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[Amjad Masad @amasad]

This has been going on for 80 years, and heavily documented. The NYTimes finally scraped together enough integrity to publish something.

[Harrison H. Smith ✞ @HarrisonHSmith]

Ive watched this like 10 times now.

She’s like a total psychopath.

[Iran in Ghana @IRAN_GHANA]

Every baby born in Iran is screened for 56 metabolic disorders — for free.
The tech behind it? Nuclear. Built by Iranian scientists. Iran is one of only 5 countries in the world producing these kits.
This is just one example of our peaceful nuclear technology.

[I.R.IRAN Mission to UN, NY @Iran_UN]

While all of Iran’s enriched uranium has always been under the full supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and there is no report of even one gram of Iran’s nuclear material being diverted, the U.S. exploited the NPT Review Conference and portrayed Iran’s enriched uranium as a danger in order to divert attention from its own violations and those of its allies in the field of nuclear disarmament.

The UN Security Council, the IAEA Director-General and the Board of Governors not only failed to condemn these illegal attacks, but most regrettably, took actions that reversed the roles of the victim and the aggressor.

[মুনীবা ফখরুল @perpetuallymun]

“This was not inevitable. Before Zamil and Nahida ever met him, the system had already seen him.

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Before noon on April 16, Nahida Bristy called her mother in Bangladesh from a campus laboratory in Tampa. She told her how busy the days were. Her brother Zahid, asked later what she had said, used three words: nothing unusual, ordinary.

By then, her boyfriend, Zamil Limon, had already been gone for hours. He had been last seen at nine that morning at the apartment he shared with a roommate named Hisham Saleh Abugharbieh. Three days earlier, Zamil had told his family in Bangladesh not to call him for a while. He was finishing his thesis. It was due the next day: two years of work on using generative AI to monitor Florida's shrinking wetlands.

He had a plane ticket home for July, his first trip back since arriving at USF. His brother described him as the kind of person who always put a smile on his face.

Nahida was a chemical engineer in her first year of doctoral work. Her brother said there had been no single day without contact with her. Her father had recently had an operation. Her mother kept crying in the next room. She, too, had a ticket home for July, the same month as Zamil. They had talked, both families said, about marriage someday--after they both got their degrees.

They were both twenty-seven.

Both of their phones went dark within an hour of each other.

Eight days later, Zamil's remains were found near the Howard Frankland Bridge on the morning of April 24. The killings, investigators believe, took place inside the apartment Zamil and Hisham shared. By Saturday morning, Hisham--the man now charged with killing them--had been charged with two counts of premeditated first-degree murder.

Late Friday night, detectives called Nahida's family in Bangladesh, according to her brother, and told them what the apartment had looked like when they entered it. The volume of blood with her DNA on it. They told them Nahida's body might never be recovered. They told them she may have been dismembered.

This is the part of the story that haunts me, because Hisham did not arrive in this moment from nowhere. The record around him had been darkening in plain view for years. He had been arrested twice in 2023 on battery charges. That same year, his own brother filed two domestic-violence petitions against him--one granted, one denied--alleging that Hisham had attacked him and their mother during an argument over being asked to leave the family home.

The granted injunction stayed in place for nearly two years. Last May, when it was about to expire, the brother went back to court and asked for it to be renewed. He told the judge, in plain words, that he did not want to run the risk of him returning.

The judge denied the renewal.

The courts already had documented evidence that Hisham was violent enough that his own family had needed legal protection from him. When that protection lapsed, nothing in the system flagged him as a risk to anyone else. He was free to sign a lease.

Sometime around that, he became the roommate of an international student named Zamil Limon, a young man who had no family in this country and no practical way of knowing any of his roommate's history. The earlier charges had been wiped through a diversion program. The court records were partly sealed. The expired injunction was no longer in force. Zamil moved in next to a man whose own brother had begged a judge to keep him at a distance.

Less than a year later, Zamil and Nahida were dead.

