Saba Vahid

Healthcare analytics and data science.Sun Life Health. Sessional lecturer at MIE, UoT. Movie enthusiast.

[CityNews Toronto @CityNewsTO]

The Toronto District School Board is ending programming at the Island Natural Science School as part of broader cuts to outdoor education programs. The decision is raising concerns among families. https://t.co/5j2IBipz0W

[Colin D'Mello | Global News @ColinDMello]

NEW: Official government documents written and saved in Google Docs are no longer covered by Ontario’s freedom of information laws, the province has decreed, as its transparency clampdown continues to roll out.

https://t.co/VpCrlreBO1

#onpoli

[Tyler Watt 🇨🇦 @tylerwatt]

The Ontario Conservatives’ disastrous education bill just passed its final reading.

Ays 63
Nays 40

Sad day for public education. #onpoli

[Colin D'Mello | Global News @ColinDMello]

Which means, before the end of the month, the records of the Ontario Premier, cabinet ministers and their staff - past, present and future - will be hidden from public view.

All over a cell phone.

#onpoli

[Nilo Tabrizy @ntabrizy]

NEW for @newlinesmag: @ChrisOsieck and I verified three cases where the U.S.-Israeli airs tikes conducted "double-tap" attacks — striking again after civilians were at the scene:
https://t.co/Rf5Lv9Znyw

[Alireza Akbari @itsalireza_akb]

Hamidreza Afrideh, a composer and kamancheh player, sits on the ruins of his music school and says:

"I wanted the last sound that remains here to be music, not bombs and missiles."

[Mohammad @MargBarAmerica]

if you weren’t aware, israel had already started bombing bridges and railroads since yesterday. they’ve been bombing power plants intermittently the whole war too.

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

The US may or may not destroy a civilisation today. Either way, its allies’ silence will live on in shame.

[Danny (Dennis) Citrinowicz ,داني سيترينوفيتش @citrinowicz]

The question I keep coming back to is whether there are actually people within the administration who believe that striking military targets on Kharg Island, issuing existential threats, or even targeting civilian infrastructure, such as rail systems can realistically compel Iran to compromise.

I don’t know what messages Israeli officials are conveying in Washington. But I do know what the strategic reality looks like: the current Iranian leadership is highly unlikely to capitulate. Not under threats, and not under military pressure.

If the underlying assumption is that coercive pressure will force Tehran to concede then that assumption is deeply flawed. In such a framework, escalation becomes the more likely outcome.

If this is indeed the logic driving policy, then escalation is imminent.

Trump will not be able to reach an agreement with Iran if his approach relies solely on coercion, without recognizing that the current regime in Tehran perceives itself as having achieved meaningful gains in this confrontation.

As long as he ignores this perception, they are operating on a flawed premise. From Tehran’s perspective, this is not a moment of weakness that invites concession, but one that reinforces resilience and strategic patience.

Without acknowledging how the Iranian leadership interprets the current balance of outcomes, even the most severe threats are unlikely to change behavior. Pressure without recognition of perceived gains does not produce compromise, it entrenches resistance.

#iran

[Heidi Matthews @Heidi__Matthews]

Not a word yet from @MarkJCarney and @AnitaAnandMP on Trump’s genocidal threat against Iran. This rhetoric presents the ultimate test for Canadian foreign policy, asking just how much illegality Canada is willing to tolerate. Failure to act would itself be an unlawful omission.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

I am waiting to hear European condemnations of this genocidal statement. I expect to be disappointed...

Perhaps the German Chancellor will once again say that the time for discussing international law is not now...

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

Madman Theory?

Trump got summits with “little rocket man” Kim Jong Un last time around, but never in all my years reporting America at war have I heard anything like this: an American president threatens to destroy a “whole civilization” and says it’ll take 100 years to rebuild.

Striking Tehran’s Grand Bazaar, Israel warning people to avoid trains and stations, Trump threatening whole power grids, desalination plants, the nation’s bridges…

Is this war still against the Iranian regime or now against a whole people?

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

"Iran will burn", says a senior official in Israel's security establishment.

Nobody can say they didn't know.

The US and Israel have both broadcast their confessions of war crimes to the whole world.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

This excuse for cutting off all power and bridges to 96 million Iranians (the population we're pretending to save) -- "they're animals" -- is verbatim the excuse given by Israel as to why they were cutting off all food, water and fuel from entering Gaza ("they're animals").

[Sarayu Pani @sarayupani]

If the IAEA cannot even name who is striking the Bushehr plant, they should simply disband themselves and go home.

[Banafsheh.Jamali @BanafshehJamali]

ایران در حال سوختن است. و کمتر از ۴۸ ساعت به وعده ترامپ برای زدن تمام زیرساختهای ایران که جان میلیونها نفر را بخطر میاندازد، باقی مانده است. صدای مردم داخل ایران باشیم.

#StopWarOnIran
#NoWarCrimesInIran

[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.

[Narjes Rahmati 🟩☫🟥 نرجس رحمتی @Narjes_Rahmati]

BREAKING

The US-Israel have just bombed Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, Iran's most prestigious school for science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Iran's "MIT", its graduates are sought after by universities and companies globally.

[Farhad @FarhadRahimpour]

Targeting vital infrastructure puts children, the elderly, and the sick directly at risk. This is not just war—it’s a humanitarian crisis.
#StopWarOnIran #NoWarCrimesInIran

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

This is the first time in history that a president announcing his war crimes in advance.