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[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Pakistan has said that it will not take back the Rochdale rape gang leader under any circumstances.

A Restore Britain Government would end all immigration from Pakistan - it would go on our Red List.

Enough is enough.

Pakistan is a rogue state, and we would treat it as such.

[Nikhil | നിഖിൽ | निखिल | ನಿಖಿಲ್ @nikhilnarayanan]

Hey, @ITC_Cares! Your Octane gel pens cost ₹10 and the refill costs ₹6 or so and doesn’t make much sense to buy the refills. Unimaginable amount of waste gets created in schools where this is the popular pen. Maybe set up drop boxes in schools to collect used pens?

[Evan @EvanWritesOnX]

This is a war that was agreed upon to avoid a REAL war.

Start thinking for yourselves.

Just two days ago, Oman's Foreign Minister stood in front of cameras in Washington and said peace was "within reach." Iran had agreed; for the first time, to zero stockpiling of enriched uranium.

Technical talks were scheduled for Vienna next week.

The Omani FM was giving a thumbs-up in Geneva on Wednesday.

By Saturday morning, Tehran was on fire.

If you're watching this unfold and thinking the diplomacy failed, you're reading the surface. The diplomacy succeeded.

What you're watching now is the invoice.

On February 26, Iran and the US concluded their most substantive indirect talks to date. Iran offered to suspend enrichment, dilute its stockpile under IAEA supervision, and join an Arab-Iranian nuclear consortium.

Oman's FM described the breakthrough as unprecedented. Ali Shamkhani; senior adviser to Khamenei himself, wrote publicly that an "immediate agreement is within reach" and that Araghchi had "sufficient support and authority for this deal."

Forty-eight hours later, the US and Israel launched Operation Shield of Judah.

The conventional read is that Trump lost patience, that diplomacy collapsed, that hawks won. That read is wrong.

It misses the structural reality; the strikes are the diplomacy. They are the enforcement mechanism for a deal whose terms were already being set in Geneva.

Ask yourself a simple question.

Why would the US and Israel attack at the exact moment Iran was offering its largest concessions in forty-seven years?

Because those concessions need cover.

Iran's leadership cannot walk into a deal that dismantles its nuclear leverage, rolls back its missile program, and concedes on regional proxies while looking like it surrendered to American pressure.

Khamenei cannot sell capitulation to the IRGC hardliners, the Basij networks, and the ideological apparatus that has sustained the Islamic Republic for nearly five decades.

The regime needs an attack to justify the concession.

It needs to be able to say: we were struck, we struck back, and then we chose peace from a position of defiance;

not weakness.

This is not speculation. Look at the Iranian response. Tehran fired missiles at US bases across the Gulf; Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, UAE, Jordan.

The IRGC issued maximalist statements about "crushing responses" and "relentless operations."

The rhetoric is wall-to-wall defiance.

But look at what was actually hit. Qatar's defense ministry confirmed all missiles were intercepted.

Kuwait intercepted everything at Ali al-Salem.

The UAE reported one casualty in Abu Dhabi from debris. Saudi Arabia; notably was not targeted by Iran at all, despite Riyadh being the most significant US partner in the region.

Iran struck at every country hosting US assets.

It struck at none of the assets that would trigger an uncontrollable escalation.

It avoided Saudi oil infrastructure entirely; the one target that would have genuinely destabilized global markets and forced a total war posture from Washington.

The Strait of Hormuz remains open. Oil closed Friday at $72.87, barely a 3% move on a day the world was told war had begun.

Compare this to what a real Iranian war posture looks like. Iran has the capability to do far worse. It chose not to. What you're seeing is not Iran's war capacity.

It's Iran's negotiating choreography.

Here's what should tell you everything: the Gulf states denied the US use of their airspace for the strikes on Iran. Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait; they all publicly refused. They lobbied Washington for weeks not to attack. MBS personally ruled it out.

And then the strikes happened anyway. And then Iran hit their territories.

If the Gulf states were genuinely blindsided, you'd expect emergency summits, defensive mobilizations, and a fracture in the US-GCC relationship.

Instead, you got carefully worded condemnations, calls for dialogue, and crucially, Saudi Arabia immediately offering to "place all its capabilities at the disposal" of affected states.

Riyadh condemned Iran's strikes while simultaneously urging Washington "not to get sucked in further."

That is not the language of a shocked ally. That is the language of a state managing a transition it was briefed on.

