Behnam/بهنام

Resident doctor, hybrid academic/clinician. I am distracted by good conversation. او/ایشان

[Behnam/بهنام @kia_behn]

@orca_island @KenRoth Military Commissions Act (MCA) are military tribunals and therefore the entirety of the bill of rights - more specifically the 6th amendment - does that not apply. Hence, it has taken decades.

[Behnam/بهنام @kia_behn]

@PaulSaxMD I'm not American but doesn't consulting ID usually lead to better outcomes for the patient? I see OI consults critical just liked ID consults for Staph Aureus bacteremia.

[Behnam/بهنام @kia_behn]

@davidchaffetz but the pahlavi script is full of ambiguous logograms and letters which make modern pronunciation challenging

[Behnam/بهنام @kia_behn]

@m4h007 I remember her online presence back in the 2010s when Israel wanted to attack Iran during Obama. I could not have expected her to become a WINEP advocate.

[Behnam/بهنام @kia_behn]

@ShahyadAryamehr does abolishment of all but one political party count? Does forcing constitutional amendments under martial law count? Yes, definitely a dictatorship

[Behnam/بهنام @kia_behn]

@AliVaez but will the US reimpose sanctions later? isn't that incentive enough to keep the straights - hence an impasse?

[Behnam/بهنام @kia_behn]

@notsadaf typical revisionist BS from the pro monarchy crowd

[Shirin Jaafari @Shirinj]

The @IDF response to my question about the attack on the Pasteur Institute: "The IDF struck a military headquarters of the Iranian terror regime in Tehran, which the regime deliberately constructed near the Pasteur Institute."
My follow up: From the videos and images available, we can see that the Institute was destroyed, but not any of the surrounding buildings. Did the IDF miss or mistake its intended target? Also, there are no publicly visible military headquarters near the Institute as far as I can tell. If anyone knows of it, please share.🙏
Their response to my follow up: "We have no further comment."

[Emma Ashford @EmmaMAshford]

Hear me out: I have the funniest possible idea for how Lindsey Graham could help end the war.

[Behnam/بهنام @kia_behn]

@aliemamiofnyc Abrahamian (2013) directly refutes this. While Plan A technically failed on 25 Mordad, the CIA pivoted to 'Plan B'—using black propaganda and $1M+ to hire fake 'communist' mobs. This manufactured the 'fear of chaos' that triggered the 28 Mordad coup

[Behnam/بهنام @kia_behn]

@Pouriaaa You're defending a 'legal' act that required a foreign intelligence agency to draft, a terrified King to sign in secret, and a military coup to enforce.

In Belgium or the Netherlands, a Royal Decree without a Minister's signature is a scrap of paper.

[Behnam/بهنام @kia_behn]

@Pouriaaa .. Royal Decree without a countersign is legally dead. By bypassing Art 45 in 1953, the Shah wasn't 'exercising' the constitution—he was abandoning the very European model Iran had instituted

[Behnam/بهنام @kia_behn]

@Pouriaaa You’re quoting Art 46 but ignoring Art 45, which states all royal decrees are invalid unless countersigned by a Minister. The 1953 dismissal had no countersign. By the very legalist standard you're using, the decree was a scrap of paper.

[Behnam/بهنام @kia_behn]

@Pouriaaa If this was a 'clear constitutional authority,' name one time between 1906 and 1953 a Shah successfully used a firman to fire a PM who held a parliamentary majority. You can’t. Custom and law (Art 44) dictated the Shah reigns, not rules. 1953 wasn't a 'decree'; it was a CIA-putsc

[Behnam/بهنام @kia_behn]

@Pouriaaa Calling the 1949 amendments a mere 'strengthening' of the monarchy is a massive distortion. You don’t declare martial law to pass 'clarifications'—you do it to seize powers the 1906 framework never intended for the Shah. FYI The Royal "firman" was written by the CIA.

[Behnam/بهنام @kia_behn]

@NicholasTyrone Ol

[Behnam/بهنام @kia_behn]

@mihan__parast @arash_tehran only after the Shah illegally gave him those powers under martial law in 1949

[Behnam/بهنام @kia_behn]

@ashkan @AmirAminiMD Your statement is incoherent