Bodies of slain General #Solemani & comrades arrive in #Ahwaz, Iran. A mammoth funeral procession has kicked off. Images of hundreds of thousands mourners packing the streets, bridge & square, is colossal.
.3/ This is only in #Ahwaz, southwest of #Iran & the first leg of #Solaimani’s funeral procession. I can’t even begin to imagine what it would be like once they arrive to the capital #Tehran.
.4/ Even in his death #Soleimani’s popularity drew far more in numbers than @realDonaldTrump managed alive during his inauguration.
Close up, clearer scenes from #Soleimani’s funeral cortège in #Ahwaz (#Ahvaz) city.
.6/ In #MashHad meanwhile, a sea of humans poured into the streets to honour #Soleimani & his comrades funeral cortège. #Iran
.7/ In what is turning out to be the largest ever funeral in the history of #Iran, probably since that of #AyatollahKhomeini, #Soleimani’s funeral cortège, now on its second leg of the journey, will also head to #Tehran, then #Qom & finally 2 his resting place & hometown #Kerman.
.8/ SIGNIFICANT: #Iran pulls out of the nuclear deal, in effect ending its remaining commitments to the 2015 agreement, & in doing so delivering
the second blow to the #US today, following #Iraq ’s vote to ask #US forces to leave #Iraq.
.9/ Apparently not & these tweets further explain it...
Though it’s all but dead, #Iran has not pulled out of the nuclear deal.
🔴 Israel’s smear campaign against @AnasAlSharif0, before & after murdering him, is a textbook case of justifying a war crime.
Hours after Netanyahu announced the occupation of Gaza, Anas & 5 other journalists were killed.
Israel calls him a “Hamas militant.” But their own “evidence” blows that lie apart, & exposes a plan to kill journalists before the next phase of atrocities.
Let’s break it down. 🧵
1️⃣ Netanyahu announced the coming occupation of Gaza. Hours later, Anas al-Sharif & five other journalists were killed, targeted in a tent clearly known for press at Al-Shifa Hospital.
This is not coincidence. It’s part of a deliberate campaign to silence witnesses before the next phase of atrocities
2️⃣ Hamas was the elected government in Gaza, their officials were the politicians, & the Qassam Brigades their military.
Whether you deem them terrorists or not, is irrelevant to the fact that in Gaza they were the legitimate governing & security authority.
Meeting them was part of reporting reality
Journalists worldwide take photos with leaders they meet, from Netanyahu to Putin, without becoming their operatives. In Gaza, taking a selfie with a local leader is as normal as shaking hands.
Lebanon’s cabinet just signed off on Washington’s “ceasefire stabilization” plan.
Read the fine print, & you’ll see it’s not a peace plan, it’s a dismantling blueprint.
Here are the poison pills buried inside the clauses you just read 👇
Clause 1
“Exclusive state control over war/peace decisions & weapons.”
Sounds normal, if the state could defend its people.
In Lebanon, this means dismantling Hezbollah while the army remains under-armed & foreign-restricted.
No clause forces Israel to stop daily violations before disarmament.
Clause 3
“Gradual end to all non-state armed presence, north & south of Litani.”
1701 only applied south of the Litani.
This quietly expands it nationwide, dismantling Hezbollah’s entire defense structure, not just its southern front.
🧵The Two-State Solution is Dead. What the world is offering Palestinians isn’t a state.
The concept of a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine is often presented as a path to peace, but it has become an empty promise, a diplomatic illusion that distracts from the reality of occupation and apartheid. This thread examines why the two-state solution was & is no longer viable, analyzing its historical promises, current realities, & inherent flaws.
1- All this talk of a two-state solution is delusion at best, distraction at worst.
Israel’s leadership has made it clear: it has no intention , ZERO, of allowing a sovereign Palestinian state, EVER.
Even Netanyahu has said it: “There is no post-war scenario that would lead to a Palestinian state.”
This collides with the idea of sovereignty.
This stance reveals a fundamental contradiction: a “state” without sovereignty is not a state, it’s a rebranded occupation.
Israel’s actions, settlement expansion, annexation policies, & daily violence, genocidal rhetoric, demonstrate that the system is designed to prevent Palestinian statehood, not enable it. It’s not a bug, it’s the system.
The rhetoric of a two-state solution persists as a diplomatic distraction, masking the reality of apartheid while offering Palestinians a hollow promise.
So what are you negotiating? A mirage? A hostage with a flag isn’t a state? Stop dressing up apartheid as diplomacy.
2- Let’s assume, just for argument’s sake, a Palestinian state was declared tomorrow, its functionality would be impossible under current conditions.
The proposed state would consist of two disconnected territories: Gaza in the southwest and the West Bank in the northeast, separated by a heavily militarized Israel. Israel controls all borders, airspace, and movement between these regions, rendering Palestinian autonomy dependent on Israeli permission.
Since Brigitte Gabriel (@ACTBrigitte) is going viral again, thanks to a conveniently cropped clip that hides her being dismantled on live TV, here’s a thread on who she really is: a paid fearmonger, a fraud, & a walking PR operation. 🧵👇
1: Brigitte Gabriel, born Hanan Qahwaji, is a self-declared “Middle East expert” with a résumé that reads like it was ghostwritten by a Pentagon intern with a God complex & a copy of Orientalism they never finished.
She doesn’t analyse… she sells outrage. Fear is her currency, Islamophobia her product, & Israeli talking points her script.
2: Her backstory? A reheated fairy tale about “Islamist terror” & childhood trauma, stitched together with bad faith & melodrama. It’s crafted to tug heartstrings & open wallets. Spoiler: it’s fiction. Lebanese people know this, the rest of the world is just catching up.
🧵1/ A leaked investigation reveals the IAEA, the UN’s supposed nuclear watchdog, was infiltrated by a veteran MI6 spy tasked with orchestrating sanctions and covert operations against Iran.
The agency’s “neutrality” is a myth.👇
By @KitKlarenberg
@TheGrayzoneNews
2/ His name? Nicholas Langman, a British intelligence operative with a long record of dirty work.
He claims credit for helping engineer the West’s economic war on Iran & influencing the IAEA to justify sanctions and isolation.
3/ Iran has long accused the IAEA of colluding with Western & Israeli intelligence.
The result?
🔻 Leaked identities of Iranian nuclear scientists, many later assassinated.
🔻 Supplying intel that helped target Iran’s nuclear sites.
This leak confirms those fears weren’t paranoia; they were reality.
🔴🧵1/
The US just approved a $510 MILLION arms deal for Israel.
The package includes 7,000+ JDAM kits; the same bomb tech that’s been linked to mass civilian deaths in Gaza.
Here’s what that means 👇
#Gaza #USComplicity #Israel
2/ JDAMs - Joint Direct Attack Munitions - are kits that turn ordinary bombs into “precision-guided” weapons.
The deal includes:
💣 3,845 JDAM kits for 2,000-pound BLU-109 “bunker buster” bombs
💣 3,280 JDAM kits for 500-pound MK 82 bombs
Principal contractor: Boeing.
3/ These aren’t hypothetical weapons.
Fragments of JDAM-equipped bombs have already been found at Israeli airstrikes in Gaza ; strikes that killed dozens of civilians, including women & children.
In 2023, HRW documented at least 43 civilian deaths from such strikes.