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Sune Engel Rasmussen
@SuneEngel
Foreign correspondent for @WSJ, covering the Middle East, Afghanistan and European security. He/him #IStandWithEvan.
Jan 31, 2023 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
“Many people say that if they get killed in the protest, their family will die of hunger.”

My new piece on why protests in #Iran have quieted down - for now. There are several reasons for this, as explained in the piece, and below 🧵

wsj.com/articles/iran-… #iranprotests First, it’s important to point out while street protests have tapered off, a quieter form of rebellion has taken hold. Embers of discontent continue to smolder and will flare up again for sure, even if authorities have the upper hand for now. (2/9)
Nov 15, 2022 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Extraordinary lack of basic fact checking. Iran has not sentenced 15,000 protesters to death, as a number of celebrities and political leaders are saying. Here are the facts as we know them: #IranProtests Iran has arrested about 15k protesters, according to rights groups who also say nearly 350 protesters have been killed, including some 50 minors. It has sentenced one protester to death so far, as far as we know. That happened on Sunday. wsj.com/articles/iran-… #IranProtests
Aug 28, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
“The Taliban and the Haqqani network are separate entities,” State Dept spox says when asked if US intel sharing w Taliban extends to Haqqani.

That is simply not true. They are inextricably linked. See our story here: wsj.com/articles/in-ta…

Sirajuddin Haqqani is the military chief of the Taliban. Anas and Khalil Haqqani are meeting Karzai and Abdullah on behalf of the Taliban. A former senior Afghan intel officer told us that Haqqani is likely to take charge of Afghanistan’s intel ops under the Taliban.