⚡🇹🇯🇦🇫🇨🇳 Al Jazeera: Border clashes have intensified along the Tajikistan–Afghanistan frontier, with authorities in Dushanbe reporting repeated armed incidents involving forces linked to the Taliban.

Tajik officials say the clashes have resulted in casualties, including among border guards, against a backdrop of fragile security and strained relations between Tajikistan and Taliban-led Afghanistan.

The developments have also raised concerns for China, as instability along the border affects Chinese interests, workers, and investments in the wider region, highlighting the broader geopolitical implications of the clashes.

@wfwitness

The Iran from before the 12-Day War is no more. The risk-averse mindset that has prevailed for over 45 years is gone.

Iran has tried negotiations, time and time again, and every time it has been betrayed. There is now a fundemental lack of trust.

Iran sees conflict as inevitable. It learnt many lessons from the 12-Day War. And it wants to prevent a repeat of these events by any means possible.

One of the main things the Iranian leadership always feared is internal chaos or uprisings during time of war. But the unity of the Iranian people in the last war gave the leadership confidence that such a thing will not happen.

I think Israel accidentally created a much greater threat to itself than before.