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Behrad
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Memes for the dopamine starved | He/Him | Iranian 🇮🇷 | ADHD combination | Dysthymia | GAD
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Killing negotiators is a Zionist tradition (violating millennia of civilized customs). The problem is that they imposed the practice on the Trump administration.
Furkan Gözükara@FurkanGozukara
The UN mediator proposed that Palestinian refugees had the right to return to their homes in 1948. The very next day, Zionist operatives ambushed his motorcade in Jerusalem and assassinated him. They literally murdered a UN official to stop peace.
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Stunning!
It was achieved through the wars Israel pushed the US into, the genocide it committed, and the manner in which criticism of Israel has been punished. It's backfiring MASSIVELY.
Among men under 50, Israel's favourability has tanked from -3 in 2022 to -47 in 2026!
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Fuck you @NPR for perpetuating the lie that Israel is striking ‘Hezbollah targets.’ They are committing daily massacres off the battlefield of civilians and your correspondent in Beirut knows it.
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Netanyahu is claiming openly that the US Vice President and administration report to him in detail on a daily basis
Barak Ravid@BarakRavid
Netanyahu at a cabinet meeting: "I spoke yesterday with Vice President J.D. Vance. He called me from his plane on his way back from Islamabad. He reported to me in detail, as this administration does every day, about the development of the negotiations. In this case, the explosion in the negotiations. The explosion came from the American side, which could not tolerate Iran's blatant violation of the agreement to enter the negotiations. The agreement was that they would cease fire, and the Iranians would immediately open the gates. They did not do that. The Americans could not accept that. He also made it clear to me that the main issue on the agenda for President Trump and the United States is the removal of all enriched material, and ensuring that there is no more enrichment in the coming years, and that could be in decades, no enrichment within Iran. That is their focus, and of course it is also important to us."
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Important article on reasons for Iran’s resilience nytimes.com/2026/04/13/bus…
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Netanyahu’s statement is a case study in self-inflicted crises.
The uranium stockpiles he wants gone didn’t exist under the 2015 deal he helped kill. The Hormuz crisis stems from the war he pushed for.
They broke what was working & demand solutions to the problems they created.
Barak Ravid@BarakRavid
Netanyahu at a cabinet meeting: "I spoke yesterday with Vice President J.D. Vance. He called me from his plane on his way back from Islamabad. He reported to me in detail, as this administration does every day, about the development of the negotiations. In this case, the explosion in the negotiations. The explosion came from the American side, which could not tolerate Iran's blatant violation of the agreement to enter the negotiations. The agreement was that they would cease fire, and the Iranians would immediately open the gates. They did not do that. The Americans could not accept that. He also made it clear to me that the main issue on the agenda for President Trump and the United States is the removal of all enriched material, and ensuring that there is no more enrichment in the coming years, and that could be in decades, no enrichment within Iran. That is their focus, and of course it is also important to us."
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The Vatican is two weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon.
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Apple has removed the names of the villages in Southern Lebanon from Apple Maps.
This is where we are.
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I explained on @cnn that Lebanon may be the real sticking point, since Iran demands Israel end the bombardment of that country. “For the Iranians, this is a test to see whether the United States is capable of controlling and reining in Israel,” I explained, otherwise the value of a deal with the US becomes questionable to Tehran.
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One of Orwell's nightmares materialised would be this: potential war criminals and arm manufacturers implicated in a genocide allowed to roam and operate freely, while citizens get arrested for opposing a genocide.
Defend Our Juries@DefendOurJuries
BREAKING: Mass arrests under the Terrorism Act in Trafalgar Square, as hundreds defy the ban on Palestine Action. The police are knowingly unlawfully arresting peaceful protestors for holding placards which say: "I oppose genocide - I support Palestine Action"
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More typical Trump bellicosity to mask the strategic deadlock he’s walked into.
“Nuclear” is the hang-up? By credible accounts, he had a viable deal before the war but chose “all or nothing”.
If “all or nothing” is really still the approach, this will only deepen the quagmire and costs for all sides.
A Hormuz blockade is self-defeating, it injects more insecurity and will likely trigger even more severe market fallout.
Trump has also claimed Iran failed to reopen Hormuz per the ceasefire.
This is as the U.S. has not upheld key ceasefire elements, including ending the fighting in Lebanon and potentially releasing Iranian assets.
Yet even in these two posts, reading between lines, Trump arguably leaves himself an out to keep diplomatic window open.
