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Laura Reed Goodson
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Poet, Counseling MA, veterans’ advocate, Oberlin grad, Appalachia native & ocean-lover #poetry #photography (https://t.co/NYgWeS1Evd)
North Carolina, USA Katılım Ocak 2012
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I still want to see
in blossoms at dawn the face
of the mountain god.
-Basho
*spring at Mount Katsuragi
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Though we’re already heading towards the tail end of the main Somei Yoshino cherry blossom season in Tokyo, there’s a lot more springtime beauty to be had further north in Tohoku! donnykimball.com/cherry-blossom…
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This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.
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Anomalously warm and dry conditions raise fire weather concerns across portions of the Inter-Mountain West, the Plains, and the central Appalachians go.usa.gov/cu3Wx
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Wonderful signs of spring.
It is still , worryingly, ahead of schedule but a thing of beauty all the same
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Spring in WV means wide open spaces and stunning views. 😍🌿
📍 Dolly Sods Wilderness
📸 instagram.com/ericr25320
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“When the war parts / I won’t find a grave to visit / for the road itself will be the graveyard”
— Heba Al-Agha
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“…a calculated gamble on financial leverage over pure military attrition.” #IRGC #war #petrochemicals
Grok@grok
Yes, this appears to be Israel's stated shift to economic targets after exhausting many military ones, as reported by Israeli officials last week. Petrochemicals make up ~40% of Iran's non-oil exports and fund the regime heavily—hitting Mahshahr (a key hub) aims to squeeze revenue where bunkers can't hide it. It could accelerate pressure on Tehran faster than sanctions alone, but Iran's history shows resilience via smuggling, allies, and domestic production. Retaliation risks are high: they've already hit Gulf energy sites, and the Strait of Hormuz closure shows mutual economic pain. Escalation danger is real—both sides are now trading infrastructure blows, potentially widening the conflict beyond Iran. Damage extent is still unclear, but it's a calculated gamble on financial leverage over pure military attrition.
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🚨🇮🇷🇺🇸 The war just changed target sets. Today it's Iran's petrochemicals.
U.S.-Israeli strikes hit the Mahshahr Special Petrochemical Zone this morning, 3 companies inside the complex, 5 wounded, extent of damage still unknown.
A projectile also landed near the Bushehr nuclear plant perimeter, killing one guard.
This isn't incidental. Israel's political leadership explicitly instructed the IDF weeks ago to shift toward "economic targets."
Maximum financial damage to the regime rather than pure military degradation. Today is that doctrine in action.
Mahshahr is one of Iran's most important industrial hubs; petrochemicals, export revenue, the economic backbone of Khuzestan province.
Here's why it matters strategically: you can hide launchers in tunnels. You can't hide a refinery.
The theory is simple: if airstrikes can't fully destroy what's underground, destroy what keeps the regime financially solvent above ground. Hit the economy hard enough and the calculus for Tehran changes.
But there's a second-order problem. Iran has already threatened "devastating strikes" on U.S. and allied economic assets in response. Kuwait's Mina Al-Ahmadi refinery is already on fire. UAE's Habshan gas facility took damage. The Strait of Hormuz is still effectively closed.
Economic warfare cuts both ways. And right now, both sides are picking up the scissors.
Source: ToI, Al Jazeera
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal
🚨🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran’s Minister of Science, Sarraf: "So far, 30 universities have been targeted by the aggressors of the Israeli regime and the United States. The reality is that our enemy has reverted to the Stone Age." Source: Counter Intelligence Global
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BREAKING: Russia’s state nuclear company Rosatom says the risk of a nuclear accident at Iran’s Bushehr plant is increasing, as it evacuated a further 198 staff from the site on Saturday, according to Russian media.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/0ni4lg
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BREAKING: US President Donald Trump has repeated a demand for Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz, issuing what he says is a 48-hour deadline.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/5503al
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این مهمترین لحظه در کل جنگ ایران است.
بگذارید قدمبهقدم توضیح بدهم چه اتفاقی افتاده است.
ایران یک جنگنده F-15E Strike Eagle آمریکایی را سرنگون کرده است. این هواپیما در جنوب ایران سقوط کرده. بقایای آن در خاک ایران تأیید شده است. خلبان، یا خلبانها، نتوانستند بهطور ایمن اجکت کنند.
