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@aibstv
Presenter of the Year •
@cfr_org
It appears when a country is in trouble, it turns on its women for distraction - look at America, look at Iran. Here’s to women around the world in various industries who are putting themselves out there and speaking up for change. Tag and tweet.
Sign of the times: hearing the Taliban is in the market for a lobbyist in DC, offering a lucrative contract. The narrative around their financial situation, is that they’re broke.
To the people who think the women lead revolution in Iran will just die down and everyone will just carry on with their lives and forget those who’ve lost theirs: how many times has a woman reminded you of something you said/did/thought years ago? Women don’t forget.
🚨 NEW SERIES 🚨 Season 1 of show I’m hosting on women & war: “Women Building Peace.” We directly connect women in conflict zones with powerful women in the intl community who can help. Today:
#Afghanistan
w/
@HillaryClinton
, ‘Lama,’ Rangina Hamidi.
@giwps
“The entire wooden interior of the 12th century landmark is burning and likely to be destroyed.”
#NotreDame
spox says. Devastating during Holy Week. I filmed this after attending mass in the cathedral this past Christmas. So beautiful
@BBCWorld
#IranRevoIution2022
is lead by women. There are many smart, well spoken Iranian women who are experts on their own existence to explain to the world what is happening in Iran. We need to see them on air/on stage more. Reply with names & recommendations.
#IranProtests
#مهسا_امینی
Here’s what happened on our
@delta
flight from
#Miami
to
#Atlanta
tonight after a passenger refused to wear a mask as per policy and then gets into altercation with flight attendant. Video via
@kingcoreythefirst
on IG
In my sit down with
@mikepompeo
, I asked him about America’s global image after the Jan 6 Capitol riot esp in places like
#Iran
where US sees itself as setting an example. He said “I'm glad you asked this question. I actually think that question is basically Chinese propaganda.”
Soleimani had been in the crosshairs of US military several times but was spared. National security officials during the Obama era were always concerned such a move would lead to
#Iran
activating terror cells around the world in retaliation. I’m told Trump aware, still made call
War with
#Iran
doesn’t just mean bombs and bullets. We live online and they’ve been perfecting their cyber warfare craft. Every citizen needs to read this.
Senator
@MittRomney
tells me in a sit down interview re Khashoggi: “Look this a journalist working on American soil, working for an American publication and he was murdered and dismembered, this is something we can't just look beyond. There has to be a consequence of that.”
This is
@CNN
at its finest, keeping us in the Balkans up to speed on the twists and turns of what looked like the beginnings of a coup against Putin in Russia by his own mercenaries, anchored by the consummate expert on foreign affairs and conflict,
@amanpour
.
“Im a lifelong Republican but more moderate and Libertarian and voted Gary Johnson last time bc I thought Trump was unfit but right now I cant wait to vote for him in 2020 just out of spite over this” - John Barnett, a South Florida voter, tells me re
#MuellerReport
Thank you for sharing
@AndrewYang
. What the women are doing inside Iran - and those outside like
@NazaninBoniadi
whom I spoke with for this piece - is remarkable, and inspiring others around to world.
“Despite the brutal crackdown, they’re showing no signs of slowing down. I think this is a historic moment, I truly believe this is the first female-led revolution of our time.”
@KianpourWorld
A moment of applause for these people who worked through the night counting ballots in super tight race for president in Fulton County Atlanta Georgia.
#election2020
American University of
#Afghanistan
Pres Ian Bickford awards Secretary
@HillaryClinton
honorary degree tonight at its 15th anniversary. The school is now in exile since Taliban takeover but the mission lives on: education will prevail, especially for women.
@FriendsofAUAF
Dear
@elonmusk
, where is the translate button so I can see what all my new Macedonian friends are saying? I can’t tell if they’re glad or mad that I’ve fallen in love with their country thanks to a spontaneous trip to Lake Ohrid… 😂😅
I’m 120km across the Gulf from Iran (the distance of DC to Philly) and I’m getting messages from inside Iran that it’s like a warzone. I’m also getting messages asking where is the Western media coverage of
#Iranprotests2022
(ironic, given Supreme Leader blamed US media for them)
Iran's Generation Z is leading an unprecedented social movement in the Middle East these days and the outside world barely seems to know about it.
