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#Iran-backed #Houthi attacks on x2 @Saudi_Aramco oil tankers in the Bab el-Mendeb is a really big deal.

All Aramco oil shipments have been temporarily suspended

arabnews.com/node/1345626/s…
@Saudi_Aramco Notably, yesterday’s #Houthi attacks on oil tankers come a week after the #Houthis claimed to have attacked a @Saudi_Aramco oil refinery in #Riyadh with a drone.

reuters.com/article/us-yem…
@Saudi_Aramco #pts: #Iran makes no secret of its threats to attack #Saudi oil & shipping, just as it's repeatedly threatened to attack US assets in the region, as Qassem Someimani did earlier:

- “We're ready to confront you; You'll start the war but we'll end it."

washingtonpost.com/world/middle_e…
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There is a possibility of an announcement today. That’s if the collective U.S. government is unable to push back against #Trump - as it did earlier in the year after his comments in #Ohio.

More than anything, this is an extraordinary insult to the recent efforts of Amb. Jeffrey.
#pt: #Trump told #Turkey’s #Erdogan of his intentions by phone on Friday last week.

Coming in the context of Turkish threats to intervene in NE #Syria, the message to the #YPG/#SDF couldn’t be any worse. The US will abandon “the Kurds” again, if #Trump gets his way here.
#pt: Worse still, this’ll be music to the ears of #ISIS, #Assad, #Russia & #Iran.

#Trump isn’t only doing what #Obama did in leaving #Iraq prematurely, he’s doing it in an environment in which #America’s adversaries will benefit: jihadis, #Iran and #Russia.

Unbelievable hubris.
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My goodness: here's a prime example of policy advocacy on #Syria based either on ignorance, or [hopefully not] malign intent.

This is *riddled* with inaccuracy & misinformation.

@steelejourno says the West should force an opposition surrender in #Syria:

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
@steelejourno #pt: @steelejourno says the US, UK & #France are “less honorable” in seeking to delay #Syria & #Russia’s “success” in regaining territory.

- They seek to enable a meaningful political process, in which there’s an opposition entity to sit at the table. I’d say that is honorable.
@steelejourno #pt: Here, @steelejourno says UK, US, France & "Gulf Arab monarchies” want ceasefires to protect rebels, not civilians.

In #Idlib, nothing could be further from the truth. None of those countries have *any* ties to rebel groups in #Idlib, who only equal ~0.5% of the population.
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Absolutely extraordinary.

#Syria’s air defense systems have no way to determine “friend” from “foe.” #Russia doesn’t export that tech.

Within a complex & unpredictable environment, that raises the risk to civilian aircraft
significantly.
#Israel says #Syria’s air defense fired “dozens” of anti-aircraft missiles from several batteries across the country over the space of 40-mins… *after* #IAF planes had returned to #Israel.

One took down #Russia’s IL-20.

timesofisrael.com/syria-fired-mi…
To me, this looks like messaging more than a truly dramatic change in reality/dynamics:

- S-300s already deployed in #Syria.

- #Israel (& US) uses encrypted radar/GPS; less vulnerable to counter-measures

- #Russia has been “jamming” for 2+ yrs.

- #Israel fires most from Med.
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LONG THREAD

1)
 Let’s talk about a recent @TheNatlInterest piece written by Paul R. Pillar who has shamelessly voiced his arguments in defense of #Iran’s regime in parallel to the mullahs’ own officials & spokesmen.
nationalinterest.org/blog/paul-pill…
2)
 The main purpose of this pro-#Iran regime piece is to target the Trump administration’s “maximum pressure” policy. This places Pillar alongside those favoring a soft approach vis-à-vis #Iran’s regime.

An approach championed by Obama.
3)
 On Pompeo’s 12 conditions for Iran:

“The administration has given the Iranian regime no realistic proposition to which it could say ‘yes’ even if it were so inclined, instead issuing a list of broad & unrealistic demands that would amount to Iran rolling over & playing dead.”
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1)
 @JZarif claims #Iran’s regime has a “four-point plan” for #Yemen.

Let’s take a look at the specifics:
2)
 @JZarif claims #Iran’s regime urges “ceasefire” in Yemen. On the ground, it’s a different story.
“Shaabani told Fars that Iran not only supported Yemen’s Houthis with weaponry but gave them directives to attack two Saudi Arabian oil tankers on July 25.”
jpost.com/Middle-East/Re…
3)
 “… an Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) officer, known by his nom de guerre ‘Abu Ali,’ led a 52-man Houthi armored assault convoy armed with Katyusha missile launchers…”
warontherocks.com/2017/06/irans-…
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1)
 Let’s talk about yet another biased @NYTimes piece aiming to completely cloak #Iran’s destructive role in the Yemen war. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
2)
 @NYTimes will only provide one side of the story.

And by using terms such as “young fighters” & “wounded comrade,” the writer attempts to gain the reader’s sympathy for members of an #Iran-funded terrorist militia group called the Houthis.
3)
 In this piece, never does the @NYTimes mention how #Iran’s regime is the main reason why the scene in Yemen remains a “bloody stalemate”…
jpost.com/Middle-East/Re…
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(1)
 Let’s talk about #Iran’s role in the #September11th attacks.

This individual asked me to “Kindly enlight” about how Iran, being a Shiite-majority country, could have been involved in al-Qaeda’s #Sept11 attacks against the United States.
(2)
 First of all, we should take into consideration that #Iran’s regime is known for supporting a wide variety of Islamic extremist groups, regardless of their Sunni or Shiite backgrounds.
(3)
 For example, Shiite militias in #Iraq, dispatching Shiites from Afghanistan & Pakistan to maintain Shiite Assad in power in Syria.
clarionproject.org/iran-supportin…
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1. The attack on the Hospital and Fishmarket yesterday, which initially was attributed to an airstrike, was denied by Coalition & revealed to be a result of a series of mortar shelling conducted by members of the #Iran-backed #Houthi militia.

Residents in #Hodeidah CONFIRMED.
2. Although we were all skeptical when the coalition denied the airstrikes, all visual images revealed a consistent pattern of mortar shelling. Residents immediately noted that there was no crater or airstrike damage, instead, they uncovered mortar shells. #Yemen
3. I spoke to journalists, residents, and several US military experts who have confirmed to me that this is NOT the type of damage caused by an airstrike. Yemeni military experts noted the same. Below is a picture from #Houthi TV channel inadvertently indicting themselves.
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#Iran transformed its #Yemen embassy in into a military base, the country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Thursday.
Iran’s interference is the source of instability in the Arab world’s poorest nation.
thenational.ae/world/mena/ira…
Arab coalition downs two #Iran-made drones over #Yemen, sources indicate.
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UAE anti-drone units were able to take control over an #Iran-made drone carrying explosives & on a mission to target Yemeni government forces stationed on the country's west coast.
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