Ali Larajani was last seen in public on Friday during a government rally in Thran. Proof to Iranians that their government was still functioning and unafraid. Today, Israel killed him.>> Prime Minister Netanyahu announcing it, saying, "We are undermining the regime with the hope of giving the Iranian people a chance to remove it." Larajani was a hardliner with a $10 million US bounty on his head. He was close to Iran's Supreme Leader and he oversaw much of January's crackdown when state enforcers known as t ...

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Heard a thesis today that political instability is bullish humanoid robotics because foreign workers can suddenly turn political while robots cannot. ...

“When the first bombs dropped we were happy. We didn’t want this regime. We didn’t choose it. After 47 years we thought it was finally reaching its end”. 1843 receives a first-hand account from Iran https://t.co/xDO6LSC5j0 ...

Iran's leadership is in no better shape. Desperate and hiding, they've gone underground, cowering. That's what rats do.We know the new so-called not so supreme leader is wounded and likely disfigured. He put out a statement yesterday, a weak one actually, but there was no voice and there was no video. It was a written statement.He called for unity. Apparently, killing tens of thousands of protesters is his kind of unity. Iran has plenty of cameras and plenty of voice recorders.Why a written statement. I thi ...

A prolonged natural gas pipeline leak in Peru is suddenly laying bare the costs of its chronic political instability https://t.co/3LupGtXM5g ...

A push to end child marriage globally is slowing, with political, social and economic instability threatening hard-won gains for young women over the past three decades. 🔗 https://t.co/rqz1iTSrX7 https://t.co/Rl9YW9m7JI ...

Iran’s regime has never looked so weak, some Kurds argue, nor the alignment of foreign forces so favourable. Will Kurdish fighters cross the border? https://t.co/drJ1t1qfis ...

A push to end child marriage globally is slowing, with political, social and economic instability threatening hard-won gains for young women over the past three decades. 🔗 https://t.co/pwQJoBhk9P https://t.co/eT7ozkSCkS ...

Today we saw yet another day of intense airstrikes and bombings by the United States and Israel hitting literally thousands of targets inside Iran as this war stretches into its second day. In response, U .S. Central Command says Iran has launched retaliatory strikes on Israel, Kuwait, Iraq, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and on U .S.military bases on and around the region. One of those retaliatory strikes on a U .S. military base in Kuwait led to the first known American casualties since the star ...