Maziar Ahmad Sharbaf

Control engineer, roboticist, researcher in biomechanics of locomotion and gait assistance at TU Darmstadt

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

Unfortunately leaving NATO won’t be to avoid foreign entanglements, we’ll be leaving NATO so we can side with Israel when Turkey & Israel eventually clash in Syria.

This is after we helped topple the secular Syrian gov & installed a former AQ/ISIS leader as president.

Time to stop playing arsonist & fireman in the Middle East, it’s just not worth it.

[Behrang Tajdin @Behrang]

A very interesting NYT report:

General Caine replied: “Sir, this is, in my experience, standard operating procedure for the Israelis. They oversell and their plans are not always well-developed. They know they need us, and that’s why they’re hard-selling”
https://t.co/u1vMfy7HPI

[Iran Screenshot @iranscreenshot]

On the second day of popular Iranian composer Ali Ghamsari's sit-in protest at the Damavand Power Plant amid Trump's threats to attack Iran's energy infrastructure...

He plays My Homeland.

[Marci Shore @marci_shore]

I've taught European history for 30 years. Americans have always asked me how the Holocaust was possible, how Germans could have enabled a madman reveling in mass murder to carry out his plans. Now we can see in real time how this is enabled; now we have front-row seats.

[Omid Memarian @Omid_M]

A civilization is not bridges and buildings. It’s people, memory, continuity. To speak of its destruction is to speak of annihilating a people, the logic that underpins genocide.
Under international law, normalizing mass civilian destruction raises grave concerns of atrocity crimes. Reckless. Dangerous. Madness.

[Kaveh Madani @KavehMadani]

Universities are centers of learning and hope, not battlefields.

Targeting them, whatever the justification, erodes norms that protect civilians, knowledge, and future generations.

We must not allow this to become normal.

[Omid Memarian @Omid_M]

Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, one of Iran’s top science and engineering institutions, was bombed tonight, and a number of schools reportedly damaged.
Founded in 1966 (as Aryamehr University), Sharif is a cornerstone of Iran’s scientific and academic life.
Striking and destroying universities and schools is not just an attack on buildings,it is an attack on a country’s future.

[Omid Memarian @Omid_M]

This is not the language of strength. It’s the language of frustration, humiliation, and fear. It’s a blunt call to violate international law and commit war crimes because the war is not going the way it was sold to the American public. Deeply disturbing!

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

One month after starting the war in Iran, this is the statement of the President of the United States on Easter Sunday.

These are the ravings of a dangerous and mentally unbalanced individual. Congress has got to act NOW. End this war.

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

Kent drops a bombshell: "Israel is assassinating the very Iranians involved in U.S. peace talks

The president is fighting a war for a foreign power while that same power sabotages his ability to end it.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

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.

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

Israel moved the red line & forced the war.

POTUS’s original red line was no nuclear weapon for Iran. The Supreme Leader agreed & held a prohibition on a nuclear weapon since 2004. The disagreement & debate was on enrichment levels & monitoring.

The Israelis convinced POTUS that zero enrichment was the red line, the Iranians disagreed, we took out their enrichment capability w/ Op Midnight Hammer, making enrichment a dead issue.

Iran was back at the negotiating table afterwards, this was a major threat to Israel’s goal of regime change, so they forced our hand & attacked Iran, knowing Iran would then attack us, plunging us into the war.

[Omid Memarian @Omid_M]

Horrifying. From “we support the Iranian people” to bombing their bridges, destroying refineries, targeting power plants and pharmaceutical facilities, and threatening to send them back to the Stone Age: this is not a confident, thought-through strategy. It reflects incoherence in political objectives and a kitchen-sink approach to war, rooted in frustration. #IranWar‌

[Maziar Ahmad Sharbaf @MSharbafi]

@RapidResponse47 @kambizhosseini کامبیز جان.
من یک همشهری تو ام چند سال کوچکتر. از اواخر دهه ۸۰ زمانی که شنیدن اخبار مایوس کننده بود ما همیشه پای برنامه های تو بودیم و تا سالها به عنوان یک رشتی بهت افتخار میکردم تا اینکه افتادی در دام اینترنشنال. برگرد به سال‌های قبل و عطای این شبکه ضد ایرانی رو به لقاش،ببخش.

[Sanam Naraghi Anderlini, MBE now on Blue Sky @sanambna]

The #Pasteur Institute 💔😔
My grandfather donated the land to build the institute as part of the development of Iran’s public health infrastructure.
My uncle led it for many years.
As kids we would visit him & get our various vaccinations.
@Pasteur

This is not about the regime. Israel’s goal is to destroy ori past present and future as a nation.

One day we will try
@PahlaviReza for treason and for aiding & abetting war crimes.

[Shadi Sadr @shadisadr]

When they needed to justify this war, they used the language of “rescuing” the Iranian people from their criminal regime, invoking the idea of R2P. Now, they are prepared to send those same people back to the Stone Age, committing war crimes on a massive scale. Trump is expressing his criminal intent loud and clear, and yet no one seems willing to call for R2P.

International justice died in Gaza and is now being buried in Iran.

[Al Jazeera Breaking News @AJENews]

US‑Israeli strikes have hit the century‑old Pasteur Institute in Tehran, causing extensive damage, according to Iran’s Health Ministry.

