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The Financial Times is reporting something that should be front-page news everywhere.       Pete Hegseth didn’t just help design the Iran war. He championed it publicly, cheered it on, and sold it to the American people. And according to the Financial Times, while his own department was in the final stages of preparing to launch it, his broker at Morgan Stanley was attempting to make a multimillion-dollar investment in the defense companies that build the weapons we used to fight it.       The investment didn’t ultimately go through, but only because the fund wasn’t yet available on Morgan Stanley’s platform. Not because anyone stopped it.      If these reports are accurate, the Secretary of Defense was positioned to profit from a war he helped start, using information no private investor could ever have. That is a profound betrayal of every service member he commands, and of every American who trusted this Administration with their national security.      No one should be cashing in on privileged information while lives and national security are on the line.

An Assyrian boy in Iraq singing a rare Aramaic hymn called “O’ Gannana”. It translates to “O Gardener”, recounting the story of Mary Magdalene encountering the empty tomb. She thought He was the Gardener, before realizing He Lives. We must rescue this dying language.

🇺🇸 🇮🇷 @Rob_Malley: “La position de l’Europe, y compris de la France, vis-à-vis d’une guerre foncièrement illégale et injustiiée, menée sans égard pour le droit international, m’a semblé trop timorée…Trump verse le sang et sème le chaos, et le monde entier en paie le prix. Dans le même temps, il exige que d’autres rétablissent l’ordre, faute de quoi il les punira eux aussi.” 👉latribune.fr/article/la-tri…

Unforgivable

Compulsory reading. Ironically, Ehud Olmert has become the most prominent Israeli voice focusing on Israel's war crimes in the West Bank. He is emphatically and unequivocally calling for the intervention of the international community, including that of the ICC.

At this point, USA having nukes is a lot more dangerous for the world than Iran having nukes.

🇦🇪 Dans les Émirats arabes unis, les champs pétroliers sont en feu. Et il est impossible d'éteindre l'incendie dans les semaines à venir. Le prix de l'alliance américaine devient de plus en plus élevé, tout comme le coût du pétrole dans le monde.

Pro-Iran Rally Draws Thousands in Istanbul Thousands gathered in Istanbul, Turkey, waving the Iranian flag and voicing support for the Islamic Republic while condemning recent air attacks by the United States and Israel, in a show of solidarity against external aggression.

#Iran Destruction d’hôpitaux, d’entreprises pharmaceutiques, d’usines de desalinisation et de production d’électricité. Loin d’apporter la démocratie, ces crimes de guerre, s’ils persistent, vont entraîner à moyens termes des millions de morts indirects. lemonde.fr/international/…

Vous vous êtes offusqués pour Hiroshima, les tours jumelles, le bataclan... mais là rien ? Vraiment rien ?

Do Americans even realize their president is basically the most hated guy on the planet right now?

A message of peace from the president of the most powerful nation on Earth on Easter Sunday… God help us!!

Dear American people, What have you done to yourselves? Does a statement like this truly sit well with you? When rhetoric around Iran and the Strait of Hormuz slips into spectacle, it reflects not strength, but a quiet abdication of responsibility. Politics, at its finest, is a moral conversation; anchored in restraint, reason, and accountability. Reduced to performance, it becomes mere noise: loud, reckless, and unanswerable. The question, then, is not about one individual. It is about what a democracy, in its collective wisdom, chooses to accept and eventually, to normalize. We, too, are not sailing in a different boat. Jai Hind.

Tired of people who need to know the nationality of a dead child before they can decide how to feel.

Remember the Western outrage about hostilities near Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine? Israel-U.S. have bombed our Bushehr plant four times now. Radioactive fallout will end life in GCC capitals, not Tehran. Attacks on our petrochemicals also convey real objectives.

الى حكومات الخليج : رجاءا مجددا القيام بكل ما في وسعكم قبل ان يقوم هذا المعتوه بتحويل المنطقة إلى كرة من لهب …

Trump se compare à Moïse « qui a guidé les hébreux hors d’Égypte il y’a 3000 ans » et estime qu’il guide aujourd’hui les Israéliens vers « leur terre promise » et «leur libération ». Il est complètement barré.

@NiloofarMM Sounds like fake news

Niece of Qasem Soleimani, former commander of the IRGC Quds Force who has now been arrested in the United States is identified as Hamideh Soleimani Afshar. Her daughter has also been arrested by the FBI. Hamideh Soleimani Afshar was a Model in the United States.

Aria Fani, an Iranian-American associate professor of Persian studies has been fired from his role as the director of Middle East Center after sending a group email criticizing Israel. Fani is the latest academic to face reprisal over Israel-related speech theguardian.com/us-news/2026/a…

@s_m_marandi They didn't plan it, they let it happen

Those who planned this, planned today's war against Iran.