Cory Doctorow
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As more women turn to karate, the sport has become a symbol of Iran's changing society, where a young, urban generation is quietly challenging traditional gender roles and societal norms. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2025/11/17/more-sports/iran-women-karate-societal-barriers/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #moresports #karate #iran #women039sissues #martialarts
Iran begins cloud seeding operations as drought bites
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2622812/middle-east
#HackerNews #Iran #Cloud #Seeding #Drought #Operations #Weather #Innovation
Iranian authorities have launched cloud seeding operations to induce rainfall as the country faces its worst drought in decades, state media reported. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/16/world/iran-cloud-seeding-drought/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #drought #middleeast #iran
Alex Akselrod
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Operation Southern Spear(ed)
from @katzonearth [he doesn't post here, mostly only on his Substack-hosted blog sadly]
> While Americans have spent the last 24 hours justifiably focused on Trump's exposure in the #epsteinFiles, the president has been increasingly engaged in another dangerous flirtation: with yet another war. The supercarrier USS Gerald R. Ford and its strike group are nearing Venezuela, capping off the most significant U.S. military escalation in Latin America since the 1994 U.S. invasion of Haiti. Venezuelan President Nicolás #Maduro has mobilized an estimated 200,000 troops in hopes of staving off regime change. Trump, meanwhile, keeps treating the #Caribbean as his personal shooting gallery, with the death toll from missile strikes on civilian boats he accuses (without offering evidence) of drug smuggling now reaching eighty.
Not just the hey please stop talking about Epstein Files. It's also such an astonishingly major coincidence! that at least three of the countries where Don has begun or is clearly threatening to start wars, all using concocted false pretexts - #Venezuela, #Nigeria, and #Iran - are ALL OIL EXPORTERS.
#hegemony #plunder #feudalism #mercantilism #conquest #colonialism #imperialism #CIA #CIAwars #invasionPretext #invasion #warCrime #invasions #destabilization #CIAinvasions
https://theracket.news/p/operation-southern-spear-ed
Operation Southern Spear(ed)
from @katzonearth [he doesn't post here, mostly only on his Substack-hosted blog sadly]
> While Americans have spent the last 24 hours justifiably focused on Trump's exposure in the #epsteinFiles, the president has been increasingly engaged in another dangerous flirtation: with yet another war. The supercarrier USS Gerald R. Ford and its strike group are nearing Venezuela, capping off the most significant U.S. military escalation in Latin America since the 1994 U.S. invasion of Haiti. Venezuelan President Nicolás #Maduro has mobilized an estimated 200,000 troops in hopes of staving off regime change. Trump, meanwhile, keeps treating the #Caribbean as his personal shooting gallery, with the death toll from missile strikes on civilian boats he accuses (without offering evidence) of drug smuggling now reaching eighty.
Not just the hey please stop talking about Epstein Files. It's also such an astonishingly major coincidence! that at least three of the countries where Don has begun or is clearly threatening to start wars, all using concocted false pretexts - #Venezuela, #Nigeria, and #Iran - are ALL OIL EXPORTERS.
#hegemony #plunder #feudalism #mercantilism #conquest #colonialism #imperialism #CIA #CIAwars #invasionPretext #invasion #warCrime #invasions #destabilization #CIAinvasions
https://theracket.news/p/operation-southern-spear-ed
Iranian authorities' strategy is calculated: relax visible restrictions to soothe public opinion amid Iran's growing economic isolation, while quietly intensifying a crackdown on political dissent. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/15/world/society/iran-veil-restrictions-analysis/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #society #iran #nuclearweapons #middleeast #israel #us #women039sissues
#nowar - Pericolo escalation
LEVANTE 12.11.2025 - Casa del Sole Tv
#Mosca denuncia il tentativo ucraino e britannico di effettuare un false flag attraverso il dirottamento di un caccia. Da #Kiev e Londra nessuna risposta. L’ #Iran si prepara ad un nuovo conflitto con #Israele che ormai sembra inevitabile e rinforza l’industria missilistica mentre in Ucraina la guerra non accenna a rallentare.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPXitjEavzs
Tom
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France 🇫🇷 says it is Alarmed by Niger’s🇳🇪 Uranium Deal with Russia :
France has expressed deep concern over Niger’s reported plan to sell 1,000 metric tons of uranium worth about $170 million to Russia, citing major geopolitical and security implications.
