On bombing of #Iran medical research institute & pharmaceutical production: “this is no longer a war on the Islamic republic or its missiles or its nuclear facility. This is a war on the country. This is about turning Iran into a failed state”: @vali_nasr
https://t.co/vW1HV3SYBQ
If the United States is at war, then Pete Hegseth is a war criminal. If the United States is not at war, then Pete Hegseth is a murderer.
What Pete Hegseth ordered the military to do violates international law. Double tap strike on the B1 bridge in Iran while the rescue team were on-site is succession to target first responders assisting victims of the initial attack.
Under the Geneva Conventions, you are obligated to rescue victims of the first attack. Abandoned any survivors and bombing them along with rescue teams is illegal, immoral, and a war crime.
#Iran | Killing schoolchildren can never be a way to solve differences between countries, said @UNHumanRights chief @volker_turk at a @UN Human Rights Council's urgent debate on the Minab school strike.
“There must be justice for the terrible harm done,” he told #HRC61.
Hi @Reuters
You seem to have accidently forgotten to mention that it is Israeli killing these children,
Your sincerely,
Every single person with a conscience
Iran has been bombing perhaps 10 countries for over two weeks, everyday, firing thousands of missiles and drones under heavy attacks, aiming for targets hundreds and thousands of kilometers away -
Didn't hit one school.
"When a President describes sinking ships as 'fun,' when allies are blindsided and friends humiliated, when the reasons for war shift with the news cycle and the global economy buckles—the question is no longer whether the destruction is intended or careless. The question is whether anyone, anywhere, still believes that American power comes with a sense of responsibility attached," writes Bobby Ghosh https://t.co/1ciAIJcyu0
"If we don't address the Israeli factor, they're simply not going to take us seriously"
Joe Kent tells Tucker Carlson that Trump needs to restrain Israel and release sanctions against Iran if he wants to de-escalate this war before America puts boots on the ground.
Iran knew Israel 🇮🇱 might attack, yet it chose not to strike first.
Israel says it launched a pre-emptive attack because it believed Iran was planning one.
So Israel attacks first, calls it “pre-emption,” and when Iran responds, the world labels Iran the aggressor.
Amazing how the one who strikes first somehow never becomes the aggressor in the global narrative.
NEW: Our in-depth investigation finds that US has violated international humanitarian law by failing to take all feasible precautions to avoid civilian harm. US is responsible for the deadly attack on a school in #Minab packed full of children.
US authorities must ensure that their investigation is transparent, thorough, and that the results are made public. https://t.co/L89oJOfK0N
“And the Romans lost to Persians in Battle of Carrhae in 53 BCE. At that moment, the mighty Roman Empire marched east convinced that Persia would collapse under the weight of Roman power.
At Carrhae, the Persian army was commanded by the brilliant general Surena, who understood exactly how to exploit Roman weaknesses.
Instead of engaging in a conventional battle, the Parthian cavalry surrounded the Roman formations and unleashed wave after wave of arrows.
Whenever the archers began to run low on ammunition, camel caravans waiting behind the battlefield delivered fresh supplies. This logistical innovation ensured that the barrage never stopped
Roman soldiers found themselves trapped in a nightmare. Their famous shield formations were designed to withstand brief missile attacks before closing with the enemy.
But at Carrhae the arrows kept coming for hours. Shields were pinned to soldiers’ hands, armour was punctured, and the Roman army gradually lost cohesion.
Crassus had assumed the Persians would eventually exhaust their arrows and be forced into close combat. They never did.
At the end of the battle, thousands of Romans lay dead, thousands more were captured, and Crassus himself was killed during a failed negotiation.
The defeat shattered the myth of Roman invincibility and established Persia as the only power capable of consistently resisting Rome.”
History is always contextual one must learn lessons from it !
I am financially censored.
All the banks closed my bank accounts for criticizing Israel and U.S. war crimes at the UN
I cannot have a bank account. I cannot have a credit or debit card. I cannot make or receive payments
I’m not a criminal. I represent people’s voice at the UN!
Trump on Iran - "It's an evil curse. They're evil people"
Evil for what? They're not the ones who started this war. They're not the ones bombing schools. They're not the ones who rape children like you
Some segments of the Iranian diaspora cheering Iran’s destruction reflect a deeper identity politics. As Vali Nasr notes, they seek distance from the “Global South” and aspire to a Western—often white—political identity. Support for Israel or even MAGA politics is “integration.”
🇮🇱🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump will withdraw from the war and declare a non-existent victory, in order to have time to prepare for the 3rd round.
This war will cause drastic economic consequences for Iran, so the US and Israel in 1-3 years will again try to incite traitors to internal unrest due to the post-war economic situation, blaming the regime.
Because that is their only chance of victory over Iran. This war showed there is no military way.
This is why Israel and the US are bombing civilian infrastructure and are trying to do as much damage as possible to make the economic situation as bad as possible.
The United Nations Security Council just passed Resolution 2817 demanding that Iran stop defending itself from US and Israeli attacks.
This is straight off the pages of a Franz Kafka novel.
In Kafka’s novel, The Trial, the accused, Josef K, is caught in a legal process where every action he takes to defend himself is logged as a new piece of evidence of his guilt.
Putting on its most Kafkaesque hat, Security Council’s condemnation shamelessly focuses on Iran’s retaliation rather than the initial strikes that triggered the war on February 28. Just like in Kafka’s novels, the act of defending oneself is transformed into the primary offense, creating a spiral where the accused is condemned for not submitting quietly to his dissolution.
During the UNSC meeting, China and Russia pointed out the obvious: The war began on 28 February with military strikes on Iran by the US and Israel, strikes that occurred without Security Council authorisation. Russia noted the irony of the Council demanding “maximum restraint” from a nation whose Supreme Leader had just been killed.
Just like in Kafka’s novel, the UNSC kept making demands that are physically impossible for the recipient to fulfill while remaining alive or free.
Bahrain explicitly invoked Article 51 of the UN Charter, emphasising the Gulf states’ right to self-defence, while Iran’s invocation of the same Article 51 was the basis for its retaliation, which the resolution then condemns. Basically, the UNSC resolution reaffirmed the right of “collective self-defense” for the Gulf nations but was silent on the same right for Iran.
In other words, the United Nations is saying the Gulf states can host US military bases that make strikes on Iran possible, but Iran may not touch these bases. Kafka would be envious.