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[Lilia Sebouai @liliasebouai]

Britain ‘failed to intervene in Sudan massacre to maintain UAE ties’

Officials ignored intelligence on the ‘genocidal’ siege of El Fasher to protect relations with Abu Dhabi, @nattyray11 tells @CommonsIDC in a written statement

Full story here 🔗
https://t.co/1mvzg2WNXJ

[Alon Mizrahi @alon_mizrahi]

If I'm allowed to dream about what Iran and Yemen could do next, it is this: create a believers' military force in Sudan and finish the RSF once and for all. A free Sudan is the beginning of many beautiful things

[Foreign Policy @ForeignPolicy]

Designating the group as a terrorist organization could help bring an end to Sudan’s civil war. https://t.co/cCmTFqN2f3

[Colin P. Clarke, Ph.D. @ColinPClarke]

Sudan's Rapid Support Forces Are Terrorists https://t.co/h4MwCdOm2x

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

Why is the NBA prominently featuring "Emirates" logos as the United Arab Emirates sends arms and mercenaries to the genocidal Rapid Support Forces in Sudan? https://t.co/sUGKOVAryc

[Mohamed Kambal @MuhammedKambal]

@HelloLauraKelly I've been working with my colleague in the designation of the RSF militia, because this step will partially block the militia from more genocides in Sudan. This bill is much needed and should be passed.

[Cameron Hudson @_hudsonc]

"The NBA is thus profiting handsomely and laundering the reputation of a regime (UAE) that is underwriting a militia responsible for killing people based on their race and ethnicity." https://t.co/9w6GTDZoTH

[Cameron Hudson @_hudsonc]

The UAE Is Bankrolling a Genocide in Sudan — and the World Is Looking Away https://t.co/vbPI2TUoE9

[Rep. Jim McGovern @RepMcGovern]

🧵1/ The NBA should divest from the UAE until it ends support for the RSF in Sudan. Sudan is facing one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises: more than 11 million people displaced, widespread atrocities, and millions facing hunger and famine.

[Martin Plaut @martinplaut]

Sudan: Colombians Linked to Atrocities Trained in UAE Bases. The deployment is evidence of UAE military support for the Rapid Support Forces, which have committed widespread atrocities in Sudan

https://t.co/KVjQeznSU7

[Bruno Fernandes @B_Fernandes8]

how can I assist you? ☕

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Prof. Kenneth Roth (@KenRoth) | Former Director of Human Rights Watch | Princeton University:

The UAE isn't just laundering money - it's sending planeloads of arms through Chad disguised as humanitarian aid.

That is largely what made the RSF a formidable military force - at one point nearly overwhelming the Sudanese army.

Today the RSF controls most of Darfur. Like the Janjaweed before them, they are targeting Black African ethnic groups.

This genocide is made possible by UAE-supplied drones & sophisticated arms that allow the RSF to hold territory.

[كأس العالم™ @TrendEPL]

🚨🚨 تقرير ذا أثليتيك عن دعم الجرائم في السودان وتورط الشيخ منصور 🚨🚨

• على مدار العامين الماضيين، أودى النزاع الأخير في السودان بحياة 150 ألف شخص على الأقل. والآن، وجهت منظمة حقوق الإنسان "فير سكوير" مطالبات لوزارة الخارجي�� البريطانية للنظر في فرض عقوبات وإجراء تحقيق حول دور الشيخ منصور بن زايد (مالك مانشستر سيتي ونائب رئيس دولة الإمارات)، بشأن مزاعم دعم حكومته لـ "قوات الدعم السريع" المتهمة بارتكاب جرائم حرب. يأتي هذا بعد تصريحات إيان دنكان سميث، الزعيم السابق لحزب المحافظين، في البرلمان بأن منصور هو "أبرز مستثمر إماراتي في بريطانيا"، مطالبًا بتقييم شامل لمعايير فرض العقوبات.

