Marc Imperatori

Political Science FU Berlin / Sabanci University | Near and Middle Eastern Studies CNMS Marburg

[Marc Imperatori @marcimperatori]

@tobiaschneider Langjähriger C.H.Beck-Starautor und Nahost-Erklärer des Landes (zusammen mit dem Vorsitzenden von Team Todenhöfer)

[Marc Imperatori @marcimperatori]

@BachmannRudi @MikeRogersForMI Auch noch in der zweiten Amtszeit überhaupt zu erwägen, einen absoluten Trump-Loyalisten in den Senat zu wählen🙃

[Lyndsey Fifield @lyndseyfifield]

I actually understand why Democrat leaders didn't take our stories seriously when the Times reported them in June but are taking them seriously now.

It was by design.

The line most shared from the piece was the claim that the Times “could not corroborate” my story despite talking to two of my friends.

I gave them the contact information for five friends.

They called the two who I clarified would not know about the abuse but would be able to affirm our relationship timeline, events, etc.

They simply did not call the other three.

I also gave them the names of all my former roommates who remembered him stalking our row house (which was about 5 houses down from his) and waiting for me to return. I gave them screenshots of messages between these roommates and I discussing it.

I gave them the names of other men I dated who might have remembered him following us around the hill and showing up on my stoop after we walked home from dates to confront us. I gave them emails to my landlord urgently ending my lease and moving to an apartment across town and diary entries talking about it - all time marked.

I told them that during pre-marital counseling I had spoken to my ex-fiance about the abuse because I had to explain to him why I reacted with such terror any time he lost his temper. They said oh NO we don't need to bother HIM (or my priest). Besides, I had written about it in my diary in detail, they reassured.

As the weeks dragged on I stopped trying to give them evidence because the amount I had already given them seemed to overwhelm them and I thought it meant they clearly had more than enough to verify my every claim.

My friends might not have known the details of the abuse, but they affirmed that yes, I had told them that he was abusive—long before he ran for Senate.

Besides, they assured, my part in their reporting would be small. I thought my details would only serve to affirm Jenny and the other anonymous woman.

Jenny and I - having never met or spoken - both shared with these reporters terrifyingly similar details of intimate partner violence, coercive control, and cycles of abuse/love bombing. The third unnamed woman in the story did as well.

But tell me again how they “could not corroborate.”

[Marc Imperatori @marcimperatori]

@richten_nach Bei 30000 hat das nochmal eine ganz andere Note

[Marc Imperatori @marcimperatori]

@ozersencar1 Why do you keep separating by2023 votes and not actual vote intention? What about people at the age of 18-21 (probably more than 3,5 million voters)? And to be honest, what's the point of separating by party when the margin of error is reaching double digits?

[Aliza Marcus @AlizaMarcus]

Leading Kurdish politician says they continue to believe in the peace process and the possibility of a democratic republic. This after the government closed a major private and liberal university & court essentially forced out head of main opposition CHP party.

[Marc Imperatori @marcimperatori]

@yuanyi_z Which, to be fair, is mainstream politics across Europe

[Marc Imperatori @marcimperatori]

@SimonWFuchs Dass das Regime in einer 15 Millionen-Stadt wie Teheran noch Massen mobilisieren kann, ist doch nicht wirklich verwunderlich und ebenso, dass Larijani und co sich unter den eigenen Anhängern mit Personenschutz bewegen können.

[Marc Imperatori @marcimperatori]

@pepepito1983 Wenn Ulf Poschardt damals so eine Frage gestellt hat, dann war und ist Ahmadinejad wahrscheinlich ein zionistischer Agent, die Logik ist wasserdicht. Die Khameneis, die ihm nach seinen Äußerungen den "Wahlsieg" 2009 gesichert haben, stecken vermutlich auch mit drin.

[Hamidreza Azizi @HamidRezaAz]

#Iran War Update No. 13 (focus on Iranian strategic narrative):

🔹Day 13 of the war indicated continued escalation across maritime, energy, and regional fronts, while Iranian officials signaled that the war may be entering a new phase characterized by more asymmetric tactics.

🔹Commercial shipping and energy infrastructure remained central targets. Multiple vessels were struck across the Persian Gulf and near Iraqi export terminals, with at least two oil tankers catching fire near Umm Qasr and one crew member reported killed.

🔹These attacks are part of a broader pattern. Reports indicate that at least 19 ships have been damaged since the start of the war, most of them in the Persian Gulf and nearby waters.

🔹Iran is also reportedly expanding its use of asymmetric naval tools. Reports indicate the deployment of explosive sea drones and the planting of naval mines using small boats, signaling an effort to sustain long-term pressure on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.

🔹The disruption to global energy markets continues to deepen. Despite the coordinated release of roughly 400 million barrels from strategic reserves, oil prices have again risen above $100 per barrel amid fears that Gulf exports could remain constrained.

🔹The International Energy Agency now describes the situation as the largest oil supply disruption in the history of the global market, warning that restoring production and logistics could take weeks or months even if the war ends quickly.

🔹Iranian sources claim that recent missile strikes targeted key logistical and energy sites in the Gulf, including facilities in Fujairah and Sharjah in the UAE as well as a U.S. air base in Kuwait, signaling continued pressure on regional energy infrastructure.