The GCC's posture throughout this crisis has been singular: prevent real war while allowing the theatre to run its course.

They denied airspace to signal to Iran that they were not participants in the aggression. They absorbed Iran's retaliatory strikes to give Tehran its face-saving moment.

And they immediately pivoted to de-escalation language because the next phase, the deal phase, requires them as brokers, not combatants.

Oman was spared entirely. The mediator was left untouched.

That is not an accident of targeting. That is a signal that the diplomatic channel remains open.

By design.

Iran is in the final stages of a structural pivot that has been underway since Qassem Soleimani's assassination in 2020.

The proxy architecture; Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, Iraqi PMF, has been systematically degraded.

Not by accident, and not purely by external force. The degradation has been permitted.

Hezbollah was functionally decapitated in 2024.

Hamas's leadership was eliminated.

The Houthi file has been separated.

Iraqi militias are being absorbed into state structures or sidelined.

The "Axis of Resistance" is not collapsing; it is being retired.

Pezeshkian's presidency is not a coincidence.

He represents the force within the Iranian system that emerged from the recognition that BRICS membership, GCC normalization, and economic survival require shedding the proxy portfolio.

Iran's entry into BRICS, the Chinese-brokered Saudi-Iran rapprochement of 2023, and the Omani-mediated nuclear track are all components of the same trajectory: Iran exchanging regional militancy for economic integration.

Khamenei approved this trajectory. Shamkhani's public statement; that Araghchi has "sufficient support and authority", is the clearest signal possible that the Supreme Leader has sanctioned the pivot.

The hardliner establishment is being managed, not consulted. The IRGC's maximalist rhetoric today is the sound of an institution being given its last public performance before the script changes.

The strikes allow this transition to happen without internal collapse.

Iran can now frame any deal as a response to aggression rather than a capitulation to pressure. The regime survives. The proxies fade. The nuclear file closes. And Iran enters the regional economic order as a participant rather than a pariah.

Netanyahu called the strikes an effort to remove an "existential threat" and projected that the joint operation would "create the conditions for the brave Iranian people to take their fate into their own hands."

That is not a military objective. That is a political narrative.

Israel's coalition has been on life support for months.

The domestic political landscape is fractured.

Netanyahu needs a "victory", not a military one, but a narrative one. Strikes on Iran give him the ability to claim he neutralized the nuclear threat, defended the homeland, and stood shoulder-to-shoulder with the US in a historic operation.

The actual military impact is secondary. Iran's nuclear program was already "degraded" by the June 2025 12 day war strikes. The sites at Natanz, Fordow, and Isfahan were hit then.

Then the media came out saying their nuclear facilities are intact.

Today's strikes are a second pass on targets that were already compromised.

The marginal military gain is modest. The political gain is enormous.

Netanyahu gets his exit narrative.

Whether he survives politically or not, he will leave claiming he "saved Israel from Iran's nukes." The real outcome, Israel's gradual integration into a GCC-brokered regional architecture where its freedom of unilateral action is constrained,

will be managed by his successors.

Both regimes, the Islamic Republic and the current Israeli government, are heading toward structural transitions. The strikes provide both with the domestic cover to make those transitions without admitting what they actually are: concessions.

The June 2025 war lasted twelve days. This round will likely be shorter.

The military objectives are limited, and the political objectives are already being achieved.

A return to negotiations.

The Vienna technical talks were scheduled for next week before the strikes.

They will resume, possibly in a different format, once the shooting stops.

The framework that was being discussed in Geneva does not disappear because missiles were fired. The missiles are part of the framework.

GCC-mediated de-escalation. Saudi Arabia and Oman will emerge as the primary diplomatic brokers. Riyadh's immediate offer to support affected states while urging restraint positions it as the indispensable mediator. This is by design.

OPEC+ production adjustments. The March 1 OPEC+ meeting was already scheduled to discuss increased output. Gulf producers have been pre-positioning supply to cover any disruption. Saudi Arabia and UAE were already boosting production. The oil market has been prepared for this.

The entire point of this exercise, from Iran's perspective, is sanctions relief and economic integration. Once the dust settles and the ceasefire holds, expect a deal framework that includes phased sanctions relief in exchange for permanent nuclear constraints, missile programme limitations, and formalized proxy rollback.

Despite Trump's rhetoric about "eliminating threats from the Iranian regime," the actual US posture does not support regime change.