• أصدرت جهات دولية كـ الاتحاد الأوروبي والأمم المتحدة بيانات حول دور الإمارات في تسليح قوات الدعم السريع، وهو ما تنفيه أبوظبي بشدة. في المقابل، فرضت الحكومة البريطانية بالفعل عقوبات على أفراد وكيانات مرتبطة بالفظائع التي وصفتها الأمم المتحدة بأنها تحمل "سمات الإبادة الجماعية"، حيث توعدت وزيرة الخارجية إيفيت كوبر بتفكيك "آلة الحرب". العقوبات المحتملة تشمل تجميد الأصول وحظر التعاملات التجارية، وهي ذات الإجراءات التي أجبرت رومان أبراموفيتش سابقًا على بيع نادي تشيلسي.
• ترى منظمة "فير سكوير" أن الشيخ منصور يمثل "نقطة ضغط واضحة" لوقف النزاع. وقد تجلى ذلك في شهر نوفمبر الماضي حين شهد محيط ملعب "الاتحاد" احتجاجات ورُفعت ملصقات تطالب بوقف تمويل المليشيا. تاريخيًا، يدور النزاع بين القوات المسلحة السودانية وقوات الدعم السريع بقيادة "حميدتي"، الذي يرتبط بجرائم إبادة في دارفور، ويسيطر على مناجم الذهب، ويمتلك شركات مسجلة في الإمارات، فُرضت ��لى بعضها عقوبات أمريكية.

• ارتبطت قوات "حميدتي" بأبشع الفظائع، كـ التطهير العرقي والعنف الجنسي. في أكتوبر الماضي، قُتل 460 شخصًا في مستشفى ولادة بالفاشر بعد حصار طويل، وسجلت تقارير مقتل 10 آلاف شخص في يومين فقط بعد سقوط المدينة. وأكدت نائبة المدعي العام لـ المحكمة الجنائية الدولية وجود "إجرام جماعي منظم" في دارفور، وخلصت المحكمة إلى ارتكاب جرائم حرب في الفاشر، في ظل تحذيرات من مجاعة تهدد حياة 26 مليون شخص.

• يرى مراقبون أن للإمارات مصالح استراتيجية في السودان (كالوصول للبحر الأحمر واحتياطيات الذهب). وقد كشف تقرير لخبراء الأمم المتحدة عن أدلة "موثوقة" حول تسيير رحلات شحن أسلحة أسبوعيًا إلى مطار "أم جرس" في تشاد لتُسلم إلى الدعم السريع. الإمارات نفت ذلك بشكل قاطع، مؤكدة أنه مجرد "مستشفى ميداني إنساني"، ورفضت محكمة العدل الدولية قضية رفعها السودان ضدها بهذا الشأن. لكن تحقيقات منظمة العفو الدولية اتهمت الإمارات لاحقًا بتوريد مدرعات وأسلحة صينية للمليشيا في خرق واضح لـ حظر الأسلحة.

[Goals Side @goalsside]

🚨🚨| BREAKING: The conflict in Sudan has reportedly claimed at least 150,000 lives over the past two years.

FairSquare is urging the UK to investigate possible sanctions against Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, owner of Manchester City over alleged UAE support for a paramilitary group accused of war crimes. The UAE denies the allegations.

{@TheAthleticFC}

[Adam @AdamJoseph]

Six months since City fans protested outside the Etihad over ownership links to Sudan’s genocide.

Sheikh Mansour is still arming the RSF - the militias raping, murdering & ethnically cleansing Sudan. US intel intercepted his direct calls with Hemedti, using “charities” as cover to funnel weapons & aid.

The UN Panel found “credible” evidence of UAE military support. Reuters exposed the funding of RSF training. Sudan’s own UN rep accused them of recruiting foreign mercenaries.

Roman Abramovich was rightly forced to sell Chelsea over far less. Mansour gets a free pass because UAE money & geopolitics matter more than a genocide.

Football opened Pandora’s box the day it let nation states own clubs, something that never should have been allowed to happen - & there’s no turning back.

[Jacob Whitehead @jwhitey98]

150,000 have been killed in Sudan over the past two years.

Calls are increasing to sanction #MCFC owner & UAE deputy PM Sheikh Mansour over the UAE's alleged funding of the war.

UK government action would force a sale — this is the current situation:

https://t.co/U3P7tttaUh

[The Athletic | Football @TheAthleticFC]

Over the past two years, the latest conflict in Sudan is estimated to have claimed at least 150,000 lives.

Now, human rights organisation FairSquare has provided the latest calls for the British government’s Foreign Office to consider sanctions and investigate the role of Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al-Nahyan — owner of Manchester City and deputy prime minister of Abu Dhabi — in the UAE government's alleged support of a paramilitary group accused of committing war crimes in the country.

This follows on from former leader of the Conservative Party Iain Duncan Smith stating in parliament in January that Mansour was “possibly the most high-profile UAE investor in the UK economy” and arguing that the Foreign Office should undertake a “full assessment of whether representatives of the UAE Government may meet the criteria for sanctions”.

The UK government has already sanctioned several private individuals and organisations in connection to the atrocities taking place in Sudan, which UN officials have stated carry “hallmarks of genocide”.

