One of Iran’s top universities, partially obliterated by Israel/US x.com/helyeh_douta...

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There is widespread bombardment of civilians and civilian structures across Iran over the last 2 days, a continuation of the entire US/Israel approach to war-making that has intensified. I’m posting screenshots of some reports in the hopes of capturing the scale of these attacks

US/Israel hit the largest steel factory in the Middle East, which is in Iran, so the Iranians responded by attacking one of the largest aluminum hubs in the world. This is not supposed to be tit for tat. But the US and Israel opened this Pandora’s box of “dual use” objects. Blame them for this.

Expectations on escalations in the war over the next hours and days x.com/mohammadghaa...

“We will never agree to surrender” - students at an Iranian university bombed by the US/Israel x.com/narjes_rahma...

Israel/US are trying to deindustrialize Iran. It has nothing to do with the nuclear program. Or this government. It is rooted in Western treatment of Iran going back 200 years. It is about making Iran weak and dependent on the West 👇🏽 x.com/malikadivar/...

The Houthis are now in the field

I’ve been trying to post this poem by Taher Adel all morning but bsky craps out whenever I try to add alt text. …anyway, relevant

As we sit here waiting to see whether the US will invade and seize Iranian islands and then had them over to another state in a business deal, your reminder that the law matters because if it didn’t exist this would be totally ok. But it’s not. It is one of the most unlawful things states do.

Iran managed to create domestic industry to survive US unilateral sanctions. As Iran is achieving wins on oil sanctions and exerting its own economic pressure thru Hormuz, US/Israel r trying to ensure it remains vulnerable to other sanctions by hitting its civilian industrial base.

Proving its ability to multitask, Israel didn’t just kill journalists in Lebanon today. It also assassinated medics bsky.app/profile/msja...

More on Iran’s massive tactical wins in this war. Based on an off the cuff speech Trump gave yesterday, many are concluding that the reason the USS Gerald Ford - the largest US air craft carrier - left the region was because it had been hit by Iran. Which is wild.

Some of the “military targets” the US/Israel hit in Iran in the last day: a university science building, homes, K-12 schools

Turkey’s FM - one of the parties mediating ceasefire talks between Iran and the US - on Israel’s goal of sowing discord between Muslims states x.com/patrickwinto...

Israel is bragging about assassinating these journalists, calling one of them a “terrorist” because he was, you know, doing journalism Israel didn’t like. Same playbook as Gaza. Brand them terrorists, assassinate them at will, hope that other journalists will fall into line bsky.app/profile/msja...

Israel conducted a targeted strike on Lebanese journalists, after already killing the family of one of those journalists a month ago. What a coup for Israel. Wiping out a family and killing journalists are 2 of its favorite things….next to shooting children in the head

The consensus among many is that Iran is winning strategically but not tactically. More evidence that actually Iran is winning both x.com/ka_grieco/st...

Iran is one of the top 5 countries in the world producing STEM graduates. So Israel/US have decided to bomb our universities as if somehow that will lower our IQs x.com/gahvare/stat...

Shit has gone done on Bubiyan Island! x.com/mhsangtarash...

Day 28 strategic analysis from Hamidreza x.com/hamidrezaaz/...

Reports that there are 3 different locations for the US/Israel ground invasion of Iran x.com/mostafa_naja...

Reports that Iran will likely withdraw from the NPT. The NPT has a withdrawal clause. After the events of the last 9 mos - not 1 but 2 illegal wars against Iran facilitated by the IAEA’s work - no one can argue that Iran does not have the strongest legal case possible to invoke this clause

The Houthis have not entered the battlefield yet but something is brewing - Houthis have laid out the triggers that will bring them into the war inc if other states join in the aggression (ie UAE) & further escalation against Iran x.com/yarbatman/st...

Bahrain is exploding. US/Israel have unleashed a rage in the region that will be next to impossible to contain this time around. The Arab Spring may have been crushed but it wasn’t erased from people’s hearts or memories. x.com/adamugarba/s... x.com/adamugarba/s... x.com/phl43/status...

In contrast to Israel, which has used starvation as a weapon of war against the Palestinians for years, in contrast to Saudi doing the same in Yemen during its brutal intervention, Iran’s has quickly accepted to work with the UN to bring needed aid into the Gulf x.com/farnoushamir...

This explains the sort of guests they’ve been bringing on since this war started. So many Iran hawks the mind reels….plus a number of American anchors who I don’t recall them having before. x.com/wallyrashid/...

