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Mar 19 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
#Syria's nominal ruler #Iran/#Russia dependent), Bashar al-Asad, was greeted in the #UAE on 18 March 2022, in Dubai by its emir, Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum. This is Asad's first visit to an Arab state since the uprising began, exactly eleven years ago. reuters.com/world/middle-e…
The @DXBMediaOffice released pictures of the visit by #Syria's tyrant, Bashsr al-Asad, to the #UAE, including this one [from left to right]: Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad; Asad; Dubai's ruler, Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum; and Dubai's Crown Prince, Hamdan ("Fazza").
#Syria's tyrant, Bashar al-Asad, met #UAE's de facto overall ruler, Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan (#MBZ) [left], and "was also photographed with the owner of Manchester City Football Club, Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan" [right]. bbc.in/36rbiJA
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Catherine Shakdam, a French-British journalist who wrote numerous articles for the website of #Iran's Supreme Leader, is of Jewish ancestry (which they didn't know) and wrote an article for The @TimesofIsrael, led her being accused of being an #Israeli spy iranintl.com/en/202203136114
#pt: Catherine Shakdam, a Jewish French-British journalist who was a propagandist for #Iran, says she "realize[d] ... there was a ... great hypocrisy" in the regime, and in combination with its call "for genocide of an entire people", it turned her against the theocracy.
Catherine Shakdam, who converted to Khomeinist Islam, about five years ago reconnected with her Jewish roots, but continued working for #Iran's media and interacting with the regime's senior officials, until she "came out" in November 2021. timesofisrael.com/im-no-mossad-s…
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Nobody - not one single person on this earth - knows with any accuracy what the state of #Russian public opinion is about #Putin's war on #Ukraine, so arguments and commentary that blame for this on the Russian people are analytical junk, as well as morally suspect.
There's no reason to deny there *is* support for Putin's war in Russia: some of it positive/ideological (pan-Slavists, Orthodox believers, regime loyalists), some of it "negative", from people who cannot support the killing of Russian soldiers and/or the nation being defeated.
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#Iran has carried out a rather substantial attack in Iraqi #Kurdistan while all eyes are on the Iranians' #Russian allies are attacking #Ukraine.
Footage from #Iran's attack on the #US Consulate in #Iraq's northern Kurdistan region
Re #Iran framing this attack on the #US in Iraqi Kurdistan as an attack on #Israel
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#Singapore, #Japan, and #Taiwan joining the Western effort to sanction #Russia for the assault on #Ukraine foreignpolicy.com/2022/02/22/bid…
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