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Join our @dannypostel.bsky.social this Thursday for a forum with Iranian experts Kaveh Ehsani, Sepehr Vakil  and refugee/immigrant advocate Ali Tarokh as they discuss the Iran war and its geopolitical implications.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/war-with-iran-a-panel-discussion-tickets-1984804955050

“It seems, now, that the United States has its own regional policy that is divergent from Gulf countries.” @alamer.bsky.social joins @faisalalyafai.bsky.social on The Lede to discuss how the Iran war has come to the Gulf https://newlinesmag.com/podcast/how-the-iran-war-came-to-the-gulf/

Along an Increasingly Tense Border, Calls for Revenge Are Mounting As Syrian families flee home from Lebanon, anger toward Hezbollah is resurfacing

NEW: As tensions mount on the Lebanon-Syria border and the region braces for escalation, thousands of Syrians are making the crossing home from exile, and some are threatening to settle scores with Hezbollah, reports Paloma Dinechin for @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/reportage/al...

A Red Staircase of Imagination? The Lebanon we loved was a palace of myths, legends and lies. But it was, and is, the home we chase. In the Beirut blast, we all lost something. Some of us lost everything. Since then, overcome by los...

From the @newlinesmag.bsky.social archives:
Can the Lebanese find home again?
Anthony Elghossain remembers a Lebanon that never really was, while reflecting on how even people’s nostalgia was lost after the 2020 Beirut explosion. newlinesmag.com/first-person...

How the Assad Regime Disappeared Thousands of Children New testimony and unearthed records expose a deliberate policy of family separation and years of systematic abuse

During the 14-year war that killed more than half a million people and displaced 13 million more, the Assad regime also forcibly disappeared more than 150,000 Syrians.
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War with Iran — A Panel Discussion Join New Lines Magazine and Nighthawk for a forum with Iranian experts examining the war and its regional and geopolitical implications

🚨Join our @dannypostel.bsky.social this Saturday in Chicago for a forum with Iranian experts Kaveh Ehsani, @sepehrvakil.bsky.social and @alitarokh.bsky.social as they discuss the Iran war and its regional and geopolitical implications.
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The Unresolved Contradictions Ali Khamenei Leaves Behind Iranians are left to reckon with the political order the supreme leader shaped, while the impending succession places the Islamic republic’s future in question

With the death of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Iranians must reckon with the political order he shaped and the unresolved contradictions he left behind newlinesmag.com/argument/the...

Airstrike Hit Iranian Emergency Medical Base in Shiraz, Killing 20 Open-source evidence and satellite imagery show that the March 5 strike destroyed a first responders’ outpost in Zibashahr Park, leaving an identified military site 200 meters away untouched

A new investigation by @ntabrizy.bsky.social and @chrisosieck.bsky.social finds that an airstrike last Thursday destroyed an Iranian emergency medical base in a Shiraz park, while a nearby military site 200 meters away remained untouched. newlinesmag.com/spotlight/ai...

Hezbollah’s Attack on Israel Drags Lebanon Back to War After Hezbollah launched rockets toward Israel to avenge the killing of Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Israeli airstrikes resumed across Lebanon, killing civilians and displacing some 700,000 peo...

"There is an awful sense of deja vu, a weariness in a country that had barely started to recover from its last war just over one year ago. The images playing out are painfully familiar."
Alex MAstley on Lebanon being pulled back into war: newlinesmag.com/spotlight/he...

The Limited Power of Iran’s President Over the years, the already-constrained power of the country’s elected leader has been steadily eroded further

NEW: Iran’s president is elected by popular vote, but his power is subordinate to the (unelected) supreme leader. Even with that caveat, the decision-making of the office has been steadily eroded over the years, writes Menahem Merhavy for @newlinesmag.bsky.social . newlinesmag.com/argument/the...

How the Assad Regime Disappeared Thousands of Children New testimony and unearthed records expose a deliberate policy of family separation and years of systematic abuse

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Morgan Laffer reports on years of systematic abuse and the new government’s inadequate efforts to uncover the truth, as new testimony lays bare the machinery that hid Syria’s missing children and destroyed their identities. newlinesmag.com/reportage/ho...

How the Iran War Came to the Gulf Podcast Episode · The Lede · 9 March · 1h 4m

"As the war on Iran enters its 2nd week, Bloomberg Economics M-East lead Dina Esfandiary and Saudi analyst Sultan Alamer join Faisal Al Yafai to discuss how the war has come to the Gulf, upending years of careful diplomacy." (The Lede, @newlinesmag.bsky.social

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How the Iran War Came to the Gulf Bloomberg Economics Middle East lead Dina Esfandiary and Saudi analyst Sultan Alamer join Faisal Al Yafai to discuss how the war has come to the Gulf, upending years of careful diplomacy.

NEW: The Gulf billed itself as an island of stability. The war in I ran shattered that image. Dina Esfandiary and @alamer.bsky.social join @faisalalyafai.bsky.social on The Lede to discuss what comes next. newlinesmag.com/podcast/how-...

How the Assad Regime Disappeared Thousands of Children New testimony and unearthed records expose a deliberate policy of family separation and years of systematic abuse

NEW: New testimony lays bare the machinery that hid Syria’s missing children and destroyed their identities. Morgan Laffer reports on years of systematic abuse and the new government’s inadequate efforts to uncover the truth, for @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/reportage/ho...

