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[DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics]

IRAN'S CULTURAL RESILIENCE: Azadi Tower illuminated with traditional carpet patterns during National Carpet Day.

On Iran's National Handwoven Carpet Day, the iconic Azadi Tower in Tehran was illuminated with stunning projections of authentic Iranian carpet patterns and exquisite traditional designs.

[The Cradle @TheCradleMedia]

According to i24 News, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned cabinet ministers during the latest cabinet meeting that Israel may be forced to confront Iran on its own, without US support.

In response, Israeli army Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir warned ministers that “most of the agreements being finalized between the United States and Iran are bad agreements.” He added that there are concerns Israel could supposedly find itself in a direct confrontation with Iran without any assistance, not even US backing or diplomatic cover.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

What a weird way of saying ISRAEL KILLED Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

It is insane that Save the Children has to remind people that killing babies is not normal—because Israel keeps killing them.

[Rania Khalek @RaniaKhalek]

It’s like advertising luxury villas in Nazi germany during peak Holocaust.

So shameful

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A severe drought in Spain has revealed one of Europe’s most astonishing archaeological treasures — a 7,000-year-old megalithic monument, now confirmed to be older than both the Pyramids of Egypt and Stonehenge.

Known as the Dolmen of Guadalperal, this prehistoric stone circle had been submerged under a dam reservoir for decades. As water levels fell, the stones re-emerged, giving archaeologists a rare chance to study one of humanity’s earliest ceremonial sites.

[Reza Nasri @RezaNasri1]

The demand that Hezbollah disarm itself is a chilling echo of Jean de La Fontaine’s fable "The Lion in Love." In the story, a mighty lion falls for a shepherd’s daughter and, blinded by passion, agrees to the father’s cruel condition: he must have his claws clipped and his teeth pulled so that he may enter the human world “safely.” Once the proud lion is rendered harmless - defanged and declawed - the shepherd unleashes a pack of savage dogs upon him.

If the Western powers have not absorbed the fable’s bitter lesson, Iran and Hezbollah most certainly have. They recognize the parable for what it is: a timeless warning against trusting the promises of those who demand your weakness as the price of their peace.

Hezbollah’s love for Lebanon is not the blind, self-destructive infatuation of La Fontaine’s lion; it is a clear-eyed, fierce devotion that refuses to trade the nation’s only real shield for empty guarantees and future slaughter.

[Fiorella Isabel @FiorellaIsabelM]

Media recycles this BS “feud” between Netanyahu & Trump every few months:

The US isn’t drifting away from Israel, it is fusing with it. Anyone telling you otherwise is lying. They’re merging all AI, defense and surveillance tech. Everything else is theater.

[Sinan Antoon سنان أنطون @sinanantoon]

The US used #white_phosphorus in #Falluja back in 2004 during the occupation, disfiguring genes for generations. Israel is dropping genotoxicity in south #Lebanon. . . "shared values"

[B.M. @ireallyhateyou]

The Shrine of Shaykh Daniyal, in the destroyed Palestinian of Danna (Baysan sub-district), uprooted in 1948.

Jews destroyed the shrine, then rebuilt it and appropriated it, like many other Muslim shrines, and now treat it as a Jewish holy site, the so-called "Tomb of Dan".

[B.M. @ireallyhateyou]

🧵"Lebanon is Hezbollah and Hezbollah is Lebanon.
There are no uninvolved.
May Beirut burn."

Israeli i24 News host Eliraz Sade continues his genocidal tweeting frenzy against the Lebanese people.

[Jadaliyya @jadaliyya]

Doctors in Gaza report that the medical infrastructure is completely collapsed.

Israel has been preventing the entry of basic supplies such as gauze and colostomy bags, as well as fuel for generators needed for running hospitals 24/7.

Patients are dying slowly from infections and treatments that should not be life-threatening.

This is slow genocide in the midst of a nonexistent ceasefire.

Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah (@GhassanAbuSitt1) reminds us how Gaza's health system is a threat to Israel, and why it deliberately tries to destroy it.

Gaza in Context Project; Disability and the Future of Gaza w/ Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah in conversation with @4Bassam

[DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics]

Trump reveals another feature of the new military base at the White House on the site of the old ballroom.

[Ollie Vargas @Ollie_Vargas_]

This is what Bolivia's highways look like at the moment.

Each town & village blocks their stretch, and the union members in each community take turns at the barricades. This is part of the general strike against neoliberalism. Now entering week 3.

[asad abukhalil أسعد أبو خليل @asadabukhalil]

خيار الدولة وحصريّة السلاح:

"الجيش اللبناني يخلي نقطة الخردلي تحسباً لتوغل اسرائيلي"

[Shereen From Gaza🇵🇸 @shereen_Gaza]

@StanleyCohenLaw @olivelacedpen @NatalieGABand @alon_mizrahi @jordsjailacc @umaymohamed @chasingbodies @bornposting @enoughformethx
I only need a share or quote of the post… it might reach someone who can save my child 😢💔

[Michael Galant @michael_galant]

The Cuban people are being intentionally deprived of WATER by our cruel, criminal government.

[DaiWW @BeijingDai]

Liang Wenfeng, the founder of DeepSeek, is one of the most remarkable stars in China's tech scene. His DeepSeek models have already achieved huge success running on NVIDIA chips, but he had the courage to spend months porting the entire codebase to Huawei's Ascend chips. This undoubtedly required a massive investment of both time and money, and it significantly delayed the release of DeepSeek's latest version. Clearly, Liang bore enormous pressure — but he succeeded. He proved the effectiveness of Huawei's chips and gave other Chinese AI companies a compelling reason to abandon NVIDIA and switch to Huawei. This is a crucial step in the development of Chinese AI. An entrepreneur like Liang is a true national asset for China.

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

“I want to kill someone today & it might be you"

"They wrenched my trousers & underwear down & I was raped by one of the soldiers"

"Other people had guns inserted inside them"

"My daughter was syringed with an unknown substance"
https://t.co/jFWhpq4Yry

[I.R. Iran in Tunisia🎒(تونس) @IranembTun]

Trump should remember this about Iran and Oman:

More than 150 years before the United States even existed, Persians had already driven the Portuguese colonial empire out of the Strait of Hormuz in 1622.

A few decades later, Omanis expelled the remaining Portuguese forces from the region.

Some nations were fighting colonial powers long before others became nations.

Photo: A Portuguese Fort in Southern Iran