74 lashes on her body because she refused to wear hejab and still refused when brought to receive the “sentence”.
#RoyaHeshmati
is a hero to Iranians but the West’s feminist movement/progressives/universities/intellectuals ignore women like her, even after
#WomanLifeFreedom
Many may think of what’s happening in Iran as more protests. But for the people of Iran, this is a REVOLUTION.
It may take time to get to victory but this is the end of the Islamic Republic.
نزدیک به سه سال در منطقه بالکان/یوگسلاوی سابق کار کردم. معتقدم که بدترین چیزی که ممکن است برای مردمی اتفاق بیفتد - از نظر سیاسی، اقتصادی، معنوی - مبارزه برای فدرالیسم مبتنی بر قومیت است.
امروز در سنای آمریکا گفتم مردم در کل منطقه خاورمیانه می خوان که جمهوری اسلامی شکست بخوره و آنها به کرامت خودشان برسند. آمریکا باید خودش رو حاضر بکنه برای روز بعد از برندازی که پشتیبانی مردم باشه برای ساختن یک ایران دموکراتیک، با صلح، ثبات و پیشرفت اقتصادی .
#ایران_را_پس_میگیریم
Spoke today about how aspiration to be rid of Theocracy of Thugs is region-wide&unprecedented, in great part result of maxpressure. FreeWorld must solve its media bias, disregard for brave protestors & counter disinfo, lobbying from Khamenei’s mafiastate.
#ایران_را_پس_میگیریم
Fatemeh Sepehri repeatedly called for regime change and establishment of secular democracy, and implored Biden to maintain full sanctions pressure until people achieve overthrow. She is imprisoned again, and her daughter says she is not well. We must be her voice. #فاطمه_سپهری
Obama says he was wrong not to back Iranian protestors in 2009. This ought to give Biden encouragement to do much more. He should start by halting nuclear talks & making a speech urging release of all political prisoners. Say their names: Majid, Hossein…
"The Iranian Regime Thugs Among Us" -- my piece today
@AlArabiya_Eng
I break the story on how the former head of the Basij militia at Sharif Univ now lives in the US and has even worked for the US Federal Reserve + more on infiltration by the regime
My piece just published by
@QuilletteM
on why believers in human freedom worldwide must come to the solidarity of the Iranian people as they—especially the women & the poor—take on their tyrants as never before.
#IranRegimeChange
امشب در صفحه دو/بیبیسی با نگار مرتضوی مناظره میکنم در باره این ادعای حکومت که تحریمها عامل بحران کرونا است
این یک کمپین دروغه که ج ا بتونه پول بهدست بیاره. چیزی که برای این رژیم مهم نیست مردم و نیازهاشونه
I’m
@bbcpersian
to counter
#COVIDSanctionsLie
#NIACLobbies4Mullahs
Breathtaking courage.
Letter from Iranian dissidents inside Iran to President Biden, urging US to keep all sanctions and other pressure on the regime and facilitate peaceful transition from this tyranny to democracy.
امشب در صفحه دو/بیبیسی با نگار مرتضوی مناظره میکنم در باره این ادعای حکومت که تحریمها عامل بحران کرونا است
این یک کمپین دروغه که ج ا بتونه پول بهدست بیاره. چیزی که برای این رژیم مهم نیست مردم و نیازهاشونه
I’m
@bbcpersian
to counter
#COVIDSanctionsLie
#NIACLobbies4Mullahs
احترام و اطمینانی که مردم به شاهزاده
@PahlaviReza
دارن، فراتر از سلسله پهلوی، تاریخچه ایران قبل از انقلاب، یا سلطنت است. او تنها رهبر سیاسی است که به طور مداوم همه را به راه حل دموکراسی دعوت کرده. در بینش او، هر ایرانی میتواند انصاف، عقلانیت، و آینده عزت خود را ببیند.
I regret my vote for Biden. This admin is a fundamental threat to global security & humanrights. I had strongly opposed Obama MidEast policy. I’d known Biden would the same. Not voting would have been more ethical & logical. Hoping for much better choices for American leadership.
۱۵ سال پیش در کانال تلویزیونی الهورا (عربی) با معصومه ابتکار—تروریست دروغگو—مناظره داشتم و تنها کاری که بلد بود بکنه پریدن وسط حرف من بود. منم مثل آقای روزن میخواستم بگم #معصومه_برو_گمشو
از امضاکنندگان این نامه هستم. همه کارهای این حکومت دروغ است. از مردم استفاده میکند که جیب خودش را پر بکند. حتی از بدبختی مردم استفاده میکند که از دنیا گدایی بکند تا با پولی که گیرش بیاد بازم مردم ایران رو سرکوب کند و مردم کشورهای دیگر را بکشد و بدبخت بکند.
