Arsalan Shahla

Bloomberg reporter covering Iran. Views mine. Likes mostly bookmarks, except for critters.

[Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) @IHRights]

مریم اکبری‌منفرد، زندانی سیاسی، امروز  پس از ۱۷ سال حبس و بدون حتی یک روز مرخصی از زندان قرچک آزاد شد. او پس از پایان محکومیت ۱۵ ساله، با پرونده‌ای تازه ۲ سال دیگر در حبس نگه داشته شده‌بود. #مریم_اکبری_منفرد #نه_به_اعدام
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[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

After a classified briefing from Secretary Rubio, “I have no idea why we entered this war,” Senator @ChrisMurphyCT tells me. He fears “we may be… bombing Iran for months, if not the better part of this year. This is about as incoherent, incompetent and confusing a rollout of military action overseas as I’ve ever seen.”

[Javier Blas @JavierBlas]

If Theran ever thought that it could force President Trump into a cease fire by increasing the cost of the war via the energy market, I don't think ~$70 a barrel WTI gets Iran there.

For now, the oil market's message to the White House is: you can keep going if you want.

[Arsalan Shahla @RcShahla]

Famous last words.

[Khamenei.ir @khamenei_ir]

The US President keeps saying that they have the strongest military force in the world. The strongest military force in the world may at times be struck so hard that it cannot get up again.

[Bloomberg @business]

When reports of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's demise began to trickle in, the response in the streets of Tehran was jubilation. The reaction by the authorities was denial, then mourning. https://t.co/EloDfml8us

[Bloomberg @business]

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran, is dead, Iran state TV confirms. https://t.co/rnRVR7ohgc

[Javier Blas @JavierBlas]

OBITUARY: “…With Khamenei’s demise, a hugely consequential chapter in Iran’s modern history closes with little certainty over what comes next or who’s lined up to succeed him…”

By @golnarM

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[Arsalan Shahla @RcShahla]

«فقط»

[Arsalan Shahla @RcShahla]

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[Hossein Bastani حسین باستانی @hosseinbastani]

«[جمعه] سه خانم پیر آمده بودند صف اول تظاهرات. من و یکی از دوستانم ازشان درخواست کردیم بروند عقب. یکی شان برگشت گفت شما جوان‌ها حیفید. بگذار ما که پیریم گلوله بخوریم...»‌
- روایت یک شاهد عینی

[Arsalan Shahla @RcShahla]

Home.

[Vahid Online @Vahid]

⚠️ WARNING: DISTURBING CONTENT
12 received videos with this description:
"These videos are from the bodies of those killed on Thursday, January 8, 2026, at Kahrizak Forensic Medicine Center in #Tehran.
Received from someone who recently left Iran.
Bodies are now delivered in pickup trucks. Families are told to search among them to find their loved ones."
#Iran #IranProtests #DigitalBlackoutIran

[بهرام پارسائی @ParsaeiB]

دستور پی گیری رئیس جمهور، وزیر کشور و وزیر بهداشت برای رسیدگی حمله به #بیمارستان_ایلام پس از اعتراضات آنقدر بی اثر بود که هنوز پای بازرسین به ایلام نرسیده، به #بیمارستان_سینا در تهران حمله می کنند!

[Javier Blas @JavierBlas]

As in the 1980s, when then UAE oil minister Mana al-Otaiba wrote the poem below, OPEC+ faces today a credibility problem about its output limits (quotas) and true production.

At today’s meeting, OPEC+ will start the work on new quotas — hopefully for next year rather than 2027.

[Arsalan Shahla @RcShahla]

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[Arsalan Shahla @RcShahla]

I was so fascinated by Diane Keaton in my teens and early twenties that I translated much of her 2011 memoir "Then Again" into Persian as a passion project (though never finished or published it). Safe travels, Kay.

[Lenscap @Lenscap]

Diane Keaton.
(1946-2025)

[آوش | Avash @Avash_media]

«هاجر صفرزاده»، دختر دونده کم‌بینا ایران در رقابت‌های جهانی ۲۰۲۵ هند به مدال نقره دست یافت

صفرزاده در صفحه اینستاگرامش نوشت:
با قلب پر درد، با حال بدم، همه جوره جنگیدم، اما نشد که نشد.» او فقط یک صدم ثانیه از حریفش که «دونده همراه» داشت دیرتر از خط پایان عبور کرد.

[Dan Williams @DanWilliams]

Iran’s top security body warned that European threats to reinstate UN sanctions on the country could hinder efforts to restore international inspections at Iranian nuclear facilities https://t.co/qYTMI2DL2A via @RcShahla

[Paula Hancocks @PHancocksCNN]

A presidential jet and a massive US air base did not shield Qatar from Israeli attack. America’s Arab allies are taking note. https://t.co/AfuIdnqSio

[Javier Blas @JavierBlas]

In 25 years covering the oil market, I have never seen anything like this:

OPEC has widened its media ban, this time excluding the WSJ, NYT, FT, Reuters and Bloomberg (including myself) from attending its biennial industry conference in Vienna.

#OOTT https://t.co/uTrgCnNBSc