There are no ground forces. There is no occupation plan. The force structure is air and sea, designed for strikes, not governance. The objective is behavioral change and a deal, not the collapse of the Islamic Republic.

What you're witnessing is not the failure of diplomacy.

It's the most resource-efficient way to achieve what diplomacy alone cannot: a simultaneous restructuring of both the Iranian and Israeli strategic postures, managed under the umbrella of a US-GCC brokered regional order.

The nuclear standoff that has defined the Middle East for thirty years is being resolved, not through a clean handshake at a summit, but through the controlled application of force that gives every actor the domestic cover they need to make concessions they've already agreed to in principle.

Iran gets to shed its proxy liabilities and nuclear isolation under the banner of defiance. Israel gets to claim a historic security victory as its political system resets. The GCC gets the stable, de-militarized, de-nuclearized neighborhood is needs for Vision 2030 and beyond.

The US gets a deal it can sell as strength.

And the populations of every country involved get the one thing that was never going to be delivered by ideology or militancy: a path to normalization and economic integration.

This is a war designed to prevent a real war. It is loud, dramatic, and terrifying on television. It is also bounded, choreographed, structurally purposeful with pre-agreed collateral.

The theatre ends when the deal is signed.

And the deal was already being written in Geneva.

[Dr Rajesh Patil @DrRajeshPatil20]

Who could have foreseen WW III would be fought between
US + Israel + UAE + Bahrain + Saudi + Qatar + Kuwait
VS
Iran + Pawan Khera + Ilhan Omar + Swara Bhaskar + Rana Ayyub.

[Desi king @DesiKing_]

Dear @zomato @ZeptoNow @SwiggyInstamart @Swiggylndia

Add a simple tag in the app if the delivery partner is Specially-abled So we can run down, take the order ourselves & TIP.

[Nandini @NBDwrites]

The thing with Rahul Gandhi is this:
from the moment he was born, he has lived in a Prime Minister’s house. Surrounded by privilege, deference, and an almost hereditary aura of entitlement.

When his mother became the Super PM, he played Mini-Me to perfection. The family’s chosen Prime Minister even admitted, without shame, that he was merely keeping the chair warm for Rahul-jee.

With that level of fawning and subservience, it is no surprise that he thought nothing of tearing up an ordinance at a press conference, an act so reckless that the country watched in disbelief.

And with years of this cosseting, he seems to have come to believe that India is his personal jagir, to be claimed whenever he feels up to it.

This, despite never holding a single position or responsibility in his mother’s government.

With each electoral defeat, his rage and frustration have become more visible.

As the prize he was raised to believe was his birthright recedes further from reach, the issues he chooses to highlight become ever more irrelevant, exposing a complete disconnect.

Yet he cannot see it, blinded as he is, by anger and entitlement.

And that is why so many worry:
a man convinced of his “rightful inheritance” can choose any path, however destructive, if he thinks it might deliver him what he believes is owed to him.

His aides and advisors have been no better, feeding his insecurities, flattering him endlessly.

A scene from Catherine the Great comes to mind:
her delinquent husband, obsessed with playing soldier with toy regiments, screaming tantrums whenever a guard falls out of step, while the palace tiptoes around him.

Unless there is a coup within the Congress, they will continue to bear the burden of their delinquent prince because he simply does not have it in him to read the room, let alone the giant graffiti on the wall.

[Shreelesh Kumar @shreelesh]

Hey @upstox team. What kind of illiterates have you employed in your video editing team? What is this map of India in the Markets Today video?

[Nishant Ratnakar @nishantr]

Don't let your social media feed be your only source of truth. Go see.

If you really seek the truth, go discover it for yourself.

Be content with being told, or be empowered by knowing.

The choice is yours.

​#TruthSeeker #SocialMedia #CriticalThinking #perspective

[Aparna Krishna 🍃 @KrishApar]

Here's more proof that more roads are not going to solve #traffic problems.

[Venkatesh Alla @venkat_fin9]

Like it or not, a 20% tax on STCG and 12.5% on LTCG is nothing but punishment for daring to invest your post-tax income in the stock market.

You already gave away 31.2% of your salary, and now they want a cut of your investments too?

This isn't taxation, it's state-sanctioned looting of honest, salaried taxpayers.

Meanwhile, corporates escape through fake bills, inflated expenses, and shady loopholes, and it would take years for government to track them.

You’ve got to be absolutely inhuman to squeeze the salaried class like this, while letting the big fish swim free.

