The last President I covered who refused to accept the vote count in an election," tweeted CNN's Christiane Amanpour, "was Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran, 2009."
Steven Heydemann
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Steven Heydemann
@SHeydemann
Ketcham Chair and Professor, MES & Gov, Smith College; Senior NRF @ Brookings. Tweets are my personal views. @stevenhyde.bsky.social
DC and Northampton, MA
Joined August 2011
- Replying to @realDonaldTrumpYou mean ISIS isn’t defeated? But you told us they were defeated.
- On the earthquake in Syria and Turkey. I have seen lists circulating that include the names of disaster relief organizations that I would not recommend. These include the Syrian Red Crescent, which is tightly controlled by the Assad regime.
- Whether HTS and allies have issued an amnesty or not Sednaya's guards and officers need to identified, found, and held to account.
00:00 - Bashar al-AssadWrite a horror story using just 2 words....
- This is a product of the globalization of the war on terror as a mode of domestic governance. It offers autocrats, real and wannabe, blanket justification to target any opponent or critic, for any reason."The Trump admin has made antifa into a mythical entity used as a scapegoat to persecute activists. Barr's designation of antifa as 'terrorists' will be used as a pretext to round up anyone they want. This tactic is common in autocracies." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/reichsta…
- Replying to @realDonaldTrumpThe $100m estimate for your vanity parade was developed together with DoD. Costs are real. Just like $2.6m to protect your friends the nazis in last week protests. Conclusion? American people can’t afford to indulge your narcissism, racism, stupidity.
- This is shameful. @DanishMFA. Denmark strips 94 Syrian refugees of their residency permits, deeming Damascus safe for their return – Syria Direct syriadirect.org/denmark-strips…
- Assad loyalists don’t get it. Open, transparent US support for a non-violent civil society activist working against a brutal dictator is a source of pride, not evidence of some sort of evil conspiracy.Important thread reviewing the growth of US funding for Syrian opposition members.
- Next time the #Assad regime or its patrons tell us that sanctions are responsible for electricity shortages, ask why the regime sells electricity to Lebanon rather than make it available to its own citizens. thenational.ae/world/mena/syr…
- I've said for a long time that Trump will not have a Syria policy, he will have a Russia policy.
- OCHA had listed 8 border crossings that could not be used for aid due to Russian obstruction. All that are functioning should be opened immediately. Bab al-Salameh, Jarablous, Ras al-Ain. All of them.
