Maybe if you learned more about Ayatollah Khameini's actions under the brutal US-supported Shah Dictatorship, you wouldn't be waving your jingo-chauvinistic flag
In 1971, Ali Khameinei was placed in the Shah's prisons at the age of 31+
Mexico just ended the diplomatic relations with Ecuador after Ecuador stormed into the Mexican Embassy to arrest former VP Jorge Glas who was seeking asylum there.
This story is interesting and there is a deep rabbit hole.
In 2017, Ecuadorian VP Jorge Glas was sentenced of corruption for alleged bribes involving Brazilian corporation Odebrecht ( Remember their name! it becomes important)
Not long before, Odebrecht again was implicated in the fake corruption scandal involving Lula which was just a judicial coup.
Excellent question: How did Anat, who had no journalism experience, and her 24 yr old co-author Adam Sella (nephew by marriage) come to lead a front page investigation?
I will try to answer.
Her first article in New York Times is on Nov 14, 2023.
The First section lists group mods and their "contract numbers" ie.. meaning they were not employees but contractors (unverified by me) paid to do a certain task: deliver a good, make x etc
Therefore, this claim about them being staff is untrue.
I will of course check to the best of my ability if these people a) were contractors b) their duties..... but that requires more time
🔻Soldiers are always a legitimate target in a battlefield.
🔻Check out this very illuminating diplomatic cable. I feel all of it needs to be read and I cannot summarize it in a tweet. wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/8…