#COVIDSanctionsLie
چهارشنبه ، در نامهای به ترامپ، پنجاه مقام ارشد سابق دولت آمریکا و متخصص امور ایران تهران را متهم کردند که از کووید19 برای فشار بر ایالات متحده و تضعیف تحریمها استفاده میکند در حالیکه به هزینه کردن برای تامین مالی فعالیتهای مخرب ادامه میدهد.
تعبیر انگلیسی «گداها نمی توانند انتخاب کننده باشند» برای ایرانیان مناسب است. امیدوارم کسی بهش برنخوره. ملتی هستیم گرفتار هر بحرانی که میتوان تصور کرد و با این حال نیروهای اپوزیسیون طوری رفتار میکنند انگار زمان زیادی برای انتخاب از میان بسیاری از غذاهای لوکس و لذیذ دارند.
I don't want US to just secure the airport or give refuge to a handful of Afghans. I want US to immediately 1) launch aerial bombing campaign 2) redeploy troops 3) sanction Pakistan to take
#Afghanistan
back from Taliban. We'll have to do it eventually. Do it now and save lives.
*Important: Call for Global Solidarity with Iran*
It was an honor to help make this happen --
Powerful statement + powerful convergence of world's lead democrats in solidarity with Iranian freedom fighters. I hope you'll sign and share.
#IranSolidarity
Hossein has both legs broken from torture. His mom got a call from prison today saying he is throwing up blood.
@POTUS
: SAY HIS NAME!—Give a speech, call for his release and release of Majid Tavakoli, Fatemeh Sepehri, and all political prisoners. Do it today.
#IranRevolution
The regime is counting on your silence,
@USEnvoyIran
. If you believe in a US foreign policy based on human rights you will immediately demand release of
@HosseinRonaghi
, one of Iran’s most outspoken dissidents. He was taken today, previously tortured by Khamenei for six years.
Spoke today about how aspiration to be rid of Theocracy of Thugs is region-wide&unprecedented, in great part result of maxpressure. FreeWorld must solve its media bias, disregard for brave protestors & counter disinfo, lobbying from Khamenei’s mafiastate.
#ایران_را_پس_میگیریم
The IRGC that fires at Israel is the very same terror force that tortures Iranian children, systematically rapes women, executes without due process, and has a mafia grip on Iran's economy. The Iranian people have every reason in the world to be rooting for Israel.
Profoundly wrong. This is Norway. A Scandinavian country of deep liberalism and progress perverted by self-loathing, cultural-relativism, and absolute betrayal of the idea of human equality. Wearing hejab *in Norway* to meet Islamist thugs. An insult to all women & Noway itself.
احترام عمیقی که ایرانیان برای رضاشاه قائل هستند خیلی ربط به سلطنت ندارد. قبل از او هم ایران شاه داشت، و رضا شاه خودش ترجیح میداد ایران جمهوری باشد. مانند بیسمارک، گاریبالدی، و آتاتورک، او یک ملت را ساخت و رها کرد. مردم الان بیشتر از هر موقع قدردان خدمت او هستند.
#رضاشاه_روحت_شاد
این چه هدفی است که نیاز به حذف این همه ایرانی دارد؟ خانم عبادی، نرگس محمدی، نسرین ستوده، مسیح، حامد اسماعیلیون...اگر همه حذف شوند به هدف خود خواهید رسید؟ توانا، بنیاد برومند، ایران اينترنشنال...وجود نداشته باشند مردم ایران در وضعیت بهتری خواهند بود؟ واقعا؟
هفته گذشته من در کتابخانه رئیس جمهور "بوش" (پدر) صحبت کردم. مردم خوش قلب تگزاس برای دختر آبی گریه کردند. آنها کنجکاو هستند و احترام دارند به “گوهرعشقی” خانواده “سپهری”و همه کسانی که برای کرامت می جنگند. مردم ایران آزادی خود را به دست خواهند آورد و دوست واقعی آمریکا خواهند بود.
به نظر تحلیل قابل تاملیه. یک سری اکانتِ به ظاهر اپوزیسیون وارد میشوند و نوک حملهشان به جای حکومت، رسانه هاست. فحشهای رکیک می دن و لشگرکشی توییتری می کنند. در این صورت شاید به دنبال دو نتیجه باشند: ۱)سلب اعتبار از شبکه های خبری ۲) ترساندن مردم از آلترناتیوهای احتمالی ج. ا.
