> Defeat in the present confrontation with Iran will be of an entirely different character. It can neither be repaired nor ignored. There will be no return to the status quo ante, no ultimate American triumph that will undo or overcome the harm done. (🎁) […]

> When I reached a former longtime senior FBI official to ask whether he’d ever seen personally branded liquor bottles distributed by a previous FBI director, he burst out laughing. (🎁) […]

"I just want to have a big speaker and scream all over #Iran for my people: You are putting all of your eggs in the wrong basket. #trump is not going to have your best interest. Because at the end of the day, he's a businessman. He's going to make a deal with these guys, the mullahs or whatever […]

> The world has always been run by rich men. The robber barons of the Gilded Age were known for their ruthlessness in the accumulation of wealth—hiring Pinkertons to shoot striking unionists. But they directly engaged with the world around them, using their wealth and power to muscle it into its […]

It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

> Speaking amid mounting international condemnation of the bill, the UN’s high commissioner for human rights, Volker Türk, described the law as “patently inconsistent with #israel’s international law obligations, including in relation to the right to life”. He added that it “raises serious […]

Nobody can later say, they didn't know 👇🏼 > Tania Warner described the treatment of her and her daughter as “horrific” from the start. After being held for about five and a half hours at the checkpoint, they were sent to the first facility, where “every single person … was handcuffed – […]

🔥🔥🔥 > Die Koalition mäandert zwischen Sympathie für eine Befreiung Irans von außen und der Nostalgie nach Regeln, die einst die Welt besser machen sollten. Das Thema wird so schnell wie möglich von seiner beängstigenden internationalen Dimension auf die kleinstmögliche innenpolitische […]

> Despite #iran’s internet blackout, I regularly receive text and voice messages from within the country - people talking about life under attack. One was from a forty-something man, who sounded really low. > > "I’m freaking out," he says. He describes seeing "a lot of fighter jets" and hearing […]

> Despite #iran’s internet blackout, I regularly receive text and voice messages from within the country - people talking about life under attack. One was from a forty-something man, who sounded really low. > > "I’m freaking out," he says. He describes seeing "a lot of fighter jets" and hearing […]

👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 > Offen ist, ob das Einlenken der Iraner ein Zeichen der Schwäche ist oder nur ein Nachjustieren in der Hitze des Gefechtes. Die #islamischerepublik mag unter wahnsinnigem Druck stehen – israelische und amerikanische Jets am Himmel, der geistliche Führer tot, die meisten Raketenwerfer […]

Woah, that sounds unexpected and big. Could the regime actually fall? "The Iranian president, Masoud Pezeshkian, has just been quoted as saying he apologises to neighbouring countries. “I apologise … to the neighbouring countries that were attacked by #Iran,” #pezeshkian said, in a speech […]

> Many people in Iran are still sleeping or just waking up, but I have asked one person in Tehran about how they feel about #khamenei’s death. > > “I can’t believe it. It’s like when they give you such a good news that you don’t even don’t know what to do," they tell me. > > "I couldn’t sleep […]

Woah!! > Netanyahu says airstrikes have destroyed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s compound and adds that “all indications show this tyrant is no longer with us”. > > While not explicitly confirming Khameini’s death, this is strongest official indication yet that the missing leader is dead. > > […]

> The images and testimonies we received match accounts from witnesses and human rights groups of a sharp escalation in the authorities’ use of force to lethal tactics, including live ammunition and military-grade weapons, on the evening of Jan. 8. > > They add to a growing body of evidence that […]

> Das Vorgehen der Bundespolizei bei der Abreise der Fans sowie das Verhalten der italienischen Polizei vor Ort gegen BVB-Fans passen derweil zu einer Entwicklung, die in den vergangenen Monaten an Intensität gewonnen hat. Seien es Fans des VfB Stuttgart in Deventer, Bayern-Anhänger in London […]

✊🏼😓 > “Our classrooms are empty because the graveyards are full,” said Hossein*, 21, a student at the University of #tehran. “It’s for them – our friends, classmates and compatriots, who were gunned down in front of our eyes, that we decided to boycott the classes.” > [...] > “They called their […]

> Ayatollah Khamenei has instructed Mr. Larijani and a handful of other close political and military associates to ensure that the #islamicrepublic survives not only American and Israeli bombs, but also any assassination attempts on its top leadership, including on Ayatollah Khamenei himself […]

✊🏼🔥✊🏼🔥✊🏼 > #students at several universities in #iran have staged anti-government protests - the first such rallies on this scale since last month's deadly crackdown by the authorities. > > The #bbc has verified footage of students marching at the Sharif University of Technology in the capital […]

✊🏼🔥✊🏼🔥✊🏼 > #students at several universities in #iran have staged anti-government protests - the first such rallies on this scale since last month's deadly crackdown by the authorities. > > The #bbc has verified footage of students marching at the Sharif University of Technology in the capital […]

👇🏼 > Stellen Sie sich Kalifornien vor: Ein paar Wochen vor der Wahl flutet Trump den Staat mit ICE-Schlägertrupps, die man ermutigt, sich so brutal und drastisch wie möglich zu verhalten. Sie werden Bürger schikanieren, jemanden erschießen, es gibt massive Proteste. Die wiederum so eskalieren […]

