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[🇵🇸 عباس / Bas @HojeijA]

@MarioNawfal What the hell is a security coordinator? Newspeak!

[🇵🇸 عباس / Bas @HojeijA]

@piersmorgan Piers is like the referee intervene the Argentine vs Spain final game. He bends the rules towards Isreal until he can't . Takes a break because it's career suicide to defend themselves, and then gets back to old habits when it's safe-ish to do so.

[Gominsport @Gominsport]

🚨 Marc Cucurella fires back after Lionel Messi allegedly tried to get him booked for speaking with his hand near his mouth.

🎙️ Reporter: "Marc, what happened in that exchange with Messi?"

🗣️ Cucurella: "I was simply telling him his teammates were being too aggressive. I didn't even realize my hand was covering my mouth,I moved it away immediately."

🗣️ Cucurella: "He didn't need to react like that. It felt childish."

[fan @NoodleHairCR7]

They made a 13 min short movie on Argentina's failed robbery attempt vs Spain

😭😭😭😭😭😭 https://t.co/rqh427sNoa

[Mohamed Salad @MohamedASalad]

LOOOOOOOOOOOOL

[🇵🇸 عباس / Bas @HojeijA]

@drhossamsamy65 😂😂

[SethOfficial @UTD_Seth001]

🚨Fabio Capello on the officiating in Argentina vs Egypt:

🗣️ “I have no problem accepting defeat when the better team wins.

What I cannot accept is inconsistency.

Egypt scored a goal that looked perfectly legitimate, yet VAR searched every possible angle until it found a reason to rule it out. Later, when Egypt were asking for major decisions inside Argentina’s penalty area, that same level of investigation disappeared. That is what frustrates players, coaches and supporters.

Football is built on trust. If one incident deserves three minutes of review, then every major incident deserves the same attention. You cannot apply one standard to one team and a different standard to another. That is where people begin to question the integrity of the decisions.

Argentina have world-class players. Nobody doubts that. Messi, Martínez and the rest have enough quality to win matches on their own. But when controversial decisions repeatedly fall in one direction, it becomes impossible to ignore the conversation. Egypt earned the right to lose because Argentina were better—not because the biggest moments seemed to be interpreted differently.

The saddest part is that tonight people will remember the referee more than the football. Egypt leave with disappointment, but also with unanswered questions. And whenever supporters spend more time discussing officiating than the players, football itself has failed.”

[🇵🇸 عباس / Bas @HojeijA]

@MarioNawfal Bro, your tweets don't match your interviews. It seems to take you alot to process what your knowledgable guests are telling you!

[Chief @Chiefofbridge]

🚨📢| Amir Ghalenoei, the head coach of the Iranian national team, has come out strongly
to condemn VAR and the World Cup officials:

🗣Amir Ghalenoei,

“If you don’t want us to participate in the World Cup, just say it,” he effectively said. Disallowing that goal was completely uncalled for-it was a clear goal, not offside. I feel like the entire football world is against us. Iran fought with everything they had, and the world saw it.”

[ᜰ @markklfc]

Zlatan Ibrahimović on the VAR decision that denied Iran a last-minute winner against Egypt:

🗣️ “This is exactly why people are losing faith in VAR. We're told it's here to eliminate clear mistakes, yet somehow it keeps creating even bigger controversies on football's biggest stage. That's simply unacceptable.”

“I've watched the replay again and again, and I still don't understand how anyone can call that offside. If you're going to cancel a goal that could decide a nation's World Cup, you better be 100% certain not guessing behind a screen.”

“Millions of Iranians celebrated what they believed was a historic moment, only for a group of officials to erase it within seconds. You didn't just disallow a goal you stole a nation's dream.”

“The referee and VAR officials should be held accountable for decisions like this. You cannot hide behind technology when the technology is being used incorrectly. That's not justice, that's incompetence.”

“A World Cup is played once every four years. Players sacrifice everything to get here, supporters travel across the world, and then one shocking decision destroys months of hard work. That is unforgivable.”

“If this is the standard of officiating at the biggest tournament in football, then something is seriously broken. Football deserves better, the players deserve better, and above all, the fans deserve far better than this.”

[ᜰ @markklfc]

Thierry Henry on the VAR decision that denied Iran a last-minute winner against Egypt:

🗣️ “I genuinely feel sick for the Iranian players. They believed they had written one of the greatest moments in their country's football history, only for it to be ripped away in seconds. That's a pain no footballer should experience.”

“You cannot ask players to give everything for ninety minutes and then allow a decision like this to define their World Cup. If VAR is overturning goals of this magnitude, it has to be absolutely flawless. There is no room for doubt.”

“Look at the faces of the players, look at the supporters in the stands. Those weren't just tears over a goal—they were tears over a dream that disappeared in an instant. That's what makes this so heartbreaking.”

“This isn't just about Iran anymore. Every nation at this World Cup should be worried because if a moment like this can happen on football's biggest stage, it can happen to anyone. That's a frightening thought.”

