Will the Iran-Israel war escalate, and how long will it last?

If there’s one thread you must read, this is it! 🧵
A deep dive!

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This is THE thread to understand the Iran-Israel war, raging since June 13, 2025.

Could it spiral into a regional catastrophe, and how long will it last?

Packed with data, military analysis, and heuristic modeling, let’s break it down.

Please share to learn and help disseminate!

#IranIsraelConflict

Further reading:
cfr.org/global-conflic… 2/11 What’s Happening?

Israel’s “Operation Rising Lion” hit Iran’s nuclear sites (Natanz, Fordow), missile bases, and IRGC leadership, killing Hossein Salami and Mohammad Bagheri.

Iran’s firing back with 39+ ballistic missiles on Tel Aviv and Haifa.

Casualties: 224+ in Iran, 24 in Israel. 💥

[1/7] 🚨 Recently published in Nature Communications (May 2025)!

Proud to share the findings as a senior collaborator & contributing author in this major GBD 2019 study.

We examined the global burden of acute vs chronic care needs across 204 countries & 379 sequelae.

Let's dig into key insights from this study! [2/7] Key finding: Chronic care conditions account for 68% of global DALYs (Disability-adjusted life years measure burden), while only 27% are due to acute care.

The burden intensifies with age and affects nearly every health system on Earth.

📈 Chronic ≠ niche. It’s the majority.

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What’s one of the most deadly and under-recognized types of stroke?

Subarachnoid Hemorrhage (SAH).

Proud to share that our global study on the burden and risk factors of SAH has just been published in JAMA Neurology.

As a senior collaborator and co-author, I’m humbled to contribute to this crucial work.

Congratulations to the GBD 2021 Global Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Risk Factors Collaborators!

These findings can help reshape stroke prevention and health system priorities worldwide. 2/7

In 2021 alone:

📍700,000 new SAH cases
📍8 million living with SAH
📍350,000 deaths
📍10.6 million DALYs (disability-adjusted life years)

Even as rates fell, the absolute burden grew.

📈 A rising challenge for global health.

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Has the so-called War on Terror come full circle?

When a former Al-Qaeda commander like Abu Mohammed al-Golani is embraced by global powers as a potential leader of Syria, we must ask:

Is this peace—or a betrayal of principle?

Let's unpack the farce. ⬇️ A thread. 🧵

Source: politico.eu/article/has-sy… 2/10

Golani, now known as Ahmed al-Sharaa, once pledged allegiance to Al-Qaeda and fought U.S. forces in Iraq.

His group, Jabhat al-Nusra, had deep ties with ISIS.

Today, he wears blazers, trims his beard, and gets prime-time interviews.

A PR makeover ≠ moral rebirth.

Source: reuters.com/world/middle-e…

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Why is the ancient city of Jerusalem not just stone and soil but soul and spirit?

Loved by people, the kings, and eternal in memory.

🧵👇 #Jerusalem #Yerushalayim #AlQuds [2/15]

In Jewish tradition, Jerusalem has 70+ names — just like a beloved.

Each name is a layer of meaning.

Among them:

• Zion
• Moriah
• Ariel (Lion of God)
• Ir Shalom (City of Peace)
• Yefeh Nof (Beautiful Height)
🌍💫

https://x.com/DrSonuBhaskar/status/1926667012740088098

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What should a sovereign nation do when its innocent civilians—targeted for their religion—are slaughtered by cross-border terrorists backed by a hostile neighbor?

On April 22, 2025, 26 civilians (25 Hindus & 1 Nepali citizen) were brutally massacred in Pahalgam, Kashmir by Pakistani-backed terrorists.

They were targeted for their religion, gunned down after being identified as Hindus. India vowed retribution—and that moment came.

This wasn’t random. It was religious cleansing. 2/
India launched #OperationSINDOOR on May 6.

✅ 9 terrorist sites obliterated

✅ Targets: Kotli, Muzaffarabad, Bahawalpur

✅ Method: Precision missile strikes & drones

✅ Targets were non-military terror hubs used by Jaish-e-Mohammed & Lashkar-e-Taiba; not civilians, not army posts.

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Why have every Islamic reform and every political Islamist project ended in greater suffering?

History has an answer few dare to hear.

Every attempt at reflection was followed by a replacement with control.

Is it time to rethink the path altogether?

A thread on why Atatürk to Nasser failed — and the more profound lesson.
👇

A thread you don't want to miss. 📷 Start 2/11

Atatürk's Turkey (1923–1938)
Abolished the Caliphate.
Banned Islamic dress and religious courts. Secularised education and language.

➡️ Outcome?
Faith retreated underground — only to re-emerge stronger through political Islam decades later.

(1/11)
In routine practice, we come across patients with brain cancer presenting acutely, with sudden weakness, confusion, seizures, or worse.

