JoJo B

[S p r i n t e r @SprinterPress]

🇮🇷 Iran selected a verse from the Quran for each foreign delegation at Khamenei's funeral, each carrying an individual message

🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia received a verse about two armies meeting in battle, one of which believes and the other does not.

🇹🇷 Turkey - a verse glorifying those who fight over those who "sit back".

🇱🇧 The Lebanese government heard about people refusing to sacrifice if asked to do so.

🇱🇧 Hezbollah was told: "Do not weaken and do not be sad - you are excellent".

🇵🇸 Under Hamas, people who fulfilled their covenant with Allah were glorified: "Some died, others are waiting".

[JoJo B @fs528]

@uspolitics1111 @mehdirhasan 😂😂😂😂

[Jemima Goldsmith @Jemima_Khan]

Below is a THREAD with some shorter clips of the most important messages from my boys’ interview regarding their father’s incarceration.

Please share if you can.

1) His conditions in jail

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

The CEO of Palantir just said the quiet part out loud.
Alex Karp — whose company builds surveillance and defense technology for the U.S. government — just openly stated that AI will deliberately shift economic power away from highly educated, often female, Democratic-leaning workers and toward vocationally trained, working-class, often male voters.

He then admitted these technologies are — his word — “dangerous” and “suicidal,” and that the only justification for deploying them is the military argument: if we don’t, our adversaries will.

So let’s be clear about what was just said on the record: A defense contractor CEO told you AI is being built to restructure the American class system, that it will destroy the economic power of an entire political demographic, and that the only way to sell it to the public is to wrap it in national security.

[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."

[Ruben Gallego @RubenGallego]

Trump ran on exposing the pedophiles and stopping wars. Trump is now protecting the pedophiles and starting wars. #maga

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

Donald Trump and Netanyahu have murdered 57 schoolgirls in an elementary school near the Straits of Hormuz. In Operation Jeffrey Epstein. #Iran

[Aleema Khanum @Aleema_KhanPK]

A Govt Minister has tweeted that a medicial board is being set up for Imran khan. Secondly, we are hearing in news that Imran Khan is to be shifted to Al Shifa eye hospital in Rawalpindi.

Our demand has been clear from the beginning. Imran khan shall not be given any treatment WITHOUT the presence and approval of his personal doctors and family members.

We do NOT accept any medical board they set up and control!

We do NOT accept any reports or results they manufacture.

Our family is getting extremely worried as to why they are resisting the selection of specialists advised by Imran Khan’s personal doctors.

Why are they rejecting the supervision by Imran Khan’s personal doctors?

Why are they rejecting the presence of Imran Khan’s family members?

Why such fierce resistance?

Are they hiding something?

[Kasim Khan @KasimKhanUK]

No panel of doctors will be accepted without the presence of the family and the personal physicians of Imran Khan.
@hrw @UNHumanRights @volker_turk

[Mona Farooq Ahmad @MonaChaudhryy]

A man who built a cancer hospital so others could fight for their lives. The captain who gave us our only World Cup and moments we still cherish. Today he is reportedly losing his eyesight… and we still can’t let him see his own doctors? His own family? Whatever your differences, illness should not take away someone’s dignity. This is about humanity.

[Kasim Khan @Kasim_Khan_1999]

We have been informed that my father, Imran Khan, has lost most of the vision in his right eye, with reports indicating only 15% eyesight remains. This is the direct consequence of 922 days of solitary confinement, medical neglect (denied blood tests) and the deliberate denial of proper treatment in jail.

The responsibility lies squarely with the regime in power, the Army Chief and the puppets enabling this cruelty. This physical deterioration is happening under their orders, their watch and their responsibility. They have manipulated and warped the justice system in order to keep my father in solitary confinement.

My brother and I are still being denied visas to see our father as his health deteriorates. History will record this injustice.

We urge human rights bodies, legal institutions and democratic nations to confront this persecution and ensure those responsible face consequences.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

I’m not sure who comes out worst from this pic: the hypocritical Gill or these Pakistani Americans who idiotically helped fundraise for this Islamophobic fascist.

[Adeel Raja @adeelraja]

پاکستان کی سب سے بڑی جماعت، اسکا دو سال سے جیل میں بیٹھا لیڈر۔۔ اسکی بہن کی روہانسی آواز۔۔ مائنس عمران خان ہو گیا!! ویلڈن گنڈاپور!

[Bloomberg TV @BloombergTV]

India’s military confirmed for the first time that it lost an unspecified number of fighter jets in clashes with Pakistan in May.

Anil Chauhan, chief of defense staff of the Indian Armed Forces, spoke to Bloomberg TV on Saturday, while attending the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore: https://t.co/HVJj6NwMFW

[South Asia Index @SouthAsiaIndex]

Just IN:— Big admission from India; India CDS Gen Anil Chauhan confirms six Indian jets were downed by PAF.

— Chauhan says "It's not the question of if jets were downed but why were they downed. Mistakes were made."

