سباق بين سلالات حاكمة تاريخية على عرش إيران

أنصار شاه إيران السابق يرفعون صورته وصورة نجله خلال مشاركتهم في مظاهرة للمعارضة أمام مقر البرلمان الأوروبي في ستراسبورغ الأسبوع الماضي (أ.ب)
أنصار شاه إيران السابق يرفعون صورته وصورة نجله خلال مشاركتهم في مظاهرة للمعارضة أمام مقر البرلمان الأوروبي في ستراسبورغ الأسبوع الماضي (أ.ب)
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سباق بين سلالات حاكمة تاريخية على عرش إيران

أنصار شاه إيران السابق يرفعون صورته وصورة نجله خلال مشاركتهم في مظاهرة للمعارضة أمام مقر البرلمان الأوروبي في ستراسبورغ الأسبوع الماضي (أ.ب)
أنصار شاه إيران السابق يرفعون صورته وصورة نجله خلال مشاركتهم في مظاهرة للمعارضة أمام مقر البرلمان الأوروبي في ستراسبورغ الأسبوع الماضي (أ.ب)

وسط غابة خضراء في مكان مجهول، وقف رجل سبعيني ليخاطب الإيرانيين بالفيديو باقتباسات من كبار الشعراء الفارسيين، معلناً أنه «شاه عباس سلجوقي، ملك الملوك وإمبراطور إيران، آخر المتبقين من سلالة السلاجقة، ومن الأتراك الإيرانيين».
قد تبدو مزاعم الرجل في حكم إيران مثار تندر، نظراً إلى أن إمبراطورية السلالة السلجوقية التي يدعي التحدر منها أفلت قبل أكثر من ثمانية قرون. لكنه مجرد متسابق بين كثيرين يحاولون طرح أنفسهم بديلاً للنظام الحالي، في ظل تزايد السخط الشعبي على أدائه.

وتداولت فيديوهات لأشخاص يزعمون انتسابهم إلى السلاسات التي حكمت إيران بعد سقوط الصفوية في القرن الثامن عشر، وبعضهم يرشح نفسه لاستعادة عرش أجداده.
وأصبح الشغل الشاغل للإيرانيين على شبكات التواصل الاجتماعي تتبع أخبار من يتحدرون من السلالات التاريخية التي حكمت بلادهم قبل قرون، عبر فيديوهات مزاعم حق العرش التي تثير دهشتهم أو منشورات ساخرة.

صراع على تركة القاجار

ونشر شخص يدعي بابك ميرزا قاجار يقول إنه يتحدر من السلالة القاجارية التي حكمت البلاد من 1794 حتى 1925، قبل إطاحة آخر ملوكها أحمد شاه قاجار، على يد رئيس وزرائه رضا خان بهلوي الذي جلس على العرش وأسس الحكم البهلوي.
وقبل أيام، أعادت قناة «تي آرتي» التركية في خدمتها الفارسية التذكير بتقرير نشر في عام 2016 يزعم وجود أحد أحفاد السلسلة القاجارية في إسطنبول. ونقلت عمن وصفته بأنه «بابك ميرزا أحد الباقين من سلالة القاجار الإيرانية»: «في هذا التوقيت المضطرب، أرى تقارباً في العلاقة بين تركيا وإيران... أنا قادم من إيران وأتحدث التركية، وأكثر من نصف الإيرانيين قادرون على فهم اللغة التركية».

وتداول مغردون بياناً لـ«رابطة قاجار»، ومقرها جنيف وتقول إنها تمثل أبناء السلالة القاجارية، نفى أي صلة بين بابك ميرزا والقاجار. وقالت الرابطة: «اطلعنا على مزاعم شخص يدعى بابك بيتر بادار ويدعي وراثة العرش والتاج الملكي للقاجاريين، وينوي بهذه الأوهام القيام بأنشطة سياسية. هذا الشخص غير معروف للرابطة وأطلعت على وجوده عبر وسائل الإعلام».
وأضاف بيان الرابطة: «نحن كأسرة القاجار نقف إلى جانب الشعب الإيراني، ونطرد أي شخص يحاول انتحال هوية مزيفة للوصول إلى مصالح شخصية واستغلال الأوضاع الصعبة».

