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[Rizwan Ghilzai (Remembering Arshad Sharif) @rizwanghilzai]

تین سال سے ظلم، انتقامی کارروائیوں اور سیاسی جبر کا سامنا کرنے کے باوجود مخالفین نہ عمران خان کا نام مٹا سکے، نہ ان کی مقبولیت کم کر سکے اور نہ ہی پاکستان تحریک انصاف کو ختم کر سکے۔ ہمارے ہزاروں سیاسی کارکن ہر ماہ بارہا اسلام آباد پنڈی کے عدالتوں میں پیشیاں بھگتتے ہیں، لیکن تمام تر دباؤ، مقدمات اور رکاوٹوں کے باوجود ان کے حوصلے آج بھی بلند ہیں۔ وزیراعلی خیبرپختونخوا سہیل آفریدی

[Faisal Khan @KaliwalYam]

گلگت بلتستان الیکشن کے حوالے سے کمال کی ویڈیو، اسے سوشل میڈیا پر وائرل کریں 🔥

[Curious @MirMAli]

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[Curious @MirMAli]

@SagarH62 Kim Hughes

[Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei @MKhamenei_ir]

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Praise be to God, who perfected His religion and completed His blessing with the wilayah of the Commander of the Faithful, Ali ibn Abi Talib (peace be upon him).

[AMJAD KHAN @iAmjadKhann]

مجھے بڑی حیرت ہوئی کہ انگریزی کے سب سے معتبر اخبار ڈان کا ایڈیٹوریل تھا جس کا عنوان تھا گلگت بلتستان الیکشنز اس ایڈیٹوریل میں دونوں جماعتوں ن اور پیپلز پارٹی کے انتخابی معرکے کا ذکر ہے لیکن پی ٹی آئی کا کہیں ذکر نہیں ہے پی ٹی آئی کو نہ صرف انتخابی ریس سے باہر کیا جا رہا ہے بلکہ تجزیوں اور مباحثوں سے بھی باہر کیا جا رہا ہے ! مطیع اللہ جان ۔۔

[Curious @MirMAli]

@yarbatman @znanjiani Only a victor in war can dictate such terms

[Esfandyar Batmanghelidj @yarbatman]

Iran has included three important tests within the terms the MOU it is negotiating with the United States. These tests are intended to give Iran's leaders confidence that Trump, a counterparty they see as highly unreliable, is ready to make credible commitments, opening a pathway for further diplomacy.

First, the Iranians are testing the credibility of American security commitments by insisting that the MOU encompasses a Lebanon ceasefire. They are not doing this for the sake of Hezbollah or Lebanese Shias. Rather, they want to see if Trump can restrain Israel in its own backyard. If Trump is able to do that, then he might be able to defend his own deal with Iran from further Israeli sabotage.

Second, Iran is insisting on a nominal fee for vessels passing the Strait of Hormuz. This is not because they want more revenue, which would be negligible. They are insisting on this arrangement because they want to test whether Trump will endorse a deal that includes a clear instantiation of Iranian sovereignty and authority, especially one that did not exist before the war. Iran believes in the logic of a win-win agreement. Trump does not. Forcing him to accept a fee forces him to give Iran a "win" and to defend it as such from the Iran hawks in his circle. This is politically meaningful.

Finally, Iran is insisting on a the release of frozen assets. The sums in question are a tiny fraction of the economic cost of the war and the release of assets is not as valuable as sanctions relief that Iran will also be targeting. But by insisting on the release of funds at an early stage of the negotiations, Iran can test whether broader economic commitments, such as sanctions relief, will be credible. Iran will only consider the promise of sanctions relief to be credible if Trump's sanctions bureaucracy allows Iran to move and spend its own money. The Iranian side will insist on transactions that push the Trump administration to set new precedents for how sanctions relief can be operationalized, especially through guidance to banks.

For many in Washington, these demands seem unreasonable. But that is entirely the point. Iran's leadership won't tolerate a kind of narrow deal that allows U.S. policymakers to avoid putting political capital at stake. Iran wants a deal that reflects the unprecedented nature of the war and ensuing crisis. To meet the moment, the diplomacy has to be transformative.

Iran's leaders don't trust Trump, so they are testing him. So far, he is failing these tests.

[Baqir Sajjad @baqirsajjad]

Eid Ghadir is not merely a religious commemoration. I see it as a critique of illegitimate authority and a call for principled resistance, justice and moral leadership in an age of conflict, upheaval and the Global South’s pushback against unequal orders.

[Ather Kazmi @2Kazmi]

گلگت بلتستان کے الیکشن میں اپوزیشن جماعت PTIلیول پلئنگ فیلڈ نہ ملنے کا گلہ کر رہی ہے,حکمران جماعتوں کی لیڈرشپ ایسے تقاریر کر رہی ہے جیسے وہ اپوزیشن جماعتیں ہیں۔ چارسال سے مسلسل اقتدار میں ہیں،اپنی کارکردگی بتائیں اور ووٹ مانگیں! شیخ وقاص کے بیانات سے PTI میں اختلافات واضح ہیں۔

[Curious @MirMAli]

@ShaykhSulaiman Arab states need protection from US for handling their internal rifts and threats

[Nazar Abbas @nazarawan38]

عمران خان جس کرب اور تکلیف سے گزر رہے اسکا اندازہ لگانا بھی مشکل ہے. خود آنکھ تک گنوا دی. اہلیہ جیل میں ہے اہلیہ کی بھی آنکھ متاثر ہوئی، بشری بی بی کا 20 کلو وزن کم ہو گیا، بھانجا جیل میں ہے، بہنیں در بدر کی ٹھوکریں کھا رہی، قید تبہائی میں ہیں، بچوں سے بات نہیں کروائی جاتی، یہ سب کچھ عمران خان اس قوم کے لئے برداشت کر رہے، ہم سب کو بھی سوچنا چاہیے کہ ہم عمران خان کے لئے کیا کر رہے؟ کیا ہم ایسے ہی خاموش بیٹھے رہیں گے یا رہائی کے لئے جدوجہد بھی کریں گے.

