Maryam Jamshidi
@msjamshidi.bsky.social
Law Prof. Interested in Intl law, national security, sanctions, & SWANA (aka the Middle East & North Africa).
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My latest law review article "Securitizing the University" just dropped. It interrogates the university's relationship to the US nat'l security state both historically & since Oct 7. This relationship is at the heart of attacks against universities over the last 2 yrs papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
If the US bombs Iran on Sunday - as some speculate - it'll likely have been chosen partly 4 its symbolism. It was on Feb 1, 1979 that Ayatollah Khomeini returned to Iran, after 14 yrs in exile, leading to the official fall of the Shah's govt. Sunday is the 47th anniversary of that date.
January 31, 2026 at 1:09 AM
If the US bombs Iran on Sunday - as some speculate - it'll likely have been chosen partly 4 its symbolism. It was on Feb 1, 1979 that Ayatollah Khomeini returned to Iran, after 14 yrs in exile, leading to the official fall of the Shah's govt. Sunday is the 47th anniversary of that date.
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Scoop: Federal agents were told this week that they have broader power to arrest people without a warrant, according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo reviewed by The New York Times.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
ICE Expands Power of Agents to Arrest People Without Warrants
www.nytimes.com
January 31, 2026 at 12:39 AM
Scoop: Federal agents were told this week that they have broader power to arrest people without a warrant, according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo reviewed by The New York Times.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
These analysts are solid on Iran but still caught w/in their Israeli and American perspectives. Iran has ambitions to create a civilian nuclear program - which is its RIGHT under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. But these analysts make it seem like ANY enrichment is unlawful. It is not.
January 30, 2026 at 11:46 PM
These analysts are solid on Iran but still caught w/in their Israeli and American perspectives. Iran has ambitions to create a civilian nuclear program - which is its RIGHT under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. But these analysts make it seem like ANY enrichment is unlawful. It is not.
Today, Iran, China, and Russia signed a "trilateral pact" - not quite a mutual defense treaty but still a comprehensive strategic deal between the 3 countries. The development is particularly notable not cause of the US military build up /n
www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260129-ira...
www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260129-ira...
January 30, 2026 at 11:35 PM
Today, Iran, China, and Russia signed a "trilateral pact" - not quite a mutual defense treaty but still a comprehensive strategic deal between the 3 countries. The development is particularly notable not cause of the US military build up /n
www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260129-ira...
www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260129-ira...
As the US threatens war with Iran, remember that 23 years ago the US engaged in a similarly illegal attack against Iraq - an attack that led to the death of 1 million Iraqis and has continued to foster instability in the country. A short interview well worth listening to: x.com/naime_ataman...
January 30, 2026 at 11:25 PM
As the US threatens war with Iran, remember that 23 years ago the US engaged in a similarly illegal attack against Iraq - an attack that led to the death of 1 million Iraqis and has continued to foster instability in the country. A short interview well worth listening to: x.com/naime_ataman...
The branch of the federal government exclusively empowered under the Constitution to declare war is powerless to stop Trump's illegal war on Iran because it has spent decades (if not longer) ceding nearly all of its most important powers - from law making to war making - to an imperial presidency
January 30, 2026 at 11:19 PM
The branch of the federal government exclusively empowered under the Constitution to declare war is powerless to stop Trump's illegal war on Iran because it has spent decades (if not longer) ceding nearly all of its most important powers - from law making to war making - to an imperial presidency
A US strike on Iran wont bring democracy or pave the way for a better future. It will not just decapitate Iran's rulers. It will either destabilize Iran and lead to civil war or securitize the govt even more, strangle Iran's civil society & ensure anyone who calls for pol change is terminated /n
January 30, 2026 at 11:09 PM
A US strike on Iran wont bring democracy or pave the way for a better future. It will not just decapitate Iran's rulers. It will either destabilize Iran and lead to civil war or securitize the govt even more, strangle Iran's civil society & ensure anyone who calls for pol change is terminated /n
Whatever Trump does in Iran, the use of crippling sanctions, to devastate the Iranian ppl, combined w/threats of war is NOT a strategy Trump invented. Obama pursued the same strategy starting in 2011/2012. Iran hawks, like Bret McGurk and Jake Sullivan, have been part of both Rep & Dem admins. /n
January 30, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Whatever Trump does in Iran, the use of crippling sanctions, to devastate the Iranian ppl, combined w/threats of war is NOT a strategy Trump invented. Obama pursued the same strategy starting in 2011/2012. Iran hawks, like Bret McGurk and Jake Sullivan, have been part of both Rep & Dem admins. /n
Reports that Iran is conducting various military exercises near the Strait of Hormuz, which is key to shipping, oil and otherwise in the Gulf, to deter a US strike and, likely, to close the Strait if a strikes occurs….https://x.com/TheStudyofWar/status/2017035893710721527?s=20
January 30, 2026 at 10:45 PM
Reports that Iran is conducting various military exercises near the Strait of Hormuz, which is key to shipping, oil and otherwise in the Gulf, to deter a US strike and, likely, to close the Strait if a strikes occurs….https://x.com/TheStudyofWar/status/2017035893710721527?s=20
In openly bragging about their infiltrators, Israel demonstrates its total disregard for protestors, whose targeting thereby becomes justified in the eyes of Iran's govt. It also demonstrates its desperate desire to convince the US that they are in a position to control…/n x.com/ejmalrai/sta...
