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Jan 16 9 tweets 3 min read
A 🧵on #IRGC missile strikes in Iraq’s Erbil, Syria’s Edlib and Pakistan.

1/ The IRGC says they avenged last month’s terrorist attacks in Kerman and Sistan-Baluchistan, claimed by ISIL and Jaish Al-Adl.
As 🇮🇷 saw Israel behind the attacks, it states to have hit 🇮🇱 assets, too. Image 2/ The #IRGC fired 24 missiles to Kurdistan and Idlib.
Four medium-range Kheibar Sheken missiles flew 1,280km.
The missile is designed to reach distances as far as 1,450km.

The Idlib strike was a direct warning to #Israel that Iran’s precise missiles have reached its vicinity. Image
Oct 8, 2023 6 tweets 2 min read
Analysis
1- Iran apparently used warning & encouragement to force its will on Azerbaijan by persuading Baku into changing the path of the so-called Zangezur corridor.
Azerbaijan agrees to construct part of the corridor not from the Iran-Armenia border but from inside Iran. Image 2- Last week a top aide to Azerbaijan president as well as Armenia’s national security advisor were in Tehran.
They were told that Iran respects Azerbaijan’s right to Nagorno-Karabakh but it also supports the right and safety of ethnic Armenians living in that region.
Mar 12, 2023 8 tweets 5 min read
#Iran_news
1- Iranian Interior Ministry says is investigating 100+ people suspected of playing a role in girl high schoolers’ poisoning incidents. Acc. to the ministry based on investigations, some students carried out this incidents carried as they tried to shut down schools. 2- Iran’s Interior Ministry asks parents to warn their daughters not to get engaged in poisoning activities, bcz per instructions, they will be dealt with, seriously. There haven’t been reports of new poisoning cases in recent days.
Mar 11, 2023 7 tweets 5 min read
A 🧵 on #Iran-#SaudiArabia agreement:

1- The agreement is a “security deal” and has the blessing of leaders of both 🇮🇷and 🇸🇦: SL Ali Khamenei and King Salman (or MBS).

Iranian media describe Ali Shamkhani first as “Khamenei’s representative” then “SNSC Secretary” 2- The fact that Iranian and Saudi national security advisors -not diplomats- clinched the deal after 5-day intense talks shows they had to settle out persistent disputes. They made the ground and relayed the torch to diplomats to meet, introduce ambassadors & reopen embassies.
Mar 11, 2023 6 tweets 3 min read
#Iran_domestic_politics
1- Iranian conservatives -specially Majlis- welcome resumption of diplomatic ties with Saudi Arabia.

Keyhan declares the deal has angered pro-West reformist factions (without providing evidence). It says both Tehran and Riyadh made concessions. 2- IRNA quotes Iran’s diplomatic mission to UN as admitting that Tehran has finalized purchase of Sukhoi fighter jets from #Russia. The mission says Iran’s intention to buy Russian jets dates back to late 1980s, reiterates 🇷🇺-🇮🇷 military cooperation not related to Ukraine war.
Feb 27, 2023 7 tweets 4 min read
A thread on poisoning of female students in #Qom, Iran 🧵

