#Iran ’s retaliation against #Israel last week marked the first time any nation directly targeted Israel since Saddam Hussein’s 1991 attack.

Borzou Daragahi 🖊🗒 outlines how the attack helped prove Iran’s air superiority.

Read his take below: ⬇️
atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/iransour…

'A false sense of urgency tricks the body into reacting as if it’s in a threatening situation, activating the “fight-or-flight”. Your breathing becomes faster, your blood pressure and heart rate go up, and you lose the ability to regulate emotions' nationalgeographic.com/science/articl…

#Iran ’s retaliation against #Israel last week marked the first time any nation directly targeted Israel since Saddam Hussein’s 1991 attack.

Borzou Daragahi 🖊🗒 outlines how the attack helped prove Iran’s air superiority.

Read his take below: ⬇️
atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/iransour…

Catch up with The World This Week 🧑🏻🌏 where we ask ~

🇸🇩 How can a conflict regarded as the world’s biggest humanitarian crisis become known as the forgotten war?

🇮🇱 🇮🇷 With the clandestine Israel Iran war out of the shadows, what’s next?

🇺🇸Plus we discuss the unprecedented

Iran once had air inferiority. After its attack on Israel, it flies high. My piece for the Atlantic Council. atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/iransour…

Message sent: Iran’s armed forces chief of staff says Tehran plans no more action against Israel in response to attack on Damascus diplomatic outpost 10 days ago. en.irna.ir/news/85443708/…

“No power in the world seems capable of cooling down a Middle East aflame.” The best to hope for is to “place modest limits on the escalatory actions of the various players in the Middle East.” atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasour…

BREAKING — Erdogan concedes defeat.

“We will obey the will of the people as we have done in the past. The people said their last words. We will work with the mayors who won the elections. We will self-critique ourselves. We had setbacks.”

A total blowout for Erdoğan’s party in Istanbul elections. It it was obvious for months that the AKP had no path to victory in Istanbul. Demographics totally against them.

Turkey opposition leads in Istanbul local vote, initial results show reuters.com/world/middle-e…

“The expansive and experimental effort is being used to conduct mass surveillance in Gaza, collecting and cataloging the faces of Palestinians without their knowledge or consent.” nytimes.com/2024/03/27/tec…

Muhtar elections: Why Turkey’s oldest and lowest post still matters open.substack.com/pub/turkeyreca…

.'The horror at Crocus City Hall obviously has nothing to do with gays or Ukrainians or any other of Putin’s enemies of choice. 'Timothy Snyder open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/m…

🇹🇷🤝🇪🇬 The carefully choreographed meeting between Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Egyptian counterpart, Abdelfattah Elsisi, served as a final burial ceremony for what was once an emerging third axis in the Middle East, writes The Atlantic Council Middle East Initiatives’s Borzou Daragahi 🖊🗒.

Read more. ⬇️
atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasour…

Elon Musk should buy TikTok and destroy it like he did Twitter

France makes abortion a constitutional right in historic Versailles vote theguardian.com/world/2024/mar…

Iran's hardline Fars News Agency claims 40% of eligible voters took part in the parliamentary and assembly of experts election on Friday. Highly doubtful, but still a far cry from the 70% who voted in historic 2000 elections

A photo of Navalny has been taped to a tree at Sandarmokh, the site in northwest Russia where thousands of victims of Stalin's Great Terror were buried in mass graves.

Photo via t.me/Govorit_NeMosk…

Zooming in on Ingenuity's final resting place among the sand ripples in Neretva Vallis.

Full resolution panorama: flic.kr/p/2pwyXGU

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Simeon Schmauß
#ThanksIngenuity #MarsHelicopter