January 30, 2026 at 10:38 PM
In openly bragging about their infiltrators, Israel demonstrates its total disregard for protestors, whose targeting thereby becomes justified in the eyes of Iran's govt. It also demonstrates its desperate desire to convince the US that they are in a position to control…/n x.com/ejmalrai/sta...
For the US, sanctions are not an alternative to war, they are a prelude to war. There is evidence suggesting that the US govt treats its sanctions designations as justifications for armed attacks against named designees. /n x.com/SecScottBess...
January 30, 2026 at 10:34 PM
For the US, sanctions are not an alternative to war, they are a prelude to war. There is evidence suggesting that the US govt treats its sanctions designations as justifications for armed attacks against named designees. /n x.com/SecScottBess...
Drop Site News is reporting that a regional US ally has been warned that US strikes on Iran are imminent, w/ the avowed goal being regime change & with Israel eagerly encouraging war and promising to install a pliant govt in place of the Islamic Republic. www.dropsitenews.com/p/united-sta...
January 30, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Drop Site News is reporting that a regional US ally has been warned that US strikes on Iran are imminent, w/ the avowed goal being regime change & with Israel eagerly encouraging war and promising to install a pliant govt in place of the Islamic Republic. www.dropsitenews.com/p/united-sta...
There is no comparing atrocities but watching your country tear itself apart, with some of your countrymen believing outside aggression will bring liberation, is incredibly hard to endure. May Iran free itself. زندباد ایران
January 30, 2026 at 4:29 PM
There is no comparing atrocities but watching your country tear itself apart, with some of your countrymen believing outside aggression will bring liberation, is incredibly hard to endure. May Iran free itself. زندباد ایران
If they had just listened in 2009, everything could have been different 😞 youtu.be/RCkSCP22t-Q?...
sar oomad zemestoon میر حسین موسوی سر اومد زمستون ورژن 2
YouTube video by msaeedi56
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January 30, 2026 at 2:04 PM
If they had just listened in 2009, everything could have been different 😞 youtu.be/RCkSCP22t-Q?...
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Leave Springfield alone you monsters
“And so now the governor, and the mayor, and the School Superintendent must all prepare for the man-made disaster that is likely to befall them when the Haitian immigrants’ TPS status is allowed to expire on February 3rd.” www.liberalcurrents.com/terror-retur...
Terror Returns to Springfield
Ohio is preparing for the next occupation. We need to prepare with them.
www.liberalcurrents.com
January 30, 2026 at 1:28 PM
Leave Springfield alone you monsters
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Settler-only IDF units functioning as ‘vigilante militias’ in West Bank
Settler-only IDF units functioning as ‘vigilante militias’ in West Bank
Exclusive: ‘Regional defence’ settler units are escalating violent displacement of Palestinians, Israeli reservists and activists say
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2026 at 1:03 PM
Settler-only IDF units functioning as ‘vigilante militias’ in West Bank
Less than a month after Iran’s massacre of protestors, the EU slaps sanctions on Iranian officials & entities, inc designating the IRGC a terrorist org. Nearly 2.5 years of genocide by Israel against Pals, w/ a death toll of 70,000 at min, not one sanction against Israel www.bbc.com/news/article...
EU adds Iran's Revolutionary Guards to 'terrorist list'
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas says the move is a response to Tehran's deadly crackdown on protesters.
www.bbc.com
January 30, 2026 at 4:19 AM
Less than a month after Iran’s massacre of protestors, the EU slaps sanctions on Iranian officials & entities, inc designating the IRGC a terrorist org. Nearly 2.5 years of genocide by Israel against Pals, w/ a death toll of 70,000 at min, not one sanction against Israel www.bbc.com/news/article...
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"Two weeks later, on 10 February, Hind’s body was found in the car alongside the bodies of her family members. The bodies of the paramedics, missing since the evening they were dispatched to rescue Hind, were discovered in the ambulance about 50 metres away from the car."
