were targeted Iran is blaming the UAE, and some unreliable accounts are even claiming UAE warplanes flying over Iran today Others are claiming this is an Israeli false flag On the attacks in Iran, I find the former almost impossible to be true, but we're working to get more information and will update everyone asap Clearly not everyone wants a ceasefire
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UAE Air Defenses engaged 17 Ballistic Missiles and 35 UAV's.
The Ministry of Defense announced that on April 8, 2026, UAE air defense engaged 17 ballistic missiles and 35 UAV's launched from Iran.
Since the onset of the blatant Iranian attacks, UAE air defenses have engaged a total of 537 ballistic missiles, 26 cruise missiles, and 2,256 UAV's.
These attacks resulted in injuries to 3 individuals, all of whom sustained minor injuries, bringing the total number of injuries to 224, involving individuals of various nationalities, including Emirati, Egyptian, Sudanese, Ethiopian, Filipino, Pakistani, Iranian, Indian, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan, Azerbaijani, Yemeni, Ugandan, Eritrean, Lebanese, Afghan, Bahraini, Comorian, Turkish, Iraqi, Nepalese, Nigerian, Omani, Jordanian, Palestinian, Ghanaian, Indonesian, Swedish, Tunisian, Moroccan, and Russian.
No martyrs or fatalities have been reported in the past hours. Since the onset of the blatant Iranian attacks, the total number of martyrs has reached 2, in addition to the martyrdom of a Moroccan civilian contracted with the Armed Forces. The total number of civilian fatalities stands at 10, from Pakistani, Nepalese, Bangladeshi, Palestinian, Indian, and Egyptian nationalities.
The Ministry of Defence affirmed that it remains fully prepared and ready to deal with any threats and will firmly confront anything that aims to undermine the security of the country, in a manner that ensures the protection of its sovereignty, security and stability and safeguards its interests and national capabilities.
#وزارة_الدفاع
#وزارة_الدفاع_الإماراتية
#MOD
#UAEMinistryOfDefence
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@MarioNawfal Dude what are you taking about? Theres no agreement on the 10 point proposal. We have two week ceasefire to discuss a mutual proposal. Right now it’s only cessation of attacks in exchange for opening the strait.
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🚨 BREAKING:
🇺🇸🇮🇷 Axios: Steve Witkoff reacted furiously to Iran's initial 10-point proposal, calling it a catastrophe and a disaster
He's not alone, many have shared these concerns, and that's why I applaud Trump even more for walking away from this war despite the backlash he's expected to face.
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal
🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump: "You don’t know what the points are. I know what they are. They’re very good points, and most of them have been fully negotiated. They’re not the maximalist demands Iran is claiming. If it isn’t good, we’ll go right back to it very easily."
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