Isa Umar

[𝐉𝐎𝐑𝐃𝐀𝐍 @great_j0rdan]

Nigerian Christians are hypocrites.

These are Christians on Palm Sunday blocking the whole road, yet you never post or condemn it. No Muslim took out a camera to start recording and dragging Christians or Christianity over it, but when it’s Muslims, you people suddenly have a problem.

When you're doing your worship and blocking the roads, Muslims don't complain, they respect it and go about their business. But the moment it's Muslims, you bring out your cameras and start recording, saying Muslims are blocking the roads. Muslims are this Muslims are that.

In Kano, there's a street that gets closed every Sunday for Christian services, all day, not just 5 or 15 minutes. Muslims don't complain because we understand its worship.

But we're going to start recording videos and posting them online so you can see it's happening, and that we just don't go on media to complain out of respect for your religion.

[𝐉𝐎𝐑𝐃𝐀𝐍 @great_j0rdan]

https://t.co/SpWVM6JHyp

[Isa Umar @umarikh]

@PamelaHensley22 And what exactly led to the closure in the first place?

[Isa Umar @umarikh]

@HothaAli This guy is probably not a Muslim

[Samuel Omogor @SamuelOmogor]

Reports say that after the FG released Mallam Nasir @elrufai, they went ahead to even hire a plane to fly the remains of his mom, Hajia Ummah, from Cairo, Egypt. But the El-Rufai family reportedly rejected the gesture.

Me: I thought the man stole N486bn? And own estates in Egypt? Why offer to fly his mother again when he has plenty of money at his disposal?

#Unmutedthepodcast
#tegatalks

[Jvnior @Jvnior]

There are 0 "Islamic terrorist attacks" before 1948.

Guess what happened then? Israel was founded.

Guess who invented Islamic terror? Israel.

Guess who thrives on terrorism? Israel.

The problem has always been Israel.

[Isa Umar @umarikh]

@dannydanon If only Gaza families have that 3 minutes

[Isa Umar @umarikh]

Uwahala...

[Akinwumi @Big_marvis]

Buhari paid subsidy on everything - petrol, dollars, electricity, CBN loans, took ways and means from the CBN to balance expenditure, yet you called him clueless, illiterate etc. Tinubu is doing the exact opposite, and here you are complaining again. You can't oppose Buhari's method and still come out to criticise Tinubu's method in less than 3 years. You have to be pathologically daft, for real.

[Isa Umar @umarikh]

Absolutely

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Every bomb that hits a school is a "mistake."

Every wedding that turns into a funeral is a "mistake."

Every hospital reduced to rubble is a "mistake."

When a state commits the same "mistake" for 70 years, it is not a mistake.

It is a method.

And the U.S. perfected it.

[Usman Shamaki @aushamaki]

Iran has always been weeks away from acquiring a nuclear weapon for the last 25 years.

[Isa Umar @umarikh]

@RetsonTedheke01

[Isa Umar @umarikh]

@RetsonTedheke01

[Isa Umar @umarikh]

Absolutely

[Biggest Mack @Big_Mck]

Indoctrination is such a terrible thing. It's the reason why some people in Africa believe the US is fighting terrorism by attacking Iran. The United States is the real terrorist state. Wake up!

[Danton Bissono Chidera 🎖️ @DantonChidera]

For those Nigerians asking why Iran is attacking countries that did nothing to do so;

1) You're very foolish and it's very hurtful that you're. You can't be victims trying to play bosses because the plan to destroy you ain't at the hot stage already (just always remember that it won't last long per Rubio's words in Munich early February).

2) Do you realize that's the same question Africans asked when Nigeria bombed the Republic of Benin despite it not attacking it, but simply because it was trying to deter the domino spread of Pan-Africanism towards it? That's the same thing Iran is doing. Trying to neutralize potential threats from those areas. 😏

3) Do you think the US built bases in Arab states as infrastructure or for tourist purposes? Nah. Those destruction warehouses were built for times like this; to serve the US in case more grounds are needed to strike an enemy. So yes, that alone implicates the Arabs in this whole fiasco.

4) Stop asking unreasonable questions and sharing dumb takes on the conflict. Just STFU and learn. At this point, Iran is the practical tutor you need to carefully observe and learn for yourself. Let American and Mossad propaganda be!

