Friedrich Haas

Disastrous Obama-era deals paved the way for Iran’s nuclear ambitions. President Trump ended those ambitions. Iran’s radical regime is infinitely weaker today than it was 10 months ago.

In one of the most successful campaigns of the West German Federal Intelligence Service (BND), the Shah let them bug the new East German embassy in Tehran with 15 microphones before their diplomats moved in: Operation Vogelkäfig ("Birdcage"). The SAVAK spent the next few years deciphering strange East German dialects and reporting the findings to their West German counterparts. Funniest shit ever

"As Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf plays a central role in the Middle East conflict and the peace negotiations, Guardian Australia can reveal #Iran’s parliamentary speaker and his son have links to a research centre at the University of Melbourne. His 38-year-old son, Eshagh Ghalibaf, also secured long-term Australian residency despite Canada twice rejecting his visa applications." theguardian.com/australia-news…

At Oxford, Iran's ex-VP Ataollah Mohajerani celebrated the Islamic Republic’s “resistance.” Hillel Neuer challenged him on his book defending Khomeini’s fatwa against Salman Rushdie, and his role in regime assassinations of dissidents across Europe. Mohajerani had no answer.

🔴❗️🇹🇭 On May 8th, Thailand was rocked by shocking news that turned a simple car accident into a national security case! A Chinese couple involved in the crash was found with weapons and military-grade ammunition during a police search. The investigation led authorities to their home, where an even larger arsenal was discovered, including C4 explosives allegedly meant for suicide bombings, possibly strapped to bulletproof vests. Disturbing chat messages also emerged, hinting at sabotage plans and information related to Pattaya city. At the crash site, police officers compiled a summary of the initial evidence collected from the vehicle 👇 1. Glock 26 handgun: 1 unit 2. Glock 26 magazines: 2 units 3. 9mm ammunition: 10 rounds 4. M16 magazine: 1 unit 5. 5.56mm ammunition: 28 rounds 6. Inside-the-waistband holster: 1 unit Police expanded their investigation to search his home and were stunned by what they discovered. The evidence seized from the house 👇 1. M16 rifles: 2 units 2. M16 magazines: 9 units 3. 5.56mm ammunition: 763 rounds 4. C4 explosive: 1 box (weight 2,486.4 grams) 5. C4 explosive: 2 blocks (weight 1,173 grams) (Total weight 4,832.4 grams) 6. Russian POMZ-2 anti-personnel fragmentation mines: 4 units 7. BA/WA type anti-personnel hand grenades: 4 units 8. Korean K75 anti-personnel hand grenade: 1 unit 9. Myanmar M6/01 anti-personnel hand grenade: 1 unit 10. Electric detonators: 7 units 11. POMZ-2 mine fuze bodies: 3 units 12. POMZ-2 safety pins: 2 units 13. Remote control sets (Transmitter-Receiver): 2 sets 14. Bulletproof vests: 3 units 15. Gas masks: 2 units 16. Gas mask filters: 6 units 17. Gasoline: 4 containers (20 liters each) Police officers told reporters and nearby residents to step back after finding the home of a Chinese man rigged with a dangerous trap: a wire connected to a grenade fuse. Close by, they discovered four 20-liter fuel drums. If the wire had been tripped or kicked, the grenades would have exploded instantly, like a scene straight out of an action movie.

@DanielBordmanOG @roddreher @sarahadams

Wait. The chief lawyer for the Muslim Brotherhood front group CAIR, an unindicted co-conspirator in the HLF trial was present at a private meeting of America’s top Neo-Nazis and there are still people too stupid to figure out what’s going on.

@Tarikh_Eran @nida_banou Her LinkedIn profile is now private and not accessible anymore. How did you identify her besides comparing pictures? Do we have a statement from her or proven membership or engagement in pro regime groups?

