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Abhijit Iyer-Mitra

@Iyervval

Dec 10

Indian media claiming Mediaparte has “distanced itself” from the OCCRP report

Curiously the “distancing” statement isn’t on @Mediapart @MediapartEN or its editor @CarineFouteau’s X timeline or indeed on their French (mediapart.fr) or English (mediapart.fr/en/english) websites

None of the outlets publishing this “distancing” are hyperlinking the statement if it exists, nor are they providing screenshots.

Curiously @CarineFouteau never objected to the Opposition “instrumentalising” its reports. But worse claims BJP is spreading “fake news”. So my

Questions to @MediapartEN @Mediapart & @CarineFouteau are as follows
1) given your commitment to transparency - where is this “statement” on your X & websites?
2) Where exactly is @BJP4India misquoting/misattributing you?
3) what exactly has the BJP said that you’re claiming is

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Abhijit Iyer-Mitra

@Iyervval

Dec 6

Quick 🧵 on Syria

1) Government forces are fortifying and consolidating around Damascus and the Latakia-Tartous coast. As you can see both are ringed by mountains

2) The jihadist advance is just too fast and furious to sustain - especially given the lack of unified command

3) the situation as bad as it is, is still better than 2013-15 for the Government as of now

4) two possibilities - government falls after prolonged siege of the coast and Damascus OR government holds and then expands the inkblots as it did in 2016

6) problem with possibility 2 is Hizbollah is destroyed, Iran is preoccupied with homeland defence after the Israelis strikes. Russia is bogged down in Ukraine. Ergo no Syrian ally has the resources to expend on the costly and bloody offensives required to push back Jihadis

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Abhijit Iyer-Mitra

@Iyervval

Oct 27

DELHI MEDIA GOSSIP 🧵: Gujarat Police sources telling me @LangaMahesh was paid the following:

• Reliance: ₹18 crores over 3 years

• Torrent: ₹ 10 crores over 4 years

• Adani: ₹ 20 lacs per month over several years

• Essar: use of the private jet on several occasions

He + wife stayed in 5 star hotels for a total of 99 days in 2023-24. Not one of these bills was paid by the couple. Instead several 3rd parties footed the stay. This is basically 1/3rd of the year spent in suites at 5 stars.

• The tacky “desi bridgerton” birthday party (of which videos have been doing rounds) of his wife was hosted at the highly exclusive Jade Ahmadabad. The owner of Jade has last week filed a police complaint claiming extortion and criminal intimidation by Langa over the party

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Abhijit Iyer-Mitra

@Iyervval

Oct 25

DELHI MEDIA GOSSIP: Police sources say @LangaMahesh will be charged with Hawala and Extortion soon. they say he has named several extremely senior central bureaucrats as aiding him & profiting from his dealings. As of now the Police say that Mahesh was the glue of a cartel of

Babus, industrialist and journos all opposed to the Ambanis and Adanis (A&A). This rival group was headed funded and supplied documents by one major industrial rival (MIR) of A&A curiously he was also approaching A&A for favours and remuneration running into crores which the

Police say was basically extortion. Police also say that the Media Communications Chief (MCC) of a major opposition party was part of this cartel and Langa double/triple dipped on funding from all these sources. Moreover Langa drafted statements for MCC and acted as the liaison

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Abhijit Iyer-Mitra

@Iyervval

Oct 14

DELHI MEDIA GOSSIP: Gujarat Police sources: @LangaMahesh was peddling sensitive documents on critical infrastructure which never made it to the @the_hindu. Instead they were shared with the media cell chief (MCC) of a major opposition party. WhatsApp convos reveal that Langa was

not only sharing these docs but also drafting the statements that the MCC was putting out + what MCC should or should not say at the presser. Police say these docs were also peddled for consideration to corporates & that they have the entire WhatsApp trail. Police also say two

Gujarat bureaucrats are now in deep soup. Police will be making the names public in the coming weeks, but the question worth asking is why MCC has been quieter than a mouse since Langa’s arrest? MCC has neither tweeted nor acknowledged the arrest and hasn’t even provided the

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Abhijit Iyer-Mitra

@Iyervval

Sep 13

Every communist is a traitor. To betray their country is hard wired into them. Let’s start with Lenin. He considered his own countrymen a bigger threat than Germans. Despite being just 8 months away from victory, Lenin signed the catastrophic Brest-Litovsk treaty giving away huge

Chunks of Russia to the Germans. To note Lenin was sent by the kaiser in a sealed train to Russia precisely to undermine the Russian Government. Today’s Ukraine war traces its roots to this exact treaty. Lenin’s successor was Stalin who was worse

Stalin you see killed more Soviet citizens than the German army in WW1 & WW2 combined. Mind you for most of the 30s Stalin was happy to coochie coo the Germans. German tanks & aircraft were secretly tested in the USSR due to restrictions of the treaty of Versailles. These same

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