—🇮🇷🇱🇧 NEW: The son of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Sayyed Muhammad Mahdi Nasrallah, has completed his religious seminary education and obtained his turban in the Islamic Republic of Iran, in a ceremony led by His Eminence, the Supreme Religious Authority, Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei
The 'turban placing' ceremony, which was conducted personally by Imam Khamenei in this case, marks the official completion of the first stage of religious studies in Shia Islam, and declares that the person has become a 'Sheikh' (a religious scholar / cleric), somewhat like obtaining priesthood.
—🇮🇷🇱🇧 NEW: The son of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Sayyed Muhammad Mahdi Nasrallah, has completed his religious seminary education and obtained his turban in the Islamic Republic of Iran, in a ceremony led by His Eminence, the Supreme Religious Authority, Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei
The 'turban placing' ceremony, which was conducted personally by Imam Khamenei in this case, marks the official completion of the first stage of religious studies in Shia Islam, and declares that the person has become a 'Sheikh' (a religious scholar / cleric), somewhat like obtaining priesthood.
Despite Telegram's origins, its approach to users' security has privacy advocates worried. The company maintains that it cannot act against individual or group chats, which are “private amongst their participants,” but it will respond to requests in relation to sticker sets, channels and bots which are publicly available. During the invasion of Ukraine, Pavel Durov has wrestled with this issue a lot more prominently than he has before. Channels like Donbass Insider and Bellum Acta, as reported by Foreign Policy, started pumping out pro-Russian propaganda as the invasion began. So much so that the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council issued a statement labeling which accounts are Russian-backed. Ukrainian officials, in potential violation of the Geneva Convention, have shared imagery of dead and captured Russian soldiers on the platform. Markets continued to grapple with the economic and corporate earnings implications relating to the Russia-Ukraine conflict. “We have a ton of uncertainty right now,” said Stephanie Link, chief investment strategist and portfolio manager at Hightower Advisors. “We’re dealing with a war, we’re dealing with inflation. We don’t know what it means to earnings.” On February 27th, Durov posted that Channels were becoming a source of unverified information and that the company lacks the ability to check on their veracity. He urged users to be mistrustful of the things shared on Channels, and initially threatened to block the feature in the countries involved for the length of the war, saying that he didn’t want Telegram to be used to aggravate conflict or incite ethnic hatred. He did, however, walk back this plan when it became clear that they had also become a vital communications tool for Ukrainian officials and citizens to help coordinate their resistance and evacuations. Individual messages can be fully encrypted. But the user has to turn on that function. It's not automatic, as it is on Signal and WhatsApp.
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