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إما أن يعقل ويتوكل وإما أن لا يعقل فيتوكل

إما أن يعقل ويتوكل وإما أن لا يعقل فيتوكل

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Iran, Firing missiles and drones at the UAE to prove you haven't surrendered is in and of itself a form of surrender. It's what you do when the actual levers, as yours, are gone. Trump announced Project Freedom on Sunday night. CENTCOM announced two American vessels had transited the Strait successfully. Your 14 points peace proposal, submitted over the weekend, was swatted away by Washington. Your ports have been blockaded since April 13. The Hormuz stranglehold you spent decades cultivating as your ultimate insurance policy is now being directly challenged by 15,000 American troops and over a hundred aircraft. The UAE, who absorbed more than 90% of your missiles and drones, has been quietly and determinedly rebuilding its rebound story since the ceasefire. Flights are normalizing, investors are trickling back, and the mood in Abu Dhabi and Dubai is visibly shifting from relief to momentum. On Monday, that momentum had a face: “Make It In The Emirates”, the country's biggest industrial expo, opened as a statement that the UAE had turned a page. That's what the ADNOC tanker and the Fujairah port attacks were about: Disrupt the story. It failed. You wanted to tell America that you own Hormuz. If the US escorts ships through it, the Gulf will bleed. You, watching the American military architecture around Iran and reading it as preparation for a second round, wanted to pre-empt a second round and make any decision in that regard more expensive before it gets made. You wanted to tell your exhausted and broken people, who are watching your regime being stripped of its supreme lunatic, its proxies and its nuclear shield, that you still fight, and that you haven’t gone quiet. It is an enormous amount of strategic objectives to load onto a drone or a missile. That gap between what you are trying to say and what you actually have left to say it with, is the real story of Monday’s attack. Iran, You fired at something you could no longer reach. And in that single fact, you told us more about your condition than a hundred diplomatic cables ever could.

Iran, Firing missiles and drones at the UAE to prove you haven't surrendered is in and of itself a form of surrender. It's what you do when the actual levers, as yours, are gone. Trump announced Project Freedom on Sunday night. CENTCOM announced two American vessels had transited the Strait successfully. Your 14 points peace proposal, submitted over the weekend, was swatted away by Washington. Your ports have been blockaded since April 13. The Hormuz stranglehold you spent decades cultivating as your ultimate insurance policy is now being directly challenged by 15,000 American troops and over a hundred aircraft. The UAE, who absorbed more than 90% of your missiles and drones, has been quietly and determinedly rebuilding its rebound story since the ceasefire. Flights are normalizing, investors are trickling back, and the mood in Abu Dhabi and Dubai is visibly shifting from relief to momentum. On Monday, that momentum had a face: “Make It In The Emirates”, the country's biggest industrial expo, opened as a statement that the UAE had turned a page. That's what the ADNOC tanker and the Fujairah port attacks were about: Disrupt the story. It failed. You wanted to tell America that you own Hormuz. If the US escorts ships through it, the Gulf will bleed. You, watching the American military architecture around Iran and reading it as preparation for a second round, wanted to pre-empt a second round and make any decision in that regard more expensive before it gets made. You wanted to tell your exhausted and broken people, who are watching your regime being stripped of its supreme lunatic, its proxies and its nuclear shield, that you still fight, and that you haven’t gone quiet. It is an enormous amount of strategic objectives to load onto a drone or a missile. That gap between what you are trying to say and what you actually have left to say it with, is the real story of Monday’s attack. Iran, You fired at something you could no longer reach. And in that single fact, you told us more about your condition than a hundred diplomatic cables ever could.

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خبَّرونا الشبيبة انو اليد التي ستمتد إلى السلاح ستقطع.. طيب هيدي يد انمدت وكترت… وينو الشيخ نعيم!؟ او جحا قوي بس ع خالتو الوووووووو…

خبَّرونا الشبيبة انو اليد التي ستمتد إلى السلاح ستقطع.. طيب هيدي يد انمدت وكترت… وينو الشيخ نعيم!؟ او جحا قوي بس ع خالتو الوووووووو…

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مين بقي جنوب نهر الليطاني؟

مين بقي جنوب نهر الليطاني؟

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