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Paul Langton retweeted
Mar 17
The United Arab Emirates complains about Iran's attacks on it. Fair enough. But what about the UAE's arming of the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary in Sudan as it commits genocide. That's supposed to be ok? x.com/MiddleEastEye/status/2…
Mar 16
In an interview for Australian broadcaster ABC, Reem Al Hashimy, the UAE’s Minister for International Cooperation, called Iran’s reaction to the US-Israeli attack “unprecedented” and “almost unhinged”.
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Paul Langton retweeted
Mar 16
Who is this woman, described as ‘the infiltrator’, convincing Iran’s players to withdraw their asylum claims in Australia?
#Iran #AFC #WomensAsianCup #Auspol
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Mar 13
And this is despite a large expansion of the Federal Government head count and cost base?
Mar 12
CSIRO have now lost more jobs under the Albanese Governmet than under the Abbott Government.
We have to do better on research funding and backing our scientists.
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Paul Langton retweeted
Mar 12
CSIRO have now lost more jobs under the Albanese Governmet than under the Abbott Government.
We have to do better on research funding and backing our scientists.
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Paul Langton retweeted
Mar 12
IRGC Coup of Sorts
The more I think about Mojtaba’s ascension, the less it makes sense on its face. The downsides to him succeeding his father are simply too many, which I outlined in my latest @NewlinesInst piece. So why did the regime choose him? The answer may be that the “regime” did not choose him per se. Rather, the IRGC effectively foisted him upon the regime. More importantly, we can no longer treat the regime as we did before the war began—as a coherent political entity with functioning institutional balance.
The political leadership has been sidelined by the imperatives of war. The IRGC cannot wait for the government - or even the Supreme National Security Council - to deliberate and make decisions. The battlefield is fluid, the pace relentless, and the Guards must act in real time. Normal bureaucratic processes are simply incompatible with the “mosaic defense” doctrine the IRGC has had to deploy in order to confront technologically superior adversaries such as the United States and Israel.
Under these conditions, the IRGC must assume that its standard communications infrastructure is compromised. That means it cannot risk routine interaction with the civilian political leadership. In fact, even its own senior commanders cannot reliably communicate with the chain of command without using far more secure and compartmentalized channels. The result is an implicit division of labor: civilian institutions continue handling day-to-day governance, while the IRGC monopolizes the conduct of the war and the maintenance of domestic security.
To sustain this arrangement, the system requires a supreme leader who does not obstruct the Guards’ operational autonomy. Mojtaba fits that requirement. Given that we do not even know his true physical condition, it is entirely possible that he is not in a position to exercise independent authority. In that scenario, he may simply be rubber-stamping decisions already made by the Corps - or it may effectively be speaking in his name. This is precisely why the Guards backed him. They could not risk elevating someone with an independent power base or views that might diverge from their own.
In essence, what we are witnessing may amount to a de facto coup. The regime, in practical terms, has become the IRGC - and it is fighting for its survival. Other factions within the system are now dependent on it. Yet as the Guards inevitably weaken under the strain of war, other elements - particularly the Artesh - could begin to reassert themselves. That is, assuming the conflict does not degrade the system to the point where the state itself becomes dysfunctional.
Mar 12
BREAKING: Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has said the closure of the Strait of Hormuz maritime passage should be continued as a “tool to pressure the enemy,” in his first public statement since being appointed.
🔗Read more: cnb.cx/4bkbO9R
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Paul Langton retweeted
Mar 3
So rude of Iranians to be celebrating strikes against the regime
This is highly triggering to Western liberal academics
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Paul Langton retweeted
Mar 2
The regime in Iran is insulting our intelligence with these cheap paid stage actors.
A few weeks ago she was an “ordinary” Iranian woman attending the anniversary of Islamic revolution parade.
Today she is an “ordinary” Iranian woman whose house was targeted.
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Paul Langton retweeted
Messages and images from inside Iran:
The Islamic Republic is using schools and students as human shields.
Multiple reports indicate that many military and security centers across Iranian cities have been evacuated, with forces and equipment relocated into schools. They are turning schools into barracks and using children as human shields to protect themselves.
Today, the Foreign Ministry spokesperson even held a press conference inside a school.
