If you refuse to condemn Israel’s unfolding genocide, occupation, slaughter of children, carpet bombing, forced famine, hospital attacks, killing journalists & aid workers, and bombing embassies—but condemn Iran’s retaliation—don’t pretend you care about internat’l law or peace.
Biden has begun striking militias in Iraq and Syria in retaliation for the three Americans killed last week by Iraqi militias.
This is just the beginning, the White House says, insisting that there will be strikes over several days, perhaps weeks. Which doesn't seem to jive with his expressed desire to avoid a regional war.
If the objective is to "restore deterrence" and stop the attacks by the militias against US troops, this approach is not likely to succeed UNLESS it is coupled with a ceasefire in Gaza. Absent such a ceasefire, Biden's strategy will only further escalate tensions in the region and potentially draw the US into the war that Biden says he seeks to avoid.
Regardless of how Biden's campaign is choreographed and calibrated not to elicit lethal retaliations from the militias or Iran itself, there is no escaping this reality: Nothing in the region is likely to deescalate unless there is de-escalation in Gaza.
Bombs Yemen, Iraq, Syria: 🇺🇸
Provides weapons and aid to Israel amid war crimes: 🇺🇸
Cuts aid to major UN agency providing aid to civilians: 🇺🇸
Rejects calls for ceasefire: 🇺🇸
🇺🇸: “we are not at war and do not want a war in the Middle East”
خیزش ضددولتی در ایران همراه با چرخههای کشتار و سوگواری بوده است. با افزایش کشتهها، تشیعجنازههابدل به نوعی از اعتراض شدهاند. ما ۱۸ مورد از خشونت دولتی در رویدادهای سوگواری را تحلیل کردیم و متوجه الگویی از سرکوب مرگبار شدیم #MahsaAmini#مهسا_امینی
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“Perhaps if Amini had died at another moment in time, no one but her family would have known her story. But on this particular day, the young women & girls of Iran decided to reclaim her agency—& their own.”
@Neda_Semnani reflects, in today’s newsletter:
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Boris Johnson is going, but do not forget what this Tory party has done:
The lies.
The failures.
The scandals & sleaze.
Countless Tories defended him. Now it's politically convenient, they've found their morals.
The Tories have got to go. And so must Boris Johnson - today.