Newly released footage from Iran’s Lion and Sun National uprising. The tyrannical regime, after weeks of internet blackouts, tried to prevent the world from witnessing the surging wave of uprising in the streets of Iran. Tehran - January 9, 2026

Mansa Musa Keita - The Wealthiest Person in the History of the World ... We so often equate continent of Africa with poverty that it’s important to remember before its mineral wealth and resources were in large part extracted by European colonial powers, there existed fabulously wealthy empires that rose, traded, and fell as every other world empire has. Research has revealed that richest person of all time lived in West Africa and went by many names, including Kankan Musa Keita, Emir of Melle, Lord of Mines of Wangara, Conqueror of Ghanata and Lion of Mali II, but today he is usually referred to as Mansa Musa. Mansa Musa (Musa I of Mali) was ruler of Kingdom of Mali from 1312-1337 CE. He was a devout Muslim, a lover of architecture and scholarship and well known in medieval African history for making a remarkable pilgrimage to Mecca or Hajj. By metric of any western ‘civilization’ he was wildly successful as a ruler; he expanded borders of his land, established centers of learning such as at Timbuktu and had built important and long lasting construction projects. During his reign, Mali was one of richest kingdoms of Africa, and Mansa Musa was among richest individuals in the world. Kingdom of Mali spread across parts of modern-day Mali, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Mauritania and Burkina Faso. Mansa Musa developed cities like Timbuktu and Gao into important cultural centers. He also brought architects from Middle East and across Africa to design new buildings for his cities. Mansa Musa turned Mali into a sophisticated center of learning in Islamic world. Mansa Musa came to power in 1312 CE, after King, Abu Bakr II, disappeared at sea. Mansa Abu Bakr II had departed on a large fleet of ships to explore Atlantic Ocean and never returned. Mansa Musa inherited a kingdom that was already wealthy, but his work in expanding trade made Mali wealthiest kingdom in Africa. His riches came from mining significant salt and gold deposits in Mali kingdom. Elephant ivory was another major source of wealth. Adjusting his wealth to modern values, he was worth about an estimated $400 billion as Sultan of Mali, which controlled trade routes across Sahara Desert. Mali empire was a central to several key trading routes in the world, and with support of well trained army, Mali became a strong and powerful empire. When Mansa Musa went on a pilgrimage (Hajj) to Mecca in 1324 CE, his journey through Egypt caused quite a stir. Kingdom of Mali was relatively unknown outside of West Africa until this event. Arab writers from time said that he travelled with an entourage of tens of thousands of people and dozens of camels, each carrying 136kg of gold. While in Cairo, Mansa Musa met with Sultan of Egypt and his caravan spent and gave away so much gold that overall value of gold decreased in Egypt for next 12 years. Stories of his fabulous wealth even reached Europe. Catalan Atlas, created in 1375 CE by Spanish cartographers, shows West Africa dominated by a depiction of Mansa Musa sitting on a throne, holding a nugget of gold in one hand and a golden staff in other. After publication of this atlas, Mansa Musa became cemented in global imagination as a figure of stupendous wealth. 📷 : a detail from Catalan Atlas, a famous 1375 medieval map, showing Mansa Musa, seated on a throne, wearing a golden crown, holding a scepter, and displaying a gold coin. #archaeohistories

Le seul et unique drapeau du peuple iranien ( lion et soleil ) est interdit dans les stades par la FIFA mais les keffiehs et drapeaux palestiniens aucun soucis … Et les pro palestiniens osent dire qu’ils sont censurés partout 😅 c’est sûrement qu’ils n’ont jamais vu le sort réservé aux iraniens. #fifacorruption

All of a sudden, ♪The lion sleeps tonight~♪🤣 #SixTONESANN

Those before us stood against the lion at the height of its strength. Now that it is old, what is there to fear?

Follow the sound back home. A lion and a Tiger don’t sound the same.

🚨 Carlo Ancelotti: “To feel pressure and fear is good. If you go without fear, you will face the lion thinking it’s a cat!”. 🦁

Hmmm....FIFA is banning actual IRANIANS from attending the games and banned the lion and sun flag which is the real flag of Iran. Nice to know you support people who are not oppressed by a murderous Islamic regime. You are a waste of Oxygen and should resign. Cuck.

Can’t Tame Us. 🦁 The 2026/27 Chelsea home kit is here. Created with @NikeFootball. There’s a Lion in all of us. Fearless. Relentless. Impossible to control. Available now in-store and online. #CantTameUs

Noushafarin, the 19-year-old daughter of Afsaneh Mohammadalizadeh, one of the fallen heroes of the Lion and Sun revolution in the January massacre, recounts how her mother was killed. She says: Be our voice. Don’t let these names fade into oblivion.

What makes a Lion? 🦁 Leadership. Presence. The hunger to win. The instinct to strike. Our 2026/27 home kit is available now in-store and online. #CantTameUs

You’re gonna tell me Alex the Lion don’t wanna celebrate that Knicks win with Ben Stiller?

The very humble lion look how take care and protect child

If FIFA has banned the Lion and Sun flag - a historic symbol of Iran and Iranian identity - from stadiums for being too “political”, then the keffiyeh - one of the most recognizable political symbols in the world at the moment - should be banned too. You can’t ban one political symbol and permit another. You can’t ban one political symbol and allow another. Equal rules or no rules. #fifa

Baby Elephant Risks Everything to Save Helpless Lion Cub

First Lady @FLOTUS, We are now on my 32nd message, and it is the 168th day of the Lion and Sun Revolution. We are all still anxious. Some of us cannot sleep. Some of us have almost reached our limit; the depression runs deep. It runs deeper for Iranians inside occupied Iran. We are all hoping, begging, pleading, praying that President Trump is really not going to make a deal with the murderers of over 40k innocent and unarmed Iranians, such as baby Ali. Two years old. Shot and killed by the regime. So many Iranians shot, killed, tortured, raped, executed, with even their body parts removed and sold, as demonstrated by yet another truck full of human hair again confiscated by Armenia just this week. So many still missing. So many still detained. So many still being executed. Please, First Lady, advocate, speak for, and stand with Iranians, a free Iran, and the end to this terrorist regime. We are America. We do not negotiate or make a deal with terrorists. Changing this now undermines everything our country stands for. An American Citizen @MELANIATRUMP @POTUS @SecRubio @LindseyGrahamSC @netanyahu youtu.be/iSK3iWOUdo0 Thank you, @DGascoign3 and @NiohBerg

Congrats Mabula on 3 Lion Cubbies 🤎🤎🤎 our first sighting of them Thanks Ian and Luyanda 🎥 #wildearth

1 lion v 100 hyenas.

昔の言葉は性別で使い分けるのが当然で犬もオスはdogでメスはbitchだったけど、bitchが女性に対する侮辱語になったせいで今は使えない。 ドイツ語のフロイラインもアウトになった。 雌雄差が大きな動物は大丈夫なのかライオンはlionとlionessだし孔雀もpeacockとpeahenになっている。 元々、ゴリラはgorillaがメスになるらしい。 語源になった架空の民族が女性ばかりの部族でゴリラは雌の方が大きいかららしい。 だけど、フィクションの世界ではメスゴリラはキング・コングの逆でQueen Kongと訳すらしい。 ややこしいぞ……