[Jemima Goldsmith @Jemima_Khan]

Please watch & share this interview my boys Sulaiman & Kasim did about their father, Imran Khan, who has been held in solitary confinement for almost 2 years despite the UN ruling that his detention is arbitrary & unlawful. Proud Amma.

[JoJo B @fs528]

Great interview thank you@MarioNawfal

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇵🇰 خصوصی انٹرویو: عمران خان کے بیٹوں نے خاموشی توڑ دی

ہر ایک وقت میں، میں ایک انٹرویو لیتا ہوں جو کسی ملک کی سیاست کو تشکیل دے سکتا ہے۔

یہ ان میں سے ایک ہو سکتا ہے۔

عمران خان، جن سے میں نے گرفتاری سے چند ہفتے قبل بات کی تھی، ہمارے وقت کے مقبول ترین رہنماؤں میں سے ایک تھے۔
جسے اکثر "ٹرمپ آف پاکستان" کہا جاتا ہے، اس کی منظوری کی درجہ بندی 60% سے زیادہ تھی۔

لیکن جب وہ ملک کی طاقتور ملٹری اسٹیبلشمنٹ کے خلاف ہو گئے تو اس کی قیمت فوری طور پر بھگتنی پڑی۔

اسے گولی مار دی گئی۔
پھر جیل بھیج دیا گیا۔
پھر پابندی لگا دی گئی — نہ صرف دفتر سے، بلکہ ٹیلی ویژن، ریڈیو اور سوشل میڈیا پر۔

اور پھر بھی، سلاخوں کے پیچھے سے، یہاں تک کہ ان کا نام مٹ جانے کے باوجود، ان کی پارٹی نے پاکستان کے تازہ ترین انتخابات میں اکثریت حاصل کی۔

اس سے کوئی فرق نہیں پڑا۔

آج، وہ سزائے موت کے قیدیوں کے لیے بنائے گئے 7x8 سیل میں بیٹھا ہے۔
روشنی نہیں ہے۔ کوئی وکیل نہیں۔ ڈاکٹروں تک رسائی نہیں۔ کوئی مقررہ عمل نہیں۔

ان کے بیٹوں سلیمان اور قاسم خان نے اپنی زندگی پاکستانی سیاست کے انتشار سے بہت دور گزاری ہے۔

لیکن تقریباً 2 سالوں سے، انہوں نے اپنے والد کو — زخمی، خاموش، اور قید تنہائی میں بند — کو دنیا بھولتے ہوئے دیکھا ہے۔

جب سے اسے گولی ماری گئی تھی انہوں نے اسے نہیں دیکھا۔
فون کالز، جب وہ آتی ہیں، بے ترتیب پہنچتی ہیں — بعض اوقات صبح 4 بجے — اور لائن ختم ہونے سے صرف 20 منٹ تک رہتی ہیں۔

وہ اس سارے معاملے میں بالکل خاموش رہے۔
اس لیے نہیں کہ انہیں پرواہ نہیں تھی - بلکہ اس لیے کہ وہ ڈرتے تھے کہ بات کرنے سے حالات مزید خراب ہو جائیں گے۔

لیکن اب؟

اب بہت لمبا ہو گیا ہے۔
اب خاموشی غداری کی طرح محسوس ہوتی ہے۔
اب، وہ بول رہے ہیں - کیونکہ شاید یہ واحد چیز رہ گئی ہے جو وہ کر سکتے ہیں۔

اور وہ باز نہ آئے۔

پاکستانیوں کے لیے: امید نہ ہاریں۔

بین الاقوامی برادری کے لیے: آنکھیں بند نہ کریں۔

دستبرداری: یہ انٹرویو پاکستان اور بھارت کے درمیان حالیہ جھڑپوں سے پہلے لیا گیا تھا۔
میں عمران کے قتل کی کوشش کے پیچھے پاکستانی فوج یا حکومت کا الزام نہیں لگا رہا ہوں۔

یہ بھی نوٹ کریں: انٹرویو کا اردو وائس اوور نیچے تبصرہ کے طور پر پوسٹ کیا گیا ہے۔

01:26 - "وہ لفظی طور پر اندھیرے میں ہے۔"
کوئی وزٹ نہیں۔ کوئی وکیل نہیں۔ کوئی کال نہیں۔ روشنی نہیں ہے۔

02:16 - "وہ مکمل طور پر اکیلا ہے۔"
کوئی رابطہ نہیں۔ کوئی ڈاکٹر نہیں۔ یہ جاننے کا کوئی طریقہ نہیں کہ آیا وہ ٹھیک ہے۔

03:19 - "دہشت گردوں کے لیے موت کا سیل۔"
7x8 فٹ۔ بلیک آؤٹ۔ انسانی روح کو مٹانے کے لیے ڈیزائن کیا گیا ہے۔

