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Academic, teacher and historian of West Asia @UniofYork | Fmr BA Postdoc Fellow & PhD @UniofOxford | RTs ≠ Endorsements | Tweets in personal capacity
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It's astounding how much Camus's writings on Algeria from 1950s resemble those of liberal Zionists today. The evasiveness & prevarication on depredations of settler colonialism, moral aspersions cast on resistance, the hostility to history & restorative justice are all there.
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@RichHeydarian
It’s more the fact that President Khatami assumed most Americans have actually read Tocqueville that makes me laugh.
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"Iran International" and its dubious foreign backers would be happy to see Iran reduced to a pile of rubble, ash and lifeless corpses as long as they’re at the top of it. What unhinged sadism and callous indifference to human suffering on display here.
Unbelievable.
Babak Eshaghi, the “Iran International correspondent in Israel,” scrawled “women, life, freedom” on a shattered wall amid the ruins of destroyed Palestinian homes in Gaza.
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Never forget, never forgive 🇮🇷🇮🇶🇵🇸🇱🇧🇸🇾
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Western media is institutionally racist. It has dehumanised Arabs & Muslims to such an extent it’s simply unmoved by mass slaughter, incineration & extermination of thousands upon thousands of children. It isn’t merely callous indifference but propaganda in service of genocide.
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It shouldn't but it still amazes me sometimes how little colonial playbook has changed in hundreds of years. "Decapitate the chieftain" and *imperial peace* will ensue. It's never worked and never will. As long as there's colonial domination people will struggle for liberation.
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“Every day, United States intelligence agencies receive and analyze more than 50,000 Hebrew-language phone calls, texts, and messages, issuing near real-time reports to the White House and other national security leaders.”
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Informative article on Iran's ballistic missiles strikes against Israel. This passage really stood out however:
"There’s also the long term conflict problem Israel has now. Interceptors are more expensive than ballistic missiles, and Iran is dramatically expanding their
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I've assigned
@abedtakriti
and Hicham Safieddine's excellent new chapter on 'Arab Socialism' in the 'Cambridge History of Socialism', Vol. 2, for class and am looking forward to see what students make of it.
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Literally just spoke to my wife in Tehran and she was in the middle of a bustling restaurant surrounded by families eating pizza together and enjoying their Saturday evening.
'Iseral is identifying panic in Teheran' (Israeli mainstream media) (supposedly, or yaani, due to fear of an imminent Israeli strike)
This is the level of deranged brainwashing the Israeli population is being fed their entire lives
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Happy to announce I've signed a book contract for a book on the life & thought of Jalal Al-e Ahmad for the prestigious 'Makers of the Muslim World' book series edited by Prof. Khaled El-Rouayheb (Harvard) & Prof. Sabine Schmidtke (Princeton)
@OneworldNews
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I wrote a short essay on Iran's recent presidential election for
@NewLeftReview
's Sidecar
#IranElection2024
#iran
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It's been interesting to observe a significant shift in tone and rhetoric from Dr Pezeshkian on foreign policy since first assuming the presidency.
He campaigned and pledged to turn over a new leaf and begin serious dialogue and diplomacy with European powers to achieve
📹 رئیسجمهور در همایش روز ملی صادرات: ما مصمم هستیم ایرانمان را بسازیم
کدام وجدان بیداری میپذیرد صهیونیستها دم از دموکراسی، حقوق بشر و آزادی بزنند در حالیکه وحشیانهترین کارها را انجام میدهند؟
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Deposed Shah worked extensively with Israelis on everything from intelligence to oil pipelines but was discrete for fear of public backlash. Today his son at forefront of Israeli Hasbara operation to convince Iranian people that US/Israeli bombs represent liberation. Just vile.
