@Shayan86 1).
„The Feb. 28 strike on the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school building was the result of a targeting mistake by the U.S. military, which was conducting strikes on an adjacent Iranian base of which the school building was formerly a part, the preliminary investigation found.
@Shayan86 2).
Officers at U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) created the target coordinates for the strike using outdated data provided by the Defense Intelligence Agency (@DefenseIntel), people briefed on the investigation said.
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@Shayan86 @CENTCOM @DefenseIntel 3).
In 1999, old, outdated maps and poor tradecraft led the @CIA to provide erroneous targeting data to the military, resulting in an airstrike on the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade that killed three Chinese citizens.
@Shayan86 @CENTCOM @DefenseIntel @CIA 4).
The C.I.A. wrongly assessed that the building was the headquarters of a Yugoslav arms agency.”
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would produce an Iranian Delcy Rodríguez—a pragmatic insider who would capitulate to American pressure—but it has instead spawned a budding Iranian Kim Jong Un.
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Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, will succeed his father, making the Islamic Republic a hereditary dictatorship poised to double down on ideology and repression.
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„One person was killed and another 38 people [3] were rescued after the incident near the Iraqi port of Umm Qasr, which @Reuters and @CNN reported appeared to be caused by Iranian boats rigged with explosives [4].”
@leventkemaI @Shayan86 1).
„The intensity of the retaliatory strikes has signaled that Iran was more prepared for the war than many in the @realDonaldTrump administration had anticipated, U.S. military officials say.
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@leventkemaI @Shayan86 @realDonaldTrump 2).
It is difficult to estimate the full cost of damage inflicted by Iran’s retaliatory strikes.
@leventkemaI @Shayan86 @realDonaldTrump 3).
A Pentagon assessment provided to Congress last week put the cost of the single strike on the U.S. Navy Fifth Fleet headquarters in Bahrain on Feb. 28 at about $200 million, according to a congressional official.
@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.
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@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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„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].