The CIA was using covert detention facilities abroad before 9/11. They exploded after 9/ll & were also given a name: blacksites. These were off the grids sites where ppl who were often illegal abducted were interrogated, tortured & detained. The imperial boomerang is real bsky.app/profile/acyn...

UK and US sink to new lows in global index of corruption

Supporters of the deposed Iranian shah's son, Reza Pahlavi, are reportedly going around to Iranian establishments in the UK and Europe and threatening them with violence if they do not display a photo of Reza P or the flag associated with the monarchy. Psycho behavior. x.com/Ehsan_HoZa/s...

No end 2 Israel's regime change efforts. After attacking Qatar in the fall, Israel is now promoting regime change there. Listen here to this billionaire businessman vowing to normalize relations w/Israel & enter the Abraham Accords after overthrowing the al-Thani monarchy x.com/c14israel/st...

Various outlets/experts reporting that Trump seems to have agreed to limit negotiations to the nuclear issue only (which seems unlikely to me, but what do I know…). Drop Site (w/audio): x.com/DropSiteNews... Danny C: x.com/citrinowicz/...

Trita knows his shit. This also explains some of Araghchi's recent comments and the commitment to stand by red lines, re: nuclear enrichment right, ballistic missiles etc… www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/w...

Iran's restrained foreign policy has turned into a robust, borderline aggressive posture that is less trusting (understandably) with more redlines that will not be sacrificed. Why? Because Israel killed all the commanders who were promoting more restraint… x.com/clashreport/...

There seems to be a substantial crackdown against reformist political figures in Iran. At least 4 people political figures, some of whom have previously served in govt, have reportedly been arrested by the IRGC for fomenting "disorder" x.com/IranObserver...

The US is making clear what has long been an unspoken feature of sanctions. They are of just about coercing other states and persons. They can also be about enriching the US. This dual tariff-sanctions war on Iran is the ultimate case in point apple.news/AKv4l5X1XS1m...

Looking for hope where I can find it…

Houston University Asks Faculty to Pledge Not to “Indoctrinate” Students www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

The administration's lawless killing spree at sea continues with another maritime strike in the eastern Pacific. Real killing in a make believe armed conflict against unidentified enemies.

No war on Iran. A war on Iran is a war on its people. No war on the people of Iran. None. Not for any reason.

This is excellent reporting on the Iranian politics and strategic thinking relating to negotiations with Trump amwaj.media/en/article/i...

A former Israeli intelligence officer in the notorious Unit 8200, Barak Ravid often gets "scoops" from Israeli officials looking to plant certain narratives in the Western press x.com/DropSiteNews...

Why Iran wants negotiations to move from Turkey to Omanhttps://x.com/leventkemaI/status/2018762051741769813?s=20

This is a literal depiction of what a threat of use of force in violation of the UN Charter looks like

[email protected] Palestine team has resigned over the new Exec Director's (a journalist) decision to shelve a report on the right of return, which was approved by HRW's legal team. His reasoning? 1 HRW official said it put in question Israel's "jewishness" www.dropsitenews.com/p/human-righ...

Latest verified death and casualty figures from protests in Iran x.com/SinaToossi/s...

There have been a number of very large explosions/fires in Iran since this weekend. There were 2 verified explosions in southern cities - supposedly the result of gas leaks I think - and now this in Tehran x.com/GhonchehAzad...

This is not entirely true. The Iranians are pushing for venue change AND to keep negotiations limited to the US and Iran, excluding other regional actors. Why? Seems like a desire to limit negotiations to the nuclear issue rather than including other regional issues, like support for armed groups

Direct negotiations between the US and Iran seem to be teetering on the edge. Russia proposing a way to bridge differences. Emperor Trump may be unwilling to accept any concessions on his maximalist demands. No way though that Iran bends the knee both for pragmatic and ideological reasons.

More reporting on the possibility of de-escalation and negotiations to avert the United States's illegal war on Iran x.com/Alihashem/st...

From Israeli media, suggesting Trump is blinking….

From Al Jazeera English's Ali Hashem who is in Iran x.com/Alihashem/st...

Analysis on Iran’s best case scenario if the US attacks x.com/citrinowicz/...

I don’t work on the Law of Sea, but that regime as well as the laws on the use of force would likely apply to any decision by Iran to close the Strait of Hormuz. An article from 2012 - examining Iran’s threat to mine the strait in response to US sanctions - reached this conclusion:

This is insane. The entire global order is being held hostage by a bunch of megalomaniacs and fascists, using starvation practices/analogies to bend the entire system to their will. x.com/usambun/stat...

