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Negin Owliaei

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Editor-in-chief @truthout.org. Past lives @aljazeera.com. Internationalist. Any pronouns.

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The Lebanese government has just issued a directive β€œbanning” Hezbollah and criminalizing its members, granting authority to the army to go after them. And just like that, from Israeli war to potential civil war in the span of less than 12 hours

02.03.2026 11:20 β€” πŸ‘ 60    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

The two countries that host the largest population of Afghan refugees are Iran and Pakistan. Pakistan is currently bombing Afghanistan and Iran is currently being bombed by the US and Israel. The countries currently bombing Iran have no plan to accept Afghan refugees.

02.03.2026 12:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Members of Canada's military may have been involved in planning U.S. strikes on Iran, retired general says | CBC News A retired Canadian major-general says personnel on exchange with U.S. Central Command were likely involved in planning and targeting airstrikes on Iran unless Ottawa explicitly barred participation. A...

"It is highly likely that members of Canadian military, on exchange with the US, were involved in planning and co-ordinating of airstrikes on Iran. It is long-standing policy to have Canadian service members participate in exchanges with US Central Command."

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

01.03.2026 17:48 β€” πŸ‘ 69    πŸ” 54    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 3
Jonathan Karl: Pres Trump told me tonight the US had identified possible candidates to take over Iran, but they were killed in the initial attack.
"The attack was so successful it knocked out most of the candidates," Trump told me. "It's not going to be anybody that we were thinking of because they are all dead. Second or third place is dead."

Jonathan Karl: Pres Trump told me tonight the US had identified possible candidates to take over Iran, but they were killed in the initial attack. "The attack was so successful it knocked out most of the candidates," Trump told me. "It's not going to be anybody that we were thinking of because they are all dead. Second or third place is dead."

β€œSo successful”

02.03.2026 03:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1362    πŸ” 254    πŸ’¬ 75    πŸ“Œ 57
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Trump Says War Could Last Weeks and Offers Contradictory Visions of New Regime

When pressed on his plans for a transition of power, Mr. Trump said he hoped Iran’s elite military forces … would simply turn over their weapons to the Iranian populace.

β€œThey would really surrender to the people, if you think about it,” he said.

02.03.2026 03:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

He needs to be impeached before he kills everyone

02.03.2026 03:18 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

There’s a pretty robust case to make that the Iran Hostage crisis of 1979, the revolution itself, and the policies of the Iranian government towards the US
since, was all blowback from the CIA’s decision to overthrow Mossadegh in 1953. www.cnn.com/2013/08/19/p...

02.03.2026 02:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2641    πŸ” 611    πŸ’¬ 78    πŸ“Œ 27
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Iran media report continuous explosions in Tehran <article data-history-node-id="434532" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/iran-media-report-continuous-explosions-tehran" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/iran-media-report-continuous-explosions-tehran" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Iran media report continuous explosions in Tehran</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Continuous explosions were reported in eastern and western parts of Tehran, Iran’s Nour News outlet said.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>The reports came amid ongoing strikes on the Iranian capital, after the United States and Israel carried out a joint attack on Iran that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.</p> <p>France, Germany and the United Kingdom said they stood ready to protect their interests and those of their Gulf allies and could take what they described as β€œdefensive action” if required.</p> </div> </div> </article>

Iran media report continuous explosions in Tehran - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/iran-media-report-continuous-explosions-tehran

02.03.2026 03:16 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Evergreen reminder that the Israeli military headquarters are based in central Tel Aviv.

02.03.2026 03:11 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Heartbreaking pictures from Tehran’s Nilufar Square in the aftermath of tonight’s U.S.-Israeli bombardment of the city. Source: Iranian Student News Agency #Iran

02.03.2026 01:32 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3

Every time Western allies justify Donald Trumps breaches of international law, they pave the way for him to do it again, further sending the global system into a downward spiral.

02.03.2026 01:28 β€” πŸ‘ 197    πŸ” 66    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
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Massive Israeli airstrikes on southern Beirut right now

02.03.2026 01:22 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

The images from Iran are not really making it onto this site but they are so horrifying. I don’t really think bombarding oneself with graphic images of violence does any good but at the same time it really needs to be registering everywhere that all of the Middle East is on fire right now.

02.03.2026 01:23 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Outside the hospital, people carried an incubator into the street."

02.03.2026 01:20 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Al Jazeera reporting this too. Notable that Hezbollah did this, despite the blowback they will certainly receive from Israel, when Iran did nothing in the immediate aftermath of Nasrallah’s assassination by Israel x.com/babakvahdad/...

02.03.2026 00:18 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Absolutely.

02.03.2026 01:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Historical context: It was also Dwight D. Eishenhower whose CIA joined British intelligence to lead a coup in Iran in 1953, the US' first regime change. In 1954, a consortium of US oil companies got a 40% stake of Iranian oil.

01.03.2026 23:43 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
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As Trump Bombs Iran, We Need to Reckon With the American War Machine We cannot afford to slip into despair. We must push back against militarism everywhere, at every turn.

"We in the U.S. need to reckon with the fact that so much of our state wealth, capacity, and technology goes toward burying children in rubble." Important piece by @neginowl.bsky.social

02.03.2026 00:26 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve had multiple non-Iranian Americans tell me to talk to Iranians about what they want 🫠

02.03.2026 01:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m really trying not to argue with my fellow Iranians. But it’s ridiculous to watch people who justified this war turn around & now tell Americans to be quiet unless they agree with the β€œpeople of Iran”—a group that conveniently means ppl who agree with them.

Not how U.S. intervention works.

02.03.2026 00:56 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Iran doesn’t have nuclear weapons

01.03.2026 23:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1100    πŸ” 196    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 4

The IRI will in all likelihood still exist and a dozen or more US troops and hundreds if not thousands of Arabs, Iranians, Pakistanis, and migrant workers will be dead for the aberrant, spasmic, nonsensical ricocheting mind of this decaying corpse of a man.

01.03.2026 23:23 β€” πŸ‘ 219    πŸ” 51    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

This is the Israel playbook.

01.03.2026 22:04 β€” πŸ‘ 80    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump keeps calling on the IRGC to lay down its arms. He did it again today. He also claims that "1000s" were calling the US - calling? how?? is there a 1-800 number? - begging for "immunity." Those are clearly lies. This is the truth πŸ‘‡
x.com/Alihashem/st...

01.03.2026 22:05 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Unfortunately Twitter’s reach is still far more international. You can hear directly from Iranians in country far more widely and easily.

01.03.2026 21:47 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

What difference does it make? We already know this is a joint Israeli and American war on Iran and so they share full co equal responsibility.

01.03.2026 18:10 β€” πŸ‘ 107    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I admit that I don't understand the significance of knowing that it was in particular the US who located Khamenei. He was killed by an American bomb whether it was an Israeli or an American doing the bombing.

01.03.2026 18:09 β€” πŸ‘ 139    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 0

By the Israeli's own admission, recent negotiations were a ruse and there was never interest in a deal. Iran, per Oman, was willing to swear off enriched uranium stockpiling, which is essentially what America wants.

The point of the war is to wage war.

01.03.2026 16:19 β€” πŸ‘ 459    πŸ” 190    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 7

A lot of us despise the Trump regime, Per, doesn’t mean I want the elementary school in my town vaporized.

01.03.2026 01:25 β€” πŸ‘ 965    πŸ” 140    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 2