[Tarun ཊརུན @YearOfMonk]

Scary!
The vanishing Girls of Meghalaya, that no one's talking about:-

In a remote town named Baghmara, under South Garo Hills of Meghalaya, Bangladeshi Mozlems are silently luring Tribal Garo girls as young as class 8-10 students & sneaking them into Bangladesh, never to be found again. Whats surprising is that seems to be talking about it.

Love Jihad is real.

[Colonel Mayank Chaubey @col_chaubey]

June 25, 1990 - A Date Etched in Blood and Silence
Thirty-five years ago, in the once-beautiful valley of Kashmir, humanity was torn apart in the most horrific manner.

Girija Tickoo - a sister, a daughter, a wife, a mother - just 22 years old, was betrayed, violated, and butchered. Five men, consumed by jihadi hatred, ravaged her body in a crime so monstrous that it defies comprehension. She was lured by a colleague she trusted, only to be handed over to demons in human form.

After brutally raping her, they took an industrial saw - a wood-cutting saw, and began slicing her from her womb upwards, while she was still alive.

They tore her into two - a living woman, in excruciating agony, her cries muffled by the cruelty of fate and the silence of the world. Her body, torn and lifeless, was discarded by the roadside like refuse, like she never mattered.

Think. If even imagining this makes your chest tighten, your heart bleeds, what must she have gone through?
What did she feel when the saw tore through her abdomen, through her ribs, through her hopes and breath, knowing she would die in pieces, in pain, in betrayal?

As long as there’s breath in me, I will carry her memory like a wound.
I will remember her - and I will make sure the world remembers too.

Girija, forgive us.
We weren’t there when you needed us the most.
May your soul find the peace that this world never gave you.
A grief-stricken, eternal tribute.

Courtesy : @Vishnu_Jain1

@AdityaRajKaul @AartiTikoo @payalbhayana @ARanganathan72 @jsaideepak @Manik_M_Jolly @Fatima_Khatun01 @AadiAchint @Sanjay_Dixit @ajaykraina

[Aditya Raj Kaul @AdityaRajKaul]

Israeli Air Force has destroyed dozens of missile launchers and missiles in Iran just before they were to be launched to attack Israel.

[Mountain Rats @mountain_rats]

My profile is being mass reported by Pakistanis.

It looks like my reach has been affected.

Like, retweet, or comment if you can see this tweet.

Thanks

[Shreelesh Kumar @shreelesh]

@mayank_408 I feel essentially the miss is from the person who created the second a/c. They should have ensure both PF a/c are of same type. Ideally, they shouldnt have created the second a/c to start with but I guess thats how they meet the onboarding deadline.

[Shreelesh Kumar @shreelesh]

@mayank_408 It is not a scam but quite opaque in certain aspects. I had the same issue. In my case, my 2 a/c were by nature different. One had pension component, other didnt. Your Co. should take this forward with a consultant. Dont spend your money unless you are in a hurry to close dis 1/n

[Manmohan Bahadur @BahadurManmohan]

The present generation would just NOT know the Vital role played by @AkashvaniAIR in maintaining the morale of our jawans deployed on the frontiers!

All India Radio - here's a tribute to you from someone who still admires you!

#OperationSindoor
#IndianArmedForces
@airnewsalerts

[Shreelesh Kumar @shreelesh]

2014: 44 / 543
2019: 52 / 543
2024: 99 / 543

[Congress @INCIndia]

🔥

[Manu Khajuria @KhajuriaManu]

Beyond the breaking news and technical details I am focused on the human stories. This, Jammu is home for me and not someplace distant.

Today when locals reported drones and sounds of firing in Samba yet again, a Dogra Mother from Jammu whatsapped me saying she is anxious because her college going daughter is travelling alone on Vande Bharat from Delhi to Jammu. This concerned Mother had called her daughter back home to Jammu, wanting the family to be together under these tense circumstances.

While this young girl was on Vande Bharat there was precautionary blackouts and the train kept stopping according to protocol and to keep everyone safe. Imagine the mother’s worry. The young Dogra girl however was unfazed and telling her mother not to.

I share this story because the Nation and the World must know that when (and not if) India escalates against the terror state Pakistan which is targeting civilians, homes, schools, temples, madarsas, gurudwaras children and women in Jammu region, it will be justified. It will not only be justified, it will be a favour to the world.

#JammuUnderAttack #PakistanTerroristState