Danish Muhammad

‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏علی (ع) ولی اللہ و وصی رسول اللہ و خلیفۃ بلا فصل

[Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi @RuhullahMehdi]

تَبَّتْ يَدَا أَبِي لَهَبٍ وَتَبَّ

Bravo @JmuKmrPolice for this. Netanyahu must be happy with you

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am a diplomatic aide in the Sultanate of Oman's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

My job is logistics. When two countries that cannot speak to each other need to speak to each other, I book the rooms. I prepare the briefing materials. I make sure the water glasses are the right distance apart. You would be surprised how much of diplomacy is water glasses. Too close and it feels informal. Too far and it feels like a tribunal. I have a chart.

We had a very good month.

Since January, Oman has been mediating indirect talks between the United States and Iran on Iran's nuclear program. The talks were held in Muscat and in Geneva. The Americans would sit in one room. The Iranians would sit in another room. I would walk between them. My Fitbit says I averaged fourteen thousand steps on negotiation days. The hallway between the two rooms at the Royal Opera House conference center is forty-seven meters. I walked it two hundred and twelve times in February. This is good for my cardiovascular health. It was less good for my knees. Both are in the service of peace.

By mid-February, we had something.

Iran agreed to zero stockpiling of enriched uranium. Not reduced stockpiling. Zero. They agreed to down-blend existing stockpiles to the lowest possible level. They agreed to convert them into irreversible fuel. They agreed to full IAEA verification with potential US inspector access. They agreed, in the Foreign Minister's phrase, to "never, ever" possess nuclear material for a bomb. I have worked in diplomacy for seven years. I have never seen a country agree to this many things this quickly. I made a spreadsheet of the concessions. It had fourteen rows. I color-coded it. Green for confirmed. Yellow for pending. By February 21 the spreadsheet was entirely green. I printed it. It is on my desk in Muscat. It is still green.

That phrase took eleven days. "Never, ever." The Iranians initially offered "not seek to." The Americans wanted "will not under any circumstances." We landed on "never, ever" at 2:14 AM on a Tuesday in Muscat. I typed the final version myself. I used Times New Roman because Geneva prefers it. The document was fourteen pages. I was proud of every comma.

Here is what they said, in the order they said it.

February 24: "We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity." — The Foreign Minister, private briefing to Gulf Cooperation Council ambassadors. I prepared the slide deck. Slide 14 was the implementation timeline. Slide 15 was the signing ceremony logistics. I had reserved the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Room XX. It seats four hundred. We discussed pen brands for the signing. The Iranians preferred Montblanc. The Americans had no preference. I ordered twelve Montblanc Meisterstucks at six hundred and thirty dollars each. They arrive on Tuesday.

February 27, 8:30 AM EST: "The deal is within our reach." — The Foreign Minister, CBS Face the Nation. He sat across from Margaret Brennan. He said broad political terms could be agreed "tomorrow" with ninety days for technical implementation in Vienna. He said, and I wrote this line for the briefing card he carried in his breast pocket: "If we just allow diplomacy the space it needs." He praised the American envoys by name. Steve Witkoff. Jared Kushner. He said both had been constructive.

I watched from the Four Seasons Georgetown. The minibar had cashews. I ate the cashews. They were nineteen dollars. The most expensive cashew I have ever eaten. But it was a good morning and we were within our reach.

February 27, 2:00 PM EST: Meeting with Vice President Vance, Washington. The Foreign Minister presented our progress. Zero stockpiling. Full verification. Irreversible conversion. "Never, ever." The Vice President used the word "encouraging." His aide took notes on an iPad. The aide did not make eye contact for the last nine minutes of the meeting. I noticed this. Noticing things is the only part of my job that is not water glasses.

February 27, 4:00 PM EST: "Not happy with the pace." — President Trump, to reporters.

Not happy with the pace.

We had achieved zero stockpiling. Full IAEA verification. Irreversible fuel conversion. Inspector access. And the phrase "never, ever," which took eleven days and cost me two hundred and twelve trips down a forty-seven-meter hallway.

Every American president since Carter has failed to get Iran to agree to this. Forty-five years.

Not happy with the pace.

February 27, 9:47 PM EST: The Foreign Minister's flight departs Dulles for Muscat. I am in the seat behind him. He is reviewing Slide 14 on his laptop. The implementation timeline. Vienna technical sessions. The signing ceremony. The pens.

I fall asleep over the Atlantic. I dream about water glasses.

February 28, 6:00 AM GST: I wake up to push notifications.

February 28: "The United States has begun major combat operations in Iran." — President Trump.

