@weijia @Shayan86 1).
„In a phone interview with @CBSNews on Mon. afternoon, @POTUS @realDonaldTrump said the U.S. war with Iran could almost be over.
[...]
@weijia @Shayan86 @CBSNews @POTUS @realDonaldTrump 2).
The same afternoon that the president said the war is »very complete, pretty much«, the Department of Defense posted on X [1], »We have Only Just Begun to Fight« and »no mercy [2]«.
@weijia @Shayan86 @CBSNews @POTUS @realDonaldTrump 3).
„ @POTUS @realDonaldTrump told @axios in a brief phone interview Wed. that the war with Iran will end »soon« because there is »practically nothing left to target«.
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@weijia @Shayan86 @CBSNews @POTUS @realDonaldTrump @axios 4).
[...] Trump told Axios he spoke by phone Tues. with @IsraeliPM Benjamin @netanyahu.
– »We talked about how much we are winning« – he said.
@weijia @Shayan86 @CBSNews @POTUS @realDonaldTrump @axios @IsraeliPM @netanyahu 5).
@realDonaldTrump also again raised @netanyahu's pending pardon request, blasting Israeli President Isaac Herzog for saying he needs to follow legal procedure — including obtaining opinions from government lawyers — before acting on it.
@weijia @Shayan86 @CBSNews @POTUS @realDonaldTrump @axios @IsraeliPM @netanyahu 6).
– »He doesn't need any legal opinions. He is full of crap« – Trump said of Herzog.
– »He is a weak and pathetic guy. I want Bibi to be focused on the war — not on bullshit« – he added [3].”
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„At the Imam Reza Elementary School for boys in Abyek, a small city in the Qazvin Province, west of Tehran, security camera footage from Feb. 28 shows scenes from an ordinary morning. Some 40 boys play on the playground.
@thegreatgig8 @atrupar 1).
The series of peculiar portraits of @realDonaldTrump are paraphrases of a painting [1] [2] by Francis Bacon (1909–1992) entitled „Study after Velázquezʼs Portrait of Pope Innocent X” from 1953 [3],
@thegreatgig8 @atrupar @realDonaldTrump 2).
which – as the name suggests – is in turn is a version of the „Portrait of Innocent X” painted by Diego Velázquez (1599–1660) in 1650 [2].
@thegreatgig8 @atrupar @realDonaldTrump 3).
It should be emphasized here that „Saturn Devouring His Son” [4] is not only a version of Francisco Goya (1746–1828) [5] [6], but – due to the face of the Saturn-Trump monster – is also a reference to the work of Francis Bacon [4].
@Easybakeovensz 1)..
„The evidence contradicts @POTUS @realDonaldTrump's claim that Iran was responsible for a strike at the school that killed 175 people, most of them children.
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@Easybakeovensz @POTUS @realDonaldTrump 2).
The video of the strike, which was first reported by the research collective @bellingcat [1], was independently verified by The NYT. We compared features visible in the footage to new satellite imagery captured days after the strikes in Minab.”
@brianstelter 1).
„The bulletin from the @FBI, @DHSgov, and National Counterterrorism Center (@ODNIgov) is meant for state and local law enforcement agencies.
@brianstelter @FBI @DHSgov @ODNIgov 2).
The @realDonaldTrump administration asked an agency to hold the immediate release of the bulletin for review to ensure its accuracy, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal government matters.”
@michaeldweiss 1).
„The senator [@LindseyGrahamSC] said he was already talking with @realDonaldTrump about further military interventions in Lebanon and potentially Cuba, which he said would happen soon. He wasn’t particularly concerned about what was next in Iran, he said.
@michaeldweiss @LindseyGrahamSC @realDonaldTrump 2).
The day after the attack began, Graham told NBC’s »Meet the Press« [1] that the goal of the Iran operation »is to change the threat, not the regime«, adding that the U.S. wouldn’t pick Iran’s next leader.”
@tombateman @Shayan86 1).
The Balochistan Human Rights Documentation Network, a regional rights group, said it verified the names and ages of 57 victims, including 50 students and seven teachers. The students were between the ages of six and 12, the group said.
@tombateman @Shayan86 2).
Satellite images captured by Planet Labs before and after the strike show that the school was one of several structures on the compound that were hit, which could have contributed to the higher toll cited by officials.
@tombateman @Shayan86 3).
The images suggest the base was the intended target but raise questions over whether the school was misidentified or accidentally struck.