🇱🇧 Palestinian fruit picker. South of Sidon, Lebanon, 1982. Photo by Steve McCurry

🇦🇪🇮🇷 Las Fuerzas Armadas iraníes realizaron un ataque con drones contra el Aeropuerto Internacional de Dubái. Tenían como objetivo el radar de control y gestión del tráfico aéreo.

Me drinking from a paper straw to save the planet. The government:

In many remote Russian villages, upwards of a third of working-age men have left to fight in Ukraine. My story on how one community in rural Komi has been transformed by four years of Russia’s war theguardian.com/world/2026/mar…

Isfahan is now being bombed by the US & Israel

Crude oil prices have now risen by 53% over the past week.

Tehran 🌱

It took the US 20 years to replace the Taliban with the Taliban, but only 9 days to replace Khamenei with Khamenei

Behind Washington’s failure to predict the Iranian Revolution of 1979 lay a long history of hubris, strategic miscalculations and delusional thinking. How the United States lost Iran | Sergey Radchenko engelsbergideas.com/reviews/how-th…

‘La Murga’ fue la pieza que eligieron los trombonistas de Nueva York para despedir esta mañana a Willie Colón, aquí otro ángulo de este momento:

TRUMP SAYS HE HAS SOMEONE IN MIND TO REPLACE MOJTABA KHAMENEI — CBS AI generated video

I write in The New York Times it is perhaps not Venezuela but a fast-tracked version of Syria that has captured Trump's imagination, bombing to get to state collapse and an Iranian version of Ahmad al-Sharaa. But Mojtaba's selection as Sumpre Leader makes one thing clear: rather than

Palestine Writes mourns the passing of the great Prof. Walid Khalidi. Khalidi dedicated his life to the liberation of his people, tirelessly preserving Palestinian history, which Israeli sought to erase, and documenting colonial Jewish atrocities. Rest in power 🤍🇵🇸

🇮🇷 The ceiling art of the Abbasi Hotel in Isfahan, Iran. This hotel was built in the 1700s as a caravanserai in Iran.

For anyone interested, this site keeps a database (just over 900 entries atm) of Persian / Iranian literature in English translation. Mostly short stories and poetry but some novels and non-fiction too. persiantranslated.com/public/index.p…

1 Instead of producing an Iran's Delcy Rodriguez, the war has for now produced a budding Iranian Kim Jong Un. A profile of Mojtaba Khamenei, including from a Tehran source who's long known him. "They’ve just killed his family; He’s bloodthirsty now." theatlantic.com/international/…

Mt. Lebanon has the distinction of being the only word in the Old Persian corpus beginning with /l/. Darius wrote θarmiš hya naučaina hauwa Labanāna nāma kaufa hačā awanā abariya this mountain named Labanon, cedar-wood (?) was brought from it I like this sentence for ...

#ULTIMAHORA Pentágono dice al Congreso que la 1ra semana de guerra con Irán costó 11.300 millones de dólares a EEUU

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