A man with prior battery charges, two domestic-violence petitions, one granted injunction, one denied renewal, and a documented pattern of violence against his own family ended up living with a lone foreign student who had no way to see any of it.” 🧵 - (1/2)

[IRAN EMBASSY in KENYA @IRANinKENYA]

Most people think they know Iran.They don’t.
One minute. No politics. Just a different lens.
Worth every second. 👇
#visitiran #traveltoiran #beautifulIran

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

💢 “This was a blatant murder… a targeted assassination” — Journalist Courtney Bonneau on killing of her friend and journalist Amal Khalil in southern Lebanon.

Amal Khalil, the veteran Al-Akhbar newspaper correspondent, was killed after an Israeli strike hit the village of al-Tiri, leaving her trapped beneath the rubble as rescue efforts were repeatedly blocked by ongoing Israeli attacks.

Zeinab Faraj, a freelance photojournalist also working with the paper, was seriously wounded and evacuated to a hospital under Israeli fire.

Efforts to reach Khalil were impeded by continued strikes and direct fire, with a senior Lebanese army official telling Reuters that an Israeli drone dropped a grenade on rescue workers, while a Red Cross vehicle also came under fire.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Before Israel assassinated her, journalist Amal Khalil revealed:

“I received death threats on my phone from Mossad, from the Israelis.”

“They threatened to kill me.”

“They told me they would sever my head from my shoulders if I didn’t leave South Lebanon.”

[Harriet Williamson @harriepw]

NEW: The BBC failed to name Israel as the perpetrator in Israeli attacks where civilians were killed in Gaza in 50% of all analysed cases, a new data report from @newscord_org shows.

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

Krystal Ball just read testimony from an Israeli detention center. 'They stripped him. A captain sprayed something on his backside. They unleashed the dog. The dog raped the young man. It raped him, literally speaking, raped'

This is not a conspiracy theory. This is documented along with many other. This is what Israel does And because the victims are Palestinian Muslims. So you don't see any coverage on Western media.

This is the reality of Israeli detention and media complicity

[Propaganda & co @propandco]

X is removing the accounts of Iranian officials and promoting satirical accounts instead in order to strengthen Trumps ability to engage in disinformation and manipulate the markets by fabricating lies about the negotiations so he can better control energy prices

[Tehran Tadhg @TadhgHickey]

.@elonmusk, you invertebrate piss weasal. Why are you silencing all the powerful Iranian anti-war voices? If you and your ZioNazi scum sucking buddies are so just and in the right, why shut down all dissent? Sounds like fascism bro, not free speech. Reinstate @Jedaal now!

[Syrian Girl @Partisangirl]

Israel continues to behead babies. https://t.co/EBMyb16YNI

[Zahra Hamidia🟥 ☫ 🟩 @ZahraHamidia]

For the first time
a footage released showing the USraeli arracks on Iranian hospitals.
Check second 00:38 when a nurse tries to save as many infants as she can hold in her arms.

😭

[Arya Yadeghaar (Backup) @AryJeayBackup]

It’s been a week and my account @AryJeay hasn’t been reinstated yet.

I did not get a mail, I did not get a reason for my suspension and the appealing form isn’t working for me either.

I worked 7+ years on this account. @nikitabier @x @Support please reinstate my account ASAP.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Real life vs The Onion

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

Kallas starts her sentence with "Under international law..."

Yet, under the entire genocide in Gaza, Europe completely ignored international law. When the US attacked Venezuela, EU leaders explicitly stated that this was not the time to discuss international law. They repeated that when the US attacked Iran.

But now, Kallas returns to opening her sentence with "international law."

International law is not an optional feature of international relations that you invoke only when it suits you.

[Adil Haque @AdHaque110]

More IDF testimonies of murder, torture, and cruelty in Gaza:

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

This is what @EylonALevy, @EYakoby, @SpencerGuard and the rest of the pro Israel propaganda crew have spent two years defending. Horrific criminal stuff, from the horse’s mouth: