Roya Hakakian
@RoyaTheWriter
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Proud refugee/Wandering Jew/Persian poet/Writer/Eric Blair fan/Latest Book: A Beginner's Guide to America/Senior Fellow @AmericanPurpose @SNFAgoraJHU /member @CFR
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"A Beginner's Guide to America for the Immigrant and the Curious" ... an honest and beautiful book.
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Yesterday some Proud Boys wore shirts with 6MWE insignia. It means 6 million (Jews) wasn't enough. A reminder that if democracy becomes vulnerable, genocidal forces in the wings are ready to rise. Yes, even in America.
#CapitolRiots
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The German national team has recorded this video saying that for the time being, they will be Iran’s national team, and chant woman, life, freedom!
# Mahsa Amini
معجزه از راه رسید:
#TeamMelli
آلمان 🇩🇪 در حمایت از #انقلاب۱۴۰۱ زنان ایرانی به پا خاست! #مهسا_امینی #زن_زندگی_آزادی
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#IlhanOmar
says Hijab is a symbol of beauty. My coauthor,
@AlinejadMasih
and I say,
#hijab
is only a symbol of beauty for those who live in a
#Democracy
& have the luxury of choice. For all other
#women
, it's nothing but a tool of oppression:
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Two embattled nations, Iran and Ukraine, are besieged by 2 evil men, Khamenei and Putin. Two courageous men,
#HosseinRonaghi
and Vlodimir Zelensky, are fighting them. Ronaghi's life's in danger while in prison, and Zelensky's in the battlefield.
#MahsaAmini
#IranRevoIution2022
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1) I’m a proud signatory of
#theLetter
published in
#Harpers
, calling for justice and open debate.
Some have dismissed it as a statement by a “privileged” few. The term privileged does, indeed, apply to me, though I’m not white, nor Christian, nor a man.
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It’s time for all the EU member nations to recall their ambassadors rom Iran. It’s proven effective before, and it can deliver a blow to Iran’s regime now.
#MahsaAmini
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One of my beloved journalists,
@NPRinskeep
, said on
@NPR
yesterday: "In the 1940s, Israelis and Palestinians, according to the UN, were both supposed to get their states. Israelis got theirs, Palestinians didn't."
Wrong, my dear Mr. Inskeep! Palestinians refused to accept the…
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Why is the US administration turning a deaf ear to the Iranians’ wishes? 8 weeks, 350 dead, and 14,000 imprisoned later, US officials are still refusing to acknowledge that Iranians want to change the regime, not reform it.
#MahsaAmini
"We've spent a good deal of time at senior levels... speaking about ways that we can demonstrate our support for those brave Iranians who are peacefully demonstrating, taking to streets, to call for the reforms that they’re demanding,"
@StateDeptSpox
told reporters on Thursday.
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Why should Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corp be listed as a terrorist organization? Because it's a universal threat to all those who believe in free speech, among other liberal values.
#IRGCterrorists
IRGC Commander-in-Chief Gen. Salami Threatens Charlie Hebdo: Look What Happened to Rushdie; Sooner or Later, We Will Exact Our Revenge; Arresting or Killing the Avengers Will Not Bring Back the People Who Will Be Killed
#Iran
#IRGC
#France
#CharlieHebdo
#terrorism
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I received an invitation from the Council on Foreign Relations
@CFR_org
today to attend a meeting later this month with Ebrahim Raisi. Here's my RSVP:
Dear President Froman,
Thank you for this invitation, which, I'm afraid, I must decline. While I am an absolutist when it comes…
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Heading into the Human Rights Caucus at the US Senate for a talk on Iran.
Summary of my upcoming talk: woman, life, liberty till victory!
#mahsaamini
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اگر رضا پهلوی اعلام کنه که از فردا میخواد سبزیخوار بشه، محسن مخملباف میره سیکوال گاو را میسازه، آقای نیکفر نمودار رابطه میان شنبلیله و بیسوادی جمعی را میکشه و طرفداران موسوی اصرار میکنن که مردم ایران برای چیزی غیر از گوسفند آماده نیستند.
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1-Meet Zeynab Jalalian, one of Iran’s longest serving political prisoners. She's been imprisoned since 2008.
