As the US considers joining the war, Iran is preparing for any outcome
With tensions rising, a key question is emerging from Tehran: Who will be the next Supreme Leader of Iran?
@eriknjoka speaks to @criticastery, Member at Centre for Iranian Studies, SOAS, Univ of London, for more insights
We call on France to exercise restraint when dispersing the freedom fighters on the streets of Paris. These brave warriors for justice must receive immediate humanitarian aid, and their safety must be guaranteed in accordance with international law. Failure to comply will leave us no choice but to bring a case before the ICJ, in close cooperation with that renowned champion of human rights, Afghanistan.
It's remarkable how a collapsed state like Somalia, one of the world’s most failed and least diverse countries, where virtually every girl undergoes FGM and women’s rights don’t exist, has exported so many women into Western politics to lecture us about racism and misogyny...
The Nobel Prize committee has lost its moral compass. It has awarded its highest honor to a bigot who built her career around inventing and propagating blood libels against the one and only Jewish state.
Navi Pillay’s proudest achievement was to legitimize a corrupt prosecutor who turned to her fabrications against Israel hoping that by joining her bigoted lynch mob, he would beat a rape charge.
Karim Khan, who was accused by his own ICC employees of raping and sexually molesting them, used Pillay’s lies to build a fake case against Israel.
Pillay supplied the lies. Khan weaponized them. And now the misguided members of the Nobel Committee are honoring the woman who propagated this demonization of the Jews and this travesty of justice.
What connects Palestine, Iran and India — and what can history tell us about the forces that shaped October 7 and its aftermath?
My conversation with @Criticastery looks beyond the headlines to the historical patterns behind the present.
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#October7 #Israel #Palestine #Iran #India
I'm unaware, this side of the pond, how much a dozen eggs cost in Maine or Stateside generally. But #TuckerQatarson, like others, has to eat. Doha is looking at a minimum of 3 yrs. to repair and restore LNG supply chains at #RasLaffan. And #Putin is running a wartime economy rebuying refined diesel sold to the Indians. So what will Tucker tuck into eventually? Could do with some slimming though.
What's arrived, not at #Karachi port but #SaudiArabia, is that 8k-strong #PakArmy contingent. #Pakistan rightly, and desperately, deserves that Qatari LNG shipment given the Iranian delegation rebuffed offers of discounted crude or gas suggested by their hosts for #IslamabadTalks.
Maybe you could tell us, and @SecScottBessent, about your new chargé d'affaires in #Vienna given that the previous one defected just before #Noruz, the Iranian new year, in March 2026?
NEW: Haverford Professor Guangtian Ha
has been arrested and charged with cyberstalking a Jewish colleague.
Posing as a MAGA anon on X, he allegedly messaged another Haverford professor around 50 times between October 2025 and May 2026.
In addition to posting vile antisemitic messages (see below), he allegedly posted his colleague’s “home address, infant child's name, a photograph of the family's mailbox, countless antisemitic slurs and threats, and reference to real-time observation of their home.”
The target’s wife twice moved out of the home with their three children because they were so terrified.
Ha is a member of Faculty for Justice in Palestine.
He has called complaints about antisemitism on campus “Zionist witch hunts.”
Originally from China, he is an associate professor of religion at Haverford who studies Islam in China.
He holds a PhD in anthropology from Columbia. His dissertation is entitled, “Religion of the Father: Islam, Gender, and Politics of Ethnicity in Late Socialism.”
He won the 2023 Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion for his book, The Sound of Salvation: Voice, Gender, and the Sufi Mediascape in China.
He is “charged with one count of cyberstalking pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §
2261A(2). The statutory maximum for cyberstalking is five years' imprisonment, three years of supervised release, a $250,000 fine, and a $100 special assessment.”
Here are some of the messages he posted (brace yourself):
“Jew, get the fuck out of my country”
“Jew pig, get the fuck out of Lower Merion”
“If jews are so special then they should also be placed in special camps and receive special treatments”
“LM jews are going to have it big time, jew. Remember this. You scums have had it too easy. Goyim are taking America back, blood-guzzling demons.”
“@[Victim 1] Eliminate the
jewish cockroaches. Exterminate the jewish state. [Victim 1], you will have nowhere to go. Your family has no future in the US. Give it another 10 years, and you shall see a true holocaust.”
“@[Victim 1] Fat jew, leave lower merion.”
“@[Victim 1] Jew, watch your [Victim I's minor son's true name]. There shall be a sign.”
After the victim took security precautions: “@[Victim 1] The goyim have woken up, jew. Run. Flee. Leave. Blurring your home on google map and installing a security camera next to your mailbox won't help.”
