Jappan_Kaur

She/ her. PhD student |West Asian Studies, JNU ; Political Economy | Capitalism Studies | All things MENA and Iran

[Jappan_Kaur @KaurJappan]

I review @gbrew24's Petroleum and Progress in Iran: Oil, Development and the Cold War (2022) for Contemporary Review of the Middle East. A fascinating read on Iranian tryst with oil beyond a purely national history.
https://t.co/tGbLhg6ag6

[Amit|امِت|ਅਮਿਤ @amitjulka]

Twitter-daans, does anybody know have access to Gramsci's entire prison notebooks (esp Notebook 11) in English. The Buttigieg volume covers Notebooks 1-8, and the selections by Hoare and Smith, while very good, are by their very nature, incomplete. Reccos welcome, please RT?

[Michael Thrower Chowdhury @BevansAdvocate]

Sami: "I don't write about econ because I'm not an expert on it"
Economists approaching other disciplines:

[Jappan_Kaur @KaurJappan]

@HVSBanwait @IndianExpress @amitjulka Yes!🤞

[Jappan_Kaur @KaurJappan]

In this piece for @IndianExpress, I write with @amitjulka, offering a Gramscian reading of state resilience amidst the illusion of regime change by external intervention in Iran.
https://t.co/kWk6UXvAjo

[Dimitri @thedimitri]

What a time to be alive

[Borzou Daragahi 🖊🗒 @borzou]

What an opening paragraph

[Jappan_Kaur @KaurJappan]

This sentence could sustain an entire undergraduate course on logical fallacies.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Hitler was a socialist, therefore all socialists are Hitler

[Keifer @DannyVegito]

[guy who can’t fully remember that Gramsci quote] it’s Monster Time

[Jappan_Kaur @KaurJappan]

@Muzyar Absolutely, a refusal to see upheaval in West Asia and South Asia beyond a foreign intelligence plot is where this genre of scholarship ends. Past year and a half made that painfully obvious.

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

BREAKING: Brent crude oil hits $115, the highest since 2022.

[Gregory Brew @gbrew24]

Nice lesson in why you should always double check Claude's homework when it comes to mapmaking.

[Jappan_Kaur @KaurJappan]

Topsy-Turvy curve for the dollar: designed, financed and accidentally derailed by the US itself.

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

Indian oil refiners paid for Iranian oil using Chinese yuan, according to Reuters report.

[Jappan_Kaur @KaurJappan]

@haramcart 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Samridhi Tewari @samridhitewari]

hauz khas metro station interchange

[Jappan_Kaur @KaurJappan]

@gbrew24 When did they start mining the strait? I was under the impression that insurance reluctance was largely driving it.

[Jappan_Kaur @KaurJappan]

@lucifer_damned 🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️

[Maziar @Muzyar]

🧵Steel. Petrochemicals. Pharmaceuticals.
The recent turn of US-Israeli aggression on these Iranian industries isn't about direct military objectives; it seeks what sanctions couldn't accomplish: total economic strangulation.
But what do these three sectors have in common?
👇

[Adil Haque @AdHaque110]

Pope Leo is going full TWAIL and I am here for it.

[Gregory Brew @gbrew24]

When this war broke out, the oil market had some cushion built into it, namely a large amount of oil on the water. Demand was still somewhat on the lower side, given the time of year. States could draw on inventories. SPR releases could absorb some of the price impact.

That cushion is gone. Now comes the pain.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

💢 BREAKING: Coordinated strikes have hit all three of Iran’s largest steel plants simultaneously – Mobarakeh, Esfahan, and Khuzestan – the backbone of the country’s non-oil economy.

Together they produce roughly 70% of Iran’s steel output. Iron and steel is Iran’s second-largest export category at $6.48 billion, its primary hard-currency lifeline outside of oil.

Mobarakeh makes the flat steel used in cars and pipelines. Esfahan produces structural beams and railway rails. Khuzestan supplies the raw slabs that feed factories nationwide.

Steel became Iran’s top non-oil export precisely as a sanction hedge as it is cheap to produce using local ore and natural gas, and a critical source of foreign currency when oil revenues were blocked.

Hitting all three at once targets critical industrial capacity and the economic architecture Iran spent decades building to survive Western pressure.