Yet, behind these "stroke-like" events, the causes vary dramatically:

🔹 Some bleed inside tumors
🔹 Others bleed around them
🔹 Some show ischemia without obvious triggers

This clinical complexity prompted us to take action.
🧠
In a recent publication in the Journal of Stroke Medicine, we introduce a novel way to characterize such patients. (2/11)
Proud to share our new publication in the Journal of Stroke Medicine:

"Integrated Management of Stroke Risk in Brain Cancer: Insights from the Tumoral Bleeding Classification System and CanStroke Protocol."

🔗
🧵doi.org/10.1177/251660…

1️⃣ 🦁 Like a lion, India moves with quiet poise and decisive power: restraint in its stance and relentless grit in its strike.

Every word from PM @narendramodi is a precision-placed brick in a strategic journey to reshape the region.



Strength with strategy: watch the roar become reality. 🇮🇳✨

A thread. 🧵

https://x.com/memenist_/status/1915441362373058825/video/1

2️⃣ Brick by brick, the old order trembles.

A lion never wastes energy on noise; it stalks, studies, and springs only when the outcome is certain.

Each policy, pact, and push tightens the circle around the architects of instability.

timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/punishme…

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Why would Israel’s legendary Mossad wade into a New York short-seller battle?

Because the January 2023 Hindenburg broadside on Adani wasn’t just market gossip—it threatened a flagship of India’s economic rise. ​

This thread 🧵reveals the inside story of #OperationZeppelin. 🕵️

How a short-seller’s strike on Adani triggered one of the most sweeping, successful national-security counter-offensives ever mounted, as Israel moved to shield its all-weather ally, India.

🇮🇱 ❤️ 🇮🇳 2/10

The Hindenburg report vaporised $150 billion in market cap within days.

It shook a conglomerate whose green-energy and port projects mirror India’s $ 5 trillion GDP ambition.

More: ndtv.com/world-news/mos…

🧵 1/10 Can a calibrated mix of water leverage, trade choke-points, and information warfare neutralise Pakistan without firing a shot?

Delhi’s 5-point riposte after the 22 Apr Pahalgam massacre (26 dead) says, “Yes—watch us.”

via @IndianExpress

Let’s unpack India’s post-Pahalgam playbook and its decision paths. 🧵indianexpress.com/article/india/… 2/10 Action menu:
① Suspend Indus Waters Treaty
② Seal Attari-Wagah gate
③ Scrap SAARC visa waiver
④ Expel Pak defence staff
⑤ Halve embassies.

Each tool is asymmetric, reversible, and legally defensible. It's toughest since Balakot.

The objective: raise Pakistan’s cost of proxy terror beyond its tolerance threshold.

1/25 What do the Pahalgam attack (India, April 22) and the October 7 Hamas assault (Israel) reveal about the complexity of counter-terrorism in the era of asymmetric warfare?

From intelligence gaps to terrorist deception.

From false flags to geopolitical traps.

The lessons are profound.

This is one thread you don’t want to miss. 🧵 2/25 Pahalgam, April 22, 2025:

Terrorists from TRF (a Lashkar-e-Taiba proxy) attacked the tourist hub of Pahalgam in Kashmir, killing 26 people.

Despite prior intelligence of suspicious militant reconnaissance, no "decisive" preemptive action was taken.

🔱 Is there a language so perfect it maps sound to the cosmos?
So logical, it works like code?
So sacred it's called the language of the gods?🛕
Yes. It’s Sanskrit.🕉️
A 🧵that might change how you see language forever👇
From NASA labs to Himalayan chants, here’s the story.
[1/10] Sanskrit isn’t just a language—it’s a living vibration.

It wasn’t “invented” like English or French.

It was revealed that Brahman is a śabda, or sound, as a divine principle.

Spoken by sages, chanted in mantras, and mapped to the cosmos. 🌌

#Sanskrit

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1/7 This timeless verse from the Bhagavad Gita is not merely a divine promise—it’s a call to action. 🛕

Let's do a deep dive! A thread 🧵
👇☸️🪷

#Dharma #Justice 2/
To fight for justice is not about vengeance.

It is about protecting the virtuous, challenging the wicked, and restoring balance.

In every age, injustice resurfaces—and in every age, someone must rise.

That someone could be you.

#Bhagavadgita

1/ Why is the world silent as Pakistan crushes the Baloch people?

The arrest of Mahrang Baloch under terrorism charges is not an isolated incident—it is part of a decades-long campaign of genocide.

We must speak out. A thread. 🧵

#FreeMahrangBaloch #BalochGenocide
Ref: aninews.in/news/world/asi… 2/ For years, Pakistan’s forces have abducted, tortured, and executed Baloch activists.

Thousands remain missing. Their crime?

