OK, so Karoline Leavitt asked Getty Pictures to delete this unflattering photo of her, so this is me telling you all NOT to RT and share this many times all over the place.
Whatever you do, DON'T RT this.
Thank you for your attention to this matter. 😏
A reminder that evacuation orders do not give carte blanch to Israel to bomb civilians or their homes. If civilians cannot or choose not to leave, they still cannot be targeted. Doing so is a war crime.
This is probably the most important article of the month: an op-ed by Oman's Foreign Minister, who mediated the talks between the U.S. and Iran, in which he writes that the U.S. "has lost control of its foreign policy" to Israel.
He repeats that a deal was possible as an outcome of the talks (something confirmed by the UK's National Security Advisor, who also attended: https://t.co/XkfSpkMjCf) and that the military strike by the U.S. and Israel was "a shock."
Interestingly, given he is one of Iran's neighbors and given that Oman has been struck multiple times by Iran since the war began (https://t.co/IXNdwD6f3j), he writes that "Iran’s retaliation against what it claims are American targets on the territory of its neighbours was an inevitable result" of the U.S.-Israeli attack. He describes it as "probably the only rational option available to the Iranian leadership."
He says the war "endangers" the region's entire "economic model in which global sport, tourism, aviation and technology were to play an important role." He adds that "if this had not been anticipated by the architects of this war, that was surely a grave miscalculation."
But, he adds, the "greatest miscalculation" of all for the U.S. "was allowing itself to be drawn into this war in the first place."
In his view this was the doing of "Israel’s leadership" who "persuaded America that Iran had been so weakened by sanctions, internal divisions and the American-Israeli bombings of its nuclear sites last June, that an unconditional surrender would swiftly follow the initial assault and the assassination of the supreme leader."
Obviously, this proved completely wrong, and the U.S. is now in a quagmire. He says that, given this, "America’s friends have a responsibility to tell the truth," which is that "there are two parties to this war who have nothing to gain from it," namely "Iran and America."
He says that all of the U.S. interests in the region (end to nuclear proliferation, secure energy supply chains, investment opportunities) are "best achieved with Iran at peace."
As he writes, "this is an uncomfortable truth to tell, because it involves indicating the extent to which America has lost control of its own foreign policy. But it must be told."
He then proposes a couple of paths to get back to the negotiating table, although he recognizes how difficult it would be for Iran "to return to dialogue with an administration that twice switched abruptly from talks to bombing and assassination."
That's perhaps the most profound damage Trump did during this entire episode: the complete discrediting of diplomacy. If Iran was taught anything, it is: don't negotiate with the U.S., it's a trap that will literally kill you.
The great irony of the man who sold himself as a dealmaker is that he taught the world one thing: don't make deals with my country.
Link to the article: https://t.co/FZxtqV3RC4
Settlers reportedly tied up his arms and legs, cut off his underwear, zip-tied his penis, then paraded him around his family while beating him. Corroborated by multiple witnesses.
Trump: "Europe is worthless! We're going to tariff them 25%! NATO is useless! I'm not going to help Ukraine! I'm going to invade Greenland!"
Trump, 5 minutes later: "Europe, please help! Send your warships! I got my little wiener stuck in a bear trap in Iran!"
I can’t imagine anything more disturbing than a mother ignoring the sex trafficking of children while praising the man linked to it.
And even bringing her daughter to the man listed more than 35k times as a perpetrator.
Absolutely vile. How does anyone defend this?
This is the heart of Beirut today.
A city that has stood for 5,000 years.
Israel is obliterating it — flattening civilian apartment block after apartment block.
Not military targets.
Civilian homes. Civilian infrastructure. Civilian life.
“When [Jonathan Greenblatt] equates criticism of…a political organization like AIPAC with anti-Semitism, all he's doing is cheapening the effort to fight real anti-Semitism.”
Senator @ChrisVanHollen@mehdirhasan discuss how the ADL undermines its own mission
Marine Vlahovic, 39, was found dead in her home in Marseille while working on a documentary uncovering Israel's genocidal war against the Palestinians at the end of 2024.
There was never a criminal investigation and no cause of death has ever been released.