Her crime? She wanted to improve conditions of Kurdish women. The world has forgotten about her. But you shouldn't
She's serving life sentence. She’s in poor health.
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Few things are more appalling than the sight of the Swiss ambassador to Iran in full veil. Only someone deaf to the pleas of Iran’s women can possibly do this. It’s acts like these, the inability to see mandatory hijab as a symbol of subjugation, that are feminism’s greatest…
⚡️ انتشار تصاویری از #نادین_الیویری_لوزانو، سفیر #سوئیس در ایران که با پوشش #چادر به #قم سفر کرده خبرساز شده است. در شرایطی که اعتراض به #حجاب اجباری به یکی از نمادهای #اعتراضات_ایران در سراسر دنیا تبدیل شده این اقدام با استقبال رسانههای حامی جمهوری اسلامی مواجه شد.
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1) A few thoughts for the malicious twitterati who’ve been targeting me for the last few weeks:
One: The rumors are true. I’m, indeed, a Zionist. Without the state of Israel, my paternal relatives, whose homes and business were set on fire in January of 1978 in Khonsar,Iran,
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1-This is an exclusive video from
@AlinejadMasih
’s brother, just before he was arrested. In it, he reveals that the Islamic Republic of Iran authorities had officially offered 70 million Tomans to his family, if only they would bring Masih to Turkey to visit with them.
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در سال ۲۰۱۵ من برای دو سخنرانی از جمله در دانشگاه ییل آرامش دوستدار را به امریکا دعوت کردم. یک هفته پیش از رسیدن او دکتر عباس امانت دعوت دپارتمان را به سبب گفته های «ضد اسلامی» آرامش پس گرفت. آنانی که آرام و امثال او را برنمیتافتند عوام نه بلکه خود روشنفکران ایرانی بوده و هستند.
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همه آنچه درباره یک ایران آزاد و دمکراتیک آینده گقته می شود تمرینی است که در حال آغاز می شود. ناسزا و تهدید و عدم توانایی برای شنیدن مواضع دیگران صرفا نمایانگر این است که مدعیان مبارزه با استبداد کنونی از جنس همان مستبدانند.
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Six weeks into the protests in
#iran
, there now ought to be a wave of strikes. Why are strikes sparse and slow to begin?
#MahsaAmini
#IranRevolution
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Ghassem Soleimani dies second death, this time at the hands of his own people!
Hope all the media that had predicted his demise would “unite Iranians against the US” are taking all the necessary lessons!
#MahsaAmini
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On
@FareedZakaria
today
@wrightr
proved that colonialism may be dead, but colonialist reporting isn’t. She reduced the 5-week movement in
#iran
that’s led to the arrest of 13k and the killings of hundreds—dozens alone at a Friday prayer in Zahedan, a series of flash mobs by kids.
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When racial codes and politics replace thoughtful assessment and understanding of other human beings, the daughter of 2 immigrants (from India & Jamaica) is referred to as
#AfricanAmerican
and no one calls that absurd.
#KamalaHarris
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Grateful to Secretary
@ABlinken
and his colleagues for the time they gave me and my fellow women today. Here are some of the points I made:
1) What's happening in Iran is a revolution and not comparable to other previous events.
2) The nation isn't asking for reforms. They're
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the U.S. should suspend its participation in the talks to restore the nuclear deal. That would be a signal to the ayatollahs that they have no chance of seeing economic sanctions relaxed as long as their goons are shooting their own people
#MahsaAmini
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Here are the highlights of my testimony at the US Senate's Human Rights Caucus last Monday:
1) The first step that the US administration can take to help the movement inside Iran is to cease downplaying what is happening in Iran and call it by its real name: A revolution.
Heading into the Human Rights Caucus at the US Senate for a talk on Iran.
Summary of my upcoming talk: woman, life, liberty till victory!
#mahsaamini
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#IranProtest2020
#IranPlaneCrash
1) Anyone who told you that the killing of Suleimani would unite people against America was either a fool or a fraud or both. Such people paint a nation as a mere flock of sheep which can be led this way or that without thinking,
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It's fine to hold Israel, a democracy, accountable for its actions through protests. But I do wonder where these protestors were when Assad killed 500,000 Syrians, or where they are now that the Chinese are locking tens of thousands of Uyghurs in concentration camps.