The Islamic Republic has no regard for the lives of its citizens, civilians, or even children. A regime that killed more than 230 children in just two days will not hesitate to see more children die in war if it helps them sell their narrative to the world.
#Iran
#IranMassacre
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Paul Langton retweeted
Mar 3
🔴 Big Lie by Iran's Foreign Minister Using a Jakarta COVID Cemetery Photo – While Covering Up a Likely Own Missile Malfunction
Iran's Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi posted a photo of rows of freshly dug graves, claiming they are graves for over 160 innocent schoolgirls killed in a US-Israeli bombing of a primary school in Minab. He wrote: “Their bodies were torn to pieces” and compared it to Gaza, framing it as foreign aggression.
The harsh reality: The photo is fake and from 2021:
- Aerial image from Rorotan Cemetery in northern Jakarta, Indonesia.
- Date: July 22, 2021, peak of the Delta COVID wave.
- Photographer: AFP (Agence France-Presse).
- Actual context: Excavators digging mass graves for thousands of COVID victims amid skyrocketing daily deaths and overflowing cemeteries.
This photo has been widely used in credible media (Asia Times, AFP reports) and was previously fact-checked.
Worse: Even according to widespread reports, videos, and eyewitness accounts circulating on X and Iranian sources, the Minab school tragedy was almost certainly caused by an Iranian (IRGC) missile malfunction or "friendly fire" during retaliatory launches – not a direct US/Israeli strike. Multiple videos show Iranian missiles going off course and hitting domestic areas (including near military sites where the school was located close by). Many Iranians are openly saying the regime hit its own children while using schools near bases as human shields.
Instead of showing real mass graves dug for the regime's own massacre of over 50,000 protesters in two days (plus at least 216 schoolchildren killed in the January 2026 crackdown), Araghchi recycled a 5-year-old Indonesian COVID photo to fabricate foreign blame and play the victim card.
This is blatant propaganda: distorting facts, insulting real COVID victims in Indonesia, and exploiting children's deaths to hide domestic crimes – where the regime's own forces and failed missiles kill Iranians.
When the Foreign Minister must fake evidence with old photos to justify failures and isolation, the regime's credibility is utterly destroyed.
From Jakarta to Minab, propaganda has no shame!
#AraghchiLie
#Propaganda
#FactCheck
#MinabSchool
#OwnMissile
These are graves being dug for more than 160 innocent young girls who were killed in the US-Israeli bombing of a primary school. Their bodies were torn to shreds.
This is how "rescue" promised by Mr. Trump looks in reality.
From Gaza to Minab, innocents murdered in cold blood.
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Paul Langton retweeted
A tragedy is unfolding: aside from murdering women for showing their hair, hanging thousands for being gay, murdering their political opposition, cancelling democracy, killing thousands of their own citizens for peacefully demonstrating, plundering their nation’s wealth to line their own pockets, destroying Lebanon & Gazan society via their proxies, supporting Assad’s mass murder of his own people, murdering Jews whenever possible, supporting genocide against Jews and planning the annihilation of Israel while running an annual Holocaust-mocking cartoon competition, murdering hundreds of US servicemen, announcing it was planning the assassination of Donald Trump, making proxy wars against Sunni Arabs and relentlessly trying to build a nuclear weapon to potentially satisfy an apocalyptic religious prophecy by dropping it on Israel & generally planning the end of Western civilisation, what has the Iranian regime done to deserve this attack?
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Paul Langton retweeted
The death of Khamenei does not mean the end of the regime. This is a very dangerous moment for Iran. A liberal democracy will not materialise out of nowhere, and certainly not from whatever remains of the regime once the bombs eventually stop falling. Some kind of deal or accommodation will need to be made with whoever keeps hold of their guns in the aftermath if Iran is to have any hope of a democratic transition
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Feb 28
Correct, but limited.
Albo has deliberately overlooked the critical role of Iran as a driver of it's proxies in Hamas Hezbollah Houtis etc
The flying monkeys of the "Free Palestine" movement ignore that Iran & Hamas share some responsibility for the many civilian deaths in Gaza.
Feb 28
Australia stands with the brave people of Iran in their struggle against oppression.
For decades, the Iranian regime has been a destabilising force, through its ballistic missile and nuclear programs, support for armed proxies, and brutal acts of violence and intimidation.
