Hooman Majd

Writer/Author. NBC News contributor. Instagram: hoomanmajd. RT ≠ endorsement. (And for Iranians: it's هومان, NOT هومن)

[Hooman Majd @hmajd]

If you can't pay an employee a living wage, you might be in the wrong business or should reconsider your "small business" concept.

No one should have to work two or three jobs just to be able to feed their family.

And no, higher minimum wage doesn't help billionaires.

Get real.

[Patrick Bet-David @patrickbetdavid]

Raising the minimum wage helps billionaires.

None of those companies pay minimum wage!

It’ll have 100% impact on small businesses that can’t afford to pay like Fortune 500 companies can.

46% of 🇺🇸 work for small businesses.

Socialist policies destroy small businesses.

[Hooman Majd @hmajd]

Yeah, raising what could become someone ignorant of their own history.
(Plus, why would you want your kid to have the same exact ideas as you, someone decades older?)

[Laura Ingraham @IngrahamAngle]

Smart!

[Hooman Majd @hmajd]

Goldeneye, in Ocho Rios (owned by Chris Blackwell founder of Island Records).
It is now a resort, and one can rent the villa he built and sit at the desk he wrote the Bond novels on.

[ol’ stocky ⛳️ @oldstocky]

Ian Fleming’s typical day at his estate in Jamaica where he wrote all his James Bond stories, need to emulate this

[Hooman Majd @hmajd]

It may not be the wisest thing he's said, but the truth is that there are going to be many protests against Netanyahu when he comes to NYC for UNGA this year, and there will be many, many Jews among the protestors. (There are always protests against the Iranian and Chinese delegations, too.)
Perhaps Mamdani just wants to own it.

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

This is crazy! What kind of leader would want to INCREASE the chance of violence against his community (jewish Americans) by calling for protests based on misinformation, hate, and lies?

[Hooman Majd @hmajd]

Indeed.
It wouldn't take a genius to figure that out, and the Iranians are no dummies.
It's beyond obvious that if the Iranian missile and drone supply is (almost) limitless, which seemingly it is, then the munition stockpiles used to defend against them is being rapidly depleted.
And the Pentagon doesn't have its version of Amazon Prime, where you can order 1-day delivery of new supplies.

[Josh Rogin @joshrogin]

The Iranians already know our stockpiles are depleted. So “disclosing” it won’t impact the negotiations at all. Everyone knows.

[Hooman Majd @hmajd]

Hypocrisy, much?

[اسرائیل به فارسی @IsraelPersian]

آموزش تیراندازی با سلاح به کودکان در میدان شهیاد تهران توسط رژیم بچه‌کش جمهوری اسلامی.

[Hooman Majd @hmajd]

I guess he wanted to be the lone soldier.

[Borzou Daragahi 🖊🗒 @borzou]

Imagine being such a blithering idiot that you really think that the Iranians are getting information about the enemies’ munitions from news reports.

[Hooman Majd @hmajd]

They never say to what end. What is a war on Iran supposed to accomplish? How does squeezing it economically (which has been done for over 4 decades) have any benefit for the U.S.? How is the money spent on going to war against Iran benefitting the American people?

It seems some folks just like war.

[Curt Mills @CurtMills]

Checking in on the Democrats

[Kourosh Ziabari @KZiabari]

As per @UNESCO, July 26 is the International Day for the Conservation of the Mangrove Ecosystem. The US-Israeli war of aggression against #Iran has caused enormous damage to the Hara Biosphere Reserve in southern Iran, where oil leaks are degrading Qeshm Island's mangrove forests

[Hooman Majd @hmajd]

@ghoshworld 😄

[Hooman Majd @hmajd]

Since the 1990s --for thirty years now--Netanyahu has been saying Iran is days, weeks or only a few months away from a nuclear weapon.

He has managed to create an imminent nuclear crisis where none really existed, as evidenced by the JCPOA when sane leaders on both sides found a way to find a solution to Iran's nuclear program that satisfied concerns it could lead to weaponization.

If Trump listens to Netanyahu after getting mired in a war he convinced Trump to join, then what was it George Bush said? "'Fool me once, shame on—shame on you. Fool me—you can't get fooled again.'"
Except maybe he can get fooled again.

