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Séamus Malekafzali

@seamus-malekafzali.com
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Journalist and writer. Writing about the Middle East at seamus-malekafzali.com and about film at burntnitrate.com. Email: s.malekafzali@protonmail.com

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Séamus Malekafzali @seamus-malekafzali.com · 21/09/2026
Said out loud, "oh, awesome"
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CHAPO TRAP HOUSE @chapotraphousereal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The GOAT @seamus-malekafzali.com is here for Houthi news, plus Kash Patel's Peanut Butter Problem www.patreon.com/chapotraphou...
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1072 - Opposites Day feat. Séamus Malekafzali (9/17/26) | Chapo Trap House
1072 - Opposites Day feat. Séamus Malekafzali (9/17/26) by Chapo Trap House on Patreon. Join Chapo Trap House's community for exclusive content and updates.
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Séamus Malekafzali @seamus-malekafzali.com · 16/09/2026
Wrote about the Ansarallah offensive that took over Yemen's western coast, what the global economic effects of a simultaneous closure of the Bab al-Mandab and the Strait of Hormuz could be, and to what extent Israel may get involved to stop its advance. www.seamus-malekafzali.com/p/everything...
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“Everything We Held on the Western Coast Has Fallen”
A lightning offensive has seen Ansarallah take effective control of the Bab al-Mandab.
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Séamus Malekafzali @seamus-malekafzali.com · 16/09/2026
Wrote about the Ansarallah offensive that took over Yemen's western coast, what the global economic effects of a simultaneous closure of the Bab al-Mandab and the Strait of Hormuz could be, and to what extent Israel may get involved to stop its advance. www.seamus-malekafzali.com/p/everything...
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“Everything We Held on the Western Coast Has Fallen”
A lightning offensive has seen Ansarallah take effective control of the Bab al-Mandab.
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Séamus Malekafzali @seamus-malekafzali.com · 03/09/2026
I will be on @majorityreport.bsky.social at 12:30 PM ET to talk about this article, as well as my latest in @thedriftmag.com and the @versobooks.bsky.social Blog.
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Séamus Malekafzali @seamus-malekafzali.com · 02/09/2026
Wrote about the Israeli leftist plan for a socialist kibbutz in the West Bank to promote "coexistence" with Palestinians, how the kibbutz has always been a tool for expelling Arabs, and about the proposals to build kibbutzim inside Gaza itself. www.seamus-malekafzali.com/p/your-west-...
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Your West Bank Settlement Is Not Leftist
The Israeli kibbutz is an instrument of Palestinian dispossession, not coexistence.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
extremely curious about exact the degree to which the president is fully encased in a slop-generated alternate reality
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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
As a millennial the Iraq war was when I learned America felt no responsibility for human life abroad and hurricane Katrina was when I learned it felt no responsibility for American lives either
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Séamus Malekafzali @seamus-malekafzali.com · 29/08/2026
Okay so I really hate this
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Séamus Malekafzali @seamus-malekafzali.com · 28/08/2026
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Séamus Malekafzali @seamus-malekafzali.com · 28/08/2026
spam texts i can only assume have been using machine learning to figure out what will entice me to reply
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Séamus Malekafzali @seamus-malekafzali.com · 28/08/2026
I wrote for the Verso Blog about the Democratic Party’s intractable relationship with Israel, its ideological roots in an image of the Jewish state that no longer exists (if it ever existed), and how that relationship is faring amidst the war on Iran. www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/l...
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Liberal Zionism and the Democratic Party
“Israel is not the most important issue in this district,” exclaimed U.S. Representative Dan Goldman from the Democratic debate stage back in June, baffled by the prospect that his political career wo...
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Séamus Malekafzali @seamus-malekafzali.com · 27/08/2026
I wrote about Trump's "Economic D-Day" on Iran, what the US-Israeli war and naval blockade have actually done to the Iranian economy versus the narrative of impending collapse, and how the Iranian military is planning to respond to America's "economic war." www.seamus-malekafzali.com/p/trumps-eco...
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Trump’s “Economic D-Day” May Die on the Beach
Iran’s economy is suffering from war, but the Islamic Republic is no closer to collapse.