04:09 - "پہلے دو دن جہنم تھے۔"
وہ اپنے آپ کو زین جیسی حالت میں مجبور کر کے 10 دن تک اندھیرے میں زندہ رہا۔

05:55 - "لائن 20 منٹ پر کٹ جاتی ہے۔"
آدھا وقت: اسباق۔ باقی: وہ ہماری زندگیوں کے بارے میں پوچھتا ہے۔

06:50 - "ہمیں صبح 4 بجے کا پیغام ملتا ہے۔"
اگر ہم اسے یاد کرتے ہیں، تو مہینوں پہلے ہم اس سے دوبارہ سنیں۔

08:04 - "وہ اسے توڑنے کی کوشش کر رہے ہیں۔"
روشنی نہیں ہے۔ کوئی ڈاکٹر نہیں۔ کوئی کال نہیں۔ لیکن وہ تہہ کرنے سے انکاری ہے۔

09:16 - "وہ معاہدہ نہیں کرے گا۔"
اپنے لوگوں کے بغیر نہیں۔ نہیں اگر اس کا مطلب ان کو دھوکہ دینا ہے۔

13:22 - "ہمارے پاس اختیارات ختم ہو گئے ہیں۔"
قانونی راستے ختم ہو گئے۔ خاموشی اب کام نہیں کرتی۔ یہ ہمارا آخری کارڈ ہے۔

15:19 - "اُنہوں نے اُس کے نام پر پابندی لگا دی۔"
ٹی وی، ریڈیو اور آن لائن پر — ہم اپنے والد کے لیے کوڈ بن گئے۔

17:01 - "ہم نے گرینل سے کبھی بات نہیں کی۔"
لیکن ہم شکر گزار ہیں۔ اور ہم ہر اس سے بات کریں گے جو سنے گا۔

18:27 - "یہ 100٪ سیاسی ہے۔"
جھوٹے الزامات۔ جعلی ٹرائلز۔ خاموش جمہوریت۔

20:51 - "ہاں، لوگ پکڑے گئے ہیں۔"
حامی، صحافی - غائب ہو گئے۔ اذیت دی گئی۔ ٹوٹا ہوا

22:06 - "اس نے ہمیں نجی رہنے کو کہا۔"
لیکن اب؟ ہمارے پاس کوئی چارہ نہیں ہے۔

24:03 - "ہم نے سوچا کہ یہ چند ہفتے ہوں گے۔"
تقریباً دو سال ہو گئے ہیں۔

26:26 - "وہ پڑھتا ہے، سکھاتا ہے، پھر سنتا ہے۔"
ہر کال ایک لائف لائن ہے۔

28:05 - "انہوں نے اسے دھندلا دیا۔"
یہاں تک کہ 1992 کے ورلڈ کپ کی تصاویر بھی - اسے مٹا دیا گیا۔

31:00 - "میں 2 سالوں میں 20 سے زیادہ بڑھ گیا ہوں۔"
یہ وہی ہے جو وہ ہمیں بتاتا ہے.

32:20 - "یہ مایوس ہو رہا ہے۔"
نئی دھمکیاں۔ سزائے موت کی بات۔ نظر میں کوئی انتہا نہیں۔

32:57 - "ہم نے اس سے اجازت مانگی۔"
فرمایا: کرو۔

35:00 - "آخری بار جب ہم نے اسے دیکھا تھا، اسے گولی مار دی گئی تھی۔"
تین گولیاں۔ ابھی تک کھڑا ہے۔ اب بھی مسکرا رہے ہیں۔

36:45 - "ہمیں کہا گیا ہے کہ واپس نہ آئیں۔"
ہم اسے مزید توڑنے کے لیے استعمال ہو سکتے ہیں۔

38:16 - "ووٹ کو عزت دو۔"
پی ٹی آئی جیت گئی - یہاں تک کہ اس کے نشان کے بغیر، یہاں تک کہ خاموشی میں۔

39:38 - "غیر ملکی پھل بیچ رہے ہیں؟"
اسی لیے انہوں نے اسے جیل بھیج دیا۔

40:53 - "کچھ خاندان کے افراد خوفزدہ تھے۔"
لیکن ہمیں کچھ کوشش کرنی ہوگی۔

42:07 - "وہ نہیں ہوا ہے۔"
ابھی بھی سیکھ رہے ہیں۔ اب بھی لڑ رہے ہیں۔ ابھی بھی منصوبہ بندی کر رہے ہیں۔

43:12 - "وہ 70 سال کا ہے۔ اسے گولی مار دی گئی۔ اور وہ اسے ڈاکٹر سے انکار کرتے ہیں۔"
یہ انصاف نہیں ہے۔ یہ اذیت ہے۔

[Sumon Kais @sumonkais]

They said Pakistan is afraid, but CNN says India reached out to Robio for a ceasefire.
Pakistani relentless attack put India on the back foot, and they begged for a diplomatic solution from the USA to Turkey.

Save this video for future documentation because India has a classic double standard with a hypocritical mindset.