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  Yaffa News Network (شبكة يافا الإخبارية) is an independent Palestinian digital media outlet dedicated to providing round-the-clock news coverage from occupied Palestine. It operates independently of political or party-affiliated funding. The majority of its journalists and correspondents contribute voluntarily. The media outlet maintains active physical offices in both Ramallah and Gaza. [AI generated description] News have been confirmed by lots of international sources at different dates in May 2026, including Israeli and US media, as well as Iranian military related X-accounts.  Why has Trump threatened Oman? The US president’s comments came after reports emerged in Iranian state media that Tehran and Oman had discussed a possible situation in which the two countries would manage shipping through the Strait of Hormuz after the war. Iranian officials have discussed systems in which ships crossing the strait would pay a maritime service fee, which they say would be distinct from the idea of direct tolls for ships to transit through Hormuz. But the White House has rejected suggestions that Iran or Oman could oversee the critical waterway. “It’s international waters. Nobody’s going to control it. We’re going to watch over it,” he told the cabinet meeting. [The Independent, UK on May 28] On May 26 the US informed the world via FOX News they resumed their attacks on Southern Iran in "self-defence". Iranian vessels, allegedly laying mines, and port facilities in Bandar Abbas have become under attack.  Iranian video showing the attack on a vessel belonging to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps IRGC, early this morning.  At the same time, during the annual Hajj pilgrimage to Mekkah, the Iranian leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei delivered a Programmatic Hajj Speech where he predicted the end of Israel as a national entity within the next 15 years. This was accompanied by Iranian missile attacks on Israeli targets. History - A pilgrimage from Jeddah to Mekkah - The first video known to describe Hajj proceedings at Mekkah. The original Arabic version from 1928. Among the ancient pilgrimage routes taken by Muslims is the "African Hajj Route", where Muslims from central and western Africa would traverse an immense distance separating them from the holy lands, estimated at about seven thousand kilometers. This vast distance required them to set out for the Hajj a full year or more before its appointed time, covering the land on foot. And due to the impossibility of carrying provisions and supplies throughout these extended months, the pilgrims devised a clever stratagem: each one would set out on his journey accompanied by a herd of livestock—cows, buffalo, and goats—to quench his thirst with their milk and sustain himself on them throughout the road. Upon reaching the port to cross to the opposite shore of the Red Sea, he would sell his livestock there and save its price as expenses for performing the rites and for the return journey. [Quoted from the X-account of an Egyptian Muslim]    |
 Iran vs US - Comparison of Culture  Iran (Persian - Farsi) It represents the largest demographic weight of its speakers. It is written in the Arabic script and is considered the official state language, unifying all ethnic groups within the country. Afghanistan (Dari) Persian is known here as "Dari" (or Afghan Persian), and it is an official language alongside "Pashto." More than half of the country's population speaks it, and it serves as the common language of communication among various ethnic components. Tajikistan (Tajiki) It is the northern extension of the Persian language in Central Asia (blue colored in the map). Due to the Soviet era, the Tajik language is written today using the Cyrillic alphabet (Russian) instead of the Arabic script, but when spoken, it remains a fully comprehensible Persian language to Iranians and Afghans. And what about green-colored Uzbekistan? Its official language is Uzbek (a Turkish language). However, the citizens of great cities like Samarkand and Bukhara, located today within Uzbekistan, speak Persian (the Tajik dialect) as their first language. Therefore, the green color here represents the living cultural and demographic extension of the language, not the administrative constitutional status. Persian is not a Semitic language (like Arabic or Hebrew); it rather bears some similarity with the Indo-European family (like English and Spanish). Despite the different family, Persian (in Iran and Afghanistan) borrowed the Arabic script and a big proportion of Arabic vocabulary after the Islamic conquest, making it somehow familiar to the Arab ear. However, the formation of typical Persian words seems to be totally different from the Arabic root scheme. As there are only a few additional Persian letters adding to Arabic scripture, both scriptures are looking similar, and Arabic loan-words are therefore easy to recognize. An overall mutual understanding between both languages, however, is generally not so easy. What Arab understands Persian and what Persian understands Arabic usually depends on whom you ask ... Just try to read the famous Persian poems of Hafiz from Shiraz with a basic knowledge of the Arabic language. Only in a few cases you might succeed. Here are some English words that would have been translated into comparable expressions: English: Coran, mosque, a believer, the light, jewels, republic, news, a judge. Persian: قرآن، مسجد، مؤمن، نور، جواهرات، جمهوری، اخبار، قاضی Arabic: قرآن، مسجد، مؤمن، النور، جواهر، جمهورية، أخبار، قاضٍ By the way, only one day after my latest entry here, I happened to watch a TV documentary about the Islamic Revolution of Ayatollah Khomeini. In an interview, Khomeini was heard speaking a sentence that caught my attention, because it contained an Arabic word I recognized at once. That was استقلال which has the meaning of "independence". Together with الحرية, meaning "freedom", it belonged to the vocabulary Khomeini frequently used at the beginning of his revolution and which triggered much support from an Iranian and international community. - W. Wiesner - Enjoy 2.000 Years old Iranian Culture while walking on a Carpet Fair (Tehran 2022). Compare it with a US Bully Culture talking about taking Cuba on its way back from Iran, or of "blowing up" Oman in case they don't behave. Latest News & Posts 'Early Bird' - Blueprint News Center 2025 Latest: China starts military drills, this time intended to physically block Taiwan from foreign support. 
The President of Harvard University on latest Restrictions for Foreign Students on behalf of the Trump Administration. [NPR May 28, 2025] 'It is up to all of us to fix this' Former President Barack Obama on American ideals [April 4, 2025] Even the US Eagle is not fond of Trump : |
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