Andrew Roth

Global affairs correspondent for @guardian in Washington DC. Ex-Moscow via London. Здесь нам не тут. Write me: [email protected] Signal: andrewroth.38

[Andrew Roth @Andrew__Roth]

I dug in to Musk's dismantling of USAid because it shows his playbook for capturing the whole federal government. What surprised me was his direct involvement in the operation. For example, he demanded suspension of 57 career officers by phone last Monday. https://t.co/dRCb6APyB6

[Cate Brown @catebrown12]

NEW: A Guardian review of thousands of DOJ-released Epstein records found that Ben Black— now the Senate-confirmed head of the $205bn @DFCgov — once invested in the same company as Epstein and maintained social ties with him for years afterward.

https://t.co/SXVZQNJ85Y

[Szabolcs Panyi @panyiszabolcs]

Viktor Orbán heads to the US in June, where family members already live, while loyalists seek MAGA think-tank jobs and visas after the election defeat. Meanwhile, oligarchs & cronies are shifting wealth abroad, largely to the Middle East. @floragaramvolgy
https://t.co/M2yTPzOZtr

[Pjotr Sauer @PjotrSauer]

The strange case of Ilya Remeslo, a staunch pro-Kremlin activist who abruptly turned on Putin overnight, now calling for his resignation and prosecution "This man has destroyed everything he could lay his hands on,”Remeslo told me this morning https://t.co/53iAgRMn8i

[Pippa Crerar @PippaCrerar]

EXCL: UK national security adviser Jonathan Powell attended final talks between US and Iran - and judged Tehran's offer on its nuclear programme was significant enough to prevent rush to war @patrickwintour & @julianborger reveal

https://t.co/ozqrM2MhDw

[Alex Seitz-Wald @aseitzwald]

An objectively wild career move and one I couldn’t be happier with or prouder of. The world needs more local reporters more than it needs more national ones and even if I go back to national reporting one day, I’ll be a much better reporter for this experience.

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Reporter: You just suggested that Iran somehow got its hands on a Tomahawk and bombed its own elementary school on the first day of the war.

Why are you the only person saying this?

Trump: Because I just don’t know enough about it.

[Hugo Lowell @hugolowell]

TRUMP tells me an unconditional surrender by Iran would mean “It's where they cry uncle or when they can't fight any long longer and there's nobody around to cry uncle — that could happen too”

[Jason Burke @burke_jason]

our latest on these US/Israeli plans to mobilise Kurds in the north of Iraq vs Iran.

There's currently less to this than meets the eye, i think

a quieter night in Jerusalem, tho alarms this morning.

https://t.co/eyQ9Ks6L1A

[Cate Brown @catebrown12]

Former US special ops @WesJBryant says the US strike on an Iranian warship is illegal. The boat was hit while returning from a training in India.

“By targeting it, is Trump saying that all of Iran’s government and military poses an imminent threat?”

https://t.co/aamsOP6pYM

[Andrew Roth @Andrew__Roth]

Israel flagged Hezbollah threat before launching air attacks, leaked memo shows Great get by @JGedeon1 https://t.co/Jm9kXKr75s

[Hugo Lowell @hugolowell]

NEW: Trump launched attacks against Iran as part of a joint operation with Israel after they developed intelligence that they could simultaneously target the country’s leadership, according to two people familiar with the matter

The Israelis had been tracking the movements of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, and determined there was a window of opportunity to launch attacks as they convened

The thinking behind decapitating the Iranian regime was a belief that while the Iranian revolutionary guard might be deeply loyal to Khamenei, in the event of his death they would not back any of his successors to the same extent

Inside Trump’s thinking w @Andrew__Roth https://t.co/s7xdYqB4Wt

[Hugo Lowell @hugolowell]

New: Marco Rubio told ambassadors in the Middle East to stop making comments that could inflame tensions and undermine Trump’s pressure on Iran for a nuclear deal, per a cable seen internally as a rebuke of Mike Huckabee @guardian SCOOP https://t.co/NcJvXHj2Yd

[Shaun Walker @shaunwalker7]

The great Charlotte Higgins writes on the great Julia Kochetova and her photography of the war in Ukraine @yeah_kochetova @chiggi https://t.co/JjcNIi6U8s

[Hugo Lowell @hugolowell]

New: Trump’s decision on Iran airstrikes will hinge in part on the judgment of Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, about whether Tehran is stalling over a nuclear deal @guardian SCOOP https://t.co/cGOA4w7Ytq

[Andrew Roth @Andrew__Roth]

Definitive account here from my superb colleague @shaunwalker7

[Shaun Walker @shaunwalker7]

I've been working on this for ages in various countries: the story of the intelligence buildup to Putin's 2022 invasion. How did the US and Britain find out so much, and why were Europe and Ukraine sceptical.

It's a long one:

https://t.co/VFqxQUPsKG

[Aram Roston @AramRoston]

Trump's administration is planning a contract to build a giant military base in Gaza. An exclusive with @catebrown12 https://t.co/5gKfO2ijsu

[Martha Dalton @Marthareports]

Overshadowed by the (devastating) news yesterday about @washingtonpost layoffs - the @ajc is laying off 15% of its staff. That means we're losing talented people like @Allie_Elisabeth. News orgs would be lucky to grab *any* of these top-notch journos. DM me for references.

[Andrew Roth @Andrew__Roth]

Francesca has been delivering brave and nuanced reporting from Russia for the past 3 years. It was a difficult decision to go back in and she has managed the risks to deliver brilliant work. The Post’s loss (along with all their fantastic intl correspondents) will be others’ gain

[Francesca Ebel @FrancescaEbel]

Have been too shattered to write this but for the sake of clarity — I have also been laid off by the Post. I was one of the few journalists still working inside Russia. My last story went on the front page and featured rare testimonies from wounded soldiers criticizing the war.

[Jeremy Barr @jeremymbarr]

In a move that would have seemed unimaginable a few years ago, the Post is closing their bureau in Ukraine, I’ve heard.

That’s on top of shredding their coverage of the Middle East…

https://t.co/haPINb99Jg

[Ben Mullin @BenMullin]

NEWS: The cuts were so severe that at least one department head asked to leave The Post rather than be included in the planning.

Peter Finn, The Post's international editor, requested that he be laid off once he learned about the scope of the cuts to his section.
https://t.co/ERYl3HqZ58