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[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Just kind of left speechless at an invading army whining to the United Nations that the people they are invading — and killing their civilians by the thousands — are fighting back. This is a mystifying level of lack of self awareness

[Iran Observer @IranObserver0]

⚡️BREAKING: Iranian missiles caused significant damage in Kuwait and Bahrain last night

According to new satellite images:

— 4 warehouses destroyed (Camp Buehring in Kuwait)

— 1 hangar destroyed (Ali Al-Salem Air Base in Kuwait)

— 1 airport terminal destroyed (in Kuwait)

— NASA confirms a fire at the Sakhir Air Base in Bahrain

[Tehran Live News @Tehran_lives]

🚨 #BREAKING:🇮🇷
Iran Hits Back Hard at US
After US airstrikes on Qeshm Island, Iran launched a wide retaliation using missiles and drones.
Targets included:
Kuwait 🇰🇼
Bahrain 🇧🇭
Iraq 🇮🇶
A ship linked to Panaya in the Strait of Hormuz
This was exactly what the IRGC had warned would happen.

[PressTV Extra @PresstvExtra]

Iranian Jews pay tribute to the late founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Imam Khomeini (RA), at the Yousef Abad Synagogue on the eve of the 37th anniversary of his passing.

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[Press TV 🔻 @PressTV]

Meet Iran's anti-ship missile arsenal — one of the most diverse in the world

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[🇨🇳 Guo Shen 郭深 @GuoShenCN7]

IRAN JUST PUBLISHED THE EXACT LIST OF TARGETS THEY WILL STRIKE IF THE US HITS THEM AGAIN — AND NAMED THE PRICE FOR TOUCHING THE STRAIT

Not vague threats. Not "we will respond." NAMED FACILITIES. SPECIFIC BASES. Country by country.

🇧🇭 US 5th Fleet Headquarters, Bahrain → commands ALL US naval operations across the Persian Gulf, Red Sea, and Arabian Sea → struck with ballistic missiles and drones
🇰🇼 Ali Al Salem Air Base, Kuwait → primary US Air Force staging hub for the entire Gulf theater → struck
🇰🇼 Camp Arifjan, Kuwait → US Army forward logistics hub → struck
🇦🇪 Oil tanker near Dubai → civilian commercial shipping → struck
🇮🇷 Trigger: US strikes on Qeshm Island + Iranian tanker near the Strait of Hormuz → Iran's stated response: 1.5x as hard, every single time
🇸🇦 Strait of Hormuz → explicitly named by IRGC as the enforcement mechanism → "disrupting its security will have a heavy price for the invading US military"

💀 4 named targets struck simultaneously in a single wave
💀 The US 5th Fleet HQ has never been struck in its operational history — Bahrain just became a front line
💀 ZERO tit-for-tat remaining — Iran publicly abandoned proportional response
💀 100% of the targets are US military command and logistics infrastructure — not symbolic

Every target on this list keeps American power projection in the Gulf alive. Not civilians. COMMAND NODES.

Iran's new doctrine is still active. Every US self-defense strike now triggers a guaranteed 1.5x response. And the Strait of Hormuz — carrying 20% of the world's oil — is the named price tag.

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[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

💢 NEW: Iranian Analyst Warns Tehran Against Opening Strait: “Don’t Forget the JCPOA Experience”

🔹Foad Izadi, an international affairs expert and professor at University of Tehran, is warning Iran not to open the Strait of Hormuz, arguing that Secretary of State Rubio’s public statements about U.S. conditions for a deal reveal a trap Tehran has fallen into before.

🔹In a Senate session Tuesday, Rubio outlined two U.S. conditions: Iran must stop firing on or threatening commercial ships in the Strait, and must commit to negotiations over its enriched uranium — including its removal. When asked whether the U.S. would lift sanctions in exchange for opening the Strait, Rubio drew a distinction between congressional, executive, and international sanctions, saying some could be lifted and others could not — but that financial payment for opening the Strait “is not on the table.”

🔹Izadi argues the dynamic mirrors the JCPOA era, when then Secretary of State John Kerry’s congressional statements — not the deal’s text — ended up being implemented in practice. His warnings to Tehran:

▪️ Congressional sanctions, not executive ones, are the main lever — Trump cannot force Congress to lift them
▪️ Under INARA (2015 law), any Iran deal requires congressional approval; the Israeli lobby will block it
▪️ Opening the Strait lowers U.S. gas prices, reducing the domestic cost of attacking Iran
▪️ “Don’t open the Strait for at least two more months”
▪️ “Don’t forget to collect tolls” — Strait revenues could exceed Iran’s oil sales

Izadi warns against “repeating the cycle of attack, ceasefire, negotiation, attack.”

[Faisal Khan @KaliwalYam]

یہ کوئی فلم کا سین نہیں بلکہ وہ لمحہ ہے جب 1992 میں عمران خان سکردو گلگت بلتستان پہنچ گئے 🔥