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Researcher focused on Syria and terrorism | History digressions, particularly about the Soviet Union | Likes are bookmarks. RTs = ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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    18 Dec 2018

    The waged an undeclared war against through terrorists and rejectionist states. Since the end of the Cold War, Russia has retained alliances with such actors, notably , and sees Israel as an extension of America, the "Main Adversary".

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    5 hours ago

    EXCL: Watch Seumas Milne suggest collusion between Israel and ISIS. At June 2015 event Milne responded to a question on “the ISIS franchise and its relationship to Israel”. He begins by saying “I think that’s a very interesting phenomenon myself”

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    10 hours ago

    Ain Larouz, Idlib today. Photo by a friend

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    Apr 24

    An armed Muj posing for camera. Afghanistan, Nangarhar Province, 1990.

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    9 hours ago
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    My grandfather was Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's personal photographer and it's always a trip to find old photos of him at my grandparents house

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  6. 9 hours ago

    In April 2018, Reza Shah's body was [probably] found in part of his mausoleum, which the revolutionaries vandalised after they took over. It created something of a problem for the theocracy, as does anything these days reminding people of the monarchy.

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  7. 9 hours ago

    Another old picture of Reza Shah Pahlavi. He ruled according to a secularizing program modeled on that of his great hero, Mustafa Kemal in . He banned the veil, had a short way with the clergy. Has become something of a symbol for the Iranian opposition at present.

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  8. 10 hours ago

    A friend I trust posted this and I still had to look it up because I couldn't believe it. OCT 2001: suggested sending £200 million to to curry favour with the Arab states. "Just groping", indeed.

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    11 hours ago

    Tonight we're joined by . Streaming live at 9pm EDT:

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  10. 12 hours ago

    25 April 1938: Reza Shah, the father of the last King of and the founder of the Pahlavi dynasty, appeared on the cover of Magazine.

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    15 hours ago

    The Identitarian movement put up billboards around Berlin telling Syrian refugees "The war is over. Go home. Your country needs you now that the last IS stronghold has fallen." The billboards look like official government advertisement, but they are not. (h/t )

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    18 hours ago

    Kirkuk SWAT and Fed Pol did a clearance op Wadi Shay a couple months and US drones have been striking there repeated during the past two weeks. Will be interesting to see if this op has long term effect on insurgent patterns of activity in the area

    Iraqi CTService's Kirkuk Battalion clears Wadi al-Shay in south Kirkuk Province of ISIS elements.
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  13. 15 hours ago

    Mads Mikkelsen (Hannibal): "[O]ne word wrong and you're a dead person ... [T]he most politically correct person in history...said something quite common sense and he got fucking slaughtered. So this is not a healthy discussion any more."

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    Apr 23

    . will host a discussion this Wednesday on the recent designation of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a foreign terrorist organization. RSVP:

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  15. 15 hours ago

    "Although ... Khomeini famously remarked that the Artesh (regular Iranian Army) has 'the Shah in its blood,' he also shielded the force from dissolution. At the same time, the Artesh was systematically purged of any monarchial or pro-U.S. sentiments."

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    Apr 25

    Having never really written about Huawei until yesterday, it was interesting, and slightly perturbing, to see a press email turn up from them to my personal address–which isn't public. How did they get it? I have one or two theories. 🧐

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    22 hours ago

    Khamenei’s use of Hashd & Hezbollah shows his weakness by ⁦⁩

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  18. 17 hours ago

    There are all kinds of issues with the legitimacy of 's recognised government, and even more issues with its capacity. But the same can be said of , where the geopolitical shoe is on the other foot between Saudi/UAE and Turkey/Qatar. Some consistency would be nice ...

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  19. 17 hours ago

    The amount of "fake news" out of ... so much in the one direction and of a fairly blatant kind, too, designed to delegitimise the recognised government. Yet some ostensibly-serious people are giving it time of day because it's telling a bad story about and .

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    17 hours ago

    Sri Lankan officials have revised the death toll for the Easter attack to 253 dead - a huge drop from the casualty figure cited yesterday of 350+. It's still a devastating loss, but it means that this is by no means the largest ISIS-linked attack outside Iraq & Syria.

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    19 hours ago

    . is a native Mosulawi with deep contacts (and family) in that city. Listen to her on Isis’s persistence there:

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