خبرگزاری تسنیم گزارش داده که نیروهای سپاه آنها را دستگیر کردهاند.
ایران ابتدا ادعا کرد که این یک F-35 Lightning II بوده، اما در واقع F-15E Strike Eagle بوده است. در هر صورت، بقایا را در اختیار دارند و ادعا میکنند خدمه را هم در اختیار دارند.
آمریکا بلافاصله یک عملیات نجات را آغاز کرد. جنگندههای F-35 Lightning II برای گشت هوایی رزمی به پرواز درآمدند. پهپادهای MQ-9 Reaper محل سقوط را زیر نظر گرفتند. یک C-130 Hercules و بالگردهای UH-60 Black Hawk برای عملیات بازیابی وارد شدند.
این عملیات نجات شکست خورد. یک بالگرد UH-60 Black Hawk در جریان عملیات سرنگون شد. در یک عملیات، چندین پرنده از دست رفتند.
آمریکا بهطور علنی همه این موارد را انکار میکند. هیچ تلفات تأییدشدهای وجود ندارد. هیچ اسیر جنگی تأیید نشده است. هیچچیز. این سکوت معنادار است.
و حالا بخش نگرانکنندهتر:
امروز صبح، ترامپ گفت: «نفت را بگیرید و ثروت بسازید.»
همان روز، ایران اعلام کرد که یک اسیر جنگی آمریکایی در اختیار دارد.
همان روز.
۳۱ مارس: ترامپ گفت «آماده پایان دادن به جنگ است.»
۳ آوریل: ترامپ میگوید نفت را بگیرید.
۳ آوریل: خلبان آمریکایی در خاک ایران اسیر میشود.
آخرین بار که ایران آمریکاییها را گروگان گرفت، ماجرای گروگانگیری بود. ۴۴۴ روز طول کشید و عملاً ریاستجمهوری کارتر را نابود کرد.
اسیر جنگی فقط یک تراژدی نیست، یک اهرم فشار است. ایران حالا کارتی در دست دارد که بهراحتی قابل گرفتن نیست.
اگر آن خلبان در تلویزیون دولتی ایران ظاهر شود، تبعات سیاسی آن در آمریکا میتواند بیسابقه باشد.
بیش از ۱۰۰ کارشناس حقوقی امروز حملات آمریکا را بهعنوان «جنایت جنگی بالقوه» مطرح کردهاند. حالا یک نظامی آمریکایی در بازداشت ایران است.
این یک حاشیه نیست. این خودِ داستان است.
Sebastián Cruz@ElCruzSeb
THIS IS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT MOMENT OF THE ENTIRE IRAN WAR. THREAD. 🧵 Let me walk you through what just happened. Iran shot down a US F-15E Strike Eagle. It went down in southern Iran. The wreckage is confirmed on Iranian soil. The pilot — or pilots — did not eject safely. Iran's Tasnim News says IRGC forces captured them. Iran initially claimed it was an F-35. It was an F-15E. Either way, they have the wreckage. And they claim they have the crew. The US scrambled an immediate rescue operation. F-35s flew combat air patrol overhead. MQ-9 drones monitored the crash site. A C-130 and Black Hawk helicopters went in for extraction. The rescue failed. One Black Hawk was shot down during the attempt. Multiple aircraft lost in a single operation. The US is publicly denying all of it. No confirmed losses. No confirmed POWs. Nothing. That silence is deafening. Now here's where it gets really bad. This morning, Trump said "take the oil and make a fortune." This afternoon, Iran announced they have an American prisoner of war. The same damn day. March 31: Trump said he was "willing to end the war." April 3: Trump says take the oil. April 3: American pilot captured on Iranian soil. The last time Iran held Americans hostage was 1979. 444 days. Destroyed Carter's entire presidency. A POW is not just a tragedy. A POW is leverage. Iran now holds a card nobody can take from them. If that pilot appears on Iranian state television, the political fallout in the US will be unlike anything we've seen. Over 100 legal experts today called the US strikes potential war crimes. Now a US servicemember is in Iranian custody. This is not a footnote. This is the story.
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Notice how quickly all that bullshit about liberating Iranians disappeared, and now it's all about bombing them back to the Stone Age, destroying their bridges and universities, poisoning their air and water, and stealing their oil.
ALX 🇺🇸@alx
New from President Trump:
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