2010 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order recipient. Executive VP @quincyinst. Wrote Losing an Enemy & Treacherous Alliance. tritaparsi.substack.com
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🇺🇳 Today, U.S. Rep. for the #HindRajabFoundation, @jake_romm, attended The Hague Group’s Extraordinary Meeting in Defence of International Law at the UN Headquarters in New York. States called for action in response to Israel’s genocide in Palestine and southern Lebanon, but rhetoric is not enough. What is missing: commitments to prosecute and arrest Israeli perpetrators and strengthen universal jurisdiction.
HRF does this work because states will not. We will continue pursuing perpetrators wherever they may be found.
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Wait, so you’re telling me an American citizen was walking down an American street, exercising her freedom of speech, and got surrounded and harassed by a mob waving foreign flags and chanting allegiance to a foreign country because they were offended by her T-shirt?
That is objectively un-American.
A woman wearing an “Israel Kills Children” shirt stood outside of our kosher bakery here in Pico-Robertson today. Jewish teens came to the rescue, singing “Am Yisrael Chai” and waving Israeli flags behind her. Antisemitism is not welcome in the heart of Jewish Los Angeles.
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in March, Masih claimed she'd spoken with "every single mother" of the girls we killed in Minab...and they were *actually grateful* their kids were killed by US airstrikes (as opposed to by their govt)
she's not fighting to free Iranian women, she's instrumentalizing their pain!
As I walked off the CBS set this morning, a young producer stopped me backstage. She was shy. She hesitated. Then she asked: "Did you say a woman were blinded… intentionally? What do you mean?"
I showed her the picture of Kosar. I showed her the picture of Ali. I said: yes. This is not a stray bullet. The snipers of the Islamic Republic aim for the eyes. A pellet gun fired point blank at a face. They want the world to stop watching, so they take away the eyes of the ones who watched.
Kosar was shot in the eye during the Woman Life Freedom uprising. Her friend Ali Zarei was blinded the same way. Now Ali sits on death row, waiting to be executed. Kosar asked me to tell CBS about him. So I did.
More than 10,000 people have been blinded, intentionally, during the Woman Life Freedom and the recent uprisings. This is the real Handmaid's Tale. Yes, you’re fiction is our reality.💔
I carry this burden every time I walk into a studio or when I go on the stage, because some people in the West cannot believe this is happening In the 21st century. Believe it. And say their names.
#StopExecutionsInIran
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مگر اینکه معنای «همواره»، «حمله» و «کشورم» چیز دیگری باشد والا شهبانوی محترم عارضم که فرزندتان در این مدت «همواره» با «حمله» به «کشورتان» موافق بوده است. مگر اینکه بلانسبت شبیه عشرتخانم همسایه دوران کودکی ما باشید که هر وقت همسایهها شکایت شر بهپا کردن فرزندش را میکردند میگفت :«منم مثل شما عاصیام» و وقتی همسایهها میگفتن:« پس زحمت بکش خسارت آتش سوزوندنش رو بده؟» میگفت:« من که خودم عاصیام پول اون ولد چموش رو بدم؟» و وقتی همسایهها میگفتن:« پس لااقل حالا که ننهشی یه گوششو بپیچون» میگفت:«حالا بخاطر یه شیشه، جیگر بچمو مثل هند جیگرخوار بکشم بیرون؟!» و دستآخر که میگفتن: «چطور چیزی بهش نمیگی و شاکی هستی که تو هم عاصیای؟» میگفت:« آدم سگ شه مادر نشه که این چرتوپرتها رو تحویل مردم بده!».
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NEW: Iran in turmoil. A megalomaniac with a poor understanding of Iranian society gambles that sympathetic locals and an Iranian military in disarray will guarantee a quick military victory.
Sound familiar?
In "Old News" this week, @amwajmedia looks at Iraq's invasion of Iran.
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Well, that's just swell. Just when Trump has decided to grant them the technology to build nukes...
Saudis have not ruled out developing nuclear weapons, U.S. intelligence assesses
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Catch my latest interview w/Lasha Kasradze where we discuss the Middle East's future, how America abandoned realism by imprinting the Soviets embracing ideology & hubris, and what our eventual withdrawal from West Asia could mean for US foreign policy.
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RT @EliClifton: Ed Sheeran folded to Robert Kraft and kicked @Macklemore off his tour to discipline the rapper for saying "Free Palestine."…
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A lot of liberals have no defense against woke imperialism (“my country yearns to be bombed,” “what about xyz feelings,” “listen to local voices”) because they’re afraid of seeming cruel, but AES shows that you can just shut up bad faith actors without giving ground.
Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed responds to a visibly upset Iranian-American student at the University of Michigan, telling him that U.S. military interventions, sanctions, and regime-change wars often advance corporate interests and harm civilians, rather than promote democracy and freedom.
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The ENTIRE purpose of the US blockade of Iran, airline sanctions, and Operation Economic Outcast is to MAXIMIZE civilian suffering.
If you are okay with that, so be it.
But let’s at least be honest about what the intent is.
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“These intelligence officers, are not Orthodox. They’re not settlers. They live in Tel Aviv. They are the elite. They call themselves liberals. And as [Abraham] says in the film, they’re the ones responsible for the most Palestinian death.”
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"Mistakes" = they lied to the world until video evidence was found.
The video? Medics being executed from 8 metres away and then buried with their ambulances.
Read that again.
Israel admits mistakes over medic killings in Gaza bbc.in/3XLEvqq
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Wow. Farah Pahlavi says in no unclear terms that she opposes foreign military intervention on Iran
That puts her at complete odds with her son Reza Pahlavi, who has been one of the loudest voices demanding Trump and Netanyahu bomb his homeland
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🚨BREAKING -- The UN has expanded its list of companies linked to Israeli settlements, bringing the total to over 200 firms.
Two of the firms - Greenkote PLC and JC Bamford Excavators Ltd (JCB) - are headquartered in Britain, while many others like AirBnB operate in the UK.
Lord Bamford and JCB-associated companies have donated millions of pounds to the Conservative Party.
JC Bamford Excavators Ltd has also donated £200,000 to Reform UK.
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“If Trump calculates this arrangement is worthwhile and can bring political benefit before the midterms and reduce gas prices, perhaps we’ll see flexibility not seen in previous weeks,” Parsi said. But he noted “deep suspicion,” especially around the prospect of Iran merely buying time to ship out more of its oil and ease its economic pain.
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