Iraq under Sunni-rule had an Islamic Golden Age until the Shia allied the Mongols and massacred all of Baghdad
Years later, they did it again with the Safavids
Their latest feature is with the Americans giving us this wonderful scenery:
Multiple locals report intense explosions in Sarbandar and Mahshahr, Iran, with one saying two or three blasts hit close to an air defense site, seeing smoke rise from the area
CENTCOM began conducting a new wave of strikes against Iran at 7 p.m. ET today for the ninth consecutive night. The strikes will continue degrading Iranian military capabilities used to attack commercial vessels and civilian mariners transiting the Strait of Hormuz.
بدخشان به یک ایالت خود مختاری بالفعل تبدیل شده است.
هر شهر و شهرستان از خود دارد دفاع میکند..
وضعیت بدخشان و تخار هرگز مانند سالهای قبل بی درد سرنخواهد بود، اوغانان/طالبان دراین جغرافیا شکست های سنگین می خورند و این مناطق را با عذر و زاری ترک خواهند کرد.
🚨 🇦🇫 – The Homeland Corps Front (HCF) have raised their flag in the Warsuj district of Takhar Province
Takhar has just joined Badakhshan in a revolution. North Afghanistan is gradually slipping out of the hands of the Taliban
ایک فوڈ انسپکٹر نے دو ارب نو کروڑ اور اٹھانوے لاکھ کی کرپشن کی ہے، کہتے ہیں اسے نوکری سے نکال دیا، بندہ پوچھے کیا اتنی کرپشن کرنے کے بعد اسے نوکری کی ضرورت تھی؟ سائرہ بانو
3 Americans died in 48 hours. Trump has spent months promising overwhelming force if that ever happened. He's said almost nothing.
That silence was the thing Fmr. State Dept Aaron David Miller kept circling. Either the president doesn't want to escalate... or the quiet is cover for what's already moving. Refuelers, F-15s, F-16s, F-35s flowing toward Israel. Not the coastal campaign Centcom has been running. Something much wider.
Wars end, Miller said, when 3 things become true at once: both sides stop believing time is on their side, both stop believing escalation helps, and the pain becomes intolerable. Zartman called it the hurting stalemate.
Washington and Tehran currently meet zero of the 3. Both think they're winning. Both think escalation is an asset. Both think they can take it.
The clock isn't comforting either. Uppsala studied every interstate war since 1815, the average is 4 to 5 months. Past that, they turn into Ukraine. We've gone from near-silence since June 17th to 8 straight days of kinetic.
And there's no deal to reach for. This is now a war about the strait, and Miller can't build a version where both sides leave the table feeling they won rather than got conned. He's blunt about the machinery too: Witkoff and Kushner running 3 of the hardest files on earth by phone.
Then the asymmetry that decides all of it. For America this isn't existential. For the IRGC, whose entire position after the war depends on how the war ends, it is. Small powers with everything at stake outlast large ones with something at stake. Russia can't break Ukraine. Israel couldn't break Hamas or Hezbollah. Trump can't break Iran.
He left me with LBJ, 1968: a hitchhiker in a Texas hailstorm. Can't run, can't hide, can't make it stop.
@aarondmiller2
Chief Minister Balochistan: Terrorist attacks launched from Afghan territory will not derail Pakistan's resolve. Peace will prevail in Balochistan, and violent attempts to divide Pakistan will fail. Pakistan and Balochistan remain inseparable and inalienable.
BREAKING: Israeli occupiers are burning Palestinian agricultural lands in Khallat Al-Qateel, in the occupied West Bank.
They’re burning the land Palestinians have cultivated for generations.
Terrorism.
🚨🇬🇧 Nearly 2,500 rapists and pedophiles are set to be released early from UK prisons this September.
It's part of Labour's plans to tackle overcrowding in prisons... and that problem is understandable, but the solution is NOT.
2,462 offenders, including 100+ rapists who were sentenced to 15+ years, will be eligible for early release.
Andy Burnham, who becomes PM tomorrow, is reviewing how to EXEMPT rapists and child groomers despite the 2026 Sentencing Act.
As we all well know by now from Rupert Lowe's Rape Gang Report, there are enough sickos on the UK's streets... they DON'T need 2,500 more!!!
Source: The Telegraph / Writer: Michael
اللهم صلّ على سيدنا محمد وعلى آل سيدنا محمد، كما صليت على سيدنا إبراهيم وعلى آل سيدنا إبراهيم ، إنك حميد مجيد ، اللهم بارك على سيدنا محمد وعلى آل سيدنا محمد ، كما باركت على سيدنا إبراهيم وعلى آل سيدنا إبراهيم ، إنك حميدٌ مَجيد.