Operation Epic Fury. Coordinated airstrikes. The United States and Israel. Tehran. Isfahan. Qom. Karaj. Kermanshah. Nuclear facilities. IRGC bases. Sites near the Supreme Leader's office. Israel called their half Operation Roaring Lion. Someone in both governments spent time choosing these names. Epic Fury. Roaring Lion. I spent eleven days on "never, ever." They spent it on branding. The President said Iran had "rejected American calls to halt its nuclear weapons production."

Rejected.

Iran had agreed to zero stockpiling. Iran had agreed to full verification. Iran had agreed to "never, ever." Iran had agreed to everything in a fourteen-page document that I typed in Times New Roman.

The President said they rejected it.

I do not know which document the President was reading. I know which one I typed.

February 28, 18:45 UTC: Iran internet connectivity: four percent. — NetBlocks, confirmed by Cloudflare. Ninety-six percent of a country went dark. You cannot negotiate with a country at four percent connectivity. You cannot negotiate with a country that is being struck. You cannot negotiate. This is not a political opinion. This is a logistics assessment.

February 28: The governor of Minab reported forty girls killed at an elementary school.

I do not have logistics for that. There is no slide for that. The water glass chart does not cover that.

February 28: Lockheed Martin: up. Northrop Grumman: up. RTX: up. Dow futures: down six hundred and twenty-two points. Gold: five thousand two hundred and ninety-six dollars. An analyst at AInvest published a note titled "Iran Strikes: Tactical Plays." The note recommended positions in oil, defense stocks, and gold.

The most expensive cashew I have ever eaten was nineteen dollars. The most expensive pen I have ever ordered was six hundred and thirty dollars. The math suggests I have been working in the wrong industry. Defense stocks do not require water glasses. Defense stocks do not require eleven days. Defense stocks require one morning.

February 28: Israel closed its airspace and its schools. Iran launched retaliatory missiles toward US bases in the Gulf. The Supreme Leader promised a "crushing response." Israel's defense minister declared a permanent state of emergency. Everyone is using words I recognize in an order I do not. I recognize "permanent." I recognize "emergency." I do not recognize them next to each other. In diplomacy, nothing is permanent and everything is an emergency. In war it is the reverse.

February 28: The Foreign Minister has not made a public statement.

The briefing card is still in his breast pocket. It still says "within our reach."

[Aga Syed Abid Hussain Hussaini @AgaAbid]

امیر شام معاویه ابن ابی سفیان کے بارے میں شیعوں کا عقیده واضح ہے نہ ہی اس اعتقاد کی وکالت کی حاجت ہیں نہ ہی اس اعتقاد سے عداوت برتنے کی ضرورت ہے....

.... مفتی اعظم کا مبھم اور قیاس مع الفارق والے....
https://t.co/VyUJ1d5XYQ

[سید محمد هادی موسوی @syedhadimoosavi]

مفتی اعظم کی پریس کانفرنس پر شیعہ مذہبی علماء کا تردیدی بیان

شیعہ مذہبی رہنماؤں آغا سید حسن الموسوی، آغا سید محمد ہادی الموسوی اور مسرور عباس انصاری نے مفتی اعظم ناصر الاسلام صاحب کی جانب سے پریس کانفرنس میں دئے گئے بیان پر ردعمل کا اظہار کرتے ہوئے کہا ہے کہ مفتی اعظم جیسے ایک ذمہ دار عہدے پر فائز شخصیت کو وہی موقف میڈیا کے سامنے پیش کرنا چاہیے تھا جو میرواعظ منزل نگین میں منعقدہ متحدہ مجلس علماء کے اجتماع میں باہمی مشاورت سے طے پایا تھا اور جسے ایک بیان کی شکل میں بھی شائع کیا گیا تھا۔ مفتی صاحب کا یکطرفه تقریری بیان، جو کہ اتفاق رائے سے محروم ہے ، نہ صرف ذمہ دار انجمنوں کے وقار پر سوال اٹھاتا ہے بلکہ امتِ مسلمہ میں تشویش و اضطراب کا باعث بھی بنتا ہے۔
ہم اس یکطرفہ اور ن گھڑت بیان کی توثیق نہیں کرتے بلکہ اس کو سختی سے مسترد کرتے ہیں۔ شیعہ اور سنی مقدسات، اہلبیت اطہار اور اصحاب کبار کے بارے میں ہمارا موقف وہی ہے جو جلسہ میں باہمی مشاورت سے طے پایا تھا۔ جلسہ میں اس بات پر زور دیا گیا تھا کہ اگرچہ امت میں مسلکی، عقیدتی اور فقہی تنوع پایا جاتا ہے اور ہر کسی کا اپنا عقیدہ ہے مگر اس تنوع کو کبھی بھی تفرقہ ڈالنے یا کسی کی توہین کا ذریعہ نہیں بننے دینا چاہیے کیونکہ شیعہ مراجع عظام آیت اللہ سید علی خامنہ ای اور آیت اللہ سید علی سیستانی وغیرہ کی جانب سے اہلسنت والجماعت کے مقدسات خصوصاً خلفاء راشدین کے تئیں ہرزہ سرائی کو حرام قرار دیا گیا ہے۔ لیکن مفتی صاحب کے یکطرفہ بیان میں جس تاریخی طور پر متنازعہ شخصیت کی تائید کا دعویٰ کیا گیا تھا ہم اس کی تائید نہیں کرتے ہیں۔ اس کے علاوہ بھی کشمیر میں مسلمانوں کے درمیان صدیوں سے قائم باہمی احترام، یکجہتی اور مذہبی ہم آہنگی کا فروغ ہماری اجتماعی دینی اور اخلاقی ذمہ داری ہے، اور اس وحدت کو نقصان پہنچانے کی کسی بھی کوشش کی بھرپور مزاحمت کی جائے گی۔

[Sprinter Report @SprinterReport]

The moment when the Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced the code of "Wadeh Sadeq 2" operation

[Mirwaiz Manzil-Office of Mirwaiz-e-Kashmir @mirwaizmanzil]

Martyrs don’t die!
#hassannasrallah

[Danish Muhammad @Danish8102]

@AryJeay Heartfelt condolences to the families who lost their loved ones.
But saying that striking Tel Aviv or whatever directly will cost more Iranian lives and instead should strike from Syria/Iraq is peak of absurdity.
Are they people of lesser God or you are some sort of elites ?

[Danish Muhammad @Danish8102]

However, the countries looking out for their own interests while pretending to help along with the countries remaining silent will also have to answer for the blood of these children.

May Allah hasten the arrival of our Saviour Imam e Mehdi (ajtfs)

[Danish Muhammad @Danish8102]

The only people who are fighting for a cause are the people of Palestine. They are oppressed and fighting for their right to live. The rest of the countries are either silent or involving themselves for their benefit, to establish their supremacy in the region and to emerge as

[Danish Muhammad @Danish8102]

leaders of muslim world.
Unfortunately, the people of Palestine are being slaughtered, and there is no one to help but Allah. That being said, Israel was and is an apartheid regime committing genocide in Palestine.

[Danish Muhammad @Danish8102]

اللھم عجل لولیک الفرج
#Gaza_Genocide #Palestine #PalestineWillBeFree #طوفان_القدس #Death_To_Israel

[Dr. Omar Suleiman @omarsuleiman]

Gaza tonight.

When the skies are lit with terror. Never forget the “civilized nations” that claim to be “peacemakers” governed by “international law” that manufactured this genocide.

Shame.

[Danish Muhammad @Danish8102]

@iShahidSalman @RiseWithRiSE Downtown?

[Danish Muhammad @Danish8102]

علی(ع) کا مرتبہ گھٹانے والو
علی (ع) کا مرتبہ خدا سے پوچھو

I testify that Imam Ali (as) is the Wali (beloved) of Allah. Imam Ali (as) is the successor of the Prophet Muhammad (saww) and he is the First Caliph of the Prophet Muhammad (saww).

[Danish Muhammad @Danish8102]

@SyedBurhanHyder @KhizarbyWular These people are even below that level. Ath nahaz chunn hidayat gasaan.

[Danish Muhammad @Danish8102]

@DeCachemira You be like "Typical Kashmiri/Shia" 😂😂😂

[Danish Muhammad @Danish8102]

@Not_Availabler @roshnaas_iot Please contact on the given numbers in. They will surely help you out

[Danish Muhammad @Danish8102]

@roshnaas_iot @AESL_Official @SMC_Srinagar @JandKTourism Open Invitation to all
@Masratzahra @zeeshan_jaipuri @SyedBurhanHyder @DeCachemira @nitsriofficial @iustjk @GreaterKashmir @MubeenMasudi @iShahidSalman

[Qazi Shibli (قاضی شبلی) @QaziShibli]

The Kashmir files shouldn't have made it to the International Film Festival. I don't hesitate to call the film a propaganda, Nadav Lapid, jury head international Film festival of India said at the closing ceremony of the event.

#KashmirFiles