Rana Affan

Publican | Lacasian | BSc Hons. @UoLondon | MSc @cardiffuni 🇵🇰📍🇬🇧

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Oh, this is unbelievable. The edit history on this tweet shows that Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif originally copied and pasted everything he was sent, including:

"*Draft - Pakistan's PM Message on X*"

Now, obviously, Sharif's own staff don't call him "Pakistan's PM," they would just call him prime minister. The U.S. and Israel, of course, would call him "Pakistan's PM."

Would be funny if the fate of the world wasn't hanging in the balance.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

The captain of an Israeli football team, Menashe Zalka, has provoked outrage after video emerged of him firing a grenade alongside troops invading southern Lebanon.

It’s sparked calls for FIFA to take action against him.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

Wow!

Trump asked the Omani FM to mediate with Iran. He was in the room, seeing how far Iran went to avoid this war. And how Trump could have chosen the deal on the table instead of choosing war.

It is extremely significant that he says, "this war was not of Iran's making."

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

From a verse in the Bible, to a map, to strategy, to action, Greater Israel has stopped being just a concept.

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

The reckless campaign against Iran will weaken America’s president. That will make him angry. Be warned: he makes a very bad loser https://t.co/UUNQjqewMl

[Gafi @imGaafar]

This is a reminder to book your holidays in Spain this year

[Al Jazeera Breaking News @AJENews]

BREAKING: Spain has removed its ambassador to Israel and its embassy in Tel Aviv will now be led by a chargé d’affaires, according to the official state gazette and a Foreign Ministry source.

[Curt Mills @CurtMills]

It took the US 20 years to replace the Taliban with the Taliban, but only 9 days to replace Khamenei with Khamenei

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

OMG who made this 😭😂🤣

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

Lavrov to Arab monarchies: "You said you wouldn't allow your airspace to be used. But did you condemn the US and Israel? Did you condemn the bombing of 170 schoolgirls? Now you want to condemn Iran's 'aggression' without mentioning the US"

[Prof Francois Balloux @BallouxFrancois]

Israelis can be weird. They sent special forces into Lebanon to retrieve the remains of a dude who died 40 years ago, and this against the wishes of his widow. They randomly killed scores of civilians in the process and failed to find any bone, and yet they are bragging about it.

[Patricia Marins @pati_marins64]

The United States has handed the Chinese an encyclopedia on its military doctrines.

The war involving the US and Israel is being monitored and recorded in real time by LEO satellite constellations such as Jilin-1, which are even capable of capturing 4K UHD video.

Today, China operates at least three LEO constellations comprising at least 300 satellites dedicated to espionage or dual-use purposes.

From the images constantly released about American bases, it is clear that the Chinese are building a true encyclopedia on U.S. naval and air doctrines.

Every ship positioning, fiend tactics, refueling time, ammunition resupply, everything is being monitored by Chinese satellites. This includes the exact location and behavior of air defenses, their mapped reaction times, missile trajectories, and reprogramming durations.

Nothing escapes the Chinese gaze. In this conflict, they have already mapped and publicly released data on multiple American bases in the region, even identifying the exact number and models of aircraft on the ground.

The war against Iran is giving the Chinese something they never had in the Ukrainian theater: the opportunity to study and document American forces in detail.

To give you an idea, in 2025 the Chinese recorded a video of Atlanta’s airport purely to demonstrate their capability.

I believe the same kind of videos are being produced daily on the American front against Iran.

Never in history has a U.S conflict been observed from the skies at this level, both tactically and strategically.

The price of the Iran war is high in many ways, as I have always said.
And this single episode is giving the Chinese decades of planning and improvement in one go.

(Atlanta Airport)

[MenchOsint @MenchOsint]

Iran: *strikes several US Bases in 7 Arab countries for 7 days, destroying vital radars. none of the countries retaliate. Iran says the punishment for them is over, unless more US attacks come from their land.*

Trump: "Iran has surrendered to the Gulf Arab Countries."

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez:

You may have heard that Spain is alone. They’re the same people who said that when we recognized the State of Palestine, and then others followed.

We are not alone — we are the first. Those who will end up alone are the ones defending the indefensible.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

An unarmed Iranian ship was invited, along with the U.S., to be part of an Indian Naval exercise, and its sailors paraded on land before the president.

The U.S. at the last minute pulled out of the exercise and instead attacked the Iranian ship with a torpedo.

Breaking with all norms of civilization and warfare, we then refused to rescue the drowning survivors. The Sri Lanka Navy was left to pull the dead bodies from the water.

I am hard pressed to think of any other nation throughout history that would do something so cowardly and despicable. We are genuinely in a league of our own, and American media — mostly shrugging off the bombing of a girls school and acting as if carpet bombing Tehran is a normal military tactic — is deeply complicit.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

Rubio: “Iran is run by religious fanatics.”

The White House right now:

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Israel is bombarding, literally bombarding, two Middle East capitals, Beirut and Tehran, killing 100s of civilians, and yet the US and UK media continue to portray Iran as the threat to the region.

Israel has nukes, but Iran is the nuclear threat.

We live in Orwellian times.

[Masoud Pezeshkian @drpezeshkian]

أصحاب الجلالة، رؤساء الدول الصديقة والجارة، سعينا معكم وعبر الدبلوماسية لتجنّب الحرب، لكن العدوان العسكري الأمريكي-الصهيوني لم يترك لنا خياراً سوى الدفاع عن أنفسنا. نحترم سيادتكم، ونؤمن بأن أمن المنطقة واستقرارها يجب أن يتحقق بجهود دولها مجتمعة.

[Jake Shields @jakeshieldsajj]

I don’t expect Iran to be able to win this war but they have already humiliated the United States and shown we aren’t invincible

This war has been an embarrassment and failure in ever way imaginable

[Nehr_who? @Nher_who]

President of Spain Pedro Sanchez:

"Spain doesn't have resources like Oil reserves or Nuclear bombs but that doesn't mean we will not fight against imperialist Israel and try to stop them"

Some wars are fought to be on the right side of History!!

Man with a spine !!