Juya

Observing between sense and nonsense.

[Juya @readthesubtext]

This is the real Iran that my heart never stopped beating for.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

This video is both heartbreaking and life-inspiring.

A film crew tries to film the destruction caused by US/Israeli bombing at an apartment complex in Iran. One of the tenants, an old man whose apartment has been almost completely shattered, insists on inviting the film crew in and offering them something to eat.

"We have only come to film, we don't want anything," the crew says.

But the old man insists on at least offering them oranges and apples.

Ultimately, those who come out victorious from conflicts are those who retain their dignity. Who never let war make them lose their humanity and self-respect.

Who, even in the worst of situations, insist on upholding sacred traditions and beliefs, including that of hospitality.

That's what makes a civilization indestructible.

Please remember this video and do your best to forget the videos of the lost souls dancing and cheering on the streets when their countrymen, women, and children were being killed by "democracy and freedom" bombs.

[Ali Vaez @AliVaez]

~100 hours between "a whole civilization will die tonight" and the highest-ranking talks between Iran and the U.S. since 1979.

[Mohsen Milani @milanimohsen]

According to NYT, U.S. and Israel have bombed at "least 763 schools and 316 health care facilities" in Iran. What a tragedy!

https://t.co/6kZ6DrveHq

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

My train was delayed by 2 hours to London yesterday (missed an appointment). It’s meant to be an hour journey.

It’s now delayed 50 minutes going to Cardiff (to record a film).

In Iran, under historic sanctions, they get trains going days after the track is *bombed*

🤣🤣🤣

[Idrees Ali @idreesali114]

Spain’s Prime Minister, on the ceasefire, says Spain 'will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they turn up with a bucket.”

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

I cannot emphasize this enough.

A new dynamic will be at play when the US and Iran meet in Islamabad to negotiate a final deal based on Iran's 10-point plan:

Trump's failed war has eliminated the potency of American military threats in US-Iran diplomacy.

The US can still issue threats, but everyone will know that they no longer carry much weight.

Essentially, war with Iran was tried and failed.

As a result, negotiations will have to be based on genuine compromises from both sides, rather than coercion from either side.

[Juya @readthesubtext]

This is what a heart shaped by Iranian poetry does, it carries the pain and still speaks in beauty.

[Alireza Akbari @itsalireza_akb]

Hamidreza Afrideh, a composer and kamancheh player, sits on the ruins of his music school and says:

"I wanted the last sound that remains here to be music, not bombs and missiles."

[Clash Report @clashreport]

WATCH: JDAM airstrike hitting a bridge west of Tehran, with several civilian vehicles passing underneath at the moment of impact.

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

The U.S. President, Britain’s greatest ally, announced plans to end a whole civilization tonight.

[Juya @readthesubtext]

I remember her! Walking home past Tajrish Square, she’d always be there, arms full of the most beautiful roses, smiling as people passed, that small crown of flowers resting across her forehead. She brought a quiet charm to the chaos of Tajrish traffic, the kind that made you pause and forget whatever was weighing on you, even if only for a moment, like stopping to smell a rose.

I hope she’s safe.

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

Bloomberg acknowledges that the US war on Iran is backfiring, undermining the petrodollar system that gives the US empire so much power.

Gulf regimes are exporting significantly less oil, and they're not reinvesting those petrodollars in US assets.

Meanwhile, many foreign central banks have been selling US Treasury securities (US government debt) to prevent their currencies from depreciating, leading to US bond yields rising markedly -- not falling, as they typically did in past crises, when investors engaged in a "flight to safety". The US financial sector is losing its perception of having "safe haven" status.

This means that both key aspects of the petrodollar system are breaking: there are fewer oil exports in dollars (Iran wants oil to be traded in Chinese yuan), and there are fewer petrodollars recycled into US financial assets.

[Borzou Daragahi 🖊🗒 @borzou]

Israel has always hated that there is a genuine, deeply rooted Jewish community in Iran.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Why are you framing it like a public service announcement, instead of a threat to commit a major war crime?

[Soraya Lennie ثریا لنی @soraya_lennie]

Just advertising war crimes now. IDF tells Iranians to avoid trains and train stations from 21:00 local. Never mind internet restrictions and also.. war crime.

[Juya @readthesubtext]

Unbelievable! Not long ago, saying any of this would’ve got you dismissed as conspiratorial.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

💢 In his reporting and documentary Pistachio Wars, Yasha Levine details how California billionaires Lynda and Stewart Resnick funneled millions to Israel-linked institutions — including direct donations to the Israeli military via American Friends of the IDF — while their pistachio empire grew alongside policies that weakened Iran, their largest global competitor.

➤ In the first week of the U.S.-Israeli war, strikes targeted facilities tied to Iran’s pistachio industry in Rafsanjan, a global production hub long central to that competition.

➤ Tax records show $2.4M in donations to Israeli military-linked groups from 2015–2022, with additional millions to institutions tied to Israeli intelligence and the occupation

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[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

33,000 military veterans are currently homeless.

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

holy shit, the BBC just edited the passage from their anonymous "Iranian source" and removed the begging for being left without electricity, water and being nuked to death. So they admitted to fabricating the quote without any formal correction. This is utterly insane

[Patricia Marins @pati_marins64]

The US and Israel are carrying out intense bombing raids on Iran’s South Pars petrochemical complex, which accounts for 85% of the country’s production in this sector.
The damage is massive, yet the complex covers 54,000 hectares and would require many days of sustained heavy bombing to achieve its total destruction.

Even so, the losses are certainly in the range of tens of billions of dollars in destroyed infrastructure and lost profits.