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am a diplomatic aide in the Sultanate of Oman's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

My job is logistics. When two countries that cannot speak to each other need to speak to each other, I book the rooms. I prepare the briefing materials. I make sure the water glasses are the right distance apart. You would be surprised how much of diplomacy is water glasses. Too close and it feels informal. Too far and it feels like a tribunal. I have a chart.

We had a very good month.

Since January, Oman has been mediating indirect talks between the United States and Iran on Iran's nuclear program. The talks were held in Muscat and in Geneva. The Americans would sit in one room. The Iranians would sit in another room. I would walk between them. My Fitbit says I averaged fourteen thousand steps on negotiation days. The hallway between the two rooms at the Royal Opera House conference center is forty-seven meters. I walked it two hundred and twelve times in February. This is good for my cardiovascular health. It was less good for my knees. Both are in the service of peace.

By mid-February, we had something.

Iran agreed to zero stockpiling of enriched uranium. Not reduced stockpiling. Zero. They agreed to down-blend existing stockpiles to the lowest possible level. They agreed to convert them into irreversible fuel. They agreed to full IAEA verification with potential US inspector access. They agreed, in the Foreign Minister's phrase, to "never, ever" possess nuclear material for a bomb. I have worked in diplomacy for seven years. I have never seen a country agree to this many things this quickly. I made a spreadsheet of the concessions. It had fourteen rows. I color-coded it. Green for confirmed. Yellow for pending. By February 21 the spreadsheet was entirely green. I printed it. It is on my desk in Muscat. It is still green.

That phrase took eleven days. "Never, ever." The Iranians initially offered "not seek to." The Americans wanted "will not under any circumstances." We landed on "never, ever" at 2:14 AM on a Tuesday in Muscat. I typed the final version myself. I used Times New Roman because Geneva prefers it. The document was fourteen pages. I was proud of every comma.

Here is what they said, in the order they said it.

February 24: "We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity." — The Foreign Minister, private briefing to Gulf Cooperation Council ambassadors. I prepared the slide deck. Slide 14 was the implementation timeline. Slide 15 was the signing ceremony logistics. I had reserved the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Room XX. It seats four hundred. We discussed pen brands for the signing. The Iranians preferred Montblanc. The Americans had no preference. I ordered twelve Montblanc Meisterstucks at six hundred and thirty dollars each. They arrive on Tuesday.

February 27, 8:30 AM EST: "The deal is within our reach." — The Foreign Minister, CBS Face the Nation. He sat across from Margaret Brennan. He said broad political terms could be agreed "tomorrow" with ninety days for technical implementation in Vienna. He said, and I wrote this line for the briefing card he carried in his breast pocket: "If we just allow diplomacy the space it needs." He praised the American envoys by name. Steve Witkoff. Jared Kushner. He said both had been constructive.

I watched from the Four Seasons Georgetown. The minibar had cashews. I ate the cashews. They were nineteen dollars. The most expensive cashew I have ever eaten. But it was a good morning and we were within our reach.

February 27, 2:00 PM EST: Meeting with Vice President Vance, Washington. The Foreign Minister presented our progress. Zero stockpiling. Full verification. Irreversible conversion. "Never, ever." The Vice President used the word "encouraging." His aide took notes on an iPad. The aide did not make eye contact for the last nine minutes of the meeting. I noticed this. Noticing things is the only part of my job that is not water glasses.

February 27, 4:00 PM EST: "Not happy with the pace." — President Trump, to reporters.

Not happy with the pace.

We had achieved zero stockpiling. Full IAEA verification. Irreversible fuel conversion. Inspector access. And the phrase "never, ever," which took eleven days and cost me two hundred and twelve trips down a forty-seven-meter hallway.

Every American president since Carter has failed to get Iran to agree to this. Forty-five years.

Not happy with the pace.

February 27, 9:47 PM EST: The Foreign Minister's flight departs Dulles for Muscat. I am in the seat behind him. He is reviewing Slide 14 on his laptop. The implementation timeline. Vienna technical sessions. The signing ceremony. The pens.

I fall asleep over the Atlantic. I dream about water glasses.

February 28, 6:00 AM GST: I wake up to push notifications.

February 28: "The United States has begun major combat operations in Iran." — President Trump.

Operation Epic Fury. Coordinated airstrikes. The United States and Israel. Tehran. Isfahan. Qom. Karaj. Kermanshah. Nuclear facilities. IRGC bases. Sites near the Supreme Leader's office. Israel called their half Operation Roaring Lion. Someone in both governments spent time choosing these names. Epic Fury. Roaring Lion. I spent eleven days on "never, ever." They spent it on branding. The President said Iran had "rejected American calls to halt its nuclear weapons production."