Ultimately, at root, it is Trump’s erratic, impulsive, and egomaniacal approach that is the decisive destabilizing factor and effectively amounts to extorting the world.
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This video is both heartbreaking and life-inspiring.
A film crew tries to film the destruction caused by US/Israeli bombing at an apartment complex in Iran. One of the tenants, an old man whose apartment has been almost completely shattered, insists on inviting the film crew in and offering them something to eat.
"We have only come to film, we don't want anything," the crew says.
But the old man insists on at least offering them oranges and apples.
Ultimately, those who come out victorious from conflicts are those who retain their dignity. Who never let war make them lose their humanity and self-respect.
Who, even in the worst of situations, insist on upholding sacred traditions and beliefs, including that of hospitality.
That's what makes a civilization indestructible.
Please remember this video and do your best to forget the videos of the lost souls dancing and cheering on the streets when their countrymen, women, and children were being killed by "democracy and freedom" bombs.
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Regarding Trump's threat/decision to impose a naval blockade on Iran, color me a skeptic.
1. Taking more oil off the market, particularly the only oil that is now getting out from the Persian Gulf, will drive oil prices further up, and the paper price of oil will get closer to the actual price, which should be around $150 per barrel. A dramatic increase in inflation in the US will ensue. Avoiding this is precisely why Trump was stuck in a position where he had no escalatory options out of this conflict before the ceasefire. He still doesn't.
2. Stopping tankers carrying Iranian oil wouldn't just be an escalation vis-à-vis Iran, but also against the countries that are buying Iranian oil, which includes China, India, and other Asian countries. I doubt Trump is ready for that escalation, particularly given the upcoming summit in Beijing.
3. This is also true for punishing countries that have negotiated a toll with Iran for the Straits. That includes Pakistan, which hosted the negotiations.
4. The naval blockade escalation will make the closing of the Red Sea more likely by the Houthis. That would take another 12% of global oil flow off the market. We would now be looking at oil around $200 per barrel.
There are nine or so days left of the ceasefire. Since neither side has explicitly stated that talks won't resume, or that the ceasefire is dead and over with, all these moves should be treated as tactics and threats within the negotiations.
It wouldn't be surprising if these threats are walked back soon (perhaps before markets open on Monday) and a new round is announced.
HOWEVER, there is a time for brinkmanship, and there is a time for serious negotiations.
If the US truly was insisting on zero enrichment in Islamabad, which was not Trump's red line at first but rather Israel's, then the next talks will be rendered a failure - just as the talks in May 2025 were killed by Trump shifting to the Israeli red line.
Still, I don't think that necessarily will lead to a return to war. A more likely scenario is a new non-negotiated status quo in which Tehran retains control over the Straits but doesn't get any sanctions relief, while the US pulls out of the war, and the question becomes whether Israel will continue the war on its own.
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Araghchi’s post suggests that “inches away” from an agreement Trump must have changed US position US position and the threat of naval blockade was put on the table. It was his intervention that ended the talks.
Seyed Abbas Araghchi@araghchi
In intensive talks at highest level in 47 years, Iran engaged with U.S in good faith to end war. But when just inches away from "Islamabad MoU", we encountered maximalism, shifting goalposts, and blockade. Zero lessons earned Good will begets good will. Enmity begets enmity.
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Well...it seems that Trump’s genius idea to open the Strait of Hormuz is to close it further!
This can, of course, put pressure on #Iran in the long term, but the short- to mid-term effects on the U.S. and global economy are likely to be much more significant.
One should not forget that in the past 40 days, Iran has been able to ship and sell its oil through the strait, while other oil-producing countries in the region have not. This means Iran is already 40 days ahead of others.
At the same time, it is quite probable that, if Iran is not allowed to sell its oil, it will try to make it impossible for other actors, like Saudi Arabia and the UAE, to sell their oil by bypassing the Strait of Hormuz.
And once again, a casual reminder that the Bab el-Mandab Strait is not closed yet...
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escalate pressure on Iran (but not his previous of destroying power plants and other infrastructure) as prelude to another round of talk? And Iran's response? It could be pressure on shipping in the Red Sea? This is now even more than before a test of endurance between US and Iran
Barak Ravid@BarakRavid
🚨After the collapse of the negotiations, President Trump announces a naval blockade on Iran
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"US and Israeli strikes on Iran caused widespread damage to historical landmarks and endangered the ancient nation’s cultural heritage, experts said. More than 130 Iranian landmarks were destroyed or damaged by either direct or nearby strikes"
ft.com/content/ae2855… via @ft
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