«دار المجانين»

وبينما انشغل الإيرانيون بمتابعة صور وفيديوهات بابك ميرزا، ظهر فيديو الرجل السبعيني الذي وقف في الغابة معلناً أنه «شاه عباس سلجوقي ملك الملوك وإمبراطور إيران».
وكتب مغرد يدعى فريد خان: «بعد بابك ميرزا قاجار، ظهر أمير سلجوقي هو الأمير عباس سلجوقي كبير أسرة السلاجقة ومن دعاة إعادة تأسيس النظام الشاهي في إيران... البلاد تحولت إلى دار المجانين».
وقال مغرد آخر: «الأمير عباس سلجوقي مستعد للتنافس مع أربعة مرشحين من السلالة الصفوية والأفشارية والقاجارية والبلهوية الذين أعلنوا استعدادهم مسبقاً لإعادة تأسيس النظام الشاهي».
وكتبت مغردة تدعى شرارة: «في سباق العودة التاريخي، ظهر أمير سلجوقي... على أمراء السلاسات الأخرى الإسراع لأن الغفلة تؤدي إلى الندم، على رضا بهلوي الانتحار لأن منافسيه يزدادون».
ورضا بهلوي هو نجل شاه إيران السابق الذي يلتف حوله أنصار والده وبعض المشاهير، لطرح بديل لنظام الجمهورية الإسلامية في إيران. لكن نجل الشاه يواجه معارضة من شريحة واسعة بين أبناء الشعوب غير الفارسية، مثل الأكراد والعرب والأتراك والبلوش.
وتأتي الظاهرة الجديدة بينما تحاول السلطات الإيرانية إخماد الاحتجاجات بأساليب من بينها التوسع في عقوبة الإعدام وتنفيذها حتى الآن في أربعة متظاهرين.
وكان لافتاً خلال الأيام الأخيرة نشر فيديوهات من قنوات «الحرس الثوري» تشبه النظام الحالي بالحكم الصفوي الذي حاول منافسة العثمانيين على حكم العالم الإسلامي.



Report: Trump Left NATO Summit on Secret Flight Due to Iranian Threat

US President Donald Trump speaks during the signing of an executive order reviewing childhood vaccine recommendations in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, USA, 10 August 2026. EPA/BONNIE CASH / POOL
US President Donald Trump speaks during the signing of an executive order reviewing childhood vaccine recommendations in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, USA, 10 August 2026. EPA/BONNIE CASH / POOL
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Report: Trump Left NATO Summit on Secret Flight Due to Iranian Threat

US President Donald Trump speaks during the signing of an executive order reviewing childhood vaccine recommendations in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, USA, 10 August 2026. EPA/BONNIE CASH / POOL
US President Donald Trump speaks during the signing of an executive order reviewing childhood vaccine recommendations in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, USA, 10 August 2026. EPA/BONNIE CASH / POOL

President Donald Trump secretly flew out of last month's NATO summit in Ankara, Türkiye, on an alternate military aircraft while the White House made it appear that the Republican president was flying on Air Force One, according to a report published by The Washington Post on Monday.

The Post said the operation was prompted by an Iranian assassination threat against Trump. The ruse was carried out as journalists and some White House staff members were led to believe they were on the same plane as the president as he began his journey back to Washington from the annual gathering of NATO country leaders.

The Post cited material reviewed by the newspaper, a US official familiar with the operation and another person with knowledge of the president’s travel. The Associated Press has not independently confirmed the report.

Trump had flown to the summit in a white and navy-blue jet. But ahead of departing Türkiye, he said he would fly partway home on an older-model baby blue Air Force One plane instead.

The president at the time said the new luxury jet was being flown out ahead of his departure from Ankara to give some US troops based in eastern England a chance to check out the new Air Force One.

In Ankara, Trump boarded the old Air Force One jumbo jet in view of television cameras ahead of the plane flying to Royal Air Force Mildenhall in the United Kingdom.

However, according to the Post report, after boarding the legacy Air Force One jet, he was secretly shuttled minutes later to a smaller plane — an Air Force C-32A — via an airport catering truck typically used to load meals and other supplies. Trump flew to Mildenhall on that smaller jet.

The White House did not respond directly to questions about the Post report of the secret operation to whisk Trump out of the country on a third aircraft, or the reported elaborate ruse to make it appear he was on the baby blue Air Force One jet flying to Mildenhall.

“As the President has said recently, there are many enemies of America who have their sights on him, and we use every tool at our disposal to address those threats,” White House communications director Steven Cheung said in a statement.

The US Secret Service declined to comment. The Air Force, which maintains the fleet of executive travel aircraft, referred questions to the White House.


As Trump Media Scraps Some Businesses, It's Doubling Down on Truth Social

Trump Media & Technology Company owns the Truth Social platform (Reuters)
Trump Media & Technology Company owns the Truth Social platform (Reuters)
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As Trump Media Scraps Some Businesses, It's Doubling Down on Truth Social

Trump Media & Technology Company owns the Truth Social platform (Reuters)
Trump Media & Technology Company owns the Truth Social platform (Reuters)

The president's media company has tried its hand at a half-dozen new lines of business to lift its stock, but nothing has worked.

Now it's getting back to its roots.

In a conference call with investors Monday, the company behind Truth Social said it will be unwinding much of its expansion and doubling down on its original media business by selling a form of White House access, a move that has raised big ethical questions among Democrats and government watchdogs, said The Associated Press.

Trump started Truth Social after he was kicked off Twitter and Facebook, but the two reinstated him more than three years ago, so the company has had to transform itself. Instead of a “free speech” forum, it now acts more like a “hear it here first” site, a second White House press office where people get scoops from the president on everything from the Iran war to tariffs to the future of the US central bank.

