Cindy Wan

Will China come to Iran's rescue? While Beijing will not send troops or battleships, it will continue working quietly in other ways to ensure Tehran's survival

published two days ago

'By anchoring its stance in the UN Charter and international law, China provides Tehran with something invaluable: legitimacy on the world stage, and a powerful counter-narrative to western pressure.'

Am looking for the fine…
Yes, there at the bottom!

1 more month until the chaos begins

Translation:

If Russia really was a superpower, it wouldn't need China and North Korea in order to survive.
Russia is no longer a superpower, but a nation with a large military and questionable competence in using them.

BBC News homepage : Three US service members killed in Iran operation as Israeli rescuers say nine dead in Iran strike The IDF says it has launched another wave of strikes on Tehran, while casualties are reported in the UAE and Kuwait after Iran's retaliatory attacks. A portrait of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is displayed next to Iranian flags, candles and a book of condolences at a mosque in Cape Town The months of planning behind US-Israeli mission to target Iran's supreme leader A piece of crucial intelligence arrived just hours before the attack on a compound in central Tehran. Man sitting beneath wrecked car looking at the camera with wrecked car behind him Nine dead in missile attack on Israel as Iran strikes region Several deaths are reported across the Middle East as Tehran retaliates for massive strikes by the US and Israel. index In maps: Strikes across Iran and the Middle East Israel and the US have launched strikes across Iran, with Iran retaliating with strikes across the region. Crowds of men, some wearing helmets or masks, search the ruins of a building At least 153 dead after reported strike on school, Iran says Iran has blamed the US and Israel for the strike; the US is looking into reports of the incident, while the IDF says it is "not aware" of operations in the area. Satellite image showing smoke over the compound of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei What we know so far about the US-Israeli attacks and Iran's retaliation US President Donald Trump has described the operation as "massive and ongoing".

'Three US service members killed' takes top billing above 'At least 153 dead after reported strike on school'

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i work in tech and would not trust sam altman to water my plants let alone put him in charge of war technology

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It’s wrong to vaporize school children even if Congress votes to approve it.

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I promise you that the government that murdered Alex Pretti and Renee Good does not give a flying fuck about the protests in Iran.

There better be a damn good reason an elementary school was designated as a military target.

To be clear, it's a war crime to use non-military targets like a school as a shield for military forces. So if Iran did that, I expect to see some damn good evidence demonstrating that was the case.

There is no justification for airstriking schools. None.
Those kids weren't combatants. This is truly horrific.

May those who carried it out & ordered it never know peace.

The Iranian government is a brutal human rights abuser against its own people yet Trump's attack on Iran has nothing to do with that. Instead, like Reagan, Trump's just using Iran as a punching bag and whenever things domestically in America don't go well, bomb Iran as a distraction.

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This should be used as part of the evidence for treason.

Y'all blew up an elementary girls school.

Yes!

Screen of Apple’s Music app shows track playing is “A City of Sadness” by Japanese group S.E.N.S., from the 1990 soundtrack of the 1989 Hou Hsiao-hsien movie 悲情城市 “A City of Sadness”

Was playing music from my smartphone earlier, and this was playing.
Very timely.

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4 injured in shooting outside church funeral in KC’s Scarritt Renaissance neighborhood Kansas City police said four people, including a police officer, suffered injuries in a shooting outside a funeral service at the New Beginning Apostolic Church Friday morning.

America's gun psychopathy continues: *66* mass shootings so far in 2026. 💔😡💔 #GunsDontMakeUsSafer

The latest, with 4 people wounded, in Kansas City, Mo.: www.kansascity.com/news/local/c...

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Breaking: Key figure in the Epstein Files, known for his friendship with Epstein, launches a war in a bid to distract from Epstein Files.

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to put it more bluntly, afaik no one has ever changed a regime via airpower. (japan surrendering is not the same thing)

the u.s. didn't even change venezuela's regime by taking its president!

Not yet?

The Epstein War begins.