Iran directed at least two attacks on Australian soil in 2024. These appalling acts targeting Australia’s Jewish community were intended to create fear, divide our society and challenge our sovereignty. In response, Australia took the unprecedented steps of expelling Iran’s Ambassador, suspending operations at our embassy in Tehran, and listing the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a state sponsor of terrorism.
Our Government has sanctioned more than 200 Iranian-linked individuals, including more than 100 linked to the IRGC.
With international partners, including the United States and the G7, we have called for the Iranian regime to uphold the human rights and fundamental freedoms of Iran’s citizens.
These calls have gone unheeded. Instead, the regime has instigated a brutal crackdown on its own people leaving thousands of Iranian civilians dead. A regime that relies on the repression and murder of its own people to retain power is without legitimacy.
It has long been recognised that Iran’s nuclear program is a threat to global peace and security. The international community has been clear that the Iranian regime can never beallowed to develop a nuclear weapon. The United Nations Security Council has reimposed sanctions on Iran for failing to comply with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action and the International Atomic Energy Agency Board has formally declared Iran in non-compliance with its non-proliferation safeguards obligations.
We support the United States acting to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to prevent Iran continuing to threaten international peace and security.
Australian officials are closely monitoring this evolving situation. We continue
to advise Australians do not travel to Iran and leave Iran as soon as possible, if it is safe to do so. Our ability to provide consular assistance in Iran is extremely limited.
Given our concerns around security in the region, we have also upgraded Australia’s travel advice for Israel and Lebanon to Do Not Travel. Australians should leave now if it is safe to do so.
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has activated its Crisis Centre to provide consular support to Australians in the region.
Australians requiring urgent consular assistance can contact the Consular Emergency Centre 24/7 on 1300 555 135 in Australia or 61 2 6261 3305 from outside Australia.
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Feb 28
Many hundreds of bodies remain missing from the Iranian crackdown on peaceful protestors a month ago.
How many of these will now reappear from cold storage and be claimed as civilian victims of the US-Israeli attacks?
#HRW @ICHRI @IHRights
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Paul Langton retweeted
Feb 27
If you’re an alien from space who just landed on Earth and started reading media and social media, you’d learn this:
- When Bashar Assad uses sarin gas on Syrians, that doesn’t violate international law. Requires de-escalation.
But if America punishes Assad by taking him out, that’s a violation. Requires vilifying America as a bloodthirsty empire.
- When Palestinians kill 1,200 Israelis and kidnap 250, that’s not a violation. Requires de-escalation.
When Israelis hit back, that’s a violation demanding Israel be isolated, delegitimized, dismantled.
- When Khamenei kills 20,000 Iranians protesting his rule in less than a week, that’s not a violation of international law.
But when America threatens Khamenei with war unless the crazy dude surrenders nuclear and ballistic missile programs, that’s a violation.
What kind of law is this whimsical international law?
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Paul Langton retweeted
Feb 26
Iraqi @RealSarahIdan shares crucial video. Watch to the end. Says so much about what Iranians have been begging the world to see. What Palestinians say too. Yet some in the West, despite @piersmorgan exposing them, propagate the regime’s purpose of global jihad. #IranMassacre
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Paul Langton retweeted
Feb 24
UN watched 10K Yezidis being killed, 7K being kidnapped and raped,500K escaped home without any action!
1700 people of Kocho village were killed or kidnapped for refusing to convert.
11 years and still UN ignore Yezidi Genocide!!
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Paul Langton retweeted
Feb 23
Islamic terrorists kidnapped 1,700 Yazidis and imprisoned them in a school in Kocho for 12 days, where they were tortured and starved.
After everyone refused to convert to Islam, all the men, boys, and older women were shot, and the younger women and girls taken as sex slaves. Only 151 survived.
Not a single protested..
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Paul Langton retweeted
Feb 18
29 days. Kobane is still under siege.
600,000 civilians trapped with no food, no water, no shelter.
No media coverage. No international outrage. No humanitarian aid.
But when Hamas uses AI to spread Palestinian propaganda, the world rushes to defend them.
When Kurds are oppressed and ethnically cleansed, the world turns its back and stays silent.
Why?
#KobaneUnderSiege #KobaneUnderAttack
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