Simon Wolfgang Fuchs

Das iranische Regime: Von allen Seiten unter Druck Das iranische Regime ist derzeit so stark unter Druck wie noch nie. Sowohl von innen durch Proteste als auch von aussen durch Drohungen aus den USA. Im Echo-Gespräch erklärt der Iran-Spezialist Simon ...

Mit Matthias Kündig vom "Echo der Zeit" @srfnews.bsky.social habe ich heute Abend über die Stabilität der Islamischen Republik und über mögliche (Kriegs)szenarien gesprochen: #Iran

Das iranische Regime: Von allen Seiten unter Druck www.srf.ch/audio/echo-d...

Oh, finally a day when things are NOT inmminent before we'll be switching back to imminent tomorrow...

Classic authoritarian logic: corrupt people by giving them an incentive to do the wrong thing. In 1933 and 1938, years of major assaults on targeted groups, the Nazis forgave the debt of other Germans to bind them to the regime.

Tonight, thousands protested in Tel Aviv against the Israeli police's failure to protect Palestinians with Israeli citizenship from ongoing violence. This poster shows the word "people", transitioning from Arabic to Hebrew.

Die Nervosität in #Iran über einen Kriegsbeginn ist groß. Nach Berichten über ein lautes Geräusch und eine Eplosion in der Hafenstadt Bandar Abbas melden offizielle iranische Medien, es habe sich "nur" um eine Gasexplosion in einem achtstöckigen Gebäude gehandelt.

IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...

Seit Beginn des Krieges in #Gaza haben pro-israelische Stimmen & die israelische Regierung immer wieder die vom Hamas-geführten Gesundheitsministerium veröffentlichten Todeszahlen angezweifelt und zurückgewiesen. Jetzt akzeptiert sie auch das israelische Militär:
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Source: Stéphane A. Dudoignon, The Baluch, Sunnism and the State in Iran: From Tribal to Global (New York NY: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 208-209.

The international connections of Iranian Sunni Deobandi scholars are wild. Take the case of Hajj Sayyid Muhammad-Sa‘id Fazili of Taybad (1951–2005), who shuttled between Pakistan, India, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and his native Iran:

Iraqi spy chief warns of reemerging threat from ISIS as its ranks swell Hamid al-Shatri, Iraq’s head of intelligence, said in a rare interview that he sees dramatic growth in the number of Islamic State militants next door in Syria.

More trouble ahead for the Middle East? Iraqis and Syrians really deserve a break:
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

When God wanted to punish academics, He turned them into "suppliers" at UK universities who must deal with "Procurement Teams", marketplace systems aptly called "Agresso" (I kid you not), cryptic terms such as the "PO Flip option" & email addresses that go like AccountsPayableInvoicesNoReply@

Many people in the region really would like to know what "regional security and stability" will entail... #Iran

Freue mich darauf, nächste Woche an der @uni-muenster.de zu sprechen:

A map that demonstrates both the severity and the widespread nature of the lethal crackdown in #Iran on January 8 and 9.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/w...

Thank you for this! Yes, the article mentions this as well and how incomplete our picture is at this point...

Time Magazine, quoting two senior officials in #Iran's Ministry of Health, puts the death toll in Iran at 30,000. Security forces killed so many people on Jan 8 and 9 that the state ran out of body bags, semi-trailers replaced ambulances to store the victims:

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"Imminent" is a word that I really don't want to hear anymore. #Iran

This evening, I once again had a typical Jerusalem experience. After attending a book launch, I was already in the Bab al-Zahra neighborhood in the eastern part of the city and decided to swing by… | ... This evening, I once again had a typical Jerusalem experience. After attending a book launch, I was already in the Bab al-Zahra neighborhood in the eastern part of the city and decided to swing by the...

The film "Palestine 36" on the Arab Revolt against British rule is the Palestine nomination for the Oscars. Two screenings in Jerusalem have now been banned on grounds that these would mean "supporting the activities of terrorist organizations":
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Trump’s Board of Peace logo is basically the UN logo, except dipped in gold and edited so the world only includes America.

BREAKING: Darth Vader announces he is pleased to join the Board of Peace and together rule the galaxy.

Trump, who is not mad, has made 30 Truth Social posts in the last 30 minutes, topics including Muslims in the UK, Biden stealing the election, how right he is on Greenland, and other topics.

NEW: The United States’ framework for sustaining success against ISIS in northeastern Syria is collapsing.

Read more from the January 19 Iran Update: isw.pub/IranUpdate01...

Other Key Takeaways:

"According to IranWire’s source, Larijani sees his approach as resembling the security, cultural, and economic policies pursued by Deng Xiaoping in China[...] the killings of protesters in January 2026 were modeled on the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre."
iranwire.com/en/news/1477...

Gen Z uses “that’s AI” as an insult to each other. Let the children lead the way.

Trumpversteher bedrohen Europa.

Honest question: we read a lot about potential US plans to also engage in a massive cyber attack against #Iran. With most of the country cut off from the internet (the blackout according to a government spokeswoman is supposed to last until Nowruz/March 21), would such an attack really do anything?

Laut israelischen Medienberichten hat die Lufthansagruppe Ihre Mitarbeiter dazu aufgefordert, sich auf die Ausreise aus Israel und Flugstornierungen ab morgen vorzubereiten. #Iran

The image of people wandering among black body bags looking for the corpses of their missing loved ones is just devastating.

Proteste gegen die Mullahs: Warum Israel sich in Iran zurückhält Ein Sturz des iranischen Regimes wäre für Israel eine glückliche Wendung. Doch eine militärische Intervention birgt für Premier Netanjahu Risiken.

In diesem Artikel von Kristiana Ludwig in der Süddeutschen Zeitung zur gegenwärtigen israelischen Position in Sachen #Iran komme auch ich zu Wort:
www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/prot...

Looks as if this puts speculations of a US military strike on #Iran to rest - Trump is only wielding the sword of tariffs.

Mit Inga Rogg vom Handelsblatt habe ich über die wirtschaftliche Lage in #Iran und Trump gesprochen:

www.handelsblatt.com/politik/inte...