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[Margarita @jupiter_iovis]

@DrKevorkO @haugejostein This CENTURY…

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

This is a brazen pre-admission of genocide against the Iranian people, which would obviously be a war crime. Madness.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

He needs to be stopped.

I know the comparison to Hitler is overused but it's rarely been more warranted: he's literally speaking about erasing a whole civilization.

[Sandhya Ramesh @sandygrains]

Alma mater of Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to win the mathematics Fields Medal.

[Patricia Marins @pati_marins64]

We are living in savage times, marked by a brutal regression in humanitarian and civilizational standards.
This regression is deepening in Western democracies, steadily eroding individual freedoms and freedom of speech

This is most evident in the banning of social media accounts, death threats, and the growing normalization of assassinating academics and political leaders in the international arena.

We will likely see this becoming even more common in future conflicts and international disagreements.

[Badr Albusaidi - بدر البوسعيدي @badralbusaidi]

Whatever your view of Iran, this war is not of their making. This is already causing widespread economic problems and I fear they promise to get much worse if the war continues. Oman is working intensively to put in place safe passage arrangements for the Strait of Hormuz.

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte embodies the new Europe: Subordinated, spineless, choosing moral slogans over strategic thinking, and afraid to stand for anything meaningful.

[Ari Goldkind @AriGoldkind]

I don’t know why this doesn’t get more mainstream coverage.

Saving these poor abused dogs that are no different than our beloved pets at home.

The people who broke them out are heroes.

This really is not complicated.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

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

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

It is strange how the world can cooperate to get oil through the Iranian blockade at the Strait of Hormuz but still aren't able to get food through the Israeli blockade at the borders of Gaza.

[Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof]

“Hiding like rats”

[Patricia Marins @pati_marins64]

Only this.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

This is what British complicity in an illegal war looks like.

[Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 @TulsiGabbard]

The problems created by Trump’s impulsive, erratic military action/foreign policy are again on display, this time in Iraq. Trump’s military strike against Iranian militia was impulsive, short-sighted, and lacked strategic purpose. It has led to our embassy…

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Beyond shameless. Sanctioning the victim of one of the most blatant wars of aggression ever.

And beyond stupid because this rewards "might makes right," which by definition is only good if you have might... something Europe is critically lacking right now.

In other words Europe is the kind of weak power that only survives in a world with rules and they’re foolishly encouraging their destruction. It'd be the equivalent of China, in the middle of its century of humiliation, cheering on colonialism.

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

Do these look like the kind of planes that drop “defensive” bombs?

[MO @Abu_Salah9]

A clip that left the world in disbelief and horror.
Israel did this.

[Patricia Marins @pati_marins64]

This is the company that was releasing photos of the damage to American bases.

[United Nations Geneva @UNGeneva]

War is not the answer.

We need peace.

Now.

[Seyed Abbas Araghchi @araghchi]

The U.S. committed a blatant and desperate crime by attacking a freshwater desalination plant on Qeshm Island. Water supply in 30 villages has been impacted.

Attacking Iran's infrastructure is a dangerous move with grave consequences. The U.S. set this precedent, not Iran.