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[Diane Abbott @HackneyAbbott]

At least someone takes their international legal obligations seriously, and tries to arrest a suspected war criminal.
The British government should take them seriously too.

https://t.co/RzRc7BImz4

[John Wordsworth🇻🇪🇨🇺🇱🇧🇮🇷 NoArms4Israel @J_Wordsworth123]

@Glenn_Diesen White man speaks with forked tongue.

This is all just a continuation of the whole history of genocide against the Native Americans. Treaty after treaty was wrecked by the white settlers. And the Trump administration is agreement incapable.

[CryptoPacker @cryptopacked]

"The United States is always committed to diplomacy." A fine example of the wider hypernormalization of barefaced lies. These psychopaths use the language of diplomacy not as part of a sincere statement as normal people would, but as a rhetorical tool to shift blame entirely onto their adversary. This psychopathy is what passes for politics nowadays.

[dorothea @lizardindia]

@Glenn_Diesen They still think the more often they repeat the lie the more people will believe them; times have changed and with every repetition of the lie, they loose more face!

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

This is incredible. The US abandoned the JCPOA, twice launched surprise attacks during negotiations, and then breached the MoU as soon as it was signed.

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss:

The UK's new PM Andy Burnham is letting the US use British military bases to attack Iran.

He claims it is only for "defensive" strikes, but the US war on Iran is an illegal war of aggression. By definition, the US can't "defend" itself.

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Day 2 of Arms Sales Andy.

Still arming Israel. Still sharing intelligence. Still refusing to call the genocide in Gaza what it is.

Now he’s allowing Donald Trump to use UK bases for illegal strikes on Iran.

Different Prime Minister. Same imperialist genocidal foreign policy.

[Martin Shaw @martinshawx]

Lawyers for the ICC Prosecutor have been forced to write publicly after being denied the opportunity to address the body that will decide whether to remove him. It appears that the President of the Assembly of States Parties is determined to bring the Court into disrepute by dispensing with natural justice.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

People say:

"I don’t trust the U.S. or Israel, but Iran is still a huge threat."

Based on what?

The same intelligence agencies that lied about Iraq?

The same media that covers up every child killed in Gaza?

If your view of Iran comes from its enemies, your opinion is not independent.

It is a franchise.

[DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics]

For the “boom boom Tel Aviv” idiots:

The biggest mistake people make when looking at war is assuming the objective is to hit the enemy’s capital as quickly as possible. That’s political theater, not military strategy.

If you look at the strike map, Iran isn’t behaving like a country trying to maximize headlines but like a military attempting to shape the battlespace.

The targets are not random or insignificant. Iran is dismantling the entire American military ecosystem in the region:

Early warning radar sites.
Air defense systems.
Aviation facilities and hangars.
Logistics hubs.
Fuel and ammunition storage.
Forward operating bases.
CENTCOM support infrastructure.
Bases supporting operations in Syria and Iraq.
Naval and maritime surveillance assets.
Intelligence collection and communications nodes.

Look at jordan as an example. Most people couldn’t point to Tower 22 or Muwaffaq Salti Air Base on a map, yet they’re arguably more important militarily than firing a few missiles at downtown Tel Aviv.

Tower 22 supports operations at Al-Tanf. Muwaffaq Salti hosts American aircraft and coalition operations. Erbil supports intelligence and special operations. Bahrain hosts the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet headquarters. Kuwait is a massive logistics and staging area. Qatar hosts the forward headquarters of CENTCOM and the largest U.S. air base in the Middle East. These are the eyes, ears, and connective tissue of American power projection in the region.

From a military perspective, you don’t begin by punching the strongest part of your opponent. You isolate him.

There are several principles of warfare being applied here:

1. Suppression of enemy support infrastructure.
2. Degradation of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities.
3. Attrition of air defense and interceptor inventories.
4. Disruption of logistics and sustainment.
5. Political pressure on host nations.
6. Shaping the operational environment before attempting anything larger.

The United States does not fight Middle Eastern wars from Washington or even from aircraft carriers alone. It fights them from an interconnected network of bases stretching from Jordan to Qatar to Kuwait to Bahrain. If that network becomes degraded, every sortie, every intelligence feed, every resupply mission, and every interceptor launch becomes more difficult and more expensive.

People screaming “just bomb Tel Aviv” fundamentally misunderstand what modern warfare looks like. Destroying a radar site that enables coalition air operations can be militarily more valuable than causing superficial damage to a symbolic target.

There’s another aspect people are missing: INTERCEPTOR ECONOMICS.

Every Patriot interceptor fired costs millions of dollars. Air defense inventories are finite. Sustained operational tempo places enormous strain on maintenance crews, missile stockpiles, and logistics chains. If an adversary can force you to defend a dozen locations simultaneously, you’ve already begun winning the resource allocation battle.

Historically, successful military campaigns begin with degrading command-and-control, communications, air defenses, and logistics before moving to decisive operations.

Whether one agrees with Iran politically is irrelevant to the military analysis. What we’re witnessing is not random retaliation, it is a deliberate campaign aimed at systematically degrading the regional architecture that allows the United States and its allies to project military power across the Middle East.

Wars are won by destroying capabilities, not by chasing viral videos of missiles landing in capital cities and gay techno songs. The boring targets on a map are often the most important ones

[MenchOsint @MenchOsint]

Jordan is the key, the last & most important layer defending Israel.

The increasing rate of direct hits is a direct result of Radars & other U.S. equipment destroyed in Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar ... added to the depletion of air defense interceptors, something that couldn't have been achieved in a few days.

During 20 years CENTCOM turned Arab countries into a dome protecting Israel, and Iran is now methodically dismantling it.

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

You'll be forever remembered as complicit in genocide, David. That's it. That's all. And with a bit of luck, you'll face criminal proceedings for it.

[Mark Curtis @markcurtis30]

It's illegal to express support for Palestine Action or Iran's IRGC but if as a minister you give material support to a state conducting genocide, that's perfectly legal and you'll never to held to account.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Before Andy Burnham reappointed Shabana Mahmood as Home Secretary, this is what I told the BBC about her cruel, divisive and repressive reforms.

[Alex Shams @alexshams_]

"By refusing them hospitality, the US effectively deprived Iran's team of time to sleep and eat, even on a match day.

Iran was never offered fair play or an equal chance.

On the same day Iran played its final match, the US was bombing Iran."

https://t.co/l4fXjZQnNC

[Kathleen Tyson @Kathleen_Tyson_]

I like how Iran targets only military bases and not babies sleeping in tents. It makes a nice change.

[Fabián Ruiz @FabianRP52]

Mamá, todo mereció la pena 🤍

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

Another prime minister leaves office at a time and manner of their choosing without being held to account for their complicity in the deaths of people abroad.

In our system, ministers are in effect above the law. https://t.co/igIc2Oz4nB

[Mark Curtis @markcurtis30]

Lammy went from “humble beginnings” to complicity in genocide. That’s forever what you’ll be known for, @DavidLammy.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

Told @AJEnglish that Iran is unlikely to accept Qatar's 10-day ceasefire proposal. Tehran will likely see it as an effort to calm energy markets, only for the US to restart attacks in 10 days. And then repeat this cycle in another month or so.