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A public tracker on West Asia: Yemen and the Red Sea, Iran and Hormuz, Iraq, Syria, Israel and Palestine, Lebanon and the Gulf. #WestAsia #Hormuz #OSINT #GlobalSouth #Iran #Palestine #Israel #SaudiArabia #Yemen claude.ai/artifact/KDnfugqrW…

Six weapons programmes and five biology labs used AI on things designed to kill. Nearly all of them won by the same trick: cutting the work into pieces too small to refuse. A Rocket Test in Yemen, a Grant Application in an Hour induslens.com//category/who-…

A consultant in Bamako built a national wiretap. In China, a department of analysts became a single desk. The price of surveilling an entire population has collapsed. One Man, Twenty-Five Million Phones induslens.com//category/who-…

As criticism grows over landslide inaction, leaks show Nepal’s new leaders groomed by US regime change outfit thegrayzone.com/2026/09/09/l… via @TheGrayzoneNews

Seventy fake outlets. Nearly nine thousand articles in twenty languages. One advertising agency in France. And in Malaysia, a platform that profiled voters in all 222 seats. How to Build a Newsroom That Does Not Exist induslens.com//category/who-…

Three Hours to Take a Company Apart A Russian spy service, two undergraduates in Hunan and one man in France now attack the same way. The thing that used to tell them apart has stopped working. induslens.com/category/who-s…

Calm isn't a feeling - it's a system. Through missile interceptions, drone alerts, and a world watching anxiously, UAE residents stayed grounded. Not out of denial, but out of trust. A Dubai resident's account of what it means to build calm at scale 👇 induslens.com/articles/calm-… #UAE #Dubai #CrisisCommunication #Governance #TrustAtScale #Resilience #IndusLens

The Cycle. 1953: The U.S. installs the Shah to control Iranian oil. 1979: The Shah tries to control his own oil prices. The U.S. withdraws support, facilitates Khomeini's rise. Iran becomes Enemy No.1 for 47 years. 2026: The U.S. launches a war against the Iranian theocracy it helped install in 1979. The cycle is not an accident. 'The Oil Greasing the World Order' induslens.com/category/iran_… #IranWar‌

The War That Killed the World Order induslens.com/category/iran_…

The Iran war is deeply unpopular in Pakistan, which has the world’s second-largest Shia Muslim population after Iran. And this is the fourth time a ceasefire framework has been floated since the war began. The 15-point U.S. plan was also transmitted through Pakistan — and rejected. Iran refused to send officials to Islamabad, calling it a potential “trap.” Asim Munir Was on the Phone All Night. Iran Hasn’t Answered induslens.com/category/iran_…

The Escalation Ladder The profanity is worth tracking because it maps the negotiation cycle. March 26: “Talks going very well.” April 1: “Their radar is 100% annihilated” — two days before Iranian air defences shot down an F-15. April 3: video of bridge collapse, “Bridges next, then Electric Power Plants!” April 4: “All Hell will reign down.” April 5 morning: “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day. Open the fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards. Praise be to Allah.” April 5 afternoon: told Fox News “good chance of a deal Monday,” then posted a revised deadline — Tuesday, 8pm ET. 3:30 AM Tuesday, Tehran time ‘So I Attacked the Bridge’ induslens.com/category/iran_…

A president publicly linking a strike on civilian infrastructure to the pace of negotiations. Over 100 law experts called such strikes potential war crimes. Two Planes Down, Zero Casualties, No Name induslens.com/category/iran-…

The Iran Offensive and the Return of America’s Old Follies What we are witnessing is not a new American strategy. It is the repetition of the oldest one, writes Shashi Velath thequint.com/opinion/iran-us… #Iran

The Shockwave Map: A Systematic Framework for Understanding Differential Impact Across the Global North and Global South linkedin.com/pulse/shockwave… via @LinkedIn