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[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

84 Gulf infrastructure sites have been hit by Iran since February

On today’s episode of Iran: the Latest, @sophia_yan speaks to national security editor Rozina Sabur and Iranian terrorism specialist @Rogermacmillan about the widening scope of Tehran's hybrid warfare, from the Middle East to Europe.

Listen to the full episode: https://t.co/Sa0wHJH4Iq

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🚨 🚨 🚨 Iran and proxies have hit Gulf infrastructure w/ precision as govs often conceal damage extent. Despite repeated gov statements that damage came from debris, Reuters found the equipment struck was, time and again, exactly what mattered most.

https://t.co/87iMHH0XTS...

[Reuters Investigates @specialreports]

In all, the Islamic Republic has launched at least 135 drone and missile attacks on at least 84 infrastructure sites in the Gulf since the start of the US and Israeli war on February 28, a Reuters investigation found 2/7

[Reuters Investigates @specialreports]

Iran’s drones and missiles have carried out a precision targeting campaign against infrastructure across the Gulf Arab countries – in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Iraq, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman and Bahrain 1/7 https://t.co/YOOg9fmWTS

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🚨 🚨 🚨 Iran and proxies have hit Gulf infrastructure w/ precision as govs often conceal damage extent. Despite repeated gov statements that damage came from debris, Reuters found the equipment struck was, time and again, exactly what mattered most.

https://t.co/87iMHH0XTS...

[Reuters Investigates @specialreports]

Drone footage and soil analysis of burial trenches helped Reuters corroborate how Syria's Assad government moved thousands of bodies from a known mass grave to a secret desert site. Learn more here: https://t.co/HRZ6OcoaTK

[Reuters @Reuters]

For nearly two years, the reek of death rose from a Syrian desert highway. It was the smell of thousands of bodies being trucked to a secret mass grave in the desert. Here's how a colonel ran 'Operation Move Earth' for the Assad government https://t.co/YkCq6DVkWY @specialreports

[Steven Heydemann @SHeydemann]

The @reuters.com team working on Syria keeps churning out terrific coverage - including this exclusive on Assad regime efforts to conceal evidence of mass murder.

https://t.co/JlzR0JLi43

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🚨🚨🚨 Reuters has discovered an enormous, secret mass grave in Syria — likely with tens of thousands of bodies. The graves are part of 2-year conspiracy by Assad’s forces to excavate one of Syria’s largest known mass graves and hide bodies in the desert. https://t.co/RolLNaTfMm

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[Glenn Thrush @GlennThrush]

Anyone who is eating anything other than cookies, donuts, cupcakes or anything Little Debbie at this point is not doing today right.

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@cliftonhowze I watched it for the first time a couple weeks ago. Indeed very bleak. I can see why it left an impression on many Brits when it originally aired.

[The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes]

🔺EXCLUSIVE: King Charles and his eldest son make millions from feudal levies on schools, hospitals, homeowners and the very charities they represent, a joint investigation by The Sunday Times and @C4Dispatches reveals today https://t.co/Vno5Q348mG

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People who favor time changes clearly don’t have basset hounds who expect to eat at very specific times.

[Maria Sacchetti @mariasacchetti]

EXCLUSIVE

Elon Musk worked in the US illegally. Investors ordered him to get a visa. He admitted it in an email.

Elon Musk, enemy of ‘open borders,’ launched his career working illegally - The Washington Post by ⁦@faizsays⁩ ⁦@NickMiroff⁩ & me https://t.co/kGdHW0prJm

[Molly Jong-Fast @MollyJongFast]

It’s not that newspaper endorsements change hearts, and minds (though sometimes they do) it’s that it’s very scary to see billionaire oligarchs obeying in advance.

[Reade Levinson @readelev]

A plane downed in North Darfur had Russian crew members and was being used by the army to resupply the besieged city of al-Fashir, according to the opposing faction and documents it said were found in the wreckage.
Our investigation:
https://t.co/nzHNvSHA3N

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A small quibble on this line: "But satellite images can only tell part of the story. They don’t allow us to connect, to empathize, to engage."

Maybe. But no source of information, whether human or data, tells the whole story. They go together.

https://t.co/DtgaNgvUyA

[Clarissa Ward @clarissaward]

Two weeks ago, our team was held captive by a militia in Darfur. As a journalist, one never wants to become the story. But I wanted to write this because in some ways our experience tells a bigger story of the complexities of the situation in Darfur and the challenges of getting food and aid to those who need it most and getting the story out to the world.

https://t.co/bpm5jnoqlx

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@LiseDigger @dnbatlands @Reuters @sejorg @KnightCenterUT Oh wow that means a lot. Thanks. It was a lonnnnnnng march.