“The officials will move on to the next game, but the Iranian players and their supporters will carry this moment for the rest of their lives. Some scars in football never truly heal.”

“If that decision was wrong, then football has failed Iran. A World Cup should be remembered for unforgettable goals and heroic performances not for a controversy that leaves millions wondering what might have been.”

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇮🇱🇱🇧 Israeli Channel 13 lays out Lebanon's future as open strategy:

"It seems we're leading Lebanon to a civil war.

Maybe it's not so bad for us, let the Lebanese government fight Hezbollah...

That's been the goal from the start."

The framework Rubio just brokered puts the Lebanese Armed Forces in charge of disarming Hezbollah in the south.

Israeli media is now spelling out what that actually means: Lebanese fighting Lebanese, with Israel watching from across the border.

A civil war outsourced and rebranded as peace.

The Channel 13 analyst even concedes the flaw, doubting the Lebanese government "has the power to do it."

That's the whole problem.

Push the LAF to fight Hezbollah before it's strong enough, and you get collapse.

Source: MES on TG / Writers: Sol, Daniel

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

🇾🇪 Yemen celebrates Eid al-Ghadir

[🇵🇸 عباس / Bas @HojeijA]

@MarioNawfal You can't be that stupid @MarioNawfal

[LPC @landpalestine]

Lebanese Bride Dances With The Red Cross Worker Who Rescued Her As A Three-Month-Old Baby After A US attack In Beirut in 1985 that killed at least 50 people

[🇵🇸 عباس / Bas @HojeijA]

@PBDsPodcast This car salesman is the new MSM

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

He’s winding down the war and looking for an off-ramp but will blow up all their power plants unless they open the Strait which we don’t need and will open itself anyway which is why he might send ground troops to the country he already blew off the map.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

Trump just threatened to bomb all of Iran's power plants if Iran doesn't open the Straits within 48h.

We know Iran will not comply with this threat.

If Trump follows through on his threats, Tehran will likely strike at energy facilities throughout the Persian Gulf as well as in Israel. By now, it is really foolish to think it won't.

An already bad situation will worsen with rising oil and gas prices, higher grocery costs in the US, and the closure of most remaining exit ramps.

Escalation only intensifies the lose-lose scenario.

Both sides need to get serious about off-ramps.

Neither side should seek the humiliation of the other. Neither side can force the other's surrender.

Both have to be able to construct a convincing narrative of victory for their own audiences.

They may not realize it yet, but both the US and Iran ultimately have a common interest in such an exit.

[🇵🇸 عباس / Bas @HojeijA]

@PBDsPodcast These guys are becoming the MSM

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

Why did Israel target Ali Larijani, and what are the implications if it is confirmed that he was killed?

I see three potential motivations behind the assassination attempt:

1. Israel is trying to literally kill off Trump's off ramps: Larijani was not only a key figure within the regime who had emerged as the chief consensus builder, but alto kill off Trump's off ramps literallys someone who favored talks with the US and who could build consensus within the system for an Iranian off ramp at some point. He also favored de-escalation with the GCC states and supported Pezeshkian's message on that point (though not the apology). There had been some efforts by Larijani to speak directly with senior Trump officials in December, for instance, to prevent the war. The Israelis want the war to continue to degrade Iran's military capabilities further to shift the balance in the region in Israel's favor for years to come. They have fought for more than two decades to get the US to go to full war with Iran, and having finally achieved that goal, they do not want Trump to cut the war short. Without figures like Larijani in the Iranian system, Trump's pathways to ending the war just got narrower.

2. The US/Israeli strategy may be shifting back to regime decapitation. The reason for this is that it's becoming increasingly clear that reopening the Straits of Hormuz militarily is simply too risky, and there is no international coalition willing to support Trump. But the Straits must be reopened from Trump's perspective because of the impact on energy markets, which eventually will impact gas and food prices in the US, and push Trump's own base to turn against this war. But if he cannot open it militarily, then the original idea of regime implosion may prove another path. As such, the killing of Larijani may have been seen as a second bite at the apple. The first bite, the assassination of Khamenei, did not yield results. But a few more assassinations of key figures may, the thinking would go.

3. Opportunity: The assassination may have also simply occurred because the opportunity presented itself, rather than having been motivated by either a shift in strategy or a sabotage effort by the Israelis to kill off Trump's off-ramps.

Either way, while this undoubtedly is a significant tactical blow to the Islamic Republic, it is difficult to envision it considerably impacting Tehran's war execution.

Plans for these eventualities had already been established during the June war. Moreover, when relatively moderate voices have been killed by Israel, they have more often than not been replaced by a younger generation of more hawkish voices who opposed Iran's policy of "strategic patience", who opposed the June ceasefire, and who currently oppose any de-escalation or ceasefire.

Whether this was Israel's intent or not, the most likely outcome, nevertheless, is the destruction of potential off-ramps for Trump.