1- poisoning cases started 3 months ago, Nov 30 to be exact. They’ve reported in a dozen high schools where female students study. It’s estimated some 150 students visited hospitals, with almost half hospitalized. ImageImage 2- Students who visited hospitals were complaining of headache, vomiting, chest pain, dizziness, faster then normal breathing, rapid heartbeat, low blood pressure.
The case didn’t limit to #Qom, with similar incidents reported in Brujerd, Lorestan prov, far-away from Qom.
Feb 27, 2023 4 tweets 3 min read
#Iran_politics_news 🧵
1- Spokesman of Iran’s Atomic Energy Org. B. Kamalvandi says talks with #IAEA’s delegation and head of Department of Safeguards was “promising & constructive”. He says AEOI head Eslami officially invited DG Grossi to visit Iran in the coming days. 2- CEO of #Russia’s state-owned gas company, Gazprom, to visit #Iran Tuesday. He will hold talks with Iranian officials on oil and gas cooperation between Tehran and Moscow.
Feb 26, 2023 4 tweets 4 min read
#Iran_news_politics 🧵
1- A number of religious women hold a gathering outside #Iran’s Majlis, in downtown Tehran. They have protested against fellow women who don’t wear any headwear in public, or respect hijab law, asking the government to end this condition. 2- Foreign Ministry issues a statement saying handing over #Afghanistan embassy in Tehran to the #Taliban is an internal matter of Afghanistan. Afghan diplomats today evacuated the embassy, taking out Masoud’s image.
Feb 25, 2023 4 tweets 4 min read
Iranian diaspora opposition is furious with #Switzerland ambassador to #Iran.
Nadine Olivieri Lozano wore a chador (black veil covering head to toe) while visiting the Shrine of Sayyida Ma’asuma in #Qom. It’s a norm to wear a chador when visiting shrines in #Iran & #Iraq. ImageImageImageImage Wearing a chador is exactly what the UN special Representative for Iraq does. Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert wears a black veil each time and every time she meets with Grand Ayatollah Sistani in Najaf or when she visited the Imam Hussein Shrine in Karbala. ImageImageImageImage
Feb 16, 2023 7 tweets 3 min read
۱- سازمان ملل یک گزارش داده در مورد اینکه رهبر جدید القاعده سیف العدل طبق گمانه زنی ها در ایران به سر می برد. البته سازمان ملل گزارشش را از روی اطلاعات داده شده توسط کشورهای خاص (بخوانید امریکا) تهیه کرده. امریکا هم گفته بله سیف العدل در ایران است. thenationalnews.com/mena/iran/2023… ۲- نمایندگی ایران در سازمان ملل توییت زده‌ نخیر، آدرس اشتباه دادید، بدون اینکه وارد جزییات بشود. ولی واقعیت اینست که اعضای القاعده و خانواده آنها بعد از حمله امریکا به افغانستان به ایران فرار کردند. بعلاوه نفر دوم القاعده، عبدالله احمد عبدالله یا ابو محمد المصری در تهران کشته شد.
Jan 27, 2023 4 tweets 4 min read
A quick thread about Friday’s attack on #Azerbaijan Republic embassy in Tehran, #Iran.

1- First and foremost it was the result of a family feud. So, all Azerbaijan’s claims of calling it “a terrorist attach” are pure nonsense. Image 2- The assailant who attacked #Azerbaijan Republic embassy is an Iranian Tork/Turk. Yassin Hossein-Zadeh is from #Iran’s East Azerbaijan province. He wanted to take a revenge from the embassy, given that he thought the embassy helped his Azerbaijani wife to return to Baku. ImageImageImage
Nov 19, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
1- A video recorded by the body cam of a Law Enforcement Force (or maybe a Basij force) shows the events that happened WED Nov 16, in #Izeh, where 7 ppl incld. security forces and a 9 yr-old kid were killed.
The kid’s mother claims Iranian security forces killed her child. 2- from the conversations in the video we notice security forces have plastic bullets, they shout at the passing cars to make a u-turn and not to drive further. They also call for Kalashnikovs to be sent to them (as other side/rioters are armed and we hear sounds of bullets)
Nov 19, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
این ویدئو که #تسنیم از دوربین روی لباس یکی از احتمالا نیروهای فراناجا یا بسیج از اتفاقات #ایذه منتشر کرده عملا نشان می دهد نیروهای نظامی ایران باعث مرگ کودک نبوده اند. از دقیقا ۱:۲۰ به بعد خودشان می گویند تیرهای شان پلاستیکی است، درخواست کلاشنیکف دارند، نگرانند قیچی شوند. 👇 👆 شاکی اند که آنها را دست خالی فرستاده اند به خیابان و اینکه مرتب هر ماشینی رد می شود فریاد برگرد برگرد سر می دهند. جایی یک نفر می اید و می گوید چند تا از بچه های اینها (یک گروه دیگر از بسیج یا فراناجا) کشته شده اند. tasnimnews.com/fa/news/1401/0…
Sep 2, 2022 5 tweets 3 min read
A 🧵