The UAE strongly denies being a party to the conflict or supporting either side.

@jwhitey98 explains why there have been calls to investigate potential sanctions against Man City's owner and what the possible consequences would be.

🔗 https://t.co/eObOUNRBjz

[Alon Mizrahi @alon_mizrahi]

Let's spend coffee time playing a little wargame in which the US decides to take on Iran and commit to a full war against it

Look at this map. Where could the US stage an invasion of Iran?

To Iran's east, you'll find Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Turkmenistan. A big triple no.
To Iran's south: the Persian Gulf which it completely dominates. No good.
To Iran's west: Iraq and Turkiye. The first a definite no, the second, a no so probable it must be considered a certain. Turkiye will not go to war with Iran for the US and Israel - a war not only sure to decimate it, but a war Turkich people will be fanatically against.
To Iran's north is the Caspian Sea. No use.

Azerbaijan and Armenia present an opening, but how will hundreds of thousands of NATO soldiers get there (let alone undetected)? If they go by sea, they will need to traverse the Mediterranean and the Black Sea and virtually physically go through Istanbul. Not only politically complicated, but a long long journey that gives Iran tons of time to prepare.

Remember the months and months the US took to amass forces for the Iraq invasion? It took 6 months or so - with no interruptions.

The problem is, with Iran, there's no way they're going to simply build up forces near the designated target's borders.

Iran has an arsenal of hundreds of thousands of guided and precise ballistic missiles, satellites in space and eyes almost everywhere. If a war is declared or started, every American asset within 0-3000 kilometers of Iran's borders will be bombarded so viciously no missile defense system will be able to stop it.

And all those dozens and dozens of American bases scattered throughout the vast area surrounding Iran? How will the US defend them under an attack on a scale of 1000 October 7th's combined?

Additionally, Iran has the most sophisticated anti-ship missiles in the world (Russia's Yakhont), of which it probably has thousands by now. This means no surface ship is going to be able to come close enough to Iran to make it an effective striking weapon (is this going to be the first time we get to see an aircraft carrier drowning? I believe potentially yes).

The US will have to rely on air superiority, but this is going to prove a very difficult, almost impossible task. US planes will have to fly a long way to get to Iran (and back), and it has invested massively in air defense systems, including some of the most sophisticated in Russia's arsenal. The US will lose many planes which will take years to replenish, and Iran will be able to target with ballistic missiles and drones all the bases from which they take off in Europe or the Middle East.

Another tool the US will use is cruise missiles fired from submarines: but this, too, does not win wars, and can be costly against a rival that prepared for this.

A full-scale invasion of Iran will require potentially millions of soldiers and will take years. The West is simply incapable of an effort of this kind: where will they find millions of young men willing to die at sea in order to occupy a country thousands of miles away? Today? Give me a break.

All this time the Iranians will be defending their home and their independence. The West will be trying to colonize and destroy them. They will have Gaza on their minds.
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I didn't mention Israel because it is virtually irrelevant in this war. Hizbullah alone is enough to paralyze it and keep its military busy for months.
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Bonus point: think about what happens to energy prices in an actual war with Iran. 500$ for an oil barrel? 1000$? 2000$? All is possible.

Guess what country will remain the biggest international producer and exporter of oil and gas, and rip all those extra many, many trillions. You guessed tight. Russia. If the Persian Gulf is up in flames, Russia will become a global economic superpower (at a time when the US is dwindled militarily and economically and cannot even fake a military threat against it).
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Another bonus point: you think Iran cannot, or will not attack on American soil? Think again. From cyber attacks to large-scale, professional, military-level sabotage and guerrilla warfare, in a war with Iran life in the US will definitely not be business as usual, and not only because inflation will be something 200%, and thousands of dead soldiers will return home in coffins every month for a long time.
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The US cannot win a war against Iran. And I believe all parties involved know it. The only thing that remains unknown is how insane and self-destructive the US has become under Netanyahu's and AIPAC's, how shall we call it, influence

[Daily Mail @DailyMail]

Emirates' war on information: Seventy Britons arrested in UAE for taking pictures and videos of drone and missile attacks during Iran war - and now face 10 years in jail https://t.co/zIkJIrW4FP

[Scott Ritter @RealScottRitter]

@Sajwani 85% of your military is comprised of foreign mercenaries.

You’re exactly the right nation to mess with.

Because you stand for nothing.

Loyalty that must be bought isn’t loyalty.

It’s prostitution.

And you’re the pimp.