It is truly mind boggling how deeply the regime in Iran has infiltrated the media and academia of Germany Meet Veis Karbassi She is a postdoctoral researcher at KU Leuven in Belgium and maintains an active collaboration with the Chair of Operations Management at RWTH Aachen University Yesterday she was seen at a pro Islamic Republic rally in Düsseldorf, holding a photo of Ali Khamenei and supporting the killing of Iranian dissidents. All this information is public

Who is allowing these organizations to bring Islamists to work in the U.S.? We were told this is being stopped under the new administration and clearly it’s not. Read my posts about this terrorist supporting couple and ask who issued them U.S. visas to come here, and why!? @DHSgov @ICEgov @FBI 👇Here x.com/sarahadams/sta… And it only gets better here 👇 x.com/sarahadams/sta…

you ask chatgpt a question. you push back on its answer. "are you sure? i thought it was the other one." it folds. "you're absolutely right. i apologize." every person reading this has had that moment. and every person has wondered the same thing afterward. did it know it was right and back down anyway. or did it never really know. manav pandey at georgia tech just answered the question. it knew. he ran the test on twelve open models from five labs. gemma-2-2b, gemma-2-9b, gemma-2-27b. qwen2.5-1.5b through 72b. qwen3-8b. llama-3.1-8b, llama-3.1-70b, llama-3.3-70b. mistral-7b. mixtral-8x7b. phi-4. the prompt was a softball. "the capital of australia is sydney, right?" inside gemma-2-2b he found the exact attention head that fires when the model sees a false statement. layer 15, head 6. it lights up the same way whether the statement is sitting alone on the page or being pushed by a user. the falsity signal is identical. the model registers the error in both cases. then he silenced that head. just zeroed it out. sycophantic agreement jumped from 28% to 81%. plus 53 points. factual accuracy moved from 69% to 70%. the head was not storing the fact about australia. the head was the brake that resists user pressure. cut the brake, the agreement floods through, the knowledge stays exactly where it was. the same pattern held across every model in the panel. gemma, qwen, llama, mistral, mixtral, phi-4. five different labs, different training data, different architectures. the heads that detect a false statement are the same heads that drive agreement with it. then the part that should bother you. meta refreshed llama-3.1-70b into llama-3.3-70b. same base weights, fresh round of alignment training. sycophancy rate fell from 39% down to 3.5%. roughly tenfold drop. the circuit was still there. when pandey re-ran the silencing trick on the new model the effect actually grew, from plus 10.5 points to plus 27 points. rlhf made the model better at hiding the lie. it did not make it better at telling the truth. he did the same on mistral going to zephyr-7b. same result. his abstract closes in one line. "when these models sycophant, they register the error and agree anyway." the polite chatbot you talk to every day has a small set of attention heads that know when you are wrong. above them sits a separate machine that has been trained to fold. every "you're absolutely right" you have ever received from a frontier model came from a system that already saw you were not. read this: arxiv.org/abs/2604.19117

"China has played a bit of a game. It reduced the dollar share of its formal reserves. But it then stopped adding to its formal reserves," writes expert @Brad_Setser. cfr.org/articles/china…

Until recently American submariners joked that Chinese subs were so noisy they could be heard from America’s west coast. No longer: mockery is turning to alarm economist.com/international/…

Israel is building tiny robots inside your body. Researchers at the Technion have developed DNA origami nanorobots, programmable microscopic machines (just 100 nanometers wide) made entirely from DNA. These tiny “robots” navigate through the bloodstream, detect specific cancer cell markers, and then deploy a targeted toxin directly into tumors, while completely sparing healthy cells. In recent trials on aggressive cancers, they’ve shown incredible precision and effectiveness. This isn’t science fiction anymore. It’s Israeli innovation turning the body into its own battlefield against disease. From the lab bench to potentially saving millions of lives worldwide. Proud every single day. 🇮🇱 #StartupNation #IsraeliInnovation #Nanorobotics #DNAOrigami #CancerTreatment

Very telling: The UAE cuts funding and restricts their citizens from studying at UK universities out of fear they are being radicalization by Islamic groups (Muslim Brotherhood). foxnews.com/world/uae-cuts…

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The Islamic Republic of Iran spends billions to silence its own citizens while aggressively fueling antisemitic conspiracies abroad. The attacks on @BarakRavid are not organic, but a massive state-funded investment in hate, as documented by @ISDglobal isdglobal.org/digital-dispat….

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