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A long US-Israel war against Iran would push the Middle East’s environment to breaking point.
I wrote something on war on the environment and the ecology of war. 🔗👇
Some hardliner supporters of Iranian regime, hardened after the January massacre and surviving the US-Israeli aggression, question prospective Trump deal;
Narratives of Iranian victory overlook regime lacks the political capacity to translate military gains to strategic advances.
The Taliban shot at people protesting the extreme limitations against women and girls in Afghanistan after reports of dozens being arrested for not wearing the strict hijab.
Reportedly, two protesters have been killed.
"During December 2025 protests in Iran, the regime installed new video cameras to monitor the crowds, said a person familiar with the situation. Israel was able to hack those new video streams in real time."
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On top of hacking the traffic cameras, Israelis used human sources to track Khamenei.
And I keep wondering, what was the purpose of the suicidal mission that MKO members carried out exactly one week before the attack on Supreme Leader's compound. Surely that wasn't a coincidence.
Hubris and underestimating the adversary on both sides: just as the regime in Tehran won't risk its survival by allowing Israel freedom of military action, the regime in Tel Aviv also won't risk its survival by allowing Iran the freedom of military action.
And unlike Iran, who has been around for millenia, Israel's colonial inception is a recent memory; the existential anxiety runs deep there.
Israel came to being with war and has always been at war.
Khamenei avoided confrontation, knowing that war will have mixed effects on Iran.
در این مطالعه تلاش کردهام بدون اعتنا به روایتهایی که جریانهای سیاسی مختلف به اعتراضات دی ۱۴۰۴ نسبت دادهاند، از دریچهی تحلیل شبکه روابط و تحلیل محتوای صفحههای کشتهشدگان اعتراضات، تصویری مورد غفلت واقعشده از این اعتراضات را ارائه کنم.
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Even if militarily limited, the northern front that Israel opened could be its most consequential adventure against Iran, not due to some risk of Azerbaijani "secession" or civil war, but because of sociodemographics, political economy, and unique cross‑border imaginaries. 🧵
When you throw in the mix how Russia, Turkey, Europe, and US interests in Armenia can be superimposed here, you see that a covert Israeli presence in Caucus can harden ethno‑territorial logics, and create a feedback loop between external war and internal mistrust.