https://x.com/cecild84/status/1988189275876151627?s=20
#france #francafrique #sarkozy #macron #toulouse #marseille #paris #russia #niger #africa #macron #sahel @BLKNewsNow
#Palestine #tiktok #cdnpoli #iran
#canada #usa #europe #china #iran
joene 🏴🍉
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Oliver North, the war criminal who works for Trump's favourite TV channel... #olivernorth #donaldtrump #trump #antitrump #foxnews #foxmedia #republicans #uspolitics #politics #iran
![The guy on the left was arrested and convicted for illegally selling missiles to Iran during the Reagan Administration. The guy on the right is a Fox News "military analyst" who thinks Iran shouldn't have missiles. They are the same guy.
[Two photos of Oliver North, on the left his mugshot from when he was arrested and on the right a screenshot of him being on Fox News]](https://pxscdn.com/public/m/_v2/787639063871293561/3dc769ff5-aadbb1/1zzylmHjFio0/ua613YkFwDWFdsxrZyJ15SOhZCMtGEwiHFh6XG5q.png)
Oliver North, the war criminal who works for Trump's favourite TV channel... #olivernorth #donaldtrump #trump #antitrump #foxnews #foxmedia #republicans #uspolitics #politics #iran
France 🇫🇷 says it is Alarmed by Niger’s🇳🇪 Uranium Deal with Russia :
France has expressed deep concern over Niger’s reported plan to sell 1,000 metric tons of uranium worth about $170 million to Russia, citing major geopolitical and security implications.
https://x.com/cecild84/status/1988189275876151627?s=20
#france #francafrique #sarkozy #macron #toulouse #marseille #paris #russia #niger #africa #macron #sahel @BLKNewsNow
#Palestine #tiktok #cdnpoli #iran
#canada #usa #europe #china #iran
But the thing is NO ONE on planet earth whose been following this conflict trusts any Israeli promises of safe passage.
Israel has demonstrated countless times that ceasefire and safe-passage agreements mean absolutely nothing to the IOF.
The political leaders of Gaza are not fools, Hamas is more likely to stand their ground than surrender and imo these latest Israeli transgressions indicate they know this is a topic Hamas cannot compromise on.
Israel wants war & the new excuse just dropped.
Meanwhile Israel and Iran both appear to be rapidly preparing for a future missile based conflict.
As a result of the genocide in Palestine and IOF incursions in Lebanon Iran says they have removed all range limitations on their missile program. Last week they said building full blown ICBMs capable of directly hitting targets on the US mainland are now something thats on the table.
Prior to the genocide Iran's supreme leader restricted all missiles to a max 2000 mile range.
hypebot
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Lange Trockenperiode: Trinkwasser in Teheran wird rationiert
Im Iran ist vielerorts seit Wochen kein Regen mehr gefallen, Stauseen haben zu wenig Wasser. 15 Millionen Menschen in der Hauptstadt Teheran wird deshalb nachts das Wasser abgedreht. Könnte das neue Proteste auslösen?
Lange Trockenperiode: Trinkwasser in Teheran wird rationiert
Im Iran ist vielerorts seit Wochen kein Regen mehr gefallen, Stauseen haben zu wenig Wasser. 15 Millionen Menschen in der Hauptstadt Teheran wird deshalb nachts das Wasser abgedreht. Könnte das neue Proteste auslösen?
pvergain (framapiaf)
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#CécileKohler et #JacquesParis, Français retenus en #Iran depuis mai 2022, « sont sortis de prison », annonce #EmmanuelMacron #lemonde
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/11/04/cecile-kohler-et-jacques-paris-les-deux-francais-retenus-en-iran-depuis-mai-2022-sont-sortis-de-prison-annonce-emmanuel-macron_6651958_3210.html
#CécileKohler et #JacquesParis, Français retenus en #Iran depuis mai 2022, « sont sortis de prison », annonce #EmmanuelMacron #lemonde
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/11/04/cecile-kohler-et-jacques-paris-les-deux-francais-retenus-en-iran-depuis-mai-2022-sont-sortis-de-prison-annonce-emmanuel-macron_6651958_3210.html
Israel signaled it could intensify operations in Lebanon against Hezbollah, which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused of rearming, urging Beirut to disarm the Iran-backed group. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/03/world/israel-attacks-hezbollah-lebanon/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #middleeast #israel #benjaminnetanyahu #iran #lebanon #hezbollah
