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„Qatar had previously said its air defenses thwarted the attack, which it said targeted the US air base, and said there were no casualties.
– »The Ministry of Defense announced that Qatari air defenses successfully intercepted a missile attack targeting Al Udeid Air Base«
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– the government said in a statement. – »Thanks to God and the vigilance of the armed forces personnel and the precautionary measures taken, the incident resulted in no deaths or injuries«.
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Multiple explosions rocked Doha after Qatar and the UAE closed their airspace amid regional fears of escalation between Iran, Israel, and the US.
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Iran, which confirmed it had fired several missiles at an air base in Qatar, had earlier threatened to retaliate against US strikes on its Fordow nuclear plant the day before, mentioning US air bases in the region.
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Saudi Arabia also condemned Iranʼs »unjustifiable« attack on Qatar and offered to deploy »all its capabilities« to support Doha.
– »This is unacceptable and unjustifiable under any circumstances« – Saudi Arabiaʼs Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
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– »The Kingdom affirms its solidarity and full support for...Qatar and offers all its capabilities to support the sisterly State of Qatar in any measures it takes«.
@PHREUTERS @Shayan86 1).
„Qatarʼs Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani secured Tehranʼs agreement to the U.S. proposal for a ceasefire in the conflict between Israel
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and Iran during a call with Iranian officials held after Iranʼs strikes on a U.S. air base in Qatar on Mon., an official briefed on the negotiations told Reuters early on Tues [1].”
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„Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said there was currently no ceasefire agreement with Israel, but said Iran would halt its military response if Israel stopped its strikes on Iran by 4 a.m. local time there [2].”
@RonFilipkowski 1).
„»Peace through strength« is a phrase that suggests that military power can help preserve peace. It has been used by many leaders from Roman Emperor Hadrian (76–138) in the second century AD to former US President Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) in the 1980s.
@RonFilipkowski 2).
The concept has long been associated with realpolitik. The idea has critics, with Dr. Andrew Bacevich stating, »"Peace through strength" easily enough becomes "peace through war"« [1] [2] [3].
@RonFilipkowski 3).
Jim George of Australian National University (@ANUmedia)used the term to describe part of what he argued was the Straussian and neoconservative foreign policy of the George W. Bush administration [4] [3].”
@jcsthoughtdump @RonFilipkowski 1).
„The Iraq war was built on a lie. Now history is repeating itself
Saddam Hussein’s regime did not have weapons of mass destruction and was not intent on developing them [1].
@jcsthoughtdump @RonFilipkowski 2).
And Iraq had nothing to do with the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the US, despite the Bush administration’s repeated attempts to connect Hussein’s regime to al-Qaida [2].
@jcsthoughtdump @RonFilipkowski 3).
Today, @realDonaldTrump has dragged the US into another war based on exaggerations and manipulated intelligence... [2]
@sunni1515 @RonFilipkowski 1).
„In Jan. 2018, »BuzzFeed News« and Hungarian website reported that Hungarian police had issued an arrest warrant for Sebastian Gorka for »firearm or ammunition abuse« on Sept. 17, 2016.444.hu
@sunni1515 @RonFilipkowski 2).
They noted that the warrant had been in effect for the entire period of Gorkaʼs service at the White House during the @realDonaldTrump administration, and that the warrant remained in effect as of Jan. 2018.
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Buzzfeed also reported that the warrant may have been issued for an event occurring as early as 2009 [1] [2]. Gorka called the report fallacious, and told @Newsweek he was contacting Hungarian authorities for clarification [3].
@RonFilipkowski 1).
Everything would be fine if @realDonaldTrump was only interested in overthrowing the Ayatollahsʼ regime for the good of the Iranian people.
@RonFilipkowski @realDonaldTrump 2).
However, as @AmbJohnBolton has said, itʼs about of, i.a., for the good of the so-called friends of the U.S., and certainly about one of them most of all [1]:
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– „[...] the next step uh has to be regime change because this regime uh is committed to ideological dominance within the Islamic world and hegemony in the Middle East. It poses a clear threat directly many of the U.S. our friends and and allies [2].”
@threadreaderapp @Faytuks @Shayan86 @VP @JDVance @rafaelmgrossi @iaeaorg @nytimes 1).
„Commercial satellite imagery indicates the U.S. attack on Iran’s Fordow nuclear plant severely damaged – and possibly destroyed – the deeply-buried site and the uranium-enriching centrifuges it housed, but there was no confirmation, experts said on Sunday.
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Several experts also cautioned that Iran likely moved a stockpile of near weapons-grade highly enriched uranium out of Fordow before the strike early Sunday morning and could be hiding it and other nuclear components in locations unknown to Israel,
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the U.S. and U.N. nuclear inspectors.”