1- For the first time in years, seminary scholars and students will hold a protesting gathering Sep 4 in the holy city of #Qom. It is against “the Islamic Republic Comprehensive Baking Plan”, the legislation that is currently under examination at the Iranian parliament. Image 2- The general outlines of #Iran’s new Banking Plan were passed at the Economic Committee of the Majlis. But it has become very controversial in recent months, given that former CBI’s governors, the CEOs of private and state-owned banks and even economic agents oppose it.
May 2, 2022 5 tweets 5 min read
A thread 🧵

It is felt in #Iran that Taliban in neighboring Afghanistan have outwitted the Iranian authorities/policy-makers as tensions with the group is rising. After a border incident in late April, now Iranians want to conduct a census of Afghan population in Iran. 1 Remarks by a member of Majlis National Security & Foreign Affairs Cmte: Fada Hussein Maleki are important too.
He predicts #Taliban’s political life is reaching its end. He states: #Iran isn’t silent or ignorant about what Taliban or Takfiri groups do on its eastern borders. 2
Apr 30, 2022 4 tweets 3 min read
Fars News Agency in a piece has written #Iran asked Iraqi parliament speaker Al-Halbousi to follow up the case of #Israel’s presence in #Iraq’s Kurdistan region, pressure KRG against normalizing ties with Tel Aviv, even ban & criminalize normalization with #Israel. 1 Image According to Fars: #Iran had sent at least 24 warning messages to Iraqi foreign ministry against Israel’s presence on its soil. Iran reportedly not only warned Iraq but also Azerbaijan, Bahrain and the UAE that Iran’s red line is Israel’s presence around its borders. 2 Image
Jan 1, 2021 9 tweets 9 min read
ONE year since General #Soleimani’s assassination what position #Iran holds in #Iraq today? A Thread 👇🏼

#Iran’s power in Iraq has been declining since the #IRGCQF head was targeted by #US and you don’t need to be a political analyst to recognize it. #Soleimani graffiti-Tehran: Congratulations to you for your It seems Iran can’t rely on its tradition Iraqi allies anymore. We saw it when Ammar al-Hakim, a man whose family always enjoyed #Iran’s generous support insisted on al-Kadhimi’s premiership, against wishes of Iran and PMU. Iran disliked al-Kadhimi. #Iraq
Mar 21, 2020 4 tweets 5 min read
Deputy Health Minister Alireza Raisian has criticized the #UK for not delivering millions of masks #Iran bought in preparations ahead of #Covid19 outbreak. The London govt. refused to deliver them citing US sanctions! While #US just criticizes #Iran and @jzarif calls their offer of help “hypothetical” and the #UK refuses to send the masks Iran had bought earlier, this is #China and few neighbors that helped Iran in time of combating #Covid19.
Jan 15, 2020 5 tweets 2 min read
With recent protests about plane crash subsiding I have to write a few lines, some may not like my conclusion, but that’s what I see as an observer since more than 10 yrs ago: number of people who attended these protests where hundreds not even 10s of thousands. The social class of this week’s protestors were mostly upper middle class, university students. I have told a friend or 2 that the are from the same classes who attended 2009 post-election protests in large number. I call them political protesters. They usually live in Tehran.
May 12, 2019 8 tweets 7 min read
President #Rouhani reportedly told Reformist figures at an Iftar party: The government has no authority in foreign politics, doesn’t know where/when it is allowed or not to negotiate; cultural policies, IRIB state TV, mosques & cyberspace aren’t under govt. control. #Iran #US #Rouhani tells Reformists -who insist on possibility of negotiations- that he opposed talks (with #US) under current circumstances. #Iran’s president tries to shed responsibility for #JCPOA defeat of his govt. & himself by telling Reformists they want sth that’s not in his power.
Mar 11, 2019 5 tweets 6 min read
Sobhe_no newspapers publishes some details about #Syria Pres. #Assad trip to Tehran February 25. According to report, Assad and #Soleimani left Damascus on same day with a small plane. Neither FM al-Muallem nor Syrian ambassador in #Iran were aware of the visit. In #Iran the number of people that knew about #Assad’s visit was less than fingers of 2 hands. #Rouhani was told a day before, but he preferred not to inform anyone. His chief of staff @Dr_Vaezi even didn’t know who he is going to welcome at the door of president office. #Syria