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University of #Alabama graduate student detained by ICE, school says. “#Alireza Doroudi, a doctoral student from #Iran studying mechanical engineering, is currently being held in a county jail, awaiting transfer to an #immigration facility, his attorney... Doroudi was taken into custody by #ICE at 3 am Thursday at his home... the student has "not been arrested for any crime, nor has he participated in any anti-government protests." | ABC abcnews.go.com/US/university-a #arbitrarydetention

ABC News · University of Alabama graduate student detained by ICE, school saysBy Aaron Katersky

#Israel lands first heavy strike on #Beirut #Lebanon suburbs since ceasefire - Reuters witness

Israel's air force conducted a heavy strike on a building in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital on Friday, a Reuters witness said, the first heavy bombardment there since a truce in November ended a war between Israel & #Hezbollah.

#geopolitics #MiddleEast #Iran
reuters.com/world/middle-east/

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#Defense Secy #PeteHegseth did not apologize Wednesday for disclosing on a #Signal chat what time American fighter jets were taking off & launching strikes against #Iran-backed #Houthis in #Yemen. Instead he relied on the #semantic argument that his disclosures, which also relayed specific times that a “strike window” for F-18s would begin in a chat that inadvertently included a journalist, were not “war plans.”

"U.S. is flowing in airpower to the Indian Ocean outpost as threats to Iran escalate & the bombing campaign against the Houthis grinds on.

A significant force of B-2 Spirit stealth bombers looks to be currently wending its way to the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia. SAT imagery shows at least 3 C-17 cargo planes & 10 aerial refueling tankers-."

It's likely there were other classified conversations on Signal (no record).

#NationalSecurity #Iran #Trump #DOD #USPol

twz.com/air/signs-u-s-massing-

The War Zone · Signs U.S. Massing B-2 Spirit Bombers In Diego GarciaU.S. airpower is flowing to the Indian Ocean outpost as threats to Iran escalate and the bombing campaign against the Houthis grinds on.
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Asked if #NationalSecurity Adviser #MikeWaltz owed an apology, #Trump said, “I don’t think he should apologize. I think he’s doing his best.”

Trump added that he thinks “we won’t be using it very much,” referring to the #Signal app.

#Waltz said the team is looking into “how in the heck” a journalist ended up in a group text chain on the Signal app where top ofcls were discussing plans for #military strikes against #Iran-backed #Houthi rebels in #Yemen.

[Waltz added him]
#NationalSecurity

#Iran
#US
@palestine

"Foreign Minister Araqchi says Iran has decided it is not going to negotiate directly with the United States government for the time being, and that it is a tactic, not a strategy"
"...ongoing negotiations between Iran and the three European countries of France, Germany, and Britain were essentially indirect talks with the United States"
“In circumstances where there is ‘maximum pressure,’ no one in their sound mind would enter into direct talks,”
en.irna.ir/news/85785727/Refus

🇨🇦 Thank you to these 29 Liberal, NDP & Green MPs for calling on Canada to “enforce a strong two-way arms embargo without exceptions or loopholes,” among other measures. Urgent action is necessary to halt the escalating violence and protect the Palestinian people from genocide.

x.com/CJPME/status/19021179461

#canada #montreal #toronto
#Gaza #tiktok #cdnpoli
#Palestine #Syria #iran
#lebanon #Genocide #geopolitics
@palestine @lebanon @yemen @irannachrichten @blackmastodon
#blackmastodon
@politics