#MaryamShariatmadari
is a leading Iran activist who courageously defied forced hejab laws. For her civildisobedience, she was thrown to the ground & into the dungeon. She fled to Turkey but now Erdogan has arrested her &wants to deport her back—she could well be executed!
از رای به بایدن پشیمان هستم. او تهدیدی اساسی برای امنیت جهان و حقوق بشر است. من شدیدا با سیاست اوباما در خاورمیانه مخالف بودم و میدانستم بایدن نیز آن سیاست را پیش میبرد. رایندادن، انتخابی اخلاقیتر و منطقیتر بود. به امید انتخابهای خیلی بهتر برای رهبری آمریکا.
I regret my vote for Biden. This admin is a fundamental threat to global security & humanrights. I had strongly opposed Obama MidEast policy. I’d known Biden would the same. Not voting would have been more ethical & logical. Hoping for much better choices for American leadership.
Let's do this! Campaign led by
@AlinejadMasih
to remove
@USEnvoyIran
. Because truth is the people of Iran and the *American* people deserve much better!
Remove Robert Malley as Iran Envoy - Sign the Petition! via
@Change
Reporter from
#AyatollahBBC
tells the regime it can instill fear in society with life sentences for innocent protestors, that execution is not necessary. Instead, if regime keeps them in the dungeon, everyone will just forget about them.
#اعدام_نکنید
#StopExecutionsInIran
Little kids are out protesting because they know they have no future so long as this regime rules. They’re being met with bullets. Biden & all world leaders must recall the Nov2019 massacre: penalize Khamenei now & stand with the people.
#IranProtests
As someone who voted for Biden, I’m disgusted & heartbroken by what may well be the single most costly action by any Pres in history: in terms of our strength, security, credibility, values, confidence. Biden team’s self-loathing, naïveté & incompetence endanger the whole world.
Girls and women in Iran are not fighting "patriarchy" -- they are fighting to bring down a totalitarian Islamist regime. There is no comparing the gender apartheid they suffer to anything women in the West experience.
#IranRevolution
By Blinken’s logic, the more brutal the regime is, the more the US should chase it for a deal and give it $billions — so it can be even more brutal.
(Sabotage, cyberattacks, assassinations work against nuclear program, appeasement doesn’t.)
A young woman in Iran is in a coma because morality police beat her for her choice of clothing. Every day, Iranian women and girls must abide Islamist hejab or they're subjected to state violence. This regime sits on the UN's Commission on the Status of Women.
#MahsaAmini
“Dear
@realDonaldTrump
, I’ve an idea...for friendship. I’d love to dedicate my son’s life &memory to friendship between our 2nations.
To commemorate it, I ask you to declare Aug23, my son’s birthday, as the ‘Day of Friendship’ between our 2 nations.”
آمریکا باید رهبر جهان آزاد باشد. از ۷ سالگی در آمریکا بودم. دو وطن دارم و برای آزادی ایران روی دموکراسی آمریکا حساب کردهام. در انتخابات ۲۰۲۰ در تضاد دلشکنندهای بودم. از طرفی میدیدم دموکراسی آمریکا در خطر است و از طرفی حامی فشار حداکثری بودم/۱
سوال از
@PahlaviReza
--
صندوق اعتصاب کارگر چه شد؟
روزی که صندوق را اعلام کردن آنجا جلوی شاهزاده نشسته بودم. بلافاصله نگران شدم که مقدمات لازم فراهم نشده، آمادگی وجود ندارد، این سخنرانی امید ایجاد می کند اما هیچ چیز واقعی به مردم تحویل داده نخواهد شد.
همه چیز تقصیر رژیم و قدرت…
رئیس جمهور بوش کتابی نوشتن—با نقاشی های خودشون—از مهاجرین در آمریکا. باعث افتخارمه که راجع به من و تلاشم برای براندازی و ساختن ایران دموکراتیک نوشتن. قدردان هستم از ایشان و از آمریکا.
The domino effect from the defeat of Islamism in Iran may be even more significant than the fall of Communism in Europe. We are not allowing ourselves to imagine it— the dignity, peace, and progress it would unleash for the world.
#IranRevolution
We fight for a democratic Iran, where all are free, with lives of dignity.
The freely elected government of the people of Iran will be proudly & transparently represented in the US & around the world.
Until then, we need all to know:
#NIACLobbies4Mullahs
#NIACViolatesFARA
My piece just out in
@Quillette
on how the Regressive Left—media, universities, feminists, unions, environ orgs,etc—has betrayed the Iranian people's brave struggle for freedom & in the process, betrayed the West's own most profound values.
