One of the victims of Israel's strikes on Tehran is Parnia Abbasi, a 24-year-old poet. She was killed along with her younger brother and parents.
Shirin Jaafari
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Shirin Jaafari
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- Khalid al-Misslam, a Qatari, died suddenly while covering the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022. He's the second journalist to die in Qatar in 48 hours. #FIFAWorldCup au.sports.yahoo.com/fifa-world-cup… via @YahooSportAu
- Afghan Sports Society says one of those who fell from a US military plane as it departed from Kabul airport this week was Zaki Anwari, a 19 year old who played in the national junior football team. #Afghanistan
- I have been speaking with women in areas that have recently fallen to the Taliban. The stories they share with me are of desperation, anger and hopelessness. "I have no message to the world," one just told me. "I have nothing to say anymore." #Afghanistan
- Iranian cartoonist @Mahdi__Ahmadian :”I was told by my editors that no cartoon with the theme of increase in gas prices will be published in the newspaper. So I will share it here.”از روزنامه دستور آمده هیچ طرحی با محوریت گرانی بنزین چاپ نخواهد شد. من هم اینجا به اشتراک می گذارم. چاپ نشده در روزنامه ی آرمان ملی/شنبه ۲۵ آبان ۹۸
- Replying to @samsandersPlease check your privilege re coffee, mug and hot water.
- Andrew Maloney, lawyer representing about 150 relatives of 9/11 attacks, tells the BBC the money is theirs because "The Afghan people did not stand up to the Taliban when they had an opportunity." #Afghanistan1. Using a country’s foreign reserves to compensate 9/11 victims may make sense in the windowless confines of a courtroom but defies basic logic. To the world, this looks like nothing short of theft, not compromise or sound legal reasoning. whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…
- Only perspective I'm following on all things British politics right now.Anyone know any good eviction bailiffs in London? It’s for a thing…
- 🧵 A 27 yr-old student in #Syria told me this week that when the quakes happened he couldn’t leave the house because his sick grandmother was connected to an oxygen tank. There was no time to safely move her out and he wasn’t going to leave her behind.1/4
