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💢 THREAD: Iranians form human chains around power plants and bridges as Donald Trump warns “a whole civilization will die tonight”
As Trump issued his most explicit threat yet, videos circulating online show civilians gathering around power stations and key infrastructure across Iran in acts of solidarity ahead of his 8 PM deadline.
🎥 Kazerun Combined Cycle Power Plant (southern Iran)
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Young, healthy folks get priced out → premiums rise → more people drop off → prices rise again. That's the insurance death spiral. And that's what happens when healthcare is built for profit instead of people.
In the weeks leading up to the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, it should come as no surprise that Members of Congress were buying defense stocks.
They want to enrich themselves from this death and destruction while sending other families' loved ones off to war. Disgusting.
Oman’s foreign minister says Iran agreed to “zero enriched uranium stockpiling.”
Within hours, Israel and the USA attacked them.
It was never about peace or uranium but about acting out Netanyahu's biggest bloodthirsty fantasy.
The most brutal takedown of the U.S. government ever broadcast on TV:
“The U.S. government is a vicious imperialist government that attacks other countries and kills little children. Iran understands it is fighting the Epstein class that either rapes little girls or bombs them.”
Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war. Americans do not want this. They do not want another war in pursuit of regime change. They want relief from the affordability crisis. They want peace.
I am focused on making sure that every New Yorker is safe. I have been in contact with our Police Commissioner and emergency management officials. We are taking proactive steps, including increasing coordination across agencies and enhancing patrols of sensitive locations out of an abundance of caution.
Additionally, I want to speak directly to Iranian New Yorkers: you are part of the fabric of this city — you are our neighbors, small business owners, students, artists, workers, and community leaders. You will be safe here.
🚨 BREAKING: Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have warned ships over VHF radio that “no vessel is allowed to pass through the Strait of Hormuz,” an EU Aspides naval mission official told Reuters.
The Strait is a narrow chokepoint, just 21–33 km wide at its tightest, between Iran to the north and Oman and the UAE to the south. Roughly 20–30% of global seaborne crude oil — about 20–21 million barrels per day — moves through it. Major exporters including Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait, the UAE, and Qatar depend on this single route to supply global markets.
Trump has launched an illegal regime change war.
As someone who has survived the horrors of war, I know military strikes will not make us safer; they will inflame tensions and push the region further into chaos.
When we abandon diplomacy, we choose destruction.
Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer support this war.
It is unsustainable to have a fake opposition party with leadership in the pockets of Israel. Every single democrat should be forced to openly explain their position on this war.
The American people do not want a war with Iran. Trump is acting on the violent fantasies of the American political elite and the Israeli apartheid government, ignoring the vast majority of Americans who say loud and clear: No More Wars.