PhD Mid East History • Fellow @ArabCenterWDC • Author State of Resistance: Politics, Culture & Identity in Modern Iran (Cambridge 2022, amzn.to/3BynCFj)
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Feb 20
BREAKING: Israel blocks Palestinians from first Friday prayers of Ramadan at Al-Aqsa
Read more: aje.news/kiunq1
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Why exactly are we going to war with Iran?
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None of this is surprising to anyone paying attention in good faith but so many spent considerable energy denying the death toll in order to justify more killing, from former Reuters reporter Luke Baker to President Biden himself.
Feb 20
The new Lancet study on the genocide in Gaza finds that total deaths were 1.71 times higher than reported by the Gaza Ministry of Health as of January 2025.
If that same ratio has continued to hold, it means total deaths will have reached 123,000. Truly apocalyptic violence.
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Iran is about a week away from having the ability to make industrial-grade bombs, US Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff told Fox News on Saturday, while offering a rare glimpse into Trump's decision-making process on the issue.
✍️ @SiegalTobias
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Faten and woroud are two deaf girls who are in urgent need of medical hearing aids like these.
They also need ear surgery due to damage caused by the bombardment, which resulted in internal bleeding in their ears.
Please donate and share the campaign.
This is a very urgent case. ‼️‼️‼️‼️
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Huckabee: “I know that if it weren’t for Iran, there wouldn’t be Hamas, there wouldn’t be the Houthis, there wouldn’t be Hezbollah, we wouldn’t have the problem on the border with Lebanon…”
Tucker: “What problem on the border with Lebanon? I’m an American, I’m not having any problems on the border with Lebanon right now. I live in Maine.”
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Graham: Ignore advisors, ignore the vast majority of Americans, ignore the Constitution, ignore international law, just bomb Iran and do whatever Israel wants.
Really in tune with the needs of his constituents in South Carolina.
🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told me on Saturday that several people around President Trump are advising him not to bomb Iran. Graham urged the president to ignore them and go ahead with a strike. My story on @axios
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ever dollar spent sending your sons and daughters to fight israel’s war could’ve been spent at home on healthcare, education, housing and public transit.
This represents 40-50% of the deployable US air power in the world. Think air power on the order of the 1991 and 2003 Iraq war. And growing. Never has the US deployed this much force against a potential enemy and not launched strikes.
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This Ramadan, in the middle of total, unimaginable devastation, families in Gaza are struggling to find food for their children.
For $30, you can feed a family.
If you’re reading this with a full stomach, please don’t scroll past without donating.🙏
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War with Iran is about the greater Israel project.
Israel is defining its security as an expansionist regional hegemony.
An ethno-state of 10 million people militarily dominating a region of half a billion.
That’s impossible without the United States—thus, forever war.
Why exactly are we going to war with Iran?
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Indeed. He made it to me, in fact.
Feb 20
Biden spokesman John Kirby made the same claim from the White House podium.
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A Palestinian journalist from Gaza who was kidnapped by the Israeli military testified that soldiers bound his genitals with plastic ties and beat him so severely that he now cannot urinate without bleeding.
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Feb 20
Next week, Reps. Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie will force a vote to stop Trump’s march to an illegal, disastrous war with Iran.
Call 1-833-STOP-WAR (1-833-786-7927) to connect with your Reps to urge them to vote YES on the Khanna-Massie War Powers Resolution.
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Only TWO countries in the entire world vote against it. Two.
Guess who…
Do US Americans know that — every single year at the General Assembly of the United Nations — the *entire world* votes to condemn our country for the criminal blockade of Cuba?
Not just “Communists.” Not just the “Global South.” The entire world.
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Feb 21
TUCKER: “How much does it matter what Americans think?”
AMB. HUCKABEE: “It matters every bit.”
TUCKER: “80% oppose war with Iran.”
AMB. HUCKABEE: “We don’t live in a world where polls dictate policy.”
TUCKER: “Oh, I thought you said it matters what Americans think.”
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“That Board of Peace is…not a stab in the back. It's a punch in the face of the UN system.”
UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories @FranceskAlbs joined @mehdirhasan to discuss what shocked her the most about Trump' s Board of Peace.
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