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A-100 gecs @pinstripebungle.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
deftly slipping the hard boiled egg I'm carrying into my pocket as I enter the bakery that sells both savory pastries and hard boiled eggs so that they're unaware I intend to get a pastry and eat it with the hard boiled egg I've carried from home, which is much less expensive
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Séamus Malekafzali @seamus-malekafzali.com · 24/08/2026
Had an extraordinarily vivid dream last night about a David Lynch film where Joe Rogan played a 50s-esque detective
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Séamus Malekafzali @seamus-malekafzali.com · 21/08/2026
does anyone still know how to access old reddit dot com without an account or am i just never visiting that site ever again
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Séamus Malekafzali @seamus-malekafzali.com · 20/08/2026
Will be going on the @amprestigepod.bsky.social livestream tomorrow night at 8 PM to discuss this article and conduct a larger in-depth discussion about the possibility of war between Turkey and Israel. Subscribers to my Substack will get the email as soon as the stream goes live.
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Séamus Malekafzali @seamus-malekafzali.com · 19/08/2026
I wrote about Israel's preparations for a future war with Turkey, the strategy behind its strikes on Syrian military bases, and how Israel's larger calculus has been unmoved despite its myriad failures in Iran.
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The Coming Israeli War With Turkey
Israel is rapidly preparing for a military confrontation with a NATO member state.
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Séamus Malekafzali @seamus-malekafzali.com · 17/08/2026
To those in NYC: I will be introducing a pristine 35mm screening of the Cillian Murphy-starring Irish Civil War drama “The Wind That Shakes the Barley” next week (August 24th at 7 PM) at the Roxy Cinema. Buy your tickets now!
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The Wind that Shakes the Barley - 35MM | 2006 Movies
Against the backdrop of the Irish War of Independence, two brothers fight a guerrilla war against British forces.
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Séamus Malekafzali @seamus-malekafzali.com · 12/08/2026
I wrote about Mojtaba Khamenei's emerging strategic doctrine: asserting his authority to stop elected officials from compromising in negotiations, and scaling up the mass mobilization of the 1980s war with Iraq to a civilizational conflict with America and Israel.
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The Mojtaba Doctrine
Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is crafting a strategic doctrine at home and abroad more confrontational than his father before him.
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Séamus Malekafzali @seamus-malekafzali.com · 12/08/2026
I wrote about Mojtaba Khamenei's emerging strategic doctrine: asserting his authority to stop elected officials from compromising in negotiations, and scaling up the mass mobilization of the 1980s war with Iraq to a civilizational conflict with America and Israel.
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The Mojtaba Doctrine
Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is crafting a strategic doctrine at home and abroad more confrontational than his father before him.
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Séamus Malekafzali @seamus-malekafzali.com · 08/08/2026
To those who did not see my post on the show's page: I have left Turbulence and am going back to writing full-time. I will still be on bonus eps until August 20th, but no longer doing the interviews. I will be going back to seamus-malekafzali.com, where there will be a new article every Wednesday.
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Séamus Malekafzali | Substack
In-depth analysis about the Middle East and the Global South that other outlets can't or won't cover. Click to read Séamus Malekafzali, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
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Séamus Malekafzali @seamus-malekafzali.com · 07/04/2026
Everybody should read Arghiri Emmanuel
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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
"The American narrative of having supposedly learned lessons after endless years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan is finally being challenged by brutal reality." - @seamus-malekafzali.com
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Thousands of Iranians Who Live on Kharg Island Face Possibility of US Invasion
US media talk about the island’s civilians as if they are a military problem, if they talk about them at all.
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Madeleine Baker @madeleineebaker.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Can always count on @seamus-malekafzali.com to say what needs to be said newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/the-legacy...
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The legacy of Obama's drone wars
Who paved the road to Trump's war?
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Sune Engel Rasmussen @suneengel.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Good reminder (if we needed it) that for all the talk of Dubai being a safe haven for business and tourists, the UAE is not a democracy 21 ppl have been charged under UAE cybercrime laws for sharing videos and social media posts relating to recent missile strikes www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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British man charged in Dubai for alleged filming of Iranian missiles
Foreign Office officials are understood to be supporting his family.