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Iranian govt is clearly signalling to Biden admin to restrain Netanyahu govt and not escalate further. Pezeshkian's statement was clear on this. But if this lame duck and incompetent US admin abdicates any and all responsibility to do this, as it has throughout this past year,
So what happens now after Iran’s 2nd direct missile attack on Israel. One thing is certain. Unlike after April 14, this time Israel won’t “take the win” as Biden urged Netanyahu. This time Israel’s response will be devastating, including perhaps strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites >
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When talking about the Israeli rampage across West Asia we should without exception use the term *US-backed*. If they can play that game, so can we, only that in their case it's invariably true.
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There was a lot in Ayatollah Khamenei's Friday prayer sermon but the six things which stood out to me were:
1) The call for pan-Islamic unity and his insistence that the people of the region shared a common enemy in Israel and the US.
2) The purpose of Ayatollah Khamenei
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Since Oct. 7 2023, U.S. spending on Israel’s military operations and related U.S operations in the region total at least $22.76 billion and counting.
In 2023, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute estimated Iran’s entire defence budget was $10.3 billion.
Many Iranians are furious that the regime has spent billions of dollars arming proxies that were meant to deter Israeli attacks but have instead invited them.
Some might well cheer if Israel struck back 👇
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Shouldn't be news to anyone, but Israel's relentless campaign of assassinations and violations of Iranian sovereignty did not begin in 2024. Israel has been waging similar campaigns for years. Here are a few of the more notable examples:
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Maxime Rodinson in "Islam and Capitalism" (1966): "Not only did the Muslim world know a capitalistic sector, but this sector was apparently the most extensive and highly developed in history before the establishment of the world market created by the Western European bourgeoisie,
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Meet the IDF's new official spokesman for Iranian affairs. Persian subtitles and all.
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@LSEalumni
if you think you're going to get a single penny out of me while university management is actively throttling students' freedom of expression around pro-Palestine advocacy work and anti-war activism, I've got news for you.
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The
@MiddleEastEye
piece is quoting "senior Shia figures". What does that even mean? Elderly Shi'a men at the local husayniyya?
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Reza Pahlavi and his pathetic little band of flunkies are well en route to reaching Rajavi cult levels of betrayal. History will not be kind to them.
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You're clearly out of your depth here. Pahlavi sold his soul to Israelis & integral to Hasbara campaign ahead of anticipated military assault on Iran. Iranians deeply polarised regarding govt but overwhelming majority recoil at turncoats working in service of foreign aggressors.
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Another crucial passage:
"So despite the mockery of Iran’s missile accuracy, my personal takeaway is the opposite of what people seem to be concluding about this whole episode: Iran has proven that its missiles are effective and that they can indeed hurt Israel. No one should be
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Read ridiculous
@nytimes
piece alleging Iran's foreknowledge of Oct. 7. Something it has always denied. The "paper of record" boasts documents in question were "verified" by Israeli military, same military supposedly "investigating itself" for an ever expanding list of war crimes
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Even fmr Israeli PM Ehud Barak is on record admitting that if he were Palestinian he would have joined the armed resistance. This piece by Joseph Massad is instructive on this question:
Ta-Nehisi Coates suggests he's not above taking part in an October 7-style attack:
"And I grow up under that oppression and that poverty and the wall comes down. Am I also strong enough or even constructed in such a way where I say this is too far, I don't know that I am."
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An incredible achievement! Heartfelt congratulations to
@DanielDenvir
and
@abedtakriti
for a series that will hopefully shape public knowledge and discussion of the radical histories of the region going forward and for a generation to come.
Here it is: all of Thawra in one place, on one feed, permanently: my 40-hour history of 20th century Arab politics with
@abedtakriti
; the nationalist, communist, Baathist currents that mobilized against Western imperialism and Zionist settler colonialism.
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My brief analysis in
@NewLeftReview
of the fast moving situation in West Asia focusing on the prospects for escalation between
#Iran
and
#Israel
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#Palestine
#Gaza
#Lebanon
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This all happened before the Iranian Revolution of 1979, the second Israeli invasion and occupation of Lebanon in 1982, and the emergence of Hezbollah in the first half of the 1980s.
