Bakhtiar Safi

Regional Security Adviser |Focus on #MENA Affairs| #ForEveryChild | #LetMeLearn | #Peace | Views/RTs my own.

[Bakhtiar Safi @SafiBakhtiar]

Real security leadership means building trust first. When teams feel safe to report concerns, you catch problems long before they become crises.

#Leadership #SecurityAwareness

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Iraq has some of the world’s largest oil reserves but the money it earns doesn’t fully flow through Baghdad. Instead, a system set up after the US invasion in 2003 still gives Washington lasting leverage over Iraq's oil revenues.

Al Jazeera’s Osama bin Javaid explains.

[Bakhtiar Safi @SafiBakhtiar]

A heartbreaking tragedy. The victims were civilians at a rehabilitation centre seeking treatment and recovery.

#BREAKİNG #Kabul #Afghanistan

[TOLOnews English @TOLONewsEnglish]

#Breaking
According to preliminary figures from the Ministry of Public Health of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, more than 250 people have been martyred and over 400 others injured in Pakistan’s airstrikes in Kabul.

Pakistan’s military regime recently struck an addiction treatment center in Kabul’s 9th police district, causing heavy casualties.
#TOLOnews_English

[Vali Nasr @vali_nasr]

I write in @FT that Iran is playing the long game. In war, geography matters as much as technology. Iran commands the entire northern shore of the Gulf, looming large over energy fields on its southern shore and all that passes through its waters. Its Houthi allies are perched at the entrance to the Red Sea and along the passage to the Suez Canal; Iran is thus perfectly positioned to squeeze the global economy from both sides of the Arabian Peninsula. Those in command of Iran today are veterans of asymmetric wars in Iraq and Syria. They are now applying the same strategy to fighting the US on the battlefield of the global economy. Drones, short-range missiles and mines setting tankers and ports on fire can have the same effect IEDs had in Iraq, only with greater impact — disrupting global supply chains and sending oil prices higher.

Iran could sustain its counteroffensive more easily and for far longer. Furthermore, a ceasefire alone will not lift the shadow of risk that Iran has imposed over the Gulf, which is now experiencing its nightmare scenario. That is why Iranian leaders are saying they will not accept a ceasefire until Washington fully grasps the global economic cost of waging this war. Businesses, investors and tourists may not return to the Gulf states if they assume that war could resume again. Unless the US is prepared to invade Iran to remove the Islamic republic’s leaders and then stay there to ensure stability and security, confidence in the Gulf will only return if the US and Iran arrive at a durable ceasefire.

Iran says it will only accept a ceasefire with international guarantees for its sovereignty, which would probably mean a direct role for Russia and China. It may also demand compensation for war damages and a verifiable ceasefire in Lebanon. The US would then have to agree to some form of the nuclear deal it left on the table in Geneva in February and commit to lifting sanctions. Iran’s leaders entered this war with the goal of ensuring it will be the last one. Either it breaks them or radically changes the country’s circumstances. They are betting on surviving long enough and squeezing the global economy hard enough to realise that goal.

Read full article https://t.co/63RNeA8Bza

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Wow this is interesting

Signal broadcasting to deliver some message still being used

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

BREAKING: Iran’s interim leadership council has approved that neighbouring countries will no longer be attacked unless an attack on Iran originates from them, President Masoud Pezeshkian has said.

🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/OaSwu5wRUm

[Badr Albusaidi - بدر البوسعيدي @badralbusaidi]

I am dismayed. Active and serious negotiations have yet again been undermined. Neither the interests of the United States nor the cause of global peace are well served by this. And I pray for the innocents who will suffer. I urge the United States not to get sucked in further. This is not your war.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

The Omanis are famously cautious. The Omani FM going on CBS to reveal what has actually been achieved in the negotiations is quite unprecedented. And what has been achieved is significant - Trump can indeed declare victory. Listen to this segment - it goes way beyond what Obama achieved.

But everything indicates that Trump won't take yes for an answer. That he will start a war of choice very soon.

Which is probably why the Omani FM decided to go public.

So that the American people knew that peace was within reach when Trump instead opted for war.

[Bakhtiar Safi @SafiBakhtiar]

Worth reading

[Rahala Insights @RahalaInsights]

“A Funeral for a Man, and for a Nation’s Hope“

#Libya #SaifAlIslamGaddafi #Politics

https://t.co/wVfpQEFQjQ

[Rahala Insights @RahalaInsights]

“A Funeral for a Man, and for a Nation’s Hope“

#Libya #SaifAlIslamGaddafi #Politics

https://t.co/wVfpQEFQjQ

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

🚨🇵🇸 This is Gaza now and the world is silent.

[Bakhtiar Safi @SafiBakhtiar]

Sorry Amir 😭

[NADA 𓂆 @nadaa01012]

His name is Amir,
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[GHADA 🇵🇸 @ghadda_p]

If you see this video, put a dot to break the algorithm.

[NADA 𓂆 @nadaa01012]

We can't bear the cold...it's so cold, my mother is shivering. 💔
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[Bakhtiar Safi @SafiBakhtiar]

Another war!

[Bakhtiar Safi @SafiBakhtiar]

Happy New Year 2026!

Wishing you a safe, peaceful, and stable year ahead.

#HappyNewYear2026 #HappyNewYear

[Bakhtiar Safi @SafiBakhtiar]

War and its victims

[GHADA 🇵🇸 @ghadda_p]

Humanity check ✔️ 💔
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[Rahala Insights @RahalaInsights]

“After the Palmyra Attack, Syria’s Unlikely Partnership With the U.S. Hangs in the Balance” by Rahala Insights #Syria https://t.co/vCSjFYzCwA

[Bakhtiar Safi @SafiBakhtiar]

@TheBetterPath_ Too detailed! The rules should be max 3-4

[مريم بنت علي المسند @MANAlMisned]

بتوجيهات سامية من صاحب السمو أمير البلاد المفدى حفظه الله، قطر تمد يد العون لإخواننا في #أفغانستان عبر جسر جوي من المساعدات الإنسانية العاجلة.

شرف عظيم أن أمثل بلادي في هذه المهمة، حاملةً رسالتها للعالم: الإنسان قبل كل شيء، وأن مساعدة الآخرين ونجدة الملهوف إلتزام راسخ يعكس قيمنا الإنسانية الأصيلة.