کسانی که دموکراسی را مسخره میکنند، دنبال آویزان کردن مخالفین از تیر چراغ برق هستند، خبرنگارها را تروریست مینامند، با فعالین حقوق بشر دعوا دارند…نه تنها «آلترناتیو» نیستند بلکه تکرار فاجعه هستند. مردم شریف ایران بسیار باوقارتر از این حرفا هستند.
Emboldened by the recognition that Biden, Blinken, Malley will stop at nothing to re-enter the nuc deal, Khamenei feels unconstrained…& untroubled at making American capitulation look even more desperate &devoid of morality.
My piece on Raisi
@tabletmag
The Iranian regime doesn’t just spread its evil ideology via
#BigTech
. It abuses social media to divide, defame, disable, and demoralize the democratic opposition.
My piece today
@WSJ
—The Ayatollah’s Twitter Trolls
از وقتی ما ایران را در سال ۱۳۵۷ ترک کردیم، پدر من نه در ایران و نه با ایران، کار نکرده است و هیچ گونه معاملات مالی با آنجا نداشته است.
پدر من بر اساس پرنسیب و اصولی که به آن باورمند است، به هرگونه سرمایهگذاری در ایران، پس از انقلاب ۵۷ روی خوش نشان نداد و آن را رد کرد.
Tortured and brought out on state TV for a forced confession. A hero fighting for freedom from Islamist evil for all women, for all humanity. Sepideh Reshnou is our voice. We must be hers. #سپیده_رشنو
This brave woman Sepideh Reshnou is among those who take off their headscarves in defiance of Iran’s Islamist regime. She was attacked and is now in the dungeon. Every single one of the countless women who disobey draconian controls is a hero. We must be their voice.
#سپیده_رشنو
Trump has erased distinction between Iran & its proxies. That’s a blow...to regime’s campaign to bully world into treating it like a normal country. Iran is a country run by terrorists, & Trump is right to treat them as such.—
@EliLake
We’ll gather to
#ProtestAgainstNIAC
because NIAC’s *always* pursued agenda of an appeasing US foreign policy & lifting of sanctions off those strangling Iran. NIAC is an embarrassment to Iranian-Americans who yearn for representation that puts freedom & human dignity first.
ZahraNavidpour’s fate could be that of *any* Iranian woman. Went for job interview, RAPED.
Alleged rapist? “Reformist” MP, advisor
@JZarif
. No recourse to justice,accountability, her appeals were countered w/threats.
Found DEAD.
#RapistRegime
<<tweetstorm>>
Sunday12:30pmEST
The very best of Iran. I came to know Majid Tavakoli’s courage and decency over a decade ago when he was imprisoned as a student activist. The nation’s leading dissident intellectual, back behind bars. The world must stand with Majid in the struggle to free Iran.
@MajidTavakolii
A beautiful people will be free at last.
I left Iran when I was seven years old, during the terror of the revolution—since then this image has been the stuff of my dreams and my tears: our true selves, in unity for all that is good. I have loved my people so very much, always.
By using 'foreign policy' to convey an ideological worldview to US domestic audience, 80M Iranians are treated as props by policymakers who pose as 'progressives' while openly displaying their lack of interest in our common human fate.
My piece
@tabletmag
Mom & dad of slain nonviolent warrior for freedom—Pooya Bakhtiari—are chillingly, brazenly outspoken, despite costs. Mom says her only consolation is if others carry torch to victory. Dad says regime can kill him, too. Here he says govt can only be called ENEMY of Iranians.
The regime is an embarrassment to all of humanity. Iranian people deserve better. We will take our country back. We will regain our dignity. We will rebuild Iran.
#ایران_را_پس_میگیریم
(My comments at our memorial for those who’ve lost their lives protesting for a free future.)
A courageous, eloquent rapper speaks truth to a brutal regime & its foreign lobby. Within hours of his arrest, that lobby—scholars, journalists at “elite” institutions
#NYTimesPropaganda
#AyatollahBBC
—mobilize to defame him.
#توماج_صالحی
#ToomajSalehi
Farnaz Fassihi is an award-winning Columbia-educated journalist who writes for NY Times and previously for Wall Street Journal. She is being shamelessly attacked by both Iranian Regime cyber thugs and the "opposition" who like her to be their puppet mouthpiece. I know the feeling
It’s not that there are so many apologists & members of the regime lobby & lovers of Zarif. It’s just that they can always count on a platform at
#IslamicRepublicofBBC
.