This is the “lethal and precise” strikes of a warped, ethically bankrupt regime of evil, anti-Christian paedophiles and criminals. This is emblematic of this warped regime of clowns

“It’s targeting 101…”

My analysis for @newlinesmag.bsky.social on yet another deliberate strike against civilian infrastructure in Iran—this time hitting an entire emergency medical compound.

But Why? By whom? And where is the accountability? These answers and more we must continue to demand.

Airstrike Hit Iranian Emergency Medical Base in Shiraz, Killing 20 Open-source evidence and satellite imagery show that the March 5 strike destroyed a first responders' outpost in Zibashahr Park, leaving an identified military site 200 meters away untouched.

"Firing off on a hospital."

"Zibashahr Park is home to a base for emergency first responders."

"16 members of the Islamic Azad University community [..] were killed in the strike."
#Iran #USA #Israel #Military #Healthcare #Education

Airstrike Hit Iranian Emergency Medical Base in Shiraz, Killing 20 Open-source evidence and satellite imagery show that the March 5 strike destroyed a first responders’ outpost in Zibashahr Park, leaving an identified military site 200 meters away untouched

NEW: Satellite imagery and open-source evidence show a March 5 airstrike destroyed an Iranian emergency medical base in a Shiraz park, while a military site 200 meters away was untouched. New investigation by @ntabrizy.bsky.social and @chrisosieck.bsky.social : newlinesmag.com/spotlight/ai...

‼️Catch up on the latest stories and analysis about the Middle East and beyond in our new Running Notes section
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Hezbollah’s Attack on Israel Drags Lebanon Back to War After Hezbollah launched rockets toward Israel to avenge the killing of Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Israeli airstrikes resumed across Lebanon, killing civilians and displacing some 700,000 peo...

"Israel’s retaliation was swift and brutal. Within hours, Israeli airstrikes were pummeling Beirut’s suburbs, south Lebanon, and the eastern Bekaa Valley — areas where Hezbollah enjoys widespread support. And it was not long before the Israeli military’s evacuation orders."
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How the Damascus Dossier Investigation Failed Families of Syria’s Forcibly Disappeared The landmark international effort has been nominated for a prestigious award, but those living with the effects of Assad’s killing machine called it a media stunt

Important. À lire.

Journalisme et justice.

L’utilisation journalistique de ces documents sensibles peut altérer la chaîne de traçabilité des preuves et en fragiliser la crédibilité lors de futures poursuites.

Epic Fury in the MAGA-verse Over Iran Many in the MAGA-verse feel betrayed. Opinion within the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement that makes up U.S. President Donald Trump’s political base was already divided over attacking Iran in the run-up to the war, but Monday’s revelations that Israel drove the Trump administration’s d...

Many in the MAGA-verse feel betrayed by the Trump administration’s Iran war. The uproar raises a basic question: Is MAGA about principles — like opposition to regime-change wars — or whatever Trump says? @dannypostel.bsky.social  and Alec D’Angelo explore.

Emirati Billionaire Questions Iran War as Dubai Influencers Shape Public Narrative Emirati billionaire Khalaf Al Habtoor’s rare public critique of the U.S. over the Iran war stands out in a region where governments have issued social media restrictions and influencers have emerged as unofficial spokespeople.

"Much of the Gulf’s public-facing response to the conflict has been led by content creators based in the region. So much so that it may not be far-fetched to see them as unofficial spokespeople for many of the region’s major cities." | @surbhigupta.bsky.social 

"You won't see 1979-style revolution. But the revolutionary regime built out of 1979 will be gone." @arashtehran.bsky.social joins @faisalalyafai.bsky.social to talk Iran on this week’s episode of The Lede.
 https://newlinesmag.com/podcast/in-the-shadow-of-the-ayatollahs-death-war-comes-to-iran/

The Spirit of Tehran While Israel’s bombings have shaken the Iranian capital and killed hundreds of civilians, its people have displayed care, resilience and quiet determination to carry on

From the @newlinesmag.bsky.social  archives:
Israel’s 2025 bombings shook Tehran & killed hundreds of civilians. Sociologist Asef Bayat reflects on his hometown and its people’s spirit of care, resilience and quiet determination to carry on.

Iran Has Always Been More Than the Islamic Republic As Israel and the US go to war against his home country, an Iranian journalist reckons with its image abroad, its civilization and its diaspora

"The war on Iran is an ideological battle in which moral boundaries have been breached unconscionably, and the sheer disregard for human life that’s on display is only one aspect of it." | Kourosh Ziabari

"You won't see 1979-style revolution. But the revolutionary regime built out of 1979 will be gone." Almost a week into the war, what might a new #Iran look like? @arashtehran.bsky.social tells me and Negar Mortazavi on the @newlinesmag.bsky.social podcast. Full ep: newlinesmag.com/podcast/in-t...

A Tale of Two ‘Ketamine Queens’ The story of Jasveen Sangha, facing imminent sentencing for supplying the dose that killed Matthew Perry, has echoes of another — the tragic case of the heiress Marcia Moore

The tragic tales of two “ketamine queens” born 55 years apart – Marcia Moore (b. 1928) and Jasveen Sangha (b. 1983) – map the shifting history of drug use in the West over more than half a century, writes Joanne Drayton.