#MahsaAmini
#مهسا_امینی
🔥 Salam from the Atashgah Zoroastrian Fire Temple in Azerbaijan. Shakespeare asked what’s in a name? Well mine is Suzanne/سوزان which is in the fire family in Persian… and so are my sun/moon/rising signs (the Zoroastrians were big into astrology)
Both
@Airbnb
and
@HotelTonight
cancelling reservations in DC during inauguration week, in light of officials asking people not to travel to the area after reports of more planned disruption by armed militias
@yashar
@SavannahGuthrie
Savannah literally launched my career and helped get me into NBC as a new college grad. She’s as kind as she is a total journalism powerhouse.
Outside Walter Reed now, POTUS to be discharged post COVID treatment & after doing a drive by for his supporters out here, which his former lawyer
@MichaelCohen212
criticized on BBC today. When
@KattyKay_
asked if Trump had any redeeming qualities: “I’ll have to get back to you.”
Our lovely hotel staffer recommended this amazing restaurant run by his cousin overlooking Lake Ohrid 🇲🇰 . The meal was divine and the whole thing cost only £10 🤯
Sad to leave, even though I’m getting massively trolled for expressing my love for this place with sarcastic humor
What the hell is happening in Portland, and why isn't every American who believes in the constitution, states rights, federalism, freedom, individual liberty and rule of law not screaming for answers loudly? Yes, Republican leaders, I mean you especially.
I can’t seem to find this hotel on social media - we found it via
@bookingcom
(which we love cc
@MaryamM
) - but if my new Macedonian friends (and trolls mad at me for my sarcastic humor about how amazing Lake Ohrid is) would help spread the word as they’re only a couple months
We think it could never happen again. But if we look at the atrocities happening in Ethiopia and China for example, we quickly remember that without the accountability of the international community, how quickly things can turn.
Today is
#HolocaustRemembranceDay
. We will never forget the 6 million Jews who were murdered in Hitler's concentration camps.
And we must never again let this crime be carried out against the Jewish people or any others who are persecuted around the world.
Just got news alert re Trump picking fights. Also just got advice re dealing w toddler tantrums: the less invested & upset you get, the quicker storm passes. The more attention child gets for his behavior, even if it’s negative, the more he’ll do it cos he thinks it’s a game
Raging protestors surround and nearly knock down Senator Rand Paul. They scream: “Say her name.” As it happens, in June, he introduced the the Justice for Breonna Taylor Act to ban "no-knock" warrants.
.
@ilangoldenberg
: source tells me in 9/2013 a top level mtg took place re striking Syria. Sr NSC official expressed concern re Iran response. Strike was not made. We now know secret talks were underway for a deal during that time. Appears to be implicitly if not explicitly linked
Beautiful night in Baku on the Caspian Sea. Loving country
#75
🇦🇿 on journey to 💯.
Some of my American followers have DMed me after watching my IG stories surprised at how stunning this place is.
Time for a
@travelchannel
show!
An Iranian official told me in 2018 that
#Iran
is a Democratic nation and protests are part of democracy. Executing a protestor is not democratic. Torturing him into confessing to a crime to then justify the execution is not democratic.
Prince Reza Pahlavi tells the BBC he's in direct contact w members of the IRGC in
#Iran
who have given up hope. "Thank God for social media - that's what will save our planet."
It appears Piers Morgan’s Twitter account has been hacked and has been posting for the last hour. It’s 4am in UK where he’s based so who knows how long this will go on for…
Re Jan 6 Capitol riot,
@mikepompeo
told me, “America has always been a rambunctious place” but they finished their work, did their job.“That was a special day where we demonstrated the capacity and resolve to have our democratic institution function and complete their mission.”
Iranian authorities deny the use of excessive force. They claim that some of those killed during the protests committed suicide. They lie. They brutally use excessive force in a lot of situations. Like this:
#AmahsaAmini
#IranRevolution
#مهسا_امینی
#Iran
First time in the Caspian Sea. This plus the Mediterranean Sea = me.
Down this coastline is the border with Iran, where I’m told there’s concern about growing regime influence on the people in the south of Azerbaijan.
On the Armenia border, a conflict continues in the
When reporting abroad, to be called propaganda when questioning authority is expected. But not in US, the beacon of democracy. Now journos ask why only in US is gun violence so bad & get verbally attacked. If you don’t like the question, make sure it’s one we don’t have to ask.
Keep your Lake Como 🇮🇹
I raise you, Lake Ohrid 🇲🇰
Visit this untouched gem in North Macedonia before it too becomes a tourist trap
I’m officially into the 70s on my journey to 💯 countries
Good on
@theJeremyVine
for calling out these ‘keyboard warriors’ who for days in the UK have been seemingly gleefully, publicly smearing multiple people around various stories, peddling unconfirmed facts. Words matter and what you say here is forever.