“[Victim 1], the jewish state will stop existing, whether you like it or not, which is why as an Israeli zio jew you want to recreate america in 'iSrAeL's' image. This won't work. You and your family have no future here. Homeless dogs jews will once again become, if you do survive.”
“That's right[Victim 1]The end of American jews is close. Let's start with the jews in Lower Merion. Watch out jewish nigga.”
“[is] that blood, [Victim 1]? We know jews are blood-sucking demons. Only the libtard niggas [...] will protect you. But soon we are going to make sure you have no place to hide, fat rat.”
“Nothing wrong to hate jews. We started to decline the moment we stopped hating, eradicating and expelling jews. Babylonians knew, the Romans knew, the Spaniards knew. American jews have been exposed. Fuck anti-Zionism. HH [i.e., “Heil Hitler”].”
Haverford College has placed Ha on administrative leave and barred him from campus. His information has been wiped from the college’s website.
Some twenty odd years ago, I was invited to Columbia’s faculty house, M’side Heights. Neatly-folded torn napkin is my lasting memory of that luncheon.
The rot had already set in before #Oct7 or ‘blush sauce’ at this #Hamas on the Hudson. To think it was the leading place, going back to the early 20th-c., for Iranian Studies. @sfmcguire79
Gaza is the most lied about war in history. There was no genocide, no famine, no intentional targeting of children. These are modern-day blood libels. We need to expose all the Islamo-left lowlifes who spread these lethal falsehoods, says Brendan O’Neill
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#UNFORGO7TEN is how #AlQaida ran away with #AbuNidal’s idea to hurl an airliner as a projectile into #Israel. I recall in my #Oct7 podcast today Osama bin Laden, 15 years later on 9/11, stole the limelight of #PalestinianTerrorists who, leading up to #PanAm73, Sep ’86, mulled hurtling a plane into the Knesset or elsewhere in Israel.
Panam’s Bombay-based crew also had the presence of mind to conceal passports of those who might sound ‘#Jewish’ from Zaid al-Safarini and his cohorts during that 16-hr. hijacking ordeal in Karachi, #Pakistan.
#CaptainMachchar, also from Bombay, exactly 40 years on, thwarted this #FlyDubai disaster. #PalestinianTerrorism #HamasMassacre @Israel@IsraelinIndia@israelinMumbai@FleurHassanN@ambike_rohan@ASMEASCHOLARS@DrEliDavid@EYakoby@Ostrov_A@meforum@greggroman
My #Oct7 podcast. I discuss:
• #PalestinianTerrorists always used #India as a beach head. #Palestinians had no qualms — despite New Delhi's voluble pro-Palestine stance over the decades and being the first country in the world to recognise a Palestinian 'embassy' in 1988 — in murdering resident diplomats, British, #Emirati, #Jordanian or #Kuwaiti; hijacking #Panam73 and slaying Indian Americans; or shootouts at #Bombay airport (play from 3:43);
• #IRGC #Iran later joined in as evinced in the attacks on the families of Israeli diplomats, New Delhi, Feb. 2012 (play from 20:07);
• Khomeinism, post-79, had to dial down its #Shia credentials for pan-Islamic legitimacy by framing Israel-Palestine as #jihad, turning it from a political into a confessional struggle. Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), est. 1979, ideologically and financially dependent on Tehran (play from 25:50);
• #IranIsraeWar took the fight to Iran by taking out #Khamenei on 28 Feb thus shattering its 'forward defence' strategy (play from 28:29);
• Iran, at one point accounted for 90% of #Hamas's military budget (play from 31:01);
CONCLUSION:
• #October7 disrupted established redlines, led to #IranIsraelWar with #Israel finally shattering the IRGC's 'forward defence' strategy, decimating almost all Iranian proxies encircling, and has exposed #Lebanon's viability as an independent state. The #Houthis are a maritime nuisance but will not endure as a massive security clean-up is underway regionally on several fronts. Even if #Israel's absolute sense of security took a a hammering, the West will, indeed must, continue to underwrite Israeli pre-emptive operations.
#UNFORGO7TEN #HamasMassacre #PalestinianTerrorism https://t.co/AAAbsBZPrP
Our conversation with @Martin_Kramer earned an Editors' Pick this week from @tikvahfund, marking 25 years since "Ivory Towers on Sand" first exposed the corruption at the heart of Middle East studies.
Watch the full discussion on with @ARomirowsky: ▶️ https://t.co/1lMIN4h6m9
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says he is not sure how Iranian representatives at the UN are going to get home, as more than 80 or 90 percent of international flights out of Iran have been halted due to sanctions pressure on Tehran.