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[Vinay Aravind @vinayaravind]

This meltdown is just extraordinary to witness. How deranged and disconnected from reality are these clowns? But I guess it's useful that they themselves are shining a light on how the Indian online right-wing behaves, for the rest of the world to see.

[Suhasini Haidar @suhasinih]

After press statements in Oslo, Norwegian press object to the PMs not taking questions as they normally do. Norway PM Store returns to do interviews with Norwegian media.

[Sushant Singh @SushantSin]

"A strategic location is not the same thing as a project of any size or form, and certainly not when that is mostly a large commercial project. The two are being confused on purpose to invoke national security and shout down any valid objections."

I✍️🏾@MorningContext on Nicobar

[Samir @obretix]

in rare personal news: we would greatly appreciate some revenue sharing from people and orgs earning money from my tweets or any other small or large donation since a close family member is suffering from bone cancer and bills are adding up rapidly.. https://t.co/nL5vDhYs0S

[Jakub Janovsky @Rebel44CZ]

Samir has been doing many extremely difficult geolocation tasks for a long time and posting the results here - it is time for the OSINT community and those using OSINT for their work to support him when he needs it!

[Suhasini Haidar @suhasinih]

‘I am one of the six victims’, reveals Vinesh Phogat; opposes tourney at former WFI chief Brij Bhushan’s hometown. What kind of government repeatedly puts its world-class women athletes through such trauma?
https://t.co/gZurBPNV2B

[Sandhya Ramesh @sandygrains]

Newer colors entering heatmaps 😰

[Pragyan Mohanty @PragyanM]

"This voice was wild, could shake a leg and take one’s breath away. It seemed to know what a party smelled like, what a dance floor felt like at 3 in the morning and what desire actually sounded like..."

Suanshu Khurana's glorious tribute to Asha Bhosle.
https://t.co/PVM74EXQo8

[Sandhya Ramesh @sandygrains]

Happy toxic sugar water tablets scam day to all!

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Absolute bombshell on Al Jazeera. An expert correspondent confirms Israel is completely going rogue, defying the US-Iran ceasefire and ignoring European leaders. They are launching unprecedented attacks on Lebanon just to sabotage peace. The Zionist regime is out of control.

[Sankaranarayanan Viswanathan @kvsankar]

Interactive, scientific, to-scale, 3D animation of Artemis II mission orbit built with @threejs @mrdoob - https://t.co/vYKqskI2he

[ParanjoyGuhaThakurta @paranjoygt]

Shame on you GoI. Why are you scared of fact-checkers?

[zingaroo @zingaroo]

@gareebscientist @sdhrthmp https://t.co/1YxbkeEjDu
Summary:
https://t.co/yTsZAcEUKi

[zingaroo @zingaroo]

@gareebscientist @sdhrthmp Details of IP and the amount are all listed in report.

[Sushant Singh @SushantSin]

NYT: India Appears Sidelined as Pakistan Tries to Play Peacemaker

The sum total of Modi's strategy of past 12 years has been to isolate Pakistan globally - it failed spectacularly after Op Sindoor last May and has turned into a humiliation now.

https://t.co/X1kI6vrzKb

[zingaroo @zingaroo]

@rwac48 Is this 'Manifest Destiny' inspired painting still at display?
https://t.co/Coon5poKst

[Sushant Singh @SushantSin]

The Modi govt is essentially arguing that its strategic ties with Israel are so fragile that they can't withstand showing of an Oscar nominated film in India which is not banned in Israel itself and has been shown in numerous countries, including the US.

[Stanly Johny @johnstanly]

No analysis of #Iran is complete if you reduce what's unfolding in the country into a simplistic binary of an oppressive regime vs a freedom-loving people. That's a liberal trap. I have serious disagreements with the character of the Iranian state (which I have with a lot of regimes), but that doesn't stop me from trying to understand the broader picture. Iran has lived under crippling sanctions for decades--and those who imposed the sanctions wanted to make everyday life miserable in the hope that the public would rise against the regime which would open a window for the liberal interventionists. Why is Iran under sanctions? Mainly because of its nuclear programme. Iran exists in a very hostile region. Just look at the map -- Iran is the only Persian Gulf country that doesn't host an American military base. It sits in a region where Israel is the only nuclear power. The mistake Iran did -- as I have always argued -- was that it did not make the bomb. They thought they could leverage a nuclear threshold status for both security and economic relief. That was a blunder in a world of jungle. Tehran signed the nuclear deal in 2015. Trump demolished it in 2018 and reimposed sanctions. Europe just follows the line given from Washington.

Despite the hostility in the region, Iran enjoyed relative deterrence due its so-called axis of resistance. The US first killed Soleimani, one of the architects of the axis. And then Israel, post-Oct 7, with American help, chipped away at the axis. Because for both Israel and the US, Iran is the only revisionist power in West Asia. You take Syria out, Iran would be weakened. And you take Iran out, the whole region could be redrawn. Look at what happened. Hamas was pushed into the ruins of Gaza. Hezbollah has been degraded. Houthis are fighting their own battles. And the Syrian regime, Iran's only state ally in the region, collapsed. Russia is stuck in Ukraine. China remains too self-occupied. Iran suddenly lay vulnerable to external threats. And then the Israelis bombed Iran in June. Trump happily joined in.

Europe followed suit in the subsequent months by reimposing snapback sanctions--because Iran violated a deal that Trump killed in 2018! In the middle of all this, Iran had elected a reformist as its president in an election in which more than 30 million people voted. But the government’s hands were tied when it came to economic issues because of the sanctions. And there is genuine public resentment which was what triggered the shopkeepers' protests on January 1. But on Jan 2, after meeting Netanyahu in Florida, Trump said he was “locked and loaded”. Mossad started amplifying anti-regime messages in Farsi via social media. It even posted on X that “we are with you in the field” (I wrote here on X on the day the US attacked Venezuela and abducted President Maduro that Iran was next).

The protests started turning violent. Reza Pahlavi, son of the deposed monarch who is living in the US, suddenly emerged as the “Crown Prince”. Someone who hasn’t set foot in Iran for over four decades, emerged in western TV and press as the rightful voice of Iran’s opposition and he called for urgent American bombing of Iran! Garbage propaganda channels such as Iran International unleashed a firestorm of misinformation. Reports about the situation on the ground came from “rights groups” based in Oslo and Washington. The liberal mills, which were conspicuously silent during Israel’s genocide of Palestinians for two years, started firing on all cylinders. Iran, they said, wants freedom through American and Israeli bombings.
And now Trump is asking the “protesters” to take over institutions. #IranProtests

[zingaroo @zingaroo]

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