Shumita (Shamita) Basu
speaker
365 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 22 Jan
Shumita (Shamita) Basu’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The National Weather Service says hazardous conditions like tree damage, snowy roads and reduced visibility will make it tough to travel.
And because conditions are reaching farther south, air travel won't be spared.
As all of this is happening, Rosenthal says there are some things you can do to prepare yourself, whether you're a winter-hardened person from the Northeast or in a place that is used to milder winters.
Local forecast offices are telling people to prepare to stay home, put off travel plans, and check conditions beforehand if you absolutely have to hit the road.
You should also prepare for potential power outages.
President Trump's unpredictability over Greenland and Venezuela these past few weeks raised major questions about what he might be willing to do in the Middle East.
In Iran, protests appear to have been suppressed for now at enormous human cost.
Rough estimates from one NGO conservatively puts the death toll at around 4,500, and a human rights group says nearly 20,000 people have been arrested.
President Trump has repeatedly refused to rule out military action should the situation worsen and called for the Ayatollah to go.
The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that Trump was still pushing for what he called decisive actions.
The same day, the regime warned the U.S., quote, If any hand of aggression is extended toward our leader, we not only cut that hand, but also we will set fire to their world.
Trump's threats might not be as straightforward to carry out in Iran as they were in Venezuela.
It has a far stronger security state built around the Ayatollah's role.
And the extent to which Trump could do anything to unilaterally change the circumstances in the country is up for debate.
But his words may have had an impact.
Arash Azizi is an Iranian-American contributing writer at The Atlantic and a lecturer at Yale University.
He spoke to around a dozen Iranians to ask them generally what they think of the regime's worst atrocity in decades.
Azizi was surprised to learn that some favored intervention from the United States.
Here's what one young woman in her 20s, Shahzad, told Azizi.
Another student activist who fled the country in 2022 told Azizi that tying the destiny of Iranian people to foreign intervention is, quote, dangerous and irresponsible.
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