January 29, 2026 at 8:13 PM
"Two weeks later, on 10 February, Hind’s body was found in the car alongside the bodies of her family members. The bodies of the paramedics, missing since the evening they were dispatched to rescue Hind, were discovered in the ambulance about 50 metres away from the car."
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I wonder if IDF is accepting this number to get out ahead of what is going to be found when journalists start getting into Gaza soon (hopefully). Because that number is definitely an undercount, no matter how much effort people put into challenging it to their eternal shame.
For anyone who ever claimed that the Gaza Health Ministry death toll in Gaza could not be trusted - today the IDF acknowledged it agrees with their numbers. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war
Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...
www.haaretz.com
January 29, 2026 at 11:00 PM
I wonder if IDF is accepting this number to get out ahead of what is going to be found when journalists start getting into Gaza soon (hopefully). Because that number is definitely an undercount, no matter how much effort people put into challenging it to their eternal shame.
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“The reality is that ICE could not engage in their operations without technologies supplied to them through contracts with Palantir, Amazon, and Microsoft.” @veenadubal.bsky.social
www.kqed.org/news/1207155...
www.kqed.org/news/1207155...
Growing Wave of Silicon Valley Workers Condemns ICE as C-Suites Split Over Fear of Trump | KQED
Many more progressive rank-and-file tech workers stopped speaking out after the 2024 election as executives cozied up to Trump. For some, the recent killings in Minneapolis by federal agents mark a tu...
www.kqed.org
January 29, 2026 at 10:58 PM
“The reality is that ICE could not engage in their operations without technologies supplied to them through contracts with Palantir, Amazon, and Microsoft.” @veenadubal.bsky.social
www.kqed.org/news/1207155...
www.kqed.org/news/1207155...
As war is looking almost inevitable, regional countries - sans Israel - are rightly panicking
January 29, 2026 at 11:04 PM
As war is looking almost inevitable, regional countries - sans Israel - are rightly panicking
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"When five-year-old Hind Rajab was killed in Gaza City on January 29, 2024, Israel denied its troops had been at the scene.
Now... the identities of those suspected of being involved in their killings. This Bird's Eye View breaks down the individuals responsible."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMaa...
Now... the identities of those suspected of being involved in their killings. This Bird's Eye View breaks down the individuals responsible."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMaa...
The structure behind Hind Rajab's killing | Bird's Eye View
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
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January 29, 2026 at 10:00 PM
"When five-year-old Hind Rajab was killed in Gaza City on January 29, 2024, Israel denied its troops had been at the scene.
Now... the identities of those suspected of being involved in their killings. This Bird's Eye View breaks down the individuals responsible."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMaa...
Now... the identities of those suspected of being involved in their killings. This Bird's Eye View breaks down the individuals responsible."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMaa...
A few days ago, Emory abruptly fired the daughter of Iranian officials, Ali Larijani. Fatemeh Ardeshir Larajani, who was on the faculty at the medial school, was fired simply for being his daughter. Today, State Dept seems to be moving to deport her /n www.emorywheel.com/article/2026...
Emory no longer employs daughter of top Iranian official
The Emory Wheel is the only independent, student-run newspaper of Emory University, since 1919.
www.emorywheel.com
January 29, 2026 at 10:58 PM
A few days ago, Emory abruptly fired the daughter of Iranian officials, Ali Larijani. Fatemeh Ardeshir Larajani, who was on the faculty at the medial school, was fired simply for being his daughter. Today, State Dept seems to be moving to deport her /n www.emorywheel.com/article/2026...
Intl lawyer, Payam Akhavan, is comparing Iran's massacre of civilians 2 the Srebrencia genocide, focusing exclusively on the # of ppl killed. Akhavan also subscribes 2 a wildly unverified #s of those killed - 30,000 he's now saying - based on "reports" from doctors in Iran /n x.com/BeckyCNN/sta...
January 29, 2026 at 7:45 PM
Intl lawyer, Payam Akhavan, is comparing Iran's massacre of civilians 2 the Srebrencia genocide, focusing exclusively on the # of ppl killed. Akhavan also subscribes 2 a wildly unverified #s of those killed - 30,000 he's now saying - based on "reports" from doctors in Iran /n x.com/BeckyCNN/sta...
Thoughtful piece on models of revolutionary change in Iran and which is likely to generate a better future for Iranians alikadivar.substack.com/p/after-the-...
January 29, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Thoughtful piece on models of revolutionary change in Iran and which is likely to generate a better future for Iranians alikadivar.substack.com/p/after-the-...