احسان Ehsan

Writer. Director. Ex Financial Regulator.

[احسان Ehsan @AlAwadhi]

@masha_slp Don't waste your life waiting for someone to answer that. Could waste the whole thing. People who do that are never happy. The answer is simple: you choose your purpose. That's the concept.

[احسان Ehsan @AlAwadhi]

@ftchinasci @pati_marins64 That's incorrect.

[احسان Ehsan @AlAwadhi]

@pknerd @IKON1436 God takes everyone seriously. You really know nothing about Islam, you're just an angry person.

[احسان Ehsan @AlAwadhi]

@pknerd @IKON1436 I’m not coming up with anything, everything I’m saying is found in fiqh. Go learn English and Islam bro.

[احسان Ehsan @AlAwadhi]

@DefenseBulletin @sentdefender It’s just so cheesy at this point. They’ve been pretending the Iranians are fragmented for weeks now. Nice try but time to move on, it’s obviously BS.

[احسان Ehsan @AlAwadhi]

@pknerd @IKON1436 Performing hajj doesn’t make you a scholar and you’re not the only one who’s done it. Maybe I’m misunderstanding you - are you saying that it’s biddah to argue against luxury oriented hajj? If that’s what you’re saying, you can’t possibly know what biddah means.

[احسان Ehsan @AlAwadhi]

With all due respect brother, if some people didn’t have a voice, by definition we obviously wouldn’t hear them. So we would assume from the silence that nothing is wrong. I’m not saying your conclusion is wrong, but the evidence you’re offering is incomplete. The only way to know if citizens voices are being heard is by the alignment of their documented desires converting into fully completed government actions. In that assessment, we are doing better than most countries for sure.

[احسان Ehsan @AlAwadhi]

This analysis is strongest as a critique of inventory doom-posting and weakest when it drifts toward implying that because prices have not behaved catastrophically, inventory tightness must be overstated.

The traders warning about dangerous reserve levels are not necessarily claiming “we are running out of oil.” Most of them are arguing that the buffer against shocks has become thin, which is a materially different claim. Those two positions can coexist at the same time. Interesting read though.

[احسان Ehsan @AlAwadhi]

Your comments seem unaware of the basics of hajj like miqat. The pilgrimage has to follow tradition. Because: it’s a tradition. You can use anything you want anywhere else. You can go do your hajj on roller blades for all I care, I’m just telling you that you won’t get all the benefits of it. Physiologically, you are simply reducing your alignment with the core process. If you’re out here to make personal attacks, we really don’t have to discuss this at all. Either we benefit from changing ideas or let’s not bother.

[احسان Ehsan @AlAwadhi]

@KiranManral This isn’t going to be a satisfying response but the truth is every country in the world faces this identity crisis when the middle class grows. It’s not an India problem, n it’s honestly not a big deal. No one thinks you’re embarrassing just because someone else is embarrassing.

[احسان Ehsan @AlAwadhi]

Pilgrimage doesn’t mean you have to suffer but the Islamic pilgrimage is not meant to be a walk in the mall. The traditional way is the right way. They could have used camels/horses in the past but the command was to do it a specific way. Equality is absolutely mandatory. It’s embedded in the entire ritual.

[احسان Ehsan @AlAwadhi]

@3nnadi Lifting the naval blockade in return for opening up the strait is a big deal. It stops the global economy from bleeding. It was never supposed to be a final deal, just an MoU.

[احسان Ehsan @AlAwadhi]

Total BS. She can just report it to the police like in any other civilized country. Police won’t care about his wealth because the police are themselves paid really well here. I don’t doubt there are depraved ppl, but the idea that you have to just go along with abuse or harassment is nonsense.

[احسان Ehsan @AlAwadhi]

Appreciate the work you’ve done here but the problem is right at the source of your hypothesis. You claim that we are attempting to build an identity around foreign investment. You cannot build an identity around other people’s things. Foreign Investment is a supplementary factor. An identity is built around strong fundamentals like common beliefs, common culture, language, manufacturing, technological acumen, art, architecture, etc. I’m not a religious person at all but it’s short sighted to ignore that 500 million people sharing a common language and religion is an opportunity rather than a problem. The actual people of the Middle East overwhelmingly prefer to advance their own culture rather than inherit decaying ideas from US/Europe. That has failed just as often as religious extremism.

[احسان Ehsan @AlAwadhi]

@ianbremmer Ding ding ding. I’d add that Iran will control the strait and charge environmental fees.

[Javier Blas @JavierBlas]

The oil is the money.

Even more so if Tehran can repatriate the funds.

The Qatari frozen money is nice-to-have, but at, say, $75 a barrel, Iran makes ~$175 million a DAY in oil export revenue. That's >$5 billion in just one month. That's the real money. Check for oil waivers.

[احسان Ehsan @AlAwadhi]

@AstorAaron @glcarlstrom The will. It’s all about insurance and insurance will adapt as soon as a dozen successful transactions take place. Most countries are not scared of the Iranians.