James Stout

Exclusive: Iranian girls killed by ‘double-tap’ strikes on Minab school Eyewitnesses describe second blast which killed survivors as they sheltered in prayer hall

The girls’ school in Iran, where 165 people were killed by an apparent US-Israeli attack, was hit with two strikes, with the second missile killing sheltering survivors, two first responders and the parent of a slain child have told Middle East Eye.

Some of us are old enough to remember REI and a lot of other outdoor industry companies endorsing Doug Burgum. Now he’s meeting with the acting president of Venezuela. outdoor industry really showed its ass on that one

Any time you post about something outside the USA on this app, you are met with people orientalizing and massively oversimplifying complex situations. It is incredibly frustrating, and it is why I generally do not engage here about the things I cover in Myanmar and Kurdistan.

Announcement Statement of the Coalition of Political Forces of Iranian Kurdistan

There is an alliance of the major Rojhelati groups. pdki.org/english/anno...

I would really suggest spending a bit more time reading about this before making statements like this.

This would be interesting to attend if I were closer. Check it out if you're local.

What’s your point?

The PAK, the KRG, and multiple other Kurdish entities are posting about this on X. Sadly not much on here

You’re conflating several very different things. Kurdish people are not a monolith . There are Shiite Kurds, the Rojhelati groups are not the ones trump abandoned

Fox News claiming Iraqi Kurds are entering iran 😂

All the involved groups are denying the reports that Kurdish fighters have entered Iran

Going harder for coffee than you do for your trans/ non citizen constituents. really cool and funny.

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For some reason I can’t attach an image of the paragraph where he says “Trump spoke to leaders from two main Iranian Kurdish factions in Iraq - Masoud Barazani and Bafel Talabani” it appears to have been edited now

Incredible piece from Barak Ravid, who seems to think Barzani is Rojhelati and later on fails to distinguish between KDP/ PUK peshmerga and the SDF. You’ll never convince me the outlet that can’t write a paragraph isn’t using ai.
www.axios.com/2026/03/02/t...

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I wrote a little bit about the long history of the US asking people to rise up in Iran and Kurdistan and then leaving them to die. www.patreon.com/posts/152084...

None of the rojhelati parties have significant us involvement. PJAK is sanctioned

Using that uniornically would really be something

They played it in desert storm iirc

Iran is bombing Rojhelati Kurdish forces inside southern Kurdistan. PAK and PDKI, and Komala bases inside Başur were hit with IRGC drone strikes today.

Love to see people getting the book

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We are going to find out, in the coming days and weeks, that someone has misused Rock the Casbah. I want to say right now that it’s the worst Clash song and Joe Strummer cried when they last used it as a soundtrack to bombing the Middle East.

This is not how you go about liberating people or building a democracy

Man, Heartbreaking. rest in peace

Believes

Deleted and reposted as I made a typo on the number

I’m now hearing up to 80 students. I’m sure those kids will be presented as threats somehow, but they’re little children with hopes and dreams and people who loved them and they're the exact people who are used tokenisitically in demands for regime change.