Ali Naqvi

Tbh... it's a really big opportunity for China to become the security guarantor of the gulf and complete a pivot it's been working on for a decade now.

Bellingct shows that HIMARS launchers were used with new longer range missles. Which means they needed to be on land , in a neighbouring state to be fired.

The straights open when Iran secures guarantees of peace by someone who isn't the west, has majority of sanctions dropped, and is allowed develop at least a civilisation nuclear programme. They will probably give up the latter but not the format.

The system is built to survive leaders being killed. People have already see this after Soliemani was killed, why do people keep assuming the place run by a bond villan.

This misread Iran and caricatures Iran as the Taebam, which is just ignorant of Iran.

Get a comprehensive peace treaty & security guarantee

"Little ruckus".... now that's a metaphor..

Pictures emerging from today’s heavy bombing of Isfahan. Damages to the mirror works, tiles, floors, and carved wooden doors of Safavid palaces of Aali Qapu and Chehelsotoon. Both of these are within the UNESCO Heritage complex of Naqsh-e Jahan Square. These are 16th-17th century bldgs.

Gaza had its archeology and history destroyed. Iran is having some he world's most wonderful architecture destroyed. The silence on Bluesky , especially amongst those who conside themselves enlightened about such things, is noticeable.

Where do they get these people from? Is there some sort of warehouse where they decant cloned pundits?

Seems like a skills issue

I don't know, people manage to eat with their hands and have pristine white shirts allover the world. What makes this different?

If we're being strict about such definitions sure.. you can the sandwich.

Maybe, though I suspect Rabi Hillel the elder got there first in 1st cent BC . Food in breads has been around for a very long time.

Its part of the world model they build for themselves. Unfortunately

Shhhh... they're Middleclassing... let them have it for a few days. ;)

He must have loved the Dune movie.

Blackboard is one of the worst VLEs out there. It's clunky, slow, full of legacy nonsense, and lazy coding.

I used to pay 40k in the 1990s. But equally it just felt off. I tried playing Space Marine and it annoyed me how they made Titus such a standard hero, the satire was gone.

As a side note @jricole.bsky.social .. its coming up the 3 nights of Ali's martyrdom soon.

Yeah... the early colonial governors used to get into trouble for going native

I keep repeating this. US spent so many years occupying a majority Shia country and the level of understand of Shiis is negligible at best. Its amazing.

We were also involved in aiding Sadam Hussien's Invasion of Iran which subsequently froze Iran in a war for a decade, and thus created the entire cadre of leadership.of current Iranian leadership. We also knew or were involved in the production of chemical weapons that killed Iranian soldiers.

It's standard for USAF to put pilot names on their aircraft.

Omid has been going completely off the rails since 2022.

So far Kurdish leaders are telling them to get lost... know9ng Barazani... that may change

I'm now going to have to annoy the youngsters about getting a Who Is Hussien hoodie

Bargain doing what is known as a Barzani

I was wrong... seems like Khamieni did get his Ayatollah title in 2022. Apologies.