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Séamus Malekafzali @seamus-malekafzali.com · 12/03/2026
every time i'm on camera i notice i'm furrowing my brow to an insane degree. that is my default expression. don't think this is healthy
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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Crazy video of 20 Tomahawks flying through the Iraqi Kurdish mountains near Sulaymaniyah (filmed by someone standing *above* them), seemingly fired from Navy vessels in the Mediterranean
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Séamus Malekafzali @seamus-malekafzali.com · 09/03/2026
i think you people just actually want a regime change war
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Séamus Malekafzali @seamus-malekafzali.com · 09/03/2026
had a vivid dream last night about a benjamin netanyahu impersonator on seinfeld that kept showing up in jerry seinfeld's own dreams within the show to torture him as Q from star trek might
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Equator @equatormag.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Marco Rubio’s claim that Israel dragged Washington into war have prompted familiar questions about the US-Israeli relationship. But the truth, @seamus-malekafzali.com writes, is that the two rogue states are now full partners in impunity: www.equator.org/articles/the...
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The Invaders • EQUATOR
The war on Iran reveals that America and Israel have never been so close
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Adam H Johnson @ahjohnson.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
It’s not disingenuous to point out that the NYT did not run a single front page story of the Minab bombing. You don’t dispute this claim because it’s true. And the story that you reference on your webpage does not attribute blame to US/Israel and frames it as an allegation by “Iranian state media”
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Séamus Malekafzali @seamus-malekafzali.com · 05/03/2026
If you come to me asking to vote for a Democrat after this, I'm stealing something out of your house
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CHAPO TRAP HOUSE @chapotraphousereal.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Our friend @seamus-malekafzali.com is here to talk about the war with Iran: www.patreon.com/posts/1015-m...
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1015 - Monitoring the Situation feat. Séamus Malekafzali (3/2/26) | Chapo Trap House
Get more from Chapo Trap House on Patreon
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andy™ @andylevy.net · 01/03/2026
“direct your anger at trump not the democrats” buddy you are severely underestimating the amount of anger i have available to me
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Ali Ahmadi @aliahmadi.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Britain and India were united by garments and spices until that Ghandi guy ruined it.
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Oh fuck off
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Séamus Malekafzali @seamus-malekafzali.com · 28/02/2026
Hilarious editorial today by Amit Segal in Israel Hayom that posits that Khamenei is about to "pull a Hitler" and fire everything the Axis of Resistance has at once, including having a million-man Houthi army invade Israel through Jordan.
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Séamus Malekafzali @seamus-malekafzali.com · 27/02/2026
Awesome, I said with such pain in my voice it was unclear if it was illness or anguish
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Séamus Malekafzali @seamus-malekafzali.com · 25/02/2026
genius strategy by elizabeth warren and company to stand up and clap for trump saying people shouldn't make exorbitant money off of being in congress, setting herself up to be humiliated for being willing to stand up and clap for him, before he immediately went to start attacking somalis
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Séamus Malekafzali @seamus-malekafzali.com · 25/02/2026
Hockey is officially straight again [derogatory]
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Séamus Malekafzali @seamus-malekafzali.com · 24/02/2026
*****LOCAL NYC OBSERVATION, IF NON-NYC, PLEASE IGNORE***** Pedestrian crossings got completely cleared within hours over where I am in Upper Manhattan, when after the last big snowfall a couple weeks back, it took days. Nice to see actual, obvious improvement in a city service.
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Séamus Malekafzali @seamus-malekafzali.com · 23/02/2026
Why am I seeing Biden admin staffers talking about mid posters
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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
So it's ok to start a war illegally against a nation of 92 million, for whom you have "no sympathy" as long as the purpose is clear? The Big Dem line that Trump is a demented fascist domestically while simultaneously agreeing his foreign policy decisions just isn't gonna cut it anymore.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time
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Séamus Malekafzali @seamus-malekafzali.com · 20/02/2026
have been listening to ben folds for the first time since i was a teenager and man this is ass
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Séamus Malekafzali @seamus-malekafzali.com · 20/02/2026
real
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Wim Zwijnenburg @wammezz.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
End of January #Israel illegally sprayed herbicide across its borders into #Syria and #Lebanon. Affected communities are concerned over the impacts on agriculture and health. We used satellite imagery to track the 55km long affected area. A thread 🧵1/x paxforpeace.nl/news/israel-...
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Séamus Malekafzali @seamus-malekafzali.com · 16/02/2026
Saw the trailer for the newest Taylor Sheridan show and had to stop myself from bursting out laughing. Why is Will Arnett here as the brilliant therapist
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Séamus Malekafzali @seamus-malekafzali.com · 16/02/2026
A perfect and beautiful evocation of the childhood feeling of seeing your friends on the small screen suddenly make it to the big one, going on a grandiose adventure no other kind of screen could possibly hold. Run, don't walk!
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