But shares of the parent company, Trump Media & Technology, kept falling so it decided to become more than a media company, and branched into unrelated industries like online betting, finance, investment funds, buying and storing bitcoin and nuclear energy.

Now it's returning to its original mission, with a twist: It's offering a special new service that grants fast access to President Trump's posts for a fee.

The new business could double or triple revenue

In a conference call with investors, the company's new chief executive, Kevin McGurn, said it had already signed up several high speed trading firms, each paying between $60,000 and $100,000 a month.

“We’re in the early innings,” said McGurn, noting that the potential market included data center companies, news organizations and developers of large language models, not just traders, and he was talking to them all.

McGurn has rejected the idea that the new business is an ethics quagmire as good-government groups have said, noting that other social media companies provide a similar service. As for the White House, it denies conflicts even exist between Trump the president and Trump the businessman where his private interests may influence his public policy.

Traders on Wall Street can make big money if they get White House news faster and so are signing up — 10 in the week since the service began, which may seem like a tiny number but translates into a major boost for the company. The monthly customers collectively are paying as much as $7 million and $12 million annually — two to three times the revenue the company took in for all its businesses last year.

Trump Media needs the money — and a lot more.

It's lost more than $1 billion since the start of last year, and its earnings report released Monday for the three months ended June 30 showed relief is not on the horizon. It lost another $238 million, though much of that was due to paper losses from the plunging value of its bitcoin holdings.

Time is running out

The clock is ticking to fix the company.

Trump Media depends partly on outside funding, specifically $1 billion raised from lenders with a special agreement that allows them to get paid back early. They can demand the company buy back their convertible notes on Nov. 30, 18 months before the loans mature.

That cashout date is just after the November midterms, which could impact the company should Democrats get control of Congress. Several current members, including Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, say they will hold formal investigations of Trump's businesses, including Trump Media, should they take over.

A third deadline is farther out, but the most consequential — the end of Trump's presidency.

Trump is a big draw for the platform's users, but it's not clear how many will read his posts after he leaves office, much less why traders will pay as much $1.2 million a year for sneak peeks at his posts if he's no longer able to declare on the site that the Strait of Hormuz is open or that he's hiking tariffs on dozens of countries.

Would Vance in the White House help Truth Social? The special, high-speed service, called Truth API, includes posts from other top posters on the site, but no one comes near the president in popularity. He has 13 million followers. The second biggest poster, his son, Donald Jr., has 7.5 million.

Other heavily followed posters include Trump administration members who also may fall in popularity once out of office, including FBI director Kash Patel and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

A wild card is JD Vance, who will be out of his vice presidential job in 2028 but, if he runs for president and wins, may continue to post on the site where he has five million followers.

The other business line that McGurn is choosing to hold onto is nuclear fusion, a technology still not commercially available but that is getting a big boost by the current administration.

The US government has a helping hand In June, the US Department of Energy released a “road map” committing to government funding to speed the development of nuclear fusion as a national priority and calling for public-private partnerships.

Despite the help, investors still aren't convinced Trump Media has a rosy future.

After closing at about $62 shortly after it went public in 2024, the stock has plunged into the single digits, wiping out billions in stock market value.

On Monday, Trump Media dove again, down 8% to $9.39 a share.


İngiltere'nin yaklaşık dörtte üçü kuraklıktan etkileniyor

İngiltere'de yaşanan rekor sıcaklıklarda şemsiyesiyle yürüyen bir kadın, (Reuters)
İngiltere'de yaşanan rekor sıcaklıklarda şemsiyesiyle yürüyen bir kadın, (Reuters)
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İngiltere'nin yaklaşık dörtte üçü kuraklıktan etkileniyor

İngiltere'de yaşanan rekor sıcaklıklarda şemsiyesiyle yürüyen bir kadın, (Reuters)
İngiltere'de yaşanan rekor sıcaklıklarda şemsiyesiyle yürüyen bir kadın, (Reuters)

İngiliz hükümeti, ülkenin bütün zamanların en kurak temmuz ayını geride bırakmasının ardından, İngiltere'nin yaklaşık yüzde 71,3'ünün kuraklıktan etkilendiğini açıkladı. Hükümet, gelecek hafta beşinci sıcak hava dalgasının başlamasının ve yağışların düşük seyretmesinin beklendiğini bildirdi.

İngiltere Çevre, Gıda ve Köyişleri Bakanlığı dün yaptığı açıklamada, "İngiltere'nin yaklaşık dörtte üçü şu anda kuraklık yaşıyor. Ağustos ayının kurak başlamasının ardından koşullar daha da kötüleşiyor" ifadelerini kullandı. Bakanlık ayrıca ülkenin tüm bölgelerinde su kaynakları üzerinde baskı bulunduğunu belirtti.