Graeme Wood
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Graeme Wood
@gcaw
Staff writer, @TheAtlantic. Lecturer, @Yale political science. Formerly: @newrepublic, @DeutschePostDHL
Katılım Mayıs 2008
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“Iran does not like Dubai because Dubai shows that doing the opposite of what Iran does yields good results.” @gcaw
theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/…
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The late John F. Burns’s Baghdad Diary, about the last days of the Saddam Hussein regime: nytimes.com/2003/04/20/wor…
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@Tyler_A_Harper @mckaycoppins It would irresponsible to encourage an existing vice. We must create new ones
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Inspired by the incredible @mckaycoppins gambling story, I was going to make a joke that The Atlantic should give me money to go explore fishing as vice, but then I remembered that The Atlantic has in fact given me money to go explore fishing as a vice multiple times already.
The Atlantic@TheAtlantic
“Wetsuiters” swim out into the surf at night, often during storms, and spend hours in the darkness attempting to catch striped bass. @Tyler_A_Harper reports on this alluring and addicting sport—and why he can’t get enough of it: theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
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Remember the death of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?
Turns out, it was greatly exaggerated.
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"As well, ask *men* what they think--of stone!"
Spencer A. Klavan@SpencerKlavan
How else was McCarthy supposed to punctuate that sentence, exactly
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If you read 2 things in Mojtaba Khamenei today, make sure it’s this 2 pieces (links below):
- “Who is Mojtaba Khamenei?” By @FDD’s @JanatanSayeh in @TheNatlInterest
- “The Most Dangerous Man in the World” By @gcaw in @TheAtlantic
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We absolutely need to know if this was an American strike. It's looking increasingly like it was, and if so it will be one of the worst individual incidents of civilian deaths in a generation or more.
Malachy Browne@malachybrowne
Official statements placing U.S. forces in the area – along w/ analysis of social posts, videos, sat. images – suggest U.S. forces bombed a school in Minab, Iran during strikes targeting an IRGC base. Over 150 were killed, Iranian officials say. nytimes.com/2026/03/05/wor…
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Question for the ages, via @gcaw (on Something Pete)
"Could you trust students who, rather than getting laid or drunk with their peers, spent their free time at office hours with former Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman?"
theatlantic.com/politics/2026/…
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@awprokop @mattyglesias you probably know this, since it’s in the article, but also described therein are the conditions under which the regime will fight to the last man and kill tens of thousands more people
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@SameralAtrush If Khamenei did not have his political position, his religious authority would have been almost non-existent
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To his followers, in Iran and mostly Lebanon, he was in some sense the pope. But other ayotollah, particularly Sistani, have more adherents.
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To be clear Khamenei is not the premier Shia religious leader. He was one among many Marji's--scholars worthy of emulation and who decided matters of Islamic law to their adherents.
Rosemary Kelanic@RKelanic
The U.S. just killed the premier Shia religious leader during Ramadan, the holiest month of the Muslim calendar. As a reader pointed out, it’s equivalent to killing the Pope during Lent. Add to that an Israeli missile strike that killed dozens of Iranian schoolgirls. This will stir decades if not generations of enmity among ordinary Iranians toward the U.S., even among those who hated the Islamic regime. The idea that Trump’s war could transform US-Iran relations in any positive way —even if the Iranian people revolt — is pure fantasy. @defpriorities
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@DBDesRoches it was the first time in my life i could afford a cohiba, but only because i couldn't tell the difference, and those were definitely not real cohibas
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The targeting of the Crowne Plaza in Bahrain is particularly egregious for those of us who are fans of the Boxtones.
Nawaf Al-Thani نواف بن مبارك آل ثاني@NawafAlThani
For those buying the line that Iran’s targets are “military,” USCENTCOM sets the record straight.
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“And now he’s dead, and all of those accomplishments are crashing down, because the best-planned defenses don’t count for much if the people you trust to run them are ready to sell you out” theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/…
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This isn’t true, I’ve just got in touch with a close aide to former president Ahmadinejad and he told me “that’s fake news. He is safe and sound.” I delete the post below.
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The U.S. is not bombing the Iranian oil infrastructure, but Saudi Arabia and the UAE likely will if theirs is attacked.
Thomas van Linge@ThomasVLinge
Reports coming in that Iranian fire has hit an Emirati offshore oil platform in the Gulf. Would be a direct attack on the Gulf's energy infrastructure.
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@avzaagzonunaada Just wondering out of ignorance: was Khamenei the religious leader of all of shia? Is this a thing at all?
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@kshahrooz Ayatollahattentatsfreudetrauerzukunftsangstungerechtigkeitsschmerz
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Hard to put into words the jumbled feeling of joy at what has happened, sadness at what has been taken from all our lives by this regime, anxiety about what comes next, the sense that this all falls short of justice, and the glimmer of hope.
(I bet German has a word for it).
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@VladDavidzon fwiw, the "about 10" claim is a necessary but not sufficient condition, in his analysis
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We are going to see if this theory is right in near real time experiment
Graeme Wood@gcaw
I interviewed Jaber Rajabi, a former Iranian regime stalwart, about how many people would need to be killed, in order to effect a clean regime change in Iran. His answer: "about 10." And he knows which 10 theatlantic.com/international/… (in @TheAtlantic)
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