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Sep 21, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Message to Iran watchers. No it’s not about the JCPOA, snapback or sanctions.

Tehran debuts on @AppleTV in three days. First three episodes drop on Friday.
This is really good by @AmySpiro with interviews and a trailer. jewishinsider.com/2020/09/behind…
“The government-aligned Kayhan newspaper called the series an “anti-Iranian production” that reveals the “pro-West and promiscuous” agenda of anti-Iran activists.”
“Even before the show aired, the newspaper charged that the series “tries to portray the Zionist regime’s espionage system as so powerful that Israeli spies are roaming around Iran freely.”
But those involved with show said they’ve received largely positive feedback online — even from viewers in Iran. 

“...exciting to read ‘good work’ from Iranian people & get this love from them,” Sultan said. “kind of crazy — for me to see Farsi in my Instagram feed from Israel!”

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May 19
Here’s what you need to know about the “Butcher of Tehran”

1. Raisi’s Role in Iran’s 1988 Massacre of Political Dissidents

Raisi played a key role in Tehran’s 1988 massacre of thousands of political prisoners, serving on a four-member panel known as a Death Commission, which decided who would live and who would die. The commission would conduct interviews of prisoners — often just a few minutes long — aimed at determining their loyalty to the Islamic Republic. Typical questions included: “What is your political affiliation?” “Do you pray?” “Are you willing to clear minefields for the Islamic Republic?” The wrong answer meant death.
The executions usually occurred by hanging or by firing squad on the same day as the interrogations. The Death Commissions denied prisoners both lawyers and appeals. Burials occurred in unmarked mass graves, and the regime refused to tell relatives the locations of the bodies. The victims included women and children as young as 13.
2. Raisi’s Human Rights Abuses in the Judiciary

During the 2009 Green Revolution, Raisi servedas deputy chief justice, making him complicit in the prosecution — and, in some cases, the death sentences — of peaceful protesters who objected to Iran’s fraudulent election. As attorney general from 2014 to 2016, Raisi opposed lifting the regime’s house arrests of the Green Revolution’s leaders.
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Oct 7, 2023
🧵What do we know so far:

1. This morning, Iran-backed Hamas fired thousands of rockets from Gaza at Israel, while Hamas terrorists invaded Israeli towns and roamed the streets while murdering and kidnapping innocent Israeli men, women and children.
2. Israeli men, women and possibly children (not confirmed) have been kidnapped and taken hostage in this unprecedented attack. Some of the hostage situations within Israeli communities are ongoing at this moment.
3. There are over 20 locations of ongoing conflict in Israeli communities in southern Israel. IDF soldiers are currently engaged in direct combat with these terrorists.
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Aug 18, 2023
The problem with this piece is that it ignores the substantial national interests of the leaders.

1. MBS wants a security deal with the US to establish KAA as a regional & global powerhouse. Needs US security guarantees, guaranteed FMS, free trade agreement & nuclear industry.
2. Biden wants a deal with KSA to limit Chinese regional influence, to secure oil trades in dollars, to build a regional military & security alliance to constrain Iran, and to promote greater prosperity and stability in the Middle East.
3. MBS & Biden want a deal with Bibi because Israel is a military, intelligence and economic powerhouse that, despite its current internal issues, is a vital American and Saudi partner.

Both understand Israel can reassure Congress about military & nuclear concessions MBS wants.
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Aug 12, 2023
🧵 Biden is walking into an Iranian nuclear trap 
 
Look at the different split screens and you will see the Biden administration seems dead set on concluding a nuclear arrangement while bypassing review by Congress. 

Let’s take a look:
1. Green-lighting $6 billion in ransom payments and $3 billion in additional cash payment from Iraq to Iran, while turning a blind eye to massive increases in Chinese purchases of Iranian oil.
2. Negotiating in secret and bypassing Congress in violation of U.S. law., which requires congressional review of any deal or arrangement.
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Apr 23, 2023
My take: Jordan is an important American and Israeli ally but it is becoming more of a problem by the day. The evidence:

1. Amman refuses to extradite Palestinian terrorist Ahlam Tamimi, who played a role in the murder of two Americans in a 2001 bombing in Jerusalem.
2. Amman incites against Israel every Ramadan, fanning the flames of Palestinian violence in Jerusalem.

3. The Jordanians refuse to join moderate Arab states like the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco and Egypt in pursuing normalization with Israel.
4. And, now, a Jordanian lawmaker has been arrested by Israel for trying to smuggle weapons and gold across the border with Israel, to arm and fund Palestinians for terror attacks against Israelis.
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Apr 23, 2023
Jordan’s rhetoric is self-defeating. Israel saved Jordan from Syrian invasion during 1970 “Black September” crisis & repeatedly rescued King Hussein from assassination & coup attempts. Jordan relies heavily on Israel for security, intel, water & gas. thedispatch.com/article/jordan…
Washington provides Jordan significant support, including more than $1.5 billion per year.

(Despite this, Amman refuses to extradite Palestinian terrorist Ahlam Tamimi, who played a role in the murder of two Americans in a 2001 bombing in Jerusalem.)
Jordan eschews the new regional peace forged between Israel and several pragmatic American allies. Jordan refused to attend the 2020 White House signing ceremony of the Abraham Accords between Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
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