Amin Jorati

Markets speak louder than words!

Israel just blew up a school in southern Lebanon. A year ago, it would have fabricated lies that the school was a secret hideout of Hamas or that there were tunnels below it filled with weapons. Since the West protected Israel as it destroyed Gaza, Israel doesn't even feel the need to make up lies or excuses any longer. It just kills and destroys without limitation. And according to Israeli politicians, yesterday it was Gaza, today it's Lebanon and Iran, and tomorrow it will be Turkey.

👇This is a stark example of how consent for war gets manufactured. The 42,000 figure is an obvious falsehood. According to @HRANA_English's 50 day report, which remains the most methodical documentation effort, 6,488 protesters were killed, along with 236 children counted separately, 76 non protester civilians, and 207 military and government forces, for a total of 7,007 fatalities. That is horrific. Calling out false numbers is not whitewashing the Iranian government, which has a brutal and well documented record of crushing dissent. The protests began on December 28. By the government’s own past standards, repression in the initial phase was not at its most severe and the global internet was not yet cut. Trump then threatened intervention, saying the US was “locked and loaded” if protesters were killed. Reza Pahlavi called for the January 8 and 9 protests and urged people to take “city centers,” while Trump said “take your institutions” and “help is on the way.” Thousands came out. The government then shut access to the global internet and the killing escalated dramatically. The Iranian government is first and foremost responsible for its brutality. But Trump and Netanyahu did not help ordinary Iranians here. They exploited legitimate grievances, anger, and desperation to justify a war that has proven ruinous for Iranian society and damaging to prospects for democratic change. And now Trump is seeking a deal with that same government while pretending regime change somehow already occurred.

Netanyahu is arguably the only criminal in human history who has managed to stay out of prison by openly committing infinitely more heinous crimes.

If you ever wondered why the country is called apartheid Israel…

He was killed by an Israeli strike. Why is the Minister unable to acknowledge this?

Indeed a new world, where Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine can be called what it is, but the US/Israel war of aggression against Iran needs to obfuscated as to its nature, the subject and object of aggression, and parties to the war for that matter...

@SMohyeddin Please keep exposing them

Just one of the dozen or so threats I receive on a daily basis. “We will come after you.” And no, he is not a bot. I checked his LinkedIn page. What is happening in the Iranian diaspora right now is absolutely psychotic. This is the most tame threat that I could share.

Amid so much doom and gloom, Orban's defeat is a glimmer of hope and a step in the right direction for the world

Told my wife to have dinner ready at 6 or I will obliterate her entire civilization. She now charges me a fee to use the bathroom, that used to be free, and I didn't get dinner. WTF

I was thirty-something years old when Iranian students dragged me into a room and told me I wasn't going anywhere. Four hundred and forty-four days later, I walked out. I've spent the decades since trying to make sense of what happened — and what keeps happening — between our two countries. So don't talk to me about Iran like it's an abstraction. I lived inside that confrontation. I felt it. Which is why I'm not ready to write off this ceasefire, even though everything about it is maddening. Negotiations in Pakistan may produce nothing. The talks could collapse before they get started. I've seen American diplomacy with Iran fail more times than I can count, and usually for the same reasons — too much pride, too little patience, and Israel holding a match in the corner of the room. But here's what I know in my bones: another war won't break Iran. We just tried. It didn't work. Iran doesn't break — it absorbs, it adapts, and it waits. I watched that stubbornness up close for 444 days. What bothers me most isn't that Iran is winning this moment — it's that we handed it to them. Tehran's framework is running these negotiations. Iran still controls the Strait of Hormuz. Still collecting tolls. Trump looked at their proposal and called it workable. I never thought I'd see the day, but here we are. Iran wants everything on the table — sanctions, enrichment rights, American troops out, and a deal that covers what's happening in Lebanon and Gaza too. That's a lot to swallow. And Israel, which wasn't invited to this conversation, is already making clear it has no intention of being constrained by it. That's the part that worries me the most. Because if Israel keeps bombing and Washington can't or won't stop it, none of this holds. And yet — and I say this as someone who has every reason to distrust Tehran — I don't think we go back to all-out war. Not because anyone has suddenly gotten wise, but because the math doesn't work. A second round ends the same way. Iran still controls the Strait. The global economy still flinches when Tehran flexes. What we're heading toward isn't peace. It's something smaller and more precarious — two countries silently agreeing not to destroy each other today, with no paperwork and no guarantees. I know what it's like to survive on something that fragile. For 444 days, that's all I had.

A Giller Prize boycott that was launched in 2024 by No Arms in the Arts and CanLit Responds has ended after the organizers’ demands have been met torontolife.com/culture/no-arm…

“If the US cannot restrain Israel, what value is there in a deal with Washington?”

@ScalableCapDACH the app is not working since last update-- not able to login, and the web version is asking for authentication from the app. What is the solution?

Netanyahu's criminal trial resumes on Sun. A region-wide ceasefire, incl in Lebanon, would hasten his jailing. If the U S. wishes to crater its economy by letting Netanyahu kill diplomacy, that would ultimately be its choice. We think that would be dumb but are prepared for it.

MEDIA MENDACITY Zionist controlled Mainstream Media (Bloomberg) are saying that Israel hit "Hezbollah targets" yesterday. No. They just hit 100 civilian targets across Lebanon out of spite, missed the Belgian Ambassador.

BREAKING: The Israeli Air Force has officially violated the ceasefire. They have just bombed Payam Airport near Karaj, west of Tehran, the capital of Iran. Payam is a cargo airport and a key hub for civil aviation pilot training in Iran, hosting multiple pilot schools with light and ultralight aircraft used for commercial pilot training. My image from 2012 (I and two of my friends put all of those Piper Pa-28s and Cessna 172 in front of that Boeing 747 for photoshoot. After I took this, the IRGC arrived and arrested me for doing that 😅). #OperationEpicFury #OperationLionsRoar

The Israeli playbook on ceasefires..

@tparsi You must be doing something right to hit a nerve like that

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Hundred percent agree. Obama often tends to get a lot of praise -- all fully undeserved

This NYT piece shows how decisive Netanyahu’s influence was in pushing Trump toward war. It also reads as an effort by many in Trump’s inner circle to position themselves as skeptics after the fact. Rubio, Wiles, and Caine are portrayed in ways that relatively exonerate them, while Hegseth is positioned as the fall guy. Crucially, the piece makes clear that Trump chose to side with the Israeli assessment over his own intelligence community. U.S. intelligence reviewed Netanyahu’s Feb. 11 presentation at the Situation Room and described key elements, especially on regime change and a popular uprising, as “farcical.” Other warnings were there. Gen. Caine flagged the enormous difficulty of securing the Strait of Hormuz. Trump dismissed it, assuming Iran would capitulate and the war would be quick. All of these assumptions have now decisively collapsed more than a month into this war. Iran continues to fire missiles and drones, strike sensitive targets across the region, and maintain pressure on the Strait of Hormuz. Indeed, even the more limited U.S. assessment, echoed by Rubio per this piece, that Iran’s missile program could be destroyed has proven false. All in all, the piece shows a broken decision making system where no one in the White House constrained the president’s instincts, and Netanyahu was able to reinforce and accelerate them.