IMRAN ALI

Graduated from IBA Karachi

[IMRAN ALI @iamIMR]

"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all." - Noam Chomsky

[Ana Kasparian @AnaKasparian]

Good riddance.

[IMRAN ALI @iamIMR]

@mehdirhasan @cenkuygur You are becoming insufferable @mehdirhasan

[Vali Nasr @vali_nasr]

I told @ft on Gen Munir and Pakistan’s delicate mediating role:
In Tehran, they would have given him [Munir] a difficult time, and questioned why he was pushing so hard for mediation — was it genuine or was he part of a ruse to get them to bring their guard down. Pakistanis are serious interlocutors, but what they can’t deliver is any guarantees on Trump’s behavior. They can’t say we promise the US won’t do A, B, C. And there’s nothing Munir can do about that. https://t.co/nuXRxGVVIS via @ft

[Khamenei.ir @khamenei_ir]

We will bring the enemy to its knees.

[Nishant Bhardwaj @Nishant_Bliss]

No matter what you say, no matter what side you take, one thing is absolutely clear to me:

Iran is, by far, one of the most daring countries in the world right now.

It is standing against the United States, a nation with the most advanced military power.

It is facing Israel, again one of the strongest and most technologically superior forces.

It is dealing with pressures across the Middle East… and doing all of this without direct backing from China or Russia.

Even after massive strikes, leadership losses, and continuous attacks, Iran is still standing, still responding, still refusing to bow down.

And honestly, I don’t remember the last 20 years where any country showed this level of sheer courage and defiance.

Say whatever you want about outcomes, politics, or consequences… but one thing is certain in my eyes:

Iran has shown a level of boldness that very few nations would even dare to attempt.

And no matter how this ends, history will remember Iran as a country that had the courage to stand its ground when almost no one else would.

[Dr. Brahma Chellaney @Chellaney]

The bombing of the premier Iran University of Science and Technology in downtown Tehran was not collateral damage but a deliberate attempt to impede the country’s scientific progress and R&D capacity. Despite operating under heavy Western sanctions — and with its scientists often excluded from international collaborations — Iran has remained a scientific powerhouse, consistently punching above its weight in publication density and in high-tech niches such as nanotechnology and medical research.

In terms of scientific output, Iran has often ranked first in the Islamic world. It is especially prominent in nanotechnology, where it frequently places among the top countries globally by volume. Yet Iranian officials note that Western sanctions and publishing restrictions have begun to erode this standing, with the country’s global rank slipping from 15th to 17th in recent years.

[Amir @AmirAminiMD]

Let’s be honest, based on everything that has happened so far, I would trust Iran with a nuke over Israel and the US any day of the week. Iran has shown more restraint and more respect for civilian lives than perhaps any other country in Iran’s position would have had.
It’s not Iran that is systematically bombing schools, universities and hospitals. It’s not Iran that is assassinating students, teachers and scientists.
It’s not Iran that has illegally built hundreds of nuclear bombs, is committing a genocide and is dropping cluster and phosphorus bombs on civilians in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran.

[Helyeh Doutaghi | حليا دوطاقي @Helyeh_Doutaghi]

Today was one of the most horrifying days of my life as an academic. Walking through Iran University of Science and Technology, a top-ranked public university in Iran, I was struck by the devastation. Only last month, this campus was alive with students, bustling between classrooms. Now, parts of the campus lie in ruins, classrooms shattered, hallways choked with dust and shattered glass.

I saw the offices of professors burned. A newly renovated building, where students gathered for programs, for socializing, for life, destructed.

One student, tearfully, told me: “My professor’s office was still burning a little. That’s where I used to wait for office hours. To ask questions. To appeal my grade.”

This is the same university that launched Iran’s Omid and Zafar 2 satellites, symbols of homegrown technological achievement. A week ago, one of its professors was assassinated. Yesterday, they bombed it.

From sanctions to targeted killings, to the bombing of research centers and universities, there’s a clear pattern: de-development & de-industrialisation/ the systematic dismantling of a nation’s indigenous development, its industrial base, its capacity to stand on its own.

We will never forget that as the American and Zionist war criminals blatantly target universities, schools, hospitals/ assassinating professors and killing children, and after 2 years or genocice, western intellectuals are still debating whether or not to pass a symbolic, non-enforceable BDS resolution.

Photos taken by me, full report incoming.

