Fatiha Dazi-Héni

Political scientist. Researcher on Gulf security and political issues IRSEM Paris. Assistant professor on Arab world. Political Institute of Lille.

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

BREAKING: TRUMP CONFIRMS UAE’S MBZ WAS DROPPING BOMBS ON IRAN LAST WEEK:

“Muhammad at UAE is an incredible warrior. He was dropping bombs last week, I said, "who the hell's dropping all those bombs," it was UAE. He's a good fighter.”

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇨🇫 🇦🇪 Dubai has become the main destination for conflict gold and diamonds from the Central African Republic, placing the UAE at the center of a trade that enriches armed groups and smuggling networks, according to a Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime report reported by Semafor.

Almost all of CAR’s officially declared gold exports since 2023 have gone to the UAE. The report names Russia’s Africa Corps, the mercenary network formerly known as Wagner, which has propped up President Faustin-Archange Touadéra since 2018, as a major beneficiary, with illicit gold worth an estimated $180 million a year.

The case is very similar in Sudan, where the UAE has become the dominant buyer of gold financing both sides of the proxy war. Data from Sudan’s central bank show the UAE took about 90% of the country’s official gold exports in the first half of 2025. Researchers say much of it is smuggled through Chad, Libya, and CAR from areas held by the Rapid Support Forces, whose gold earnings, routed largely through the UAE, have helped bankroll its genocidal war effort.

Sudan has filed a case at the International Court of Justice accusing the UAE of complicity in genocide by the RSF in Darfur.

🎥 Democracy Now spoke with NYT’s correspondent in January 2025 about the genocide finding by the US government and how UAE continues to exploit Sudan’s gold.

[Fatiha Dazi-Héni @berlinest]

@GiorgioCafiero @tparsi Of course same

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

If you read one article today, it should be former CIA analyst Paul Pillar’s alarm bell of how the Senate wants to force the US to share sensitive intel with Israel at the expense of the US itself.

“In intelligence, Israel is more of an adversary than an ally. Being an adversary in intelligence means indulging in the hostile act of espionage. Israel has a long record of conducting that type of hostile act against the United States.”

https://t.co/KpdR33YrTw

[Ragıp Soylu @ragipsoylu]

WOW, Trump administration has launched a probe into Iran war critic Trita Parsi and is considering to cancel his Green Card and deport him out of the country, The Free Press reports

[Fatiha Dazi-Héni @berlinest]

أحمد الديين: دعوة إلى وقفة مراجعة فيما بعد الحرب... ولوضع استراتيجية بديلة للدفاع الوطني https://t.co/TmkSHcVjoF

[الحركة التقدمية الكويتية @altaqadomia]

🔴 دعوة إلى وقفة مراجعة فيما بعد الحرب... ولوضع استراتيجية بديلة للدفاع الوطني

▪️ بقلم: أحمد الديين
عضو المكتب السياسي للحركة التقدمية الكويتية

https://t.co/F64vsaW0XM

[World Cup 2026 Daily @TotalFootball]

The Senegalese 🇸🇳 delegation gets this treatment on arrival in the USA. Full tarmac searches, shoes off, bags turned inside out like criminals.

This is straight up humiliation and a disgrace. They’d never put white boys through the same.

[Thomas Juneau @thomasjuneau]

Quite the combination of headlines on the New York Times website tonight:

[abdullah baabood عبدالله باعبود @abaabood]

The procrastination in finalizing a U.S.–Iran MOU is buying time for Netanyahu to continue his devastating war in Lebanon. Whether by design or default, diplomacy stalls while destruction and displacement continue-raising questions about whose interests these delays really serve.

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Exclusive: The United Arab Emirates carried out dozens of airstrikes against Iran beginning in the early days of the war, a deeper involvement than was previously known https://t.co/v5bwrMLKEd

[Fatiha Dazi-Héni @berlinest]

@GiorgioCafiero @Katulis @CNBC Absolutely

[Fatiha Dazi-Héni @berlinest]

@NahalB56834 @vali_nasr @FT He is one of the finest and most authoritative experts on Iran – whether you like it or not – and he is recognised as such in the international academic community. Vali Nasr is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand contemporary Iran.

[Stew Peters @realstewpeters]

TRUMP: “We’re going to BLOW UP Oman if they don’t start behaving like everyone else.”

I hate to beat a dead horse, but holy shit. Now we’re actively threatening to take offensive action against sovereign nations to force them to bow to Israel.

[Vali Nasr @vali_nasr]

This article by Robert Kagan is worth reading. It is a searing assessment of the catastrophic failure of the Israel-U.S. war on Iran, calling it a defeat. It is also perhaps best captures how Iran sees things and why it is not submitting to Trump’s demands in the talks 👇🏼

“There will be no return to the status quo ante, no ultimate American triumph that will undo or overcome the harm done. The Strait of Hormuz will not be “open,” as it once was. With control of the strait, Iran emerges as the key player in the region and one of the key players in the world. The roles of China and Russia, as Iran’s allies, are strengthened; the role of the United States, substantially diminished. Far from demonstrating American prowess, as supporters of the war have repeatedly claimed, the conflict has revealed an America that is unreliable and incapable of finishing what it started. That is going to set off a chain reaction around the world as friends and foes adjust to America’s failure.
President Trump likes to talk about who has “the cards,” but whether he has any good ones left to play is not clear.

The United States and Israel pounded Iran with devastating effectiveness for 37 days, killing much of the country’s leadership and destroying the bulk of its military, yet couldn’t collapse the regime or exact even the smallest concession from it. Now the Trump administration hopes that blockading Iran’s ports will accomplish what massive force could not. It’s possible, of course, but a regime that could not be brought to its knees by five weeks of unrelenting military attack is unlikely to buckle in response to economic pressure alone.”

https://t.co/r8mZvOfqZv

[Fatiha Dazi-Héni @berlinest]

@kdiwaniya And also UAE has a lot to loose economically withdrawing from GCC . This decision would hardly been accepted by the other Emirates that are already upset by the pro-Israeli alignment of Abu Dhabi on regional security.

[Fatiha Dazi-Héni @berlinest]

@RStatecraft @GiorgioCafiero @karimbitar Absolutely and this was also prior to this third Gulf war that came to dramatically aggravate this situation. Could lead to the blow up of the GCC as well the fall of the federal state of UAE due to deep resentment and disagreement of other emirates with MBZ risky choice

[Omid Memarian @Omid_M]

In this damning piece, the @WSJ explains how Trump’s war with Iran has become deeply personal: public bravado, private anxiety; tactical strikes, strategic drift; dramatic threats, improvised diplomacy, using insults as a tactic to bring Iranians to the negotiating table and screaming at aids. Constant desire to change subjects. Being angry at allies. Even his threat to destroy Iranian “civilization” was made without prior coordination with his national security team. A series of miscalculations. This is a portrait of a commander driven less by strategy than impulse, optics, and fear of failure. This is very disturbing. https://t.co/yYmlJcFFQ2

[Crisis Group @CrisisGroup]

Sudan’s spiralling conflict is the worst of all nightmares for Sudanese and is now contributing to instability far outside Sudan’s borders. The country faces the worst humanitarian conditions on the planet. https://t.co/RJEdlkEjSc