@GhonchehAzad @Shayan86 1).
„Iran’s judiciary said it executed 19-year-old wrestler Saleh Mohammadi on Thurs. alongside Mehdi Ghasemi and Saeed Davoudi.
@GhonchehAzad @Shayan86 2).
The Islamic Republic accused the three of involvement in the killing of two police officers, identified as Mohammad Ghasemi Hamapour and Abbas Asadi [1] [2] [3]”.
@GhonchehAzad @Shayan86 3).
„Rights groups said the trio, who included a teenager who had taken part in international wrestling competitions, were executed without a fair trial and had given confessions under torture [4] [2] [3].”
@GhonchehAzad @Shayan86 4).
„Iran also executed a Swedish-Iranian man identified as Kourosh Keyvani on Wed. after convicting him of espionage for Israel, according to Mizan news agency [1] [2] [3].”
@GhonchehAzad @Shayan86 5).
„In Feb., before the war began, the [...] @Hrana_English said it had verified 6,872 deaths and was investigating more than 11,000 other cases [5].
@GhonchehAzad @Shayan86 @HRANA_English 6).
A @UN special rapporteur had said the death toll might be higher than 20,000 [6] [7] as information trickled out despite heavy internet filtering by the state [8].”
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„On Thurs., @TheJusticeDept (@DOJRR47), working with the cybercrime-fighting agency within the US Department of Defense known as the Defense Criminal Investigative Service, announced that it had dismantled four massive botnets in a single operation,
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removing the command-and-control servers used to commandeer the hacker-run armies of compromised devices known by the names JackSkid, Mossad, Aisuru, and Kimwolf.
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Together, operators of the four botnets had amassed more than 3 million devices,
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„[Monica] Witt’s defection, as someone who had access to the identities of US government assets in Iran and knew how foreign communications were intercepted, was one of the biggest intelligence betrayals in recent American history.
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More than a decade on, as America and Israel attack Iran, experts say she could prove to be a deadly secret weapon for the Islamic Republic.
[...]
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– »On a scale of one to ten, I believed she was a seven or eight in terms of the potential for doing damage to the US« – said Douglas Wise [1], the former deputy director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (@DefenseIntel) in an assessment from the time.
@atrupar @Shayan86 1).
„Even confrontation with a strategic adversary is recalibrated when oil flows are at risk. The move underscores a broader reality: geopolitical rivalries often give way to the overriding imperative of keeping energy flows stable.
@atrupar @Shayan86 2).
Whether the source is Russia, Venezuela or the Persian Gulf, the priority remains the same – keep the oil flowing and the global economy running.
The pattern extends beyond oil itself.
@atrupar @Shayan86 3).
The same imperative is now extending beyond oil to the critical minerals that underpin future energy and technological systems.
@Yair_Rosenberg 1).
„A major distortion in @joekent16jan19 letter is that it presents Trump as a naïve victim of the Israelis rather than an eager collaborator. @realDonaldTrump has always been more hawkish than the isolationists in his orbit admit;
@Yair_Rosenberg @joekent16jan19 @realDonaldTrump 2).
he ordered more drone strikes in his first two years in office than @BarackObama launched in eight. It wasn’t @netanyahu who made Trump abduct the president of Venezuela,
@Yair_Rosenberg @joekent16jan19 @realDonaldTrump @BarackObama @netanyahu 3).
an operation that seems to have both whetted his appetite for foreign adventure and convinced him that war can be easy. This week he boasted that he can »take« Cuba and »do anything I want with it«.
@BBCWorld @Shayan86 1).
„Joe Kent, director of the National Counterterrorism Center [...] resigned from his position on Tuesday in protest of the war in Iran.
@BBCWorld @Shayan86 2).
– »I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran« – Kent wrote in a resignation letter posted to X [1]. – »Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby».
@BBCWorld @Shayan86 3).
@realDonaldTrump responded to the news of Kent’s resignation at a White House St Patrick’s Day reception, saying he had read Kent’s resignation statement and claiming he »didn’t know him well« [2].”
@Acyn @Shayan86 1).
„Cuba heavily relies on oil for electricity generation. Washington’s effective blockade of fuel shipments has worsened the country’s energy crisis, causing intermittent power cuts, a rationing of medical supplies and a decrease in tourism, officials have said.
@Acyn @Shayan86 2).
Fuel prices have skyrocketed so much that gas can be as much as $9 a liter on the unofficial market, meaning it costs more than $300 to fill up a car’s gas tank, which is more than most Cubans earn in a year.”