Behnam Ben Taleblu بهنام بن طالب لو
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Iran prgm senior director & senior fellow @fdd | Iran & MENA security 🚀☢️/politics📜🛢️+ US FP | 1st gen Iranian-American | RT & follows not endorsement
.@NewYorkSun my Friday column: Trump claims war is about to end. Crude prices are dipping, markets soar. With @therealBehnamBT nysun.com/article/trump-…
Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei: Iran’s enriched uranium is as sacred as the country’s soil and will under no circumstances be transferred anywhere.
ویدیوی منتشرشده از تجمعات حامیان حکومت نشان میدهد یکی از ورزشکاران روی صحنه میلهای شبیه موشک را به دست گرفته و حرکات نمایشی باستانی را با آن انجام میدهد.
"We're going to get it together. We're going to go in with Iran, at a nice leisurely pace, and go down and start excavating with big machinery... We'll bring it back to the United States," Trump said during a phone interview. He referred to "nuclear dust" and added that it would be retrieved "very soon." Trump's mention of "nuclear dust" is a reference to what he believes remains after the United States and Israel bombed Iran's nuclear installations in June last year.
Beware of the spin. President Trump has announced that the strait is open. Iran, however, has said the strait is open — but only through the Iranian-controlled corridor. Meanwhile, the US Navy blockade remains in effect. Markets are responding as though the strait is completely open to all. That is not true.
At least two young men have been killed by Basij and Revolutionary Guards forces at checkpoints in Iran in recent weeks, according to information received by Iran International. One of them, identified as Morteza Madadi from Shahin Shahr in Isfahan province, was shot dead on March 8 by forces at a Basij checkpoint, sources said. He died after being hit in the chest. Sources said his family has faced pressure and threats after seeking to pursue the case. In a separate incident, a young man in Ramsar in northern Mazandaran province died after being stopped at a checkpoint and protesting during an inspection, according to local accounts. He was attacked with a stun device by Basij forces and died at the scene, from cardiac arrest, the sources said, adding that his family has also been pressured not to publicize the case. The incidents come as checkpoint controls have increased across the country, with citizens reporting vehicle stops, searches and phone inspections. iranintl.com/en/202604173601
🔵 جمعبندی عملیات «#غرش_شیران» توسط سخنگوی فارسی زبان ارتش اسرائیل، سرهنگ دوم کمال پنحاسی. این عملیات در یک همکاری تاریخی با ارتش ایالات متحده، به منظور وارد آوردن ضربات سنگین به رژیم تروریستی ایران و و رفع تهدیدات موجودیتی علیه کشور اسرائیل در درازمدت صورت گرفت.
سناتور گراهام دیشب در فاکس نیوز مدعی شد ترامپ شخصا تلفنی با مقامهای جمهوری اسلامی گفتگو کرده است. گفتگویی که با بلند کردن صدایش و تهدید تند همراه بوده. تا آنجا که صدای ترامپ تحت تاثیر قرار گرفته.
🚨 SCOOP: The U.S. and Iran are negotiating over a three-page plan to end the war, with one element under discussion being that the U.S. would release $20 billion in frozen Iranian funds in return for Iran giving up its stockpile of enriched uranium. axios.com/2026/04/17/ira…
WHO IS THE U.S. NEGOTIATING WITH IN IRAN? As Trump searches for a friendly successor to the Ayatollah in Tehran, the leadership vacuum in the Iranian regime has been filled by hard-line members of the Revolutionary Guard. My latest story for @newyorker newyorker.com/news/the-lede/…
Another common “sanctions workaround” is to mix sanctioned oil into a ship holding friendly barrels….ship will clear. #OOTT
"We've been saying that Hezbollah's weapons are a liability to the Lebanese." Lebanese Minister of the Displaced @ShehadiKamal says #Lebanon has paid a "very high price" for Hezbollah and Iran's ambitions in the region.
Exclusive: Iran Has Limited the Impact of US Strikes, Intelligence Says Pre-war planning meant Iran’s military was able to mitigate the impact of US-Israeli strikes on its weapons arsenal and leadership, according to Western military intelligence assessments — which also say it retains the ability to respond if the ceasefire fails. Tehran has sustained massive damage to its infrastructure and its most senior leaders have been killed. But operational planning undertaken in anticipation of the conflict was effective in preventing the destruction of its missile and drone capabilities as well as maximising the impact of its military response, people familiar with the assessments said. Plans put in place by Iran to replace senior military leaders in the event they were killed meant the country was able to minimize disruption to its command and control structures when they were targeted in the first days of the war, the people said. It also appears that Iran retains solid reserves of long-range missiles, according to assessments provided by European and Gulf officials. It still has thousands of drones in its armoury, the people added. These provide a much more nuanced picture of the outcomes of the US-Israeli operation than that portrayed by Trump and US administration officials. The effectiveness of Iran’s earlier military planning also raises the prospect that it could use the current ceasefire to make preparations for any resumption of hostilities. Story with @EllenAMilligan @AlbertoNardelli >>> bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Analysis from @DavidADaoud: "This ceasefire comes at an inopportune time in the fight against Hezbollah. The group is on the cusp of losing Bint Jbeil, a symbolically and militarily significant locale, and 10 days may give Hezbollah just the reprieve necessary to regroup and reinforce itself in the town, preventing the Israelis from taking it. If this is coupled with continued inaction against the group from the Lebanese side — and so far, the signals from Beirut are not promising — then Hezbollah will once again have a path to regeneration and rearmament."
WATCH 🔴 President Trump: Iran has agreed to no nuclear weapons and will hand over the “nuclear dust.” “Very important is that Iran does not have a nuclear weapon and they’ve agreed to that! Iran’s agreed to that and they’ve agreed to it very powerfully.” “They’ve agreed to give us back the nuclear dust that’s way underground because of the attack we made with the B-2 bombers.”
Supports @Nadav_Eyal reporting that the regime believed it was winning in part because it wasn’t fully aware of the extent of the damage inflicted… “‘My sense is that the scale of the destruction now is much worse than the Iran-Iraq war,’”
