Ramy Yaacoub

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📢 After 2.5 whirlwind, relentless, and rewarding years at @OpenSociety, I’ll be stepping down as Director of MENA Programs and moving on to a new adventure at the end of the month. Grateful to @NowrojeeOSF, @AlexanderSoros, et al. Stay tuned for more on what’s cooking soon. 🫡🖖

The escalating Israel-Iran conflict is revealing sharp divisions within both major US political parties. MEI’s @Katulis is closely following how these internal splits are shaping the debate over US foreign policy. Read his full weekly column: mei.edu/publications/d…

This isn’t really a paradox. People who understand what cigarettes do are also less likely to smoke them.

🔔 ICYMI: Last week, TIMEP hosted an event that explored the recent Lebanese municipal elections & what the results revealed in the lead up to the 2026 parliamentary elections, with @Ali_mourad81, @MneimnehSoha, @alaasayeg, & @JeanKassir. Catch up here: youtube.com/live/yVp34c6Ho…

No radioactive traces have been detected in the environment of Saudi Arabia or other Gulf states following the US strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities, Saudi Arabia’s nuclear regulator says.

Per @CBSNews - top Democrats on Congressional Intelligence committees were not briefed in advance of bombings

"Only the dead have seen the end of war." George Santayana

The hard part isn’t starting it—it’s ending it. Iran’s existence isn’t threatened, but the regime’s may be if it escalates. Will Khamenei decide life is possible without Fordow? Either way, this isn’t a trivial non-event.

I see we’re still asking the arsonists how to deal with the fire.

$2 billion on stealth.. still can't hide from Twitter

So six years after Macron complained about Trump's withdrawal from the JCPOA, his "maximum pressure" policy, and Pompeo's "14 points," he has adopted its core positions. There is no such thing as European leadership. Europe is following the US, which is following Israel.

They ripped him apart from his pregnant wife in her last trimester. They stole from him the birth of his baby boy Dean, his graduation ceremony, his first Father's Day. They detained him illegally for 104 days. But today, Mahmoud Khalil is FINALLY FREE. 🤍✊🏼

🧵1/13 My latest in @TheHillTimes: Carney’s First Foreign Policy Test Begins in the Middle East Will PM @MarkJCarney match his words on sovereignty and multilateralism with action, or fall into the same old reactive alignment with the United States? 🔗hilltimes.com/story/2025/06/…

Morgan Ortagus's assignment as a top political official at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations comes as the admin lacks an ambassador at the intergovernmental organization -- and as the US is dealing with multiple global hotspots, including Iran. Trump named Mike Waltz, his…

NEW: President Trump told senior aides late Tuesday that he approved of attack plans for Iran, but was holding off on giving the final order to see if Tehran will abandon its nuclear program, three people familiar with the deliberations said.

'But as Mr Lammy demanded in 2022, “what diplomatic price has Egypt paid for denying the right of consular access to a British citizen?” It is clear that Britain has not, in fact, done everything it possibly can to change the Egyptian government’s mind. It must now do so.'

The first round US-Iran talks took place on 12 April. Four subsequent rounds were conducted in just two months—Trump was boasting about the progress. Even Israeli officials were briefing journalists that a deal was “likely.” That’s why Israel attacked. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

A thoughtful perspective on Iran's trajectory beyond the regime and how Israel's attacks factor in.

[The Iranian people] did not want this war and they were pushing their leaders to avoid it, but Israel chose to attack … [They] are no longer in control of their futures, and they find themselves watching the trajectories of ballistic missiles, wondering what could have been

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