Today, Trump imposed a new round of sanctions on Iran. This is just months after he violated the Nuclear Deal, breaking the 2015 agreement by both the US and Iran committing both sides to diplomacy. #IranSanctions

Sanctions are a form of silent warfare, make no mistake about it. These sanctions coincide with the 73rd anniversary of the US nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the only time in history a military has used nuclear weapons to obliterate entire cities.

In Persian, we often discuss the many words of Arabic origin. They're easy to identify because they have a different structure. Since Iranians learn Arabic in school, they can identify Arabic roots when they see them.

Fewer people realize the extent of Persian words in Arabic. Take "muhandis" مهندس for example, meaning engineer. Most will tell you it's from the root h-n-d-s as in "handasa," meaning geometry or engineering.

But handasa is actually the middle Persian word handazag, from where modern Persian "andazeh" اندازه - meaning measurement - comes

Some unexpected American history for you that might challenge the way you think about the "Discovery of the New World":

When Christopher Columbus first landed in the Americas in 1492, the first language he spoke with the Natives he encountered was Arabic. Columbus thought he was headed to China's imperial court - and he knew that the Chinese would have Arabic-speakers in their court, since Arabic was a global language of trade in much of Asia.

Turkish is a gender neutral language. There is no "he" or "she" - everything is just "o". But look what happens when Google translates to English. Thread: When you translate Turkish sentences into English with Google Translate, something remarkable happens: The sentences get gendered.