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[Clash Report @clashreport]

Israel spent years cultivating former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a potential intelligence asset and possible leader in a post-regime Iran.

As part of the effort, Israeli intelligence met with him abroad, including in Hungary, using academic events as cover for secret meetings.

The plan culminated during the 2026 Israel-Iran war, when Mossad operatives extracted Ahmadinejad from Tehran following an Israeli airstrike on his compound and took him to a safe house inside Iran as part of a broader regime-change operation.

The operation ultimately failed after Ahmadinejad left the safe house under unclear circumstances.

According to Iranian officials, he is now under house arrest after authorities uncovered his alleged contacts with Israel.

Source: NYT

[The Art Curator @SeekAfterBeauty]

Evening Twilight in Mategna near Merano (1931), by Jan Bogaerts

[Jacobus @jacqmusik]

Nietzsche on beauty as the generational triumph of selection over decay:

[Richard @ricwe123]

George Yeo, former foreign minister of Singapore.

He displays a far deeper understanding of European history and its conflicts than most Western politicians ever have.

It’s rare to see a high-ranking official speak with this level of depth, clarity, and insight in an interview.

[1976 Live @50YearsAgoLive]

While visiting Papua New Guinea, Belgian anthropologist Jean-Pierre Dutilleux shows Toulambi natives a mirror for the first time.

Their panicked reactions are caught on video:

[Empire Aesthetics @Empireaesth]

Battlecruisers HMS Hood and HMS Repulse, during the Empire Cruise (1923-24)

[Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei @MKhamenei_ir]

The criminal, disgraceful murderers of the martyred Leader, whose names are fully documented from the highest to the lowest ranks, will carry their dream of a peaceful death in bed to the grave.

[Historical Chronicles @HistoriaJack]

Historians of the Tribe

- Frederic Remington, c. 1890

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

Qatar's sovereign wealth fund is vetoing a deal between Volkswagen and Israel's Rafael to produce Iron Dome components, per Bild. As VW's third-largest shareholder, the fund is blocking the agreement. The Wolfsburg plant now faces possible closure, with hundreds of workers at risk of layoffs.

[Edward Elderman @edwereddie]

Georges Croegaert
(Pittore Belga, 1848-1923)
Femme au Boudoir
Signed, inscribed and dated
'Georges Croegaert Paris 1888'
(bottom left),
oil on the table
9 x 7 inches (23 x 18 cm).

[The Art Curator @SeekAfterBeauty]

Love’s Ambush (1890), by William Henry Lippincott

[Jeffrey J. Hall 🇯🇵🇺🇸 @mrjeffu]

Prime Minister Takaichi is pushing through legal changes that could make 18th cousins of the Emperor eligible for adoption into the imperial family. It allows the creation of new "princes" to prevent a situation in which a princess might become Emperor.

[𖤓 @unconquered_sol]

Greek bronze statue of Poseidon, found in the Gulf of Livadostra, Boeotia, Greece, c. 480 BCE

[BRICS News @BRICSinfo]

JUST IN: 🇺🇸🇸🇾 President Trump officially removes Syria from designated state sponsors of terrorism list.

[Clash Report @clashreport]

John Bolton on Trump:

Trump is trolling people. In the first term, I was in his office once. He was dictating a tweet, and he told the person typing the tweet, "Capitalize all the letters in that last sentence."

Then he turned to me and said, "Do you know why I just said that?" I said, "No, why?" And he said, "Because it drives them crazy."

So why does he talk about taking Greenland? Because it drives them crazy.

Source: Euronews

[Román @Zmei_Hhsss]

Otto Skorzeny in his memoirs writes:

"If Hitler underestimated the Russian soldiers in the beginning, he made a serious mistake. We had a superior strategy...but from the common soldier to company commander the Russian soldiers were the equal of the German. Brave, tough, and with an outstanding sense for camouflage, they put up astonishingly bitter resistance and walked en masse and with unbelievable fatalism into certain death."

This is a common theme in Euro-Rus relations, the former cannot understand the latter, at times choosing to label it as fragile and barbaric while believing itself to be civilized, which of course works to the latter's advantage.

[Chicot @parianmarble]

Johan Ludwig Lund

[Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage]

In 2024, I told Clacton that I would fight for them against the establishment.

They are trying to destroy me for it — but I will never stop.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸🇮🇱 Democrat Rahm Emanuel on Israel: "You've lost Europe, your biggest economic partner and market.

In 2022, 55% of Americans held a favorable view of Israel.

Today, it is 37%, and it is dropping.

You lost America, you lost Europe, and you picked up Somaliland. Such a deal."

Writer: Claudio

[East German Visuals @GDRvisuals]

"25 years of the antifascist protective wall" celebration on Karl-Marx-Allee, East Berlin, 1986.