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.
It’s not just Iran.
It’s Lebanon.
In less than 2 weeks, Israel has killed 570 people and displaced 750,000 — over 10% of the entire country. Residential buildings are being bombed with no warning.
The U.S. cannot continue to be complicit in Netanyahu’s wars.
🚨🇮🇷 BLACK RAIN IS FALLING ON TEHRAN
Israel's hitting oil storage facilities. The fires are so massive that rain is coming down black. Contaminated. Toxic.
CNN geolocated footage showing massive fires at petroleum storage in northeastern Tehran. The smoke's so thick it's mixing with rain clouds. When it rains, the water's black.
10 million people breathing this. Drinking from water systems that catch this rain. Kids playing in it.
Remember the Kuwait 1991 point someone from Tehran made? Burning oil releases sulfur oxides, nitrogen oxides, toxic hydrocarbons. Mix with rain = sulfuric acid, nitric acid.
Gulf War Syndrome happened from burning oil wells in the desert. This is happening in a city basin surrounded by mountains. The smoke can't escape. It just sits there.
Israel's not just destroying infrastructure. They're creating an environmental catastrophe that'll kill people for decades.
Black rain. In a city of 10 million. While the war's still escalating.
TIME, CNN
🚨🇮🇷 The fuel storage strikes aren't just killing people today. They're creating a cancer epidemic 30 years from now.
When petroleum burns, it releases sulfur oxides, nitrogen oxides, and toxic hydrocarbons. When those mix with rain, they become sulfuric acid and nitric acid.
Acid rain. Chemical burns to skin. Lung damage. Carcinogens in the air children are breathing right now.
Historical precedent exists: Kuwait 1991. Saddam burned oil wells. U.S. veterans who served there developed Gulf War Syndrome. Chronic pain, neurological damage, cancer. 30 years later, they're still dying from it.
That was in the desert. Open air. Wind dispersal.
This is Tehran. 10 million people. Confined air basin surrounded by mountains. The smoke sits there.
Israel just hit multiple fuel storage complexes belonging to Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps. Massive fires. Black smoke over the entire city.
Every child breathing that air is absorbing toxins that will trigger cancers in 2046, 2056, 2066. Nobody will connect it. Nobody will pay for their treatment.
Nobody will be held accountable.
Collateral damage? More like creating a multi-generational health crisis.
"Let's Make Iran Great Again" is the bitter punchline here.
@kelevitch
Imagine if Hezbollah had just killed a five year old Israeli girl and seven year old Israeli boy during a raid on a house inside of Israel. Imagine the reaction.
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Horrible experience thus far
@omanair won’t send an email telling you flight is cancelled but they will continue to send you prompts to upgrade and purchase enhancement options
Horrible customer experience
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When i called them they say they can’t do anything
How about a refund?
Israel didn’t want you to see this picture. They told countries air dropping aid to not take footage. This is Gaza now. “Precision bombing”, “targeted strikes”. For years Palestinians told you they were being hunted down in an ethnic cleansing campaign. Now do you see it?
For every politician and journalist who supported Israel's onslaught, or stayed silent:
This photograph should haunt you for the rest of your life.
You will never scrub the shame away. No future achievement, however great, will ever erase what you helped inflict on Gaza.