[Hooman Majd @hmajd]

There was also a conviction for tax evasion....

[Franklin Leonard @franklinleonard]

Lifelong New Yorker… minus the two years he spent in federal prison in Alabama in part for hiring a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law and arranging to record a sexual encounter between the two and send the tape to his sister.

[Alan Eyre @AlanEyre1]

The USG has no monopoly on bluster:

"Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, warned in a statement that continuous strikes by Iranian forces will persist until the enemy completely surrenders and vengeance is exacted for killed children."
https://t.co/1imV5i14ZR

[Helen Clark @HelenClarkNZ]

#Nauru 🇳🇷 with a population of around 12,000 doesn’t have a high commission in #NZ, so how can it afford this provocative move to scope establishing an embassy to Israel in Jerusalem? The question must be asked: how can it be afforded…. https://t.co/oyj6rylsfL

[Brett Erickson @BrettErickson28]

At this moment, the world is on the precipice. The U.S./Iran War has been led to the point of extreme escalation, and most signs point to President Trump taking measures that would certainly force a further devolution of the situation.

We MUST be proactive in preparing for this risk.

With assets, materiel, and troops flooding into the CENTCOM theater, many analysts are predicting that we could see limited boots on the ground operations to potentially attempt to seize Qeshm, Larak, and Bandar Abbas. This WILL lead to American casualties at a scale we are not prepared for.

Others, myself included, are looking at the push from the Iran Hawks to target Iranian civilian and economic infrastructure. Bridge and Power Plants Day, but turned up a notch further. This WILL lead to Iranian retaliation against Gulf energy and desalination infrastructure.

In either event, there WILL be a rapid and overwhelming push for the Trump Administration to respond in an even more aggressive manner.

We cannot be behind the curve when this push happens.

President Trump’s foolish decisions cannot be allowed to pull us into a forever war. They cannot be allowed to create a humanitarian crisis across the entire Gulf region. They cannot be allowed to turn a recession into a depression.

These are not acceptable outcomes.

If the President of the United States makes the irrational decision in the coming days to escalate this war beyond what anyone could have initially imagined, we must stand TOGETHER. We must push back IMMEDIATELY.

Under no circumstances can we allow the U.S. War Machine to gain unstoppable inertia.

We need to work TOGETHER to do everything we can to prevent catastrophe.

[Hooman Majd @hmajd]

So the reason he doesn't know anything about Iran is that Iran hasn't entered any beauty pageants?

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

You couldn’t make shit like this up in the Netflix writers’ room.

Just insane almost unbelievable dialogue from the so-called leader of the free world.

[Brett Erickson @BrettErickson28]

Just moments ago, a THIRD Saudi vessel, the NCC MASA, was struck by the Houthi’s in the Bab al-Mabdeb.

To take this as a standalone event would be to discount its significance. Just the other day, President Trump released a statement on Truth Social that he would hold Iran accountable for any further Houthi strikes.

Now another strike has taken place.

This comes at a time when President Trump is weighing very significant escalation options in the Iran War. Is he going to invade Qeshm and Larak? Is he going to target Irans economic and civilian infrastructure?

At a time when a potential major offensive is on the horizon, the Houthi’s and the Iranian’s are sending the same message:

Bring it on.

https://t.co/H65Igogrmt

[Hooman Majd @hmajd]

1. @NYCMayor can't be fired.

2. It wasn't just Karim Khan (and he's being removed for a reason that has nothing to do with Israel).
The expert panel (Amal Clooney, Sir Adrian Fulford Baroness Helena Kennedy KC, Theodor Meron, Elizabeth Wilmshurst CMG KC, Danny Friedman KC) unanimously agreed to back the application for arrest warrants against the Israeli and Hamas leaders.

[Danny Danon 🇮🇱 דני דנון @dannydanon]

Today at UN Headquarters, ICC member states voted by a majority of 82 to remove Prosecutor Karim Khan.

Khan thought his political witch hunt against Israel and outrageous arrest warrants would distract from serious sexual misconduct allegations. He was wrong.

@NYCMayor Zohran Mamdani, take note: using Israel as a political weapon will not shield you from accountability.