Some thoughts off the top of my head: - The MOU reflects the nature & constraints of US-Iran diplomacy far more than it reflects Iran’s priorities per se. - Gaza & South Lebanon are 2 different situations that are incomparable, regardless of all the online nonsense aimed at tackling them the same way. - Most people weren’t paying attention to the domestic situation within the State of Lebanon, have little understanding of the region’s history & politics, yet are suddenly lecturing. - Anyone pointing to any omission as proof of Iranian abandonment are being deliberately misleading, or simply weren’t paying attention to what was happening in the region precisely in the past few weeks. - Hizbullah is still an active, functioning Resistance on the ground in Lebanon, which gave Iran real, living leverage to trade with. - Hamas has a political bureau that most certainly is in contact with Iran. Hamas & the Palestinian Resistance also have a lot of things to tackle in & beyond Gaza. - The relationship between Iran & Hizbullah is much different than Iran’s with Hamas. - Strategic patience is a real thing. A deal that survives even without Gaza language but that preserves Iranian strength, sanctions relief, & its long-term capacity to support Resistance, is good (& I would have said/have said the same thing if it didn’t have Lebanon language in it). - Iran’s achievement is an achievement for the people of the entire region. It is for the people of the region to start building from here & to refuse that things go back to they were a few months/years ago, in every country across the region. - The Axis of Resistance’s goal was always to create a new reality conditioned by the sovereignty of the region & its non-submission to the US empire, or any other empire. This is one of the ways the goal is a little more attainable.

THIS SHOULD BE A HEADLINE EVERYWHERE: The child was killed by a BULLET to the EYE.

The Lady Chief Justice: Palestine Action was not a direct action civil disobedience protest group like the suffragettes, but used violence to destroy property The suffragettes burned down country houses & train stations, bombed churches & sent letter bombs to politicians.

Netanyahu’s stupidity broke the deadlock at the negotiating table. Contrary to some speculation, there was no final text until his criminal attack forced Trump to accept Iran’s demands, especially on Lebanon.

Netanyahu's stupidity backfired. This is a historic retreat by the evil empire. Any violation of the agreement will be met with a heavy-handed response by Iran and the Axis of Resistance.

There are moments in Gaza when suffering becomes so ordinary that people stop asking for solutions. They begin asking only for the smallest relief. A little less pain. A child who sleeps through the night. When I entered the clinic that morning, I noticed a young woman carrying a baby so small that I could not tell whether the child was a newborn or simply made tiny by hardship. When her turn came, she gently placed the baby on my desk and said: “I want any cream you have.” Any cream. Not a specific medicine. Not a particular treatment. Just anything. She uncovered the baby and showed me the severe rash covering much of the child’s fragile skin. “I treat the baby with whatever free creams I can find in clinics,” she explained. “Anything helps.” As she spoke, I noticed something else. The baby was not wearing a diaper. Only pieces of cloth. I asked why. “I can’t afford diapers,” she replied calmly. “I wash these and use them again.” Then she added that they were living in a tent and that her husband had suffered a serious foot injury and was unable to work. “I’m not asking for much,” she said. “I only want a cream.” But what caught my attention most was not the rash. It was the malnutrition. The baby was severely underweight. The kind of malnutrition that is visible before any examination even begins. So I asked the mother whether she had noticed. She nodded. “Yes, I know.” Then she said something I cannot forget: “When the baby gets older, things will get better.” Not because she truly believed it. But because hope was cheaper than treatment. And treatment was something she could no longer afford. That was the moment that broke me. Not the tent. Not the poverty. Not even the illness. But the fact that this mother had lowered her expectations so much that she no longer dreamed of proper medical care, diapers, or adequate nutrition. She came asking for the smallest thing she could imagine. A tube of cream. Any cream. Something that might make the baby hurt a little less. The baby could not have been more than five months old. Too young to understand war. Too young to understand poverty. Yet already carrying both on that tiny body. There is something profoundly cruel about a world in which a mother’s greatest hope for her child is no longer a better future. Only a little less suffering tonight. #WoundedGaza