🔴LIVE updates: https://t.co/A85fq3iUdo

[Joyce Karam @Joyce_Karam]

“While we were engaged in negotiations, they struck us,” #Iran’s Kamal Kharazi told CNN on Mar. 9. Today his home was struck, wife killed, he sustained serious injuries. NYT reports Kharazi was discussing w Pakistan possible US-Iran negotiations w VP Vance

[Alan Eyre @AlanEyre1]

Text of President Pezeshkian letter to American people [machine translation]:
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

To the people of the United States of America and those who, amidst the multitude of distortions and fabricated narratives, are searching for truth and a better life.

Iran, with the same name, the same identity, and the same existence, is one of the oldest continuous civilizations in human history; a civilization that, despite enjoying historical and geographical advantages at various times, has never chosen the path of war, aggression, colonialism, and domination in its contemporary history. Despite experiencing occupation, aggression, and pressures imposed by world powers, and despite military capabilities relative to many of its surrounding countries, it has not initiated war but has bravely pushed back the aggressors.

The Iranian nation has no enmity with other nations, including the people of America, Europe, and its neighbors. Iranians, even in the face of interventions and pressures from foreign governments throughout history, have always distinguished between nations and governments; This is a principle rooted in the mind and culture of this nation, not a temporary position.

Accordingly, the portrayal of Iran as a threat is neither consistent with historical reality nor with today's objective realities. This image is the product of the political and economic needs of power structures; the need to create enemies to justify pressure, maintain military superiority, feed the arms industry, and manage strategic markets. In such a framework, if there is no threat, it is created.

As a result of this approach, today, the greatest concentration of US forces, bases, and military capabilities has been formed around Iran, which, at least since the beginning of the United States' existence, has not initiated any war.

Recent US aggression from the origin of these bases has proven the threatening nature of such a presence, and it is obvious that no country will refrain from strengthening its defense capabilities in the face of such conditions; what Iran has done and is doing is only reaction and defense, and not the initiation of an attack, war, or aggression.

The relationship between Iran and the United States was not based on confrontation, and the relationship between the two nations was proceeding without hostility or tension. The turning point of this path was the coup of 1953; an intervention aimed at confronting the nationalization of Iranian resources, halted the process of democracy, restored dictatorship, and created distrust in the minds of Iranians towards US policies.

This distrust has deepened every day with support for the pre-revolutionary government, support for Saddam Hussein in the imposed war, the imposition of the longest and most extensive sanctions, and finally, direct military actions against Iran.

Despite these pressures, Iran has not only not been weakened, but has also been strengthened in various areas: the remarkable and tripling growth in literacy (from 30 percent to 90 percent), the development of higher education, progress in new technologies, the expansion of health services, and the remarkable and incomparable strengthening of infrastructure indicate the country's internal capacity and ability to adapt. These facts are observable and measurable, independent of media narratives.

Of course, the destructive and inhumane impact of sanctions, war, and aggression on the lives of the brave people of Iran cannot be ignored. The continuation of military actions, including the recent attacks, naturally affects the outlook and feelings of nations. This is a human reality: people who pay the price of war with their lives, homes, cities, and futures will not remain indifferent to its perpetrators.

In the meantime, a fundamental question arises: What real interest exactly of the American people is this war in? What objective threat has there been from Iran that would justify such actions? Does the massacre of innocent children, the destruction of cancer pharmaceutical centers, or the exaggeration of bombing a nation back to the Stone Age have any benefit other than further damaging America’s global image?

Iran has followed the path of negotiations, reached an agreement, and implemented its commitments; This withdrawal from the agreement and the move towards confrontation, and then, two attacks in the middle of negotiations, were destructive decisions made by the United States government in fulfillment of the desires of foreign aggressors.

Launching attacks on Iran’s vital infrastructure, including energy and industrial facilities, is an act that directly targets the Iranian people and, in addition to being a war crime, its consequences will undoubtedly go beyond Iran’s borders. These attacks mean spreading instability, increasing human and economic costs, and creating a cycle of tension and sowing seeds of resentment whose effects will last for years. This path is not a sign of strength; it is a sign of confusion and inability to achieve a lasting solution.

Is it anything other than that the United States, as a proxy for Israel and provoked by this regime, has embarked on this aggression? Is it anything other than that Israel, by making a showy threat against Iran, wanted to focus world public opinion from its crimes to the unrealistic threat it has presented from Iran? Is it any other than Israel deciding to fight Iran with the last American soldier and the last American tax tradition, imposing costs on Iran, the countries of the region, and the United States, and placing itself on the safe side? Is America really the first priority of the United States government today?

I invite you to look at your friends who have come to Iran, instead of paying attention to targeted media propaganda, which is itself part of the war, and the statistics of Iranians who, after higher education in Iran, are teaching and researching at the best universities in the world or working in the most important companies. Do these facts match what the media tells you about Iran?

The world today is at a point where continuing the path of confrontation is more costly and fruitless than ever. The choice between confrontation and engagement is a real and fateful choice; a choice whose consequences will affect the future of generations.
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[Mahmoud Azimaee @mahmoud_azimaee]

Target Tehran: Civilians Under Fire

An investigating report by BBC World Service

https://t.co/WFImnM6mnu