[Seyed Abbas Araghchi @araghchi]

From outset of this war, U.S. soldiers fled military bases in GCC to hide in hotels and offices. They use GCC citizens as human shield.

Hotels in U.S. deny bookings to officers who may endanger customers. GCC hotels should do same.

[Reza Nasri @RezaNasri1]

The idea that every sovereign country near Israel must cap its conventional weapons, limit its defensive capabilities, restrict missile and fighter jet ranges, and even dismantle its own military industries—just so Israel can "feel safe"—is completely absurd.

Which other nation on Earth demands and receives this kind of privilege?

This exceptionalism is especially ridiculous coming from a regime with such an inherently aggressive posture and track record in the region.

[Vali Nasr @vali_nasr]

Great piece by Narges Bajoghli: “Judging by the metrics of conventional conflict, Iran is not faring well against the United States and Israel. Its adversaries are destroying crucial targets in Iran, killing its commanders and degrading its military assets. But these are the wrong measures for assessing Iran’s position in the war. The right measure is not even an assessment of whether Iran is absorbing punishment well—which it is. The question that will matter when the fighting ends is whether Tehran is achieving its strategic objectives. And on that count, Iran is winning.” https://t.co/qdqQvb1JpX

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Liberating the Iranian people by bombing their oil refineries, poisoning their air, destroying their fresh water supplies, exploding their elementary schools, and now "obliterating" their power plants. Who wouldn't be grateful for this?

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

Didn’t Iran issue a warning to evacuate a few days ago? By your logic doesn’t that make it okay? You said that warning people in advance of firing missiles on their homes makes you the most moral army in the world. Well, Iran did the same thing. I guess they’re the moral army now, right? Also, what’s the combatant to noncombatant ratio? Wasn’t that one of your talking points? Or how about: “This is war and you shouldn’t complain after you start a war,” right?

[Pedro Sánchez @sanchezcastejon]

The world, Europe, and Spain have faced this critical moment before. In 2003, a few irresponsible leaders dragged us into an illegal war in the Middle East that brought nothing but insecurity and pain.

Our response then must be our response now:

NO to violations of international law.

NO to the illusion that we can solve the world’s problems with bombs.

NO to repeating the mistakes of the past.

NO TO WAR.
https://t.co/KpRjBfwY4B

[Hassan Aslam Shad @HassShad]

The weight of silence in Pakistan today is deafening. But the treatment meted out to @ImranKhanPTI is a stain that will never wash away.

To hear that a national hero, the man who gave this country its pride, its health infrastructure, and its voice on the global stage, is being treated with such calculated cruelty in jail that he may have lost vision in his right eye is not just a human rights violation. It is a soul-crushing betrayal of the nation itself.

Pakistan has a haunting, recurring habit of breaking the very giants whose shoulders we stand on. We did it to Dr. Abdus Salam, disowning a genius the world revered. We did it to Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan by confining the father of our defense to the shadows. Now, we watch in real-time as the same machinery of disgrace attempts to extinguish the light of a man who refused to bow.

To those peddling the hollow "false equivalence," claiming he treated his predecessors the same: stop. There is no comparison between legal accountability & targeted and psychological dismantling of a human being in a dark cell. One is the law, the other is vengeance.

I hang my head in shame alongside millions of Pakistanis.

We are witnessing the blinding of a leader, but it is the state that has truly lost its vision.

History will be a cold & hard judge!

[fatima bhutto 🇵🇸🇱🇧🇮🇷 @fbhutto]

Beyond shocked at how Imran Khan’s health has been ignored. This is abhorrent and outrageous. No one in the entire country supports this treatment of Khan, not one person.

[Nibraz Ramzan @nibraz88cricket]

As a lifelong admirer who lived and breathed Imran Khan’s legendary cricket era, the World Cup triumph, those lethal yorkers, that unbreakable spirit, hearing he’s now down to just 15% vision in his right eye from prison neglect shatters me completely.
This is inhuman. May those responsible face justice and rot for what they’ve done to a national icon.

#FreeImranKhan 🇵🇰💔”

[brief. @brief_pk]

1/3 Former Prime Minister Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi, 73, has lost 85% of vision in his right eye due to untreated retinal vein occlusion, a preventable condition that authorities at Adiala Jail systematically ignored for three months despite repeated complaints, resulting in permanent disability that medical experts characterize as entirely avoidable.

[Margaret Kimberley @freedomrideblog]

A guy who didn’t deserve a peace prize congratulates someone else who doesn’t deserve it either.