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[Pistachio 🇮🇷 🇵🇸 @HarleyShah]

Shockingly, Iran used its greatest advantage to its advantage and closed the strait, affecting the global economy and causing outrage.

This, I'd like to inform you, is a sanction. You know... what you've been doing to them for 47 years.

Or does it only count when it's you?

[tim anderson @timand2037]

A reported dialogue between Ali Larijani and Shaheed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei before his martyrdom:

Ali Larijani, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, came to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei carrying a cold report — but his heart was not cold.

After a long silence he said:
“My leader… this time the threat is not just a passing message of pressure. A decision has been made. The enemy wants to kill you, even if the sky burns with missiles. We have prepared a fortified location, a place carefully secured and hidden from all eyes — a place bombs cannot easily reach and aircraft cannot strike. It is not hiding, my leader… but a temporary disappearance until the storm passes.”

The Leader remained silent for a moment, then slowly stood up — as if history itself had risen with him.

He approached and asked calmly:
“And when you came to me… what answer did you expect?”

Larijani replied after hesitation:
“I expected you would refuse. But my leader, the nation needs you, and the battle needs its commander.”

The Leader smiled — a smile carrying both sadness and wisdom.

“You are right in the calculations of states and the books of security. But let us speak for a moment in a language older than politics.

How can I ask a soldier to face death if his commander disappears?
How can I tell the people to stand firm… if I am the first to leave the field of danger?”

He paused, as if a door to Karbala had opened within his chest.

“We are the sons of a man named Hussein ibn Ali — the Imam who knew his fate and still walked toward it as one walks toward God’s promise. He did not disappear because his army was small — for he had a greater army in the heavens.”

Larijani replied:
“But my leader, history is not one page. We also have a Hidden Imam whose absence taught us that disappearance is sometimes wisdom, not fear.”

The Leader sighed and answered:
“The difference, Mr. Larijani, is that when the Imam disappeared, he had no army and no nation capable of defending the truth. But we… how can I disappear when I have a nation fighting? How can I vanish while my soldiers stand under fire?

When a leader disappears while he is alone, it may be wisdom.
But when a whole nation stands behind him, his disappearance may become a heavy question in the conscience of history.”

Larijani fell silent, unable to respond.

The Leader shook his hand, thanking him for his concern. After Larijani left, he gathered his family and told them about the proposal — a safe place they could go until the war ended.

They looked at him as children look at the meaning of dignity and simply said:
“We are wherever you are.”

And so the man remained where he was — not because he did not know the danger, but because he knew something deeper:

Some leaders, when they disappear from death, may also disappear from the memory of their nation.

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

susan abulhawa is the 🐐

Mamdani is a Zionist coward

[Nerdeen Kiswani @NerdeenKiswani]

Too many people are focused on defending Rama, who can speak for herself, instead of defending Susan Abulhawa, who was actually thrown under the bus by Mamdani.

As usual, it’s Palestinians who end up paying the price.

Susan Abulhawa is arguably the most well-known Palestinian author in the United States. Yet neither Mamdani nor Rama has spoken up to defend her.

What makes it worse is that Rama was commissioned to create artwork for Abulhawa’s writing. Allowing your husband to publicly disparage a writer whose work you were hired to illustrate is deeply unprofessional.

Especially when both Rama and Zohran were more than willing to build their careers and platforms through Palestinian spaces before turning around and distancing themselves once they made it.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

They didn't just stand around and watch him bleed to death. They actively prevented two ambulances from reaching him. Barbarism is not potent enough to describe this depravity.

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

What’s the point in a UN report confirming Israel is committing genocide if they do not then, in turn, use every power they have to stop it — from sanctions and full divestment and arms embargoes, to assembling a military force to stop the genocide? What use is it?

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

Breaking:

In an interview, Anas Al-Sharif’s brother revealed that just four days before his assassination, Anas was offered a “tempting” deal:
to leave Gaza with his family in exchange for halting his coverage of the situation there. He firmly refused.

[Sina Toossi @SinaToossi]

We were told Iran was on the brink.

That one more push would bring the Islamic Republic down.

Netanyahu & Reza Pahlavi begged for revolt.

Instead, we see a wave of mourning across the country for their dead.

So who really understands Iran—and who just sells delusions?

[Rohan Talbot @rohantalbot]

My god my god. That video of a Palestinian baby being comforted in a hospital bed, its amputated leg lying next to it. Wide eyed, confused and terrified.

What have we done? How haven't we stopped this? Our generation will never live down this shame.

[Warfare Analysis @warfareanalysis]

“Where are my children?”

A wounded mother roams the hospital halls searching for her children, unaware of their fate after an airstrike hit their family home in Jabalia, northern Gaza. Today.

[MO @Abu_Salah9]

يوماً هذه المشاهد هزت العالم

اليوم أصبحت خبر عابر للأسف

[وكالة تسنيم للأنباء @Tasnimarabic]

عدد من الأطفال الإيرانيين ضحايا الع،،دوان الإسرائيلي الوح،،شي

[شرق‌زده sharghzadeh @sharghzadeh]

Greater men than Trump and Bibi have come as invaders, and Iran has persisted. This is a bump on the road.

[د @trhxianl]

The world normalises the Empire’s threats against Sayed Ali Khamenei as if this man is not a human being & the religious & spiritual leaders of tens of millions of Shia Muslims around the globe. Does this mean any “State” can now decide to threaten the Pope? Or national Patriarchs? Or national Grand Mufti’s? This is part of a global war on Shia Islam & its symbols, leaders, institutions, & people—because they are the only people who arose to refuse the Hegemony of the USA in 1979 & continue to refuse Global Arrogance. Most importantly, they are the only ones who stood behind the Palestinian Resistance.

[شرق‌زده sharghzadeh @sharghzadeh]

These are the cities Israel is bombing

[Dystopian Times @DystopianTimes_]

It's not okay to be an adult and fall for the exact same war propaganda they used in Iraq. It's just not.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

The United States, that "beacon of democracy", has intervened in 128 elections since 1946 to shape political outcomes in their own interests.

[Adam @AdameMedia]

🇮🇷 Nearly 70% of Iran's science and engineering graduates are women

Most Americans think woman can’t even go to school there. Totally brainwashed.

[Zahra @fromaneighbour]

‘Nuclear sites’