Rejected.

Iran had agreed to zero stockpiling. Iran had agreed to full verification. Iran had agreed to "never, ever." Iran had agreed to everything in a fourteen-page document that I typed in Times New Roman.

The President said they rejected it.

I do not know which document the President was reading. I know which one I typed.

February 28, 18:45 UTC: Iran internet connectivity: four percent. — NetBlocks, confirmed by Cloudflare. Ninety-six percent of a country went dark. You cannot negotiate with a country at four percent connectivity. You cannot negotiate with a country that is being struck. You cannot negotiate. This is not a political opinion. This is a logistics assessment.

February 28: The governor of Minab reported forty girls killed at an elementary school.

I do not have logistics for that. There is no slide for that. The water glass chart does not cover that.

February 28: Lockheed Martin: up. Northrop Grumman: up. RTX: up. Dow futures: down six hundred and twenty-two points. Gold: five thousand two hundred and ninety-six dollars. An analyst at AInvest published a note titled "Iran Strikes: Tactical Plays." The note recommended positions in oil, defense stocks, and gold.

The most expensive cashew I have ever eaten was nineteen dollars. The most expensive pen I have ever ordered was six hundred and thirty dollars. The math suggests I have been working in the wrong industry. Defense stocks do not require water glasses. Defense stocks do not require eleven days. Defense stocks require one morning.

February 28: Israel closed its airspace and its schools. Iran launched retaliatory missiles toward US bases in the Gulf. The Supreme Leader promised a "crushing response." Israel's defense minister declared a permanent state of emergency. Everyone is using words I recognize in an order I do not. I recognize "permanent." I recognize "emergency." I do not recognize them next to each other. In diplomacy, nothing is permanent and everything is an emergency. In war it is the reverse.

February 28: The Foreign Minister has not made a public statement.

The briefing card is still in his breast pocket. It still says "within our reach."

[President Otunba GCFRN 🇳🇬 @de_generalnoni]

Trump is the worst president America has ever had! Impeach him before this becomes the norm!

Just imagine the Nigerian police or EFCC taking innocent lives, and Tinubu going on TV to defend such a shame. Some of these clowns supporting Trump would have remembered the phrase, “Nigeria is a failed country.”

[Isa Umar @umarikh]

Gbam

[Mypic @Mypic80]

@winexviv Who put the power at centre? Which tribe put it at the centre? Why are you now concern about regional all of a sudden? Say it as it is. You are afraid to say what you planned doesn't pay you again and you want it dissolve. Until you ans those questions and accept you caused it.

[Extraordinary Ustaz 👳🏾‍♂️📿 @bapphah]

Since the Minister of Foreign Affairs, has confirmed that the United States carried out this attack with the knowledge of the Nigerian government, then all our politicians, religious scholars, traditional rulers, and Northern influencers must come out boldly and question the government: why was Sokoto attacked?

Is it that Christians are being killed in Sokoto? Or since when has Sokoto become a base for ISIS operations?

Who exactly was targeted in Sokoto? Nigerians DESERVE clear answers.

We all saw how the U.S. President publicly claimed that they attacked Nigeria to stop the killing of Christians. So when did Sokoto suddenly become a center for killing Christians in Nigeria?

This looks like a DANGEROUS PLOT being carefully prepared against Northern Muslims. The silence must END. We must DEMAND the TRUTH.

[Isa Umar @umarikh]

Most unfortunate

[Retson Tedheke (Sarkin Yakin Ga'ate) @RetsonTedheke01]

😂😅🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣!

I Wish Nigeria Good luck but Welcome Unfortunately to The Club of...

Somalia!
Libya!
Syria!
Iraq!
Afghanistan!
Sudan and Many Nations that The US Has intervened to save Christians and ended up Killing More Christians intheO Process!

Abuse Me All You Want, But History is Your Guide!

[ceolawyer @ceolawyer]

There was a mass shooting in Sydney, Australia.

Within minutes the internet was flooded with “here come the jihadists” and “Islam is our enemy.”

But there’s one problem.

The man who ran up and took the gun away from one of the mass shooters was a Muslim named Ahmad al-Ahmad.

Yes a Muslim man saved more Jewish people from being killed by a deranged shooter.

Oh and the shooter was a former IDF soldier named Naveed Akram.

Pay attention to how the news spins this.