🔥🎯🔥🎯🔥 > Angesichts der völligen moralischen Finsternis des derzeitigen Regimes in #teheran darf man nicht abwarten, bis die ideale iranische Führung auftaucht wie Kaiser Barbarossa aus dem Kyffhäuser. Wie es nach dem aktuellen Regime weitergeht, entscheidet das iranische Volk – aber sein […]

🔥🎯🔥🎯🔥 > Angesichts der völligen moralischen Finsternis des derzeitigen Regimes in #teheran darf man nicht abwarten, bis die ideale iranische Führung auftaucht wie Kaiser Barbarossa aus dem Kyffhäuser. Wie es nach dem aktuellen Regime weitergeht, entscheidet das iranische Volk – aber sein […]

> Zwei Jahre später liebäugeln Unionspolitiker damit, die #brandmauer zur #afd aufzuweichen, in östlichen Bundesländern mit den Rechtsaußen zu koalieren, sich bei einer Minderheitsregierung im Bund von ihnen tolerieren zu lassen. »Hochriskant« wäre dies, warnt Ziblatt. Die […]

Some 200,000 people demonstrated Saturday against Iran’s government on the sidelines of a gathering of world leaders in Germany, police said, answering a call from #Iran ’s exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi for cranked up international pressure on #Tehran. apnews.com/article/iran...

> der Arbeiter aus Khuzestan, glaubt, dass die Bevölkerung aus den vergangenen Protesten gelernt habe. »Nach all diesen skrupellosen Morden werden sich die Menschen bei künftigen Protesten sicherlich bewaffnen, Rache für das Blut der Gefallenen nehmen und ihre Rechte gegen die Unterdrücker […]

Einfach nur herzzerreißend. > Drückt heute noch jemand die Daumen? Lässt noch jemand das Leid an sich heran, stellt sich vor, was es heißt, mehrere Zehntausend Menschen zu erschießen, welche Skrupellosigkeit dazu gehört, wie gefühlstaub die Tötenden gewesen sein müssen, wie lange sie gezielt […]

🔥🔥🔥 > From protests to polls, the ruling class is increasingly confronted by the possibility that there is, in fact, a global consensus against injustice, for #democracy, for climate action, and for basic humanity. These movements aren’t going away. That’s encouraging, suggesting that we can […]

> One can object that there are elements of classical European #fascism that are not found in Trumpism (mass rallies and public rituals, for example)—or that there are additional elements of Trumpism that belong on the list (#maga’s hypermasculinity, misogyny, and co-option of Christianity all […]

That's why I fear, the #internet will not be restored.

When #Iran comes back online and all the horror that has happened (and surely is still happening) is seen by Iranians and the world, the #IslamicRepublic is done. It has too. #IranProtests #IranRevolution

> Jetzt müssen die Iranerinnen und Iraner fürchten, dass das Regime bis zu seinem Fall, der kommen wird, mit noch mehr Gewalt regiert. Während sich #donaldtrump feiern lassen kann, einen Frieden geschaffen zu haben, der nichts anderes bedeutet als eine verlängerte Diktatur. Auf den iranischen […]

Ein bisschen komisch, so hinter einer deutschen Paywall bzw. in einer deutschen Zeitung. Aber das geht natürlich höchstens halb an die Menschen im Iran und hauptsächlich doch wieder an uns. Also ruhig morgen mal zur SZ greifen, gibt da leider keine Geschenke-Links: > 2014 sagte ich zu den […]

WTF does that mean? Will the #usa now bomb #Iran? Or will they abandon Iranians like the Kurds in 1991? > Iranian Patriots, KEEP PROTESTING – TAKE OVER YOUR INSTITUTIONS!!! Save the names of the killers and abusers. They will pay a big price. I have cancelled all meetings with Iranian Officials […]

> Videos published on Iranian social media channels on Sunday and verified by The New York Times showed dozens of what appeared to be black body bags, lined up on the ground or on stretchers outside the Forensic Diagnostic and Laboratory Centre in Kahrizak, a town on the outskirts of #tehran […]

🔥🔥🔥 > As in the previous night, the protests were widespread, erupting in the cities of Mashhad, Tabriz, Urumiyeh, Isfahan, Karaj and Yazd, among others, according to witness interviews and videos either verified by The New York Times or appearing on BBC Persian. In each instance the videos […]

> Suppression has become the only answer the #islamicrepublic has to the crises it faces. It is for this reason that the security forces – centred on the #irgc – constitutes the single most significant barrier to regime change. They have repeatedly demonstrated that the regime has not only the […]

🎯🔥 > Die anderen Europäer – nicht nur #merz – hielten sich dagegen auffällig zurück. Wer solche klaren Verstöße nicht eindeutig benennt, stellt letztlich die Geltung der Uno-Charta infrage. Das kann sich auf die Ukraine auswirken und auf womöglich weitere europäische Territorien. Und eines […]