Dr. Jim EllsworthAs much as I hate the prices I just paid at the gas station, im glad to see this fail. For all its flaws and crimes--and there are many!--the #FauxlamicRepublic of Iran is the victim of unprovoked armed aggression, illegal under the UN Charter, that by the aggressors' own admission existentially threatens it and has already killed much of its leadership. Closing the strait is its "nuclear option" to resist this aggression, and the world needs to be grateful for its example, showing that bullies that HAVE nuclear weapons, like Donald Trump’s America and Benjamin Netanyahu's #IsraelAtWarCrimes CANNOT run roughshod over what's left of international law and expect everyone else to just play Melos to their Athens.
The only rational Iranian position on its nuclear program--when the U.S. launched an illegal & unprovoked all-our war on it after AMERICA, not Iran, tore up the JCPOA--is that Trump's war has convinced it that obtaining nuclear weapons ASAP is now an existential imperative.
And that any negotiation on this point going forward must include AS A PRECONDITION the full nuclear disarmament of the only state HAVING illegal nuclear weapons in the region... #IsraelAtWarCrimes.
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/06/iran-war-us-tehran-ceasefire-talks
May #IsraelAtWarCrimes burn, until they submit in repentance to the One God of Abraham; of Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad, and humbly return (as they have done many times before) to His straight path. 🤲
Hey, BBC...
IRAN DIDN'T START THE WAR.
It's AMERICA AND #ISRAELATWARCRIMES that are holding the world economy hostage, by continuing their illegal attacks ON IRAN.
It's almost like you guys were state-owned media of a complicit nation IN these war crimes--oh, wait.... 🤔
RE: https://mastodon.social/@jeffjarvis/116329278100456352
I mean in fairness, #EthnicCleansing is what the whole Zionist project IS ABOUT. #IsraelAtWarCrimes
Hey, great idea! And since THEY didn’t cause the problem in the first place, maybe the best way for them to DO so is, you know, TO STAND UP FOR INTERNATIONAL LAW by siding with the people of Iran against this unprovoked war of aggression by the #Donjjal and #IsraelAtWarCrimes....
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/31/trump-strait-of-hormuz-oil-prices-00851611
By 'diplomacy,' #WiddleMarco means "the victim surrenders unconditionally to the bullies who attacked them unprovoked." #TurdReich #IsraelAtWarCrimes
The U.K. continues to prosecte people criminally for telling the truth about #IsraelAtWarCrimes.... 😖
RE: https://puntarella.party/@antanicus/116290473555358991
I'm going to take down my ORIGINAL repost of this, because I have quickly concluded that, even in a post EXPLICITLY LAYING OUT my rationale for giving in and deploying a certain hashtag in terms of #IsraelAtWarCrimes' fervor in marketing itself as The Jewish State™ even as it commits #genocide on an industrial scale, that other hashtag is still an unconscionable slur against the Ummah of Musa. #OneTeamOneFight
But the double standard that @antanicus points out is real--and equally unconscionable--and America's Newspaper of Record™ should be ashamed.
I've always really liked this one, because it does not deny that war can sometimes be not merely morally JUST, but morally OBLIGATED (this one ISN'T, as we're even seeing reflected in TRUMP APPOINTEES IN SOME OF THE CLEAREST POSITIONS TO KNOW resigning in protest and blaming #IsraelAtWarCrimes), yet still emphasizes the human cost EVEN WHEN IT IS.
From this more jus ad bellum perspective, down to the jus in bello issues of approving (or rejecting!) a particular strike, I've always held that ETHICAL leadership in the #ProfessionOfArms demands not merely COMPLIANCE WITH THE LAW, but also--after that compliance has been shown--a frank reflection on whether the likely human cost on ALL sides IS WORTH IT.
As a Believer, I know that, on the Last Day, I am going to be called to account before my Creator for EVERY innocent life my decisions contributed to taking--however 'legally' (under MAN'S law) or accidentally. If I were ever recalled out of retirement to a strategic or operational role, I would ABSOLUTELY have this verse from the Qur'an framed and hung directly in front of my desk where I would see it every time I looked up:
"On that account: We ordained for the Children of Israel that if any one slew a person - unless it be for murder or for spreading mischief in the land - it would be as if he slew the whole people: and if any one saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of the whole people. Then although there came to them Our messengers with clear signs, yet, even after that, many of them continued to commit excesses in the land." (Qur'an 5:32)
Ya Allah, may my work always be a restraint on those who would "continue to commit excesses in the land." 🤲