میراث بختیار لیبرالیسم و میهن دوستی است. راه او می توانست نجات ایران باشد. (مادر و پدرم هر دو طرفدار سرسخت او و مخالف انقلاب بودند، و من با احترام به ارزش های او بزرگ شدم.) امروز خشم علیه انقلابیون فراگیر شده است. امیدوارم احترام و اعمال لیبرالیسم بختیار همچنین فراگیر شود.
My takeaway:
@PahlaviReza
has truth, morality & vision on his side. He needs *practical capacity* to ensure stable transition. This can be facilitated if US believes not only in pressuring the regime but more importantly, in moving past it & to democracy.
This is my first school pic in America, October 1979. We had just fled Iran. I knew that girls my age were being forced to wear hejab back home. I knew they were living under terror. I knew I’d never forget them. I knew I’d do all I can to free my land.
#LetUsTalk
“‘Writing this could land me back in prison, but if that’s the price for giving a voice to the voiceless, it will be worth it.’ Now Mr Ronaghi needs the Western press to speak for him.”
*Thank you
@WSJ
*
#ReleaseRonaghi
What a sorry piece of journalism. Sad that
@RFERL
reporter pushes forward falsehoods. Says NIAC filed lawsuit against charge of being regime lobby. Doesn’t say they *LOST* in court& judge 1)ordered them to pay defendant & 2)stated NIAC does regime’s bidding
#NIACLobbies4Mullahs
Several times over the last 24hrs I've watched Masih Alinejad's interview. Each time I've broken down in tears. The anguish is unimaginably deep, and yet shared by millions. An entire nation. We will reclaim Iran from this evil and love each other back to freedom, dignity & joy.
My interview with
@bbcpersian
about the regime's decision to arrest my brother, Alireza Alinejad.
The regime has jailed my brother to break me down. Yes, today, I'm a broken person & I'm crying.
But beware of my anger the Islamic Republic of Iran. Broken people won't sit still
After years of fawning over Iran regime officials and amplifying their talking points,
@barbaraslavin1
today claimed she is the real voice of the Iranian people. She tried to label us warmongers again, a red herring to distract from our human rights work and her disrepute.
'Just recently, Barbara sat down with President Raisi, who is personally responsible for the massacre of thousands in 1988,'
@memarsadeghi
says -
'I confronted him about Mahsa Amini!' responds
@barbaraslavin1
I don’t romanticize the past. Vast majority of nations far better off today than ever. Iran is a wild exception. We had dignity&progress violently replaced w/Islamist backwardness. Every day since, things only worsen. Anyone who’s not clear on this cannot build an honest future.
We gathered today to honor victims of Ukrainian airliner shot down by Theocracy of Thugs & to show our support, love, solidarity with those very BRAVE souls protesting again, despite most severe repression.
Hold them in your hearts! We will take Iran back!
#ایران_را_پس_میگیریم
شاهزاده بزرگترین مدافع دموکراسی لیبرال در طیف سیاسی ایران است. هیچ گذشته ای در مارکسیسم و اسلام گرایی ندارد و هرگز در دام دروغ اصلاحات نیفتاده. صادقانه و از صمیم قلب صحبت می کند، با انصاف، فروتنی، و احترام به همه. بنابراین مردم او را دوست دارند. خیلی ساده است.
It’s happening: Tehran joins
#IranProtests
. Here hospital workers walk off the job. All of Iran chants together against the Islamist regime. Many dare to revere the Pahlavi past in their slogans. This is a people determined to be free. #نه_به_جمهوری_اسلامی
After months of protests, strikes & other civil disobedience, the Iranian people are getting ready for a final *one million* strong gathering to bring down their tyrants. The free world should get ready with them. Freedom is close. #میدان_ميليونى
#IraniansWantRegimeChange
"Journalists" living freely & comfortably in America who like to cozy up to, take adoring pics with, apologize for, normalize, praise Zarif: please take note. This is how professionals engage with representative of a totalitarian regime
@asiehnamdar
@NegarMortazavi
@farnazfassihi
🏴☠️Murdering gays
🏴☠️Harassing journalists
🏴☠️Arresting women activists
WATCH: Reporters confront
#Iran
FM
@JZarif
with his regime’s horrific human rights abuses, at a Stockholm
@SIPRIorg
visit today. Thread ⬇️
Negar Mortazavi & NIAC (both of whom have for years spread lies/attacks on me) are revealed here to have fabricated a "bomb threat" at Univ of Chicago after the school came under heavy criticism for hosting Mortazavi, one of the Iran regime's most notorious apologists.
1.This is me calling The University of Chicago Police Department to fact check the alleged bomb threat news. Called twice. The result:
False, no there's no record of such event. Is this enough for you to believe Negar Mortazavi is a liar?
#MahsaAmini
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