Demanding basic human rights.

The enforced disappearances are systematic and widespread.

#StopBalochGenocide
Source: theguardian.com/global-develop…

1/ Sufism is often seen as a peaceful, mystical tradition within Islam.

But historically, it has acted as a Trojan Horse for expansion, using soft power to Islamize societies resistant to direct conquest.

Was it a colonizing method to impose Islamist hegemony and destroy indigenous traditions, softening societies for gradual Islamization?

Is Sufism a trojan horse for Islamism?

Let’s examine its role over time. 🧵👇

Ref: brookings.edu/articles/posit… 2/ Let's look at it from a historical lens.

During the 8th-10th century, during the early expansion of Islamism, Sufi mystics spread Islam into Persia, Central Asia, & North Africa.

While they preached spirituality, they subtly undermined indigenous traditions, preparing the way for Islamic governance.

Ref: cambridge.org/core/books/isl…

🧶 1/7: Ever wondered what the 💝 romance between coffee and books truly feels like?

A delicate romance woven with every sip ☕️ and every turned page 📓❤️.

A thread 🧵👇🏻 2/7: One of the weekend traditions I picked up in Japan 🇯🇵 is my quiet pilgrimage to Hiro Coffee ☕️ —a ritual, a whispered promise between time and taste.

[1/9] What do recent decisions by the incoming US administration (President Trump) hold for Israel? 🌍🇮🇱

Let's do a deep dive! A thread. 🇮🇱🇺🇸

For those of us who have been appalled by the growing antisemitism and the horrors of October 7, when Hamas perpetrated one of the most barbaric acts of terror against the Jewish people, the lack of clear policy and ambivalence in US support for Israel during the Biden administration has been disheartening.

The burning question is: What does the new administration signal, and what does it hold for Israel?

P.S. Thank you to everyone who reached out for my thoughts on this matter. Instead of responding individually, I’ve compiled my insights into this thread. I invite you to read through and share if you find it interesting!

#AmYisraelChai [2/9]🧵 As we witness significant shifts in US policy, understanding their implications for Israel is crucial for all invested in peace and stability in the region.

#Israel #USIsraelRelations

Ref: ft.com/content/d4ff1e…

1/9 It was a pleasure to host the Webinar on Global Health and Migration on January 16, 2025, on behalf of the Hub Community on Global Health and Migration, Global Health Hub Germany (Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪).
🩺🏥🧑‍⚕️⚕️

I will now share details of my talk in this thread.
A big thanks to all the speakers and panellists!
Let's do a deep dive.

A thread 🧵 ⚕️🧑‍⚕️🩸🩺🏥 2/9 Alongside co-host, Dr. Henna Riemenschneider, Dr. Michael Knipper (University of Giessen, 🇩🇪), Indre Karciauskaite (INRAE, Paris, France 🇫🇷), and Dr. Joost Butenop (German Public Health, Bavarian Government, Munich 🇩🇪) gave talks on various aspects, from legal frameworks to provisions to highlight the need to enhance equity and healthcare access.

Following the talks, a panel discussion followed on practical solutions for addressing migrant health challenges and health systems reforms.

Special thanks to Dr. Martina Steinmaurer (Charite Hospital, Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪), Dr. Maureen McGowan (Heidelberg University, Germany 🇩🇪), Dr. Sonia Diaz-Monsalve (University of Freiburg, Germany 🇩🇪), Dr. Zahra Kariminian (Heidelberg, Germany 🇩🇪), and Dr. Veronica Dodero (University of Bielefeld, Germany 🇩🇪) who participated in the panel.

1/ 🌟 What does it mean to stand at the crossroads of science and medicine?

Explore the evolving role of physician-scientists in my latest article published in the Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging.

(1/11) 2/This invited article, I delve into the legacy of pioneers like Suśruta, Ramón y Cajal, Osler, and Tagore, who exemplified the intersection of medicine, art, and science.

Their stories continue to inspire us. ✨

I also share learning from my journey!

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1/5 What makes the Maha Kumbh the world’s largest spiritual gathering? 🌍

It’s not just the millions who attend but the timeless wisdom it holds—faith, unity, and the quest for amrit (nectar of immortality). 🌊✨


Are you ready to discover its magic? #MahaKumbh2025🌊✨

#MahaKumbh2025 #SpiritualJourney 🛕🕉️🪷

https://x.com/anandmahindra/status/1875082078267781459/video/1

2/5 Kalpavas: Could you leave behind comforts to meditate by a sacred river for a month? 🌿🕊️

This ancient vow teaches simplicity & spiritual growth. Even Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, is embracing it at #MahaKumbh!

deccanherald.com/india/uttar-pr… 🕊️

Will you answer its call? 🙏
#GlobalHarmony 🌟 #Inspiration #AncientWisdom🌟