The #Iran war is distracting the US & other global powers from pushing for implementation of the #Gaza ceasefire deal, Palestinian Foreign Minister Varsen Aghabakian told me at the Antalya Diplomacy Forum in Turkey.
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Wow stat here: — 115 of 195 American ambassadorial posts worldwide currently sit vacant @FT www.ft.com/content/5ed0... Now would be a great time to send US ambassadors to the Middle East
At 3am last night, as the news broke of a ceasefire, Pouya took his motorbike and rode around the streets of #Tehran. For the first time in over a month, the skies were silent.
My piece on Iranians' thoughts and feelings about the ceasefire #IranWar
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Full story on shooting outside #Israeli consulate in #Istanbul today
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📌 Read @lcmporter.bsky.social latest for the
@thenationalnews.com, including some comments from me on #Zelensky's visit to #Damascus and why Turkish FM Hakan #Fidan was there. 🇺🇦 🇹🇷 🇸🇾
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I am running the full 42km Paris #Marathon on April 12 to raise money for @msf.fr which is doing life saving work across the Middle East and elsewhere as conflict rages. All funds straight to MSF.
Thank you so much in advance for your kind donations and support.
collecter.msf.fr/fundraisers/...
Quote of the day from a Turkish friend: "When Trump speaks it's like an old amca [uncle] sitting in a cafe"
At the beginning of the war, hashtag#Trump backed the idea of a ground offensive by armed hashtag#Iranian Kurdish dissidents. Then he U-turned. What happened? My long read from Iraqi Kurdistan, with Stella Martany
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Thousands of detainees in Iran, including political prisoners and children, are at risk of injury and death from US and Israeli strikes, as well as atrocities by Iran’s authorities, including mass, arbitrary, and secret executions: www.hrw.org/news/2026/04...
April fools only works when reality isn't this stupid.
Centre for Human Rights in #Iran reports huge wave of arrests in Iran during the war, while @amnesty.org warns of more executions after 4 people were executed in the space of 24 hours
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APNewsAlert: DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — 3 major airlines in United Arab Emirates say Iranians are now barred from entering or transiting country as war rages.
Thank you I am ok, I hope she is released soon too xxx
Hear on World Service 'foreign journalist kidnapped in Baghdad'=stab of panic, where is my sister? Check social media (quicker than WhatsApp)-relief, then guilt because she's someone's loved one. I hope Shelly is released, safely, soon.
Iranian Red Crescent worker Ali Reza Sohbatloo was killed in an airstrike today "while providing criticial humanitarian support at a medical clinic" in Zanjan, north-western Iran, the the International Committee of the Red Cross said in a statement.
#Iran's newly appointed ambassador in #Lebanon is “alive and kicking” in #Beirut despite being ordered by the Foreign Ministry to leave the country by Sunday.....
With Jamie Prentis
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I spoke to Iranians one month into the war, who fear being trapped between a hardening regime and Trump's threats to bomb energy plants www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/20...
Your 120 seconds on what on earth is going on
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APNewsAlert: KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — #Afghanistan’s Taliban government says it has released American national Dennis Coyle, held since January 2025.
A war to destroy Iran’s nuclear program (“obliterated” in June 25’) & prevent it from having nuclear military capability (exactly the JCPOA) turned into “regime change” & “unconditional surrender” (since Netanyahu promised it’s viable) is now a war to open The Strait of Hormuz, which was open before
I still can't get over the witch
#breaking - Trump says he has ordered postponement of strikes on #Iranian energy infrastructure for five days after "very good and productive conversations" with Iran over the weekend.
(Also the POTUS needs to check use of his 🧙)
Day 3 of daily videos to fundraise for Lebanon. In which I talk about my mother. Donate here: www.chuffed.org/project/1719...
Around 7000 Americans were killed on Iwo Jima and 19,000 wounded, and it was part of a campaign that ended with a nuclear weapon being used, so maybe not the wisest comparison.
#Newroz new year celebrations aren't the same for Tahir and Chiman Abdullah’s family this year. In fact, there are no celebrations at all, after their son was killed in a drone strike earlier this month. With Stella Martany
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نوروزتون پیروز، با امیدی که سال نو آرامش و صلح و آزادی بیاره 🪻🍎🐟🌿❤️🕯️🌱
“Here in #Iraq everything is a twisted logic. It's incomprehensible to be honest with you. They [the militias] don't know how much damage they’re inflicting on their own country,” @HoshyarZebari told me of how #Iran-backed militants are drawing Iraq into war www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/20...
Everyone keeps asking how much longer the war will last. Not even Trump seems to know the answer. Given that, a better question right now is what are the additional fallouts and scenarios for each extra day/week the conflict lasts, both immediate and longer-lasting damage.
