Arash Azizi آرش عزیزی
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Author WHAT IRANIANS WANT SHADOW COMMANDER | Historian at @yale | Writer @theatlantic | Repped by Aevitas
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Iran thinks the meeting with America was “positive,” a source close to the Iranian delegation told me
Man, 82, dies after beach fight with 76-year-old over sunlounger in Greece
🚨🇩🇪 NEW: Germany’s AfD and Italy’s Future Nationale have announced a new right wing partnership
The parties joined forces at a rally in Orvieto, calling for greater unity among Europe’s nationalist factions
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This is why you really don’t want ICE at polling places
He’s joking but I’ve interviewed people for whom this is a real concern
Someone needs to tell Paris Airport that China is not part of Schengen 😂😂😂
The translator seemed to have had no idea that”CH” stands for Switzerland (Confoederatio Helvetica). Hahaha.
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Palestinian elections, 2026:
“Please proceed to your polling station.”
Also reality:
“All roads to your polling station are closed by the Israeli army and Israeli settlers.”
My day in New York continues with a mayors roundtable, and bilateral meetings with @NYCMayor and @jaumecollboni. Meetings with more mayors to follow this afternoon.
We’re exchanging ideas for improving service delivery and affordability for residents.
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I talk about this (neglected) essay at length in my book as a) a fascinating intervention in late 70s UK left debates on Scotland; b) the beginning of Hobsbawm's "return" to the British intellectual scene; and c) another example of his anti-Zionism.
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As a fellow country(wo)man, I do kind of think this is a characteristically Greek and maybe ideal way to go out
Iranian poet Mahvash Sabet has written a memoir of her captivity, secretly composing it on scraps of paper while in prison from 2008 to 2018.
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#BREAKING#: Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani, speaking at an event in Erbil celebrating the unification of the Peshmerga forces, says, “This is a historic day.”
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If this happens, the last excuse of the EU Commission not to apply the Blocking Statue on US sanctions against the ICC will be gone
“War is testing the resilience of the Iranian economy in ways that sanctions alone could not,” writes @yarbatman. “But even as the country’s economic situation is getting worse, Iran’s leadership remains able to resist the coercive effects of sanctions.”
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Reading a masterful work by @BrandtMarieke