🔹The targeting of civilian locations claimed to be linked to U.S. personnel has also continued. Iranian officials justify attacks on hotels and other facilities in Gulf countries by claiming they were being used to house American military personnel.

🔹Inside Iran, authorities again mobilized supporters in the streets after attacks on Basij checkpoints. Large pro-government gatherings were reported in Tehran as officials emphasized the need to prevent unrest during the war.

🔹At the same time, U.S. intelligence assessments cited by Reuters indicate that the Iranian government remains stable and in control despite nearly two weeks of sustained strikes and the killing of senior officials.

🔹Israeli strikes continued across Iran throughout the day, with explosions and air raids reported in Tehran, Ahvaz, Karaj, Shiraz, Kashan, and areas near Isfahan and Dezful.

🔹Iranian officials confirmed that another IRGC Aerospace Force commander, Esmail Dehqan, was assassinated together with his family in Arak two days earlier.

🔹Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei issued his first public message since assuming power. The statement reaffirmed Iran’s commitment to disrupting the Strait of Hormuz and warned that additional fronts could open in areas where the enemy is less prepared.

🔹The message also emphasized continued support for the “resistance front” and suggested that Iran could continue targeting enemy assets unless compensation is paid.

🔹Iranian leaders also warned that if the country’s electricity infrastructure were targeted, the entire region could be plunged into darkness “within half an hour,” underscoring Tehran’s strategy of broad retaliatory deterrence.

🔹Regional tensions are also rising in Iraq. U.S. strikes on Iran-aligned militias have killed several fighters, including members associated with the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), prompting condemnation from Iraqi political leaders.

🔹Attacks on Western personnel in Iraq are also becoming more sensitive. A drone strike on a joint French–Peshmerga base in Erbil injured six French soldiers, raising concerns that casualties among NATO personnel could widen the war.

🔹Some Iranian security sources claim the attack was intended as a warning to France following its decision to deploy the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle to the CENTCOM operational area, signaling that European forces could also become targets if they are perceived as supporting the U.S. military campaign.

🔹The conflict is beginning to affect major global infrastructure projects as well. Work on a major subsea internet cable project in the Persian Gulf has reportedly been suspended because the security environment has become too dangerous.

🔹Meanwhile, reports indicate that the United States has consumed extremely large quantities of advanced munitions during the war, including Tomahawk cruise missiles, raising concerns about the sustainability of current operational tempos.

🔹Overall, Day 13 suggests the war is evolving into a prolonged and structurally complex confrontation, with maritime disruption, attacks on energy infrastructure, and the potential opening of additional regional fronts increasingly shaping the trajectory of the conflict.

[Sky News @SkyNews]

🗣️ "They have prospered since Saddam Hussein went away. Getting dragged into this risks destroying all that."

Sam Faddis, a former CIA operations officer who led one of the first CIA paramilitary teams into Iraq in 2002 before the U.S. invasion, tells @SkyYaldaHakim.

🌍 https://t.co/rB90Nphn29

[Marc Imperatori @marcimperatori]

@shashj At this point, it doesn't make a difference. Even if he is alive, it seems impossible that he could establish himself as the new leader.

[Whisper @whisperhaber]

Sözcü TV, İsrail-İran saldırılarını yorumlaması için yayına astrolog çıkardı.

[Marc Imperatori @marcimperatori]

@NiemaMovassat https://t.co/U2pbpzXxM9

[آسپیران غیاث‌آبادی @Sepehrda]

ملت تو تهران بزن برقص رو شروع کردن :)))))))))

[Golineh Atai @GolinehAtai]

Welcome to Iran, where “ordinary people” feel compelled to explain to “anti-war intellectuals” how they see a looming war.
“A potential war, not yet begun, is already determining the caliber of many - including a section of the self-absorbed, society-ignorant crowd who have an 'Iran concern' and consider the people 'minors' and ‘stupid'.
They assume they must tell us about the evils of war, as if we were nursery school kids.
You, who don't have the guts to even utter the names of the war's main instigators, let alone criticise them, you're wrong to spin us a yarn – we who will suffer the most from this war – and then draw a moral! We ordinary people are neither at the start nor the end of a war to have any 'agency' in whether the war happens or not.
Even when we talk about war, it's not to normalise it, but to bear with it. If you want to stop a war, the address of where you need to go and who you need to make understand is obvious!”
(Hossein Vahdani)

[Marc Imperatori @marcimperatori]

@SchulzeRein Ich denke, es ist insofern wichtig, dass zusammen mit dem Ende der 40 Tage Trauerzeit die Massaker den Protest nicht einmal für zwei Monate ruhigstellen konnten und der Widerstand wieder an Momentum gewinnt.

[Marc Imperatori @marcimperatori]

@GolinehAtai Auf welchen Zeit-Artikel beziehen Sie sich?

[Marc Imperatori @marcimperatori]

@arash_tehran @TruthOpediaX @mashabani Also interesting how strongly he rejected cooperating with the USA

[Marc Imperatori @marcimperatori]

@AlirezaNader https://t.co/9sMM0TV0ET

Other local media outlets refer to the police which has not yet mentioned a motive