This is idiotic and another nail in the coffin for the UAE’s economic future. The corporation that is the UAE can’t afford to exclude such a large and important part of its business community x.com/smohyeddin/s...

"'[The GCC] shouldn’t only count on the US to do the negotiation'..'They should go and strike a deal with Iran for themselves.. if we can shield ourselves from being impacted any further, we should do it to protect our own national interests.'" www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Reports of multiple Iranian attacks on US military, including on this Kuwaiti island. Again and again, the evidence mounts that regional countries have been allowing their territory to be used by US/Israel in their aggressive war x.com/Kathleen_Tys...

The US/Israel tried to spark an uprising in Iran, but instead they relit the spark that has long been simmering in Bahrain. There have been relentless protests in the country for 1 month, rooted in a protest movement that goes back year but has been brutally crushed in the past

Israel/US is rampaging into the weekend. They've hit Iran's steel factories, its universities. They killed 26 civilians in just 1 strike on the city of Esfahan. This war is illegal. This makes everything happening in this war effectively illegal, creating double illegality in many cases like these

Iran attacks airbase in Saudi injuring 12 US service members, 2 seriously www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

“Steel became Iran’s top non-oil export precisely as a sanction hedge as it is cheap to produce using local ore and natural gas, and a critical source of foreign currency when oil revenues were blocked” bsky.app/profile/msja...

Israel is trying to decimate Iran’s ability to withstand crippling US and UN sanctions - which it has clearly had some capacity to do over the last several decades

A Pakistani flagged oil tanker reportedly tried to smuggle through oil for the US and this happened….

A snapshot of the civilian death and destruction Israel/US have wrought in Iran in just a month x.com/adhaque110/s... x.com/furkangozuka... x.com/amiraminimd/...

3600 bombs have been dropped on Tehran - Iran’s largest and most densely populated city - alone in one month x.com/bbcardalan/s...

The @nytimes.com wants you to feel bad for the US because its aggressions and imperialism in the Middle East have “forced” it to have bases in the region that Iran is now targeting cause the US attacked it illegally. So sad, poor America! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/u...

"Iran has bombed U.S. bases across the Middle East.. forcing many American troops to relocate to hotels and office spaces throughout the region. . . ." Looks like the U.S. is using civilians in the Gulf as human shields www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/u...

We are hurling closer and closer to a US ground invasion of Iran. The US probably wont be alone. It looks like the UAE is participating somehow - hoping to get some disputed islands (Abu Musa & the Tombs) from Iran in return www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag4g...

Iran is reportedly hitting U.S. planes using a "new air defense system." Including the F-35, which has never been hit before in battle, as well as the F-18. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCZm...

We asked scholars if they self-censor when discussing Iran policy. In the days before the start of war, 20% said they self-censor when discussing this issue (compared to 77% on Israel/Palestine). in the days after start of war, the number doubled to 40%. We offer possible explanations:

There have been several withdrawals of support 4 Sec General nominees today. The first is Chile’s withdrawal of support for Michele Bachelet - not shocking since a previous more left-leaning govt sponsored her. She still has support from 2 other states. The other withdrawal is👇🏽

Rafael Grossi, the head of the IAEA, is running for UN Sec Gen. Under new guidelines, candidates holding UN roles are encouraged to suspend that work during their candidacy to “avoid any conflict of interest.” Gross has not. I think he is using his role to win US support

Rafael Grossi, the head of the IAEA, is running for UN Sec Gen. Under new guidelines, candidates holding UN roles are encouraged to suspend that work during their candidacy to “avoid any conflict of interest.” Gross has not. I think he is using his role to win US support

This is major. If it succeeds, it would impose a rule of intl law, which Iran has persistently objected to, on it. It would also form the basis for an intl coalition of states to use force against Iran 2 secure free transit thru the Strait of Hormuz. /n x.com/Biesan_AK/st...

This person is close to Iranian officials: “The..nati’l solidarity that any aggression against Iranian soil will generate domestically will enable Iran 2 manage a prolonged war and..will seriously reduce Iran's internal challenges. Iran estimates.. a new phase of the battle will begin in.. 2 days.”

Unless this is AI - and it doesn’t seem to be - Iran is threatening a major escalation if there is a US ground invasion. Note that Iran had long-standing claims to Bahrain that the deposed shah relinquished in 1971 for partially racist reasons (he didnt want any more Arabs) x.com/soureh_desig...

Posting some analysis of the balance of power in this current conflict. Consensus seems to be that Iran holds more strategic advantage than the US/Israel and has also achieved some important tactical victories too Linked x.com/rkelanic/sta...