More on the explosions heard around Iran today x.com/bashareport/...

When Mahmoud Khalil was first abducted, Chuck Schumer's on-record response was: "If he broke the law, he should be deported." Trump later needled Schumer: "He’s not Jewish any more. He’s a Palestinian"

We always knew they were just Nazis. The scary thing is that a large proportion of US Jews joined their political coalition specifically to target Palestinians

Both sides are saying talks are happening /n x.com/leventkemai/...

An image posted by Iran FM Abbas Araghchi . Basic message: a country located several oceans away is trying to dictate how Iran should behave in its own neighborhood. Araghchi’s message to the US: we will not be cowed by you, go home x.com/araghchi/sta...

Ali Larijani, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council who was just in Russia meeting with Russian officials x.com/alilarijani_...

Something not really discussed on here (for whatever reason) is that Israel was genuinely hit quite hard by the ballistic missile barrages last year and this is the central reason why the US now demands that Iran, on top of accepting zero enrichment, also curtail its missile stockpile

Israel/US reportedly looking to ignite a “spark” to start bombing Iran - trying to bait Iran to strike them first. Today’s explosions across Iran may have been part of this strategy x.com/visionergeo/...

I remember the illegal US invasion of Iraq. There was so much global push back both at the govt & popular level. Besides some regional govts trying hard to stop this, people are just resigned to this happening. Another illegal US war, another nail in the coffin of intl law x.com/visionergeo/...

Lots of reporting abt explosions in 2 key cities in Iran today. Bandar Abbas is strategically located on the Strait of Hormuz, an intl waterway w/in Iran’s territorial waters which many believe Iran will shut down if the US strikes x.com/gbrew24/stat... x.com/visionergeo/... x.com/ghonchehazad...

If the US bombs Iran on Sunday - as some speculate - it'll likely have been chosen partly 4 its symbolism. It was on Feb 1, 1979 that Ayatollah Khomeini returned to Iran, after 14 yrs in exile, leading to the official fall of the Shah's govt. Sunday is the 47th anniversary of that date.

Scoop: Federal agents were told this week that they have broader power to arrest people without a warrant, according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo reviewed by The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

These analysts are solid on Iran but still caught w/in their Israeli and American perspectives. Iran has ambitions to create a civilian nuclear program - which is its RIGHT under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. But these analysts make it seem like ANY enrichment is unlawful. It is not.

Today, Iran, China, and Russia signed a "trilateral pact" - not quite a mutual defense treaty but still a comprehensive strategic deal between the 3 countries. The development is particularly notable not cause of the US military build up /n www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260129-ira...

As the US threatens war with Iran, remember that 23 years ago the US engaged in a similarly illegal attack against Iraq - an attack that led to the death of 1 million Iraqis and has continued to foster instability in the country. A short interview well worth listening to: x.com/naime_ataman...

The branch of the federal government exclusively empowered under the Constitution to declare war is powerless to stop Trump's illegal war on Iran because it has spent decades (if not longer) ceding nearly all of its most important powers - from law making to war making - to an imperial presidency

A US strike on Iran wont bring democracy or pave the way for a better future. It will not just decapitate Iran's rulers. It will either destabilize Iran and lead to civil war or securitize the govt even more, strangle Iran's civil society & ensure anyone who calls for pol change is terminated /n

Whatever Trump does in Iran, the use of crippling sanctions, to devastate the Iranian ppl, combined w/threats of war is NOT a strategy Trump invented. Obama pursued the same strategy starting in 2011/2012. Iran hawks, like Bret McGurk and Jake Sullivan, have been part of both Rep & Dem admins. /n

Reports that Iran is conducting various military exercises near the Strait of Hormuz, which is key to shipping, oil and otherwise in the Gulf, to deter a US strike and, likely, to close the Strait if a strikes occurs….https://x.com/TheStudyofWar/status/2017035893710721527?s=20

In openly bragging about their infiltrators, Israel demonstrates its total disregard for protestors, whose targeting thereby becomes justified in the eyes of Iran's govt. It also demonstrates its desperate desire to convince the US that they are in a position to control…/n x.com/ejmalrai/sta...

For the US, sanctions are not an alternative to war, they are a prelude to war. There is evidence suggesting that the US govt treats its sanctions designations as justifications for armed attacks against named designees. /n x.com/SecScottBess...