So
@elonmusk
has blocked the reporter who broke this story,
@MarquardtA
“SpaceX's suggestion it will stop funding Starlink also comes amid rising concern in Ukraine over Musk's allegiance. Musk recently tweeted a controversial peace plan…”
I've been speaking with US intel and nat sec sources for
@bbcworldservice
documentary I'm presenting on Iran. Can categorically say they are not organised enough to have been able to pull off orchestrating this wholly spontaneous event. Some may even wish they could take credit.
Is there a history of US mercenaries, like some states in the region including the Saudis, supporting rioters in European countries? But such support against Iran has happened repeatedly. How can some people not see the US & Israel’s hands in this event?
Donald Trump’s personal lawyer,
@MichaelCohen212
, got a secret payment of at least $400k to arrange "talks" between the Ukrainian president and President Trump. Our BBC exclusive with my colleague Paul Wood.
Power of the people, your voice matters:
#Iran
judiciary may halt protesters' executions after social media storm - BBC News cc
@NazaninBoniadi
who was at the forefront of sounding the alarm on this
“Afghan women with internet access will now be able to access over 1,200 free courses on the FutureLearn platform from the best of British higher education, for the duration of the Taliban’s ban on female higher education”
Please share widely 👆🏻📝
Former US Amb to
#Russia
@McFaul
makes important point: we no longer exclusively live in the physical world, we live online. There’s a serious need for a digital military-like defense against cyber invasion.
Imagine if those dozen Russian soldiers indicted by Mueller crosses our Canadian border and stole a lot of physical stuff. Why do we treat the cyber world so differently? Because we can’t see them attacking us?
On the eve of the 20th anniv of 9/11 attacks, can’t stop thinking of the parallels of the people so desperate in
#Afghanistan
clinging on to a plane taking off … and those jumping out windows of the twin towers as they collapsed after the planes hit. Tragically full circle.
And
@AFCWimbledon
win! This team has an amazing history - a story of how the fans took back ownership after it was sold and moved. So now it’s owned and operated solely by the fans and not a wealthy person who just wants a football team.
“Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit” said Oscar Wilde .. and apparently doesn’t always travel well,
@ExpresMK
😂
I arrived in Lake Ohrid June 25th, fell in love and declared it to the world here (and on my IG and FB)
Two days later on June 27th, I had the
The world’s attention has been on the Iranian women protesting for the last month, sparked by death of
#MahsaAmini
Next month, it’ll be on American women
Midterm election: Women know not being involved is no longer an option by
@natsechobbyist
This reminds me of
@Scaramucci
telling us on
@BBCWorld
that Trump doesn’t actually want to do the job of President and doesn’t want to be re elected but also doesn’t want to be a “loser.”
Basically, he refuses to read the President's Daily Brief and asks for oral briefing on only issues where there's a "strategic decision" to be made.
This is dereliction of duty
@mrdanwalker
I’m beginning to think a lot of the virtue signaling is less about caring for human rights and more about annoyance over the lack of alcohol. But I second that it’s the safest I’ve felt at a World Cup and it’s my third.
Here’s the first look at the first-ever recovery issue of
@Variety
This issue is out tomorrow and focuses on navigating sober life in Hollywood.
Most important for me,
@andylassner
shares his recovery story.
I’m very, very proud of him
Will post Andy’s story in the morning ❤️
There’s been criticism of Western media for being slow to cover
#IranProtests2022
. But American women *are* speaking.
@HumaAbedin
, long time aide / close friend to
@HillaryClinton
, speaks to
@jaketapper
, who usually is quite good about covering the Middle East when others aren’t
Thank you
@HumaAbedin
for your comments on Iran, recognizing that this is about much more than the hijab law, and that Iranians are rising up against the Islamic Republic.
You’ve always been such a good friend to Iranians…including me.
@jaketapper
#MahsaAmini
#ZhinaAmini
.
@mashrou3leila
nailed their LA performance. Missing my beautiful Beirut - thanks to
@AleemMaqbool
who always has his finger on the pulse of the best shows!
👏🏽
@Lis_Smith
: “Democrats love to bitch that we don’t have a bench. And you know what their problem is? They’re just not looking in the right places. The Democratic bench isn’t going to be found on “Meet the Press” every Sunday, and it’s not going to be found on cable news.”
Remember the My Pillow Guy? As we were sitting down for this interview, he was eager to speak with
@MichaelCohen212
who was the unlikely belle of the ball at a DNC 2024 full of influencers. Watch our News with Suz extended interview