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Publication day! The new and expanded edition of Fred Halliday’s “Iran: Dictatorship and Development” with an introduction from yours truly is officially out and available for purchase from all good bookshops
@OneworldNews
#Iran
#history
#Iran_history
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Israel with European support brought nuclear weapons to West Asia. Trump & Netanyahu trashed JCPOA, calibrated to limit Iran's nuclear enrichment activities. Europe did little to nothing to challenge this. If Iran one day makes strategic shift, the West only has itself to blame.
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My latest article "Āl-e Ahmad's Faustian Bargain? Antonio Gramsci, the “Progressive Clergy,” and the Search for Hegemony in Late-Pahlavi Iran" has just been published in South Atlantic Quarterly as part of a special issue on "Empire and Radical International Thought" edited by
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Note how
@FT
highlights *sectarian* differences between Iran and Egypt as if these were the reason for frosty diplomatic relations, obfuscating the basic ideological and political divide separating them for more than four decades, namely, their positions on US/Israel. A year
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Timmerman's account of truly bizarre and cockamamie "plan" drawn up in the 1980s for failson Reza Pahlavi to establish a parallel Iranian govt on the island of Kish backed by the CIA & U.S. warships.
I genuinely laughed out loud when I read this bit though: "When Ansary had
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Needless to say, if this "Iran International" propagandist is in Gaza, he must be embedded with the IDF.
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Revisiting this volume after a while. Have cited it often.
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Notion that Washington “is not fully aware of Israel’s intentions” sounds preposterous. Widely reported commander of CENTCOM, General Michael Kurilla, flew to Israel to literally help the Netanyahu govt plot its attack on Iran after True Promise II. Do they take us for idiots?
MBS has conveyed a message from Washington to Iran's FM on the Israeli retaliation, an Iranian source tells me.
The message says Washington is not fully aware of Israel's intentions, but has assured Tehran it won't participate in an attack on the Iranian nuclear sites.
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Despite years of propaganda from BBC Persian, Manoto TV and "Iran" intl: "In this new survey, most respondents say they support Iran’s military presence in the Middle East (61 percent) and that they believe Iran’s military presence in the Middle East makes them safer at home (69
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Hard to deny the powerful optics and message at work here: "Tehran is steadfast and will stand by its allies in the resistance, Israeli and US threats be damned."
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You'd think the huge embarrassment to Middle East Eye & its "ten sources" might make some think twice before jumping to conclusions and peddling such obvious nonsense in the future, but it won't. Same people who relentlessly promoted it aren't interested in truth or plausibility.
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More literally "mujtahidzadah" means someone borne of a “mujtahid”, usually a learned cleric with the capacity to exercise “independent reasoning” & derive religious rulings that comprise part of Islamic legal canon. She’s neither learned, nor capable of exercising reason. Just a
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In 1983 failson Reza Pahlavi sought to convince CIA director William Casey to fund a network of former SAVAK agents to gather intelligence inside Iran and hatch a harebrained scheme "to return him to power".
Casey ultimately agreed to pay him a monthly stipend.
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New acquisition. Looking forward to diving in.
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I’ve finally received hard copies of the new and expanded edition of Fred Halliday’s “Iran: Dictatorship and Development”, a labour of love, for which I’ve written an article length introduction
#iran
#newbooks
#fredhalliday
#modernhistory
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From Aimé Césaire’s classic “Discourse on Colonialism” (1955):
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Fanon's address to the French left remains as powerful as ever:
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“the more things change, the more they stay the same”
Israel is not invading Lebanon, it is liberating it.
This is a historic moment, not only for the Israelis, but for the Lebanese, Arabs, and Eastern Christians.
To not understand this is to have lost all moral and political compass.
#StandWithIsrael
#Lebanon
#IDF
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““Israel is also a top ‘foreign malign influence’ target,” the senior defense intelligence official says. “It actively seeks to influence U.S. public opinion.” The official says that though U.S. counter-disinformation efforts against Russia and Iran dwarf the anti-Israel effort,
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Edward Said on his meeting with Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah:
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