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Gaza has TWO borders, the other with Egypt. Why doesn't Egypt open its border to refugees and offer humanitarian support, as Arab countries did during the Syrian civil war? The FT reported that Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Egypt’s president, said yesterday that “national security is my…
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The EU says it won’t designate Iran’s Revolutionary Guards a terrorist organization until a court rules them as such. Well, a court has. In April 1997, the high court in Berlin, found the head of IRGC guilty for ordering the killings at Mykonos Restaurant.
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4) The US isn't Iran.
Yet, a fundamental fact still applies, no matter the country: A movement that uses
#censorship
as a tool can never lead to a democratic future. It may “change regimes”, hand power from one group to another, but it won't correct the faulty underpinnings...
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خانم لیلا بیگزاده،
در هفته یی که گذشت من از صدها نفر پیام های تهدید و ناسزا شنیدم. اما این یادداشت شما بود که باعث شد من سکوتم را بشکنم. در فرهنگ ایرانی مفاهیمی وجود دارند که من با تمام وجود به آنها ایمان دارم از جمله یکرنگی و با معرفت بودن. با نظر به این دومفهوم بود که در…
رویا حکاکیان و امثال ایشون که تعدادشون هم کم نیست جیره خور جمهوری اسلامی هستند.
پولی که باید صرف آبادانی ایران بشه میره تو جیب این انگلها.
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Why women are protesting in Iran, in four images:
1940-My great grandmother
1960-My grandmother
1970-My mother
1984-Me
Any Questions?
#IranRevolution
#MahsaAmini
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On the 40th day since the murder of
#MahsaAmini
, here’s why she, an innocent young visitor senselessly killed, has become Iran’s Emmet Till, and launched a national movement for freedom.
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5) buried a father, written three books in the language I learned at 19, came out alive from a near-fatal car crash, and have recovered from a brain tumor.
And whatever you are, you’re no worse than a brain tumor.
To summarize: woman, life, liberty until victory!
#MahsaAmini
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"Our suggestion unanimously was to stop the nuclear talks until the violence stops. And I think everybody heard us loud and clear," Hakakian told National Public Radio after the meeting.
#MahsaAmini
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100 days pass since the start of the protests over
#MahsaAmini
's killing in Iran. Here are some of what has changed already:
1) The notion of Hijab as an Iranian tradition has been shattered. Westerners, who refuted any challenge to hijab by calling it Islamophobia ...
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Hey
@FIFAcom
a girl who couldn't enter an
#Iranian
stadium to watch
#soccer
set herself on fire & died today. Shouldn't you disqualify any nation that exercises
#genderapartheid
? Hey male fans: Shouldn't you stop going to stadiums in solidarity with your sisters & wives? #دخترآبی
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It's not a coincidence that
#Iran
, a leading executioner of political prisoners in the world, chooses
#china
as its closest ally, despite all its bluster about being the savior of all
#Muslims
everywhere.
#Uyghurs
@MaajidNawaz
I fully support
@MaajidNawaz
, who's like my brother, in his campaign to attract attention to the atrocious conditions to which Uigur Muslims are exposed by the Chine Communist Party.
The scenes in this video are taking place in present-day China.
#STOPUigurMuslimGenocide
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A superb speech by
@bariweiss
who asks, among other questions, why should the violent pro-Hamas protestors enjoy their right to speech while also using masks to conceal their identities? Could the KKK stage marches in white hoods and robes while vandalizing public spaces?
“I’d like to talk about the war of ideas and of conviction and of will that faces us as Americans. I want to talk about the stakes of that war. About how we must wage it���fearlessly and relentlessly.”
Watch our founder
@bariweiss
’s, speech at
@FedSoc
.
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If you know why the killing of the innocent 14-year old Black American Emmet Till launched the civil rights movement, then you’ll know why the killing of the innocent 22-year-old
#MahsaAmini
has launched Iran’s movement for freedom and democracy.
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The most worthy and qualified members of any anti-regime coalition are the Kurds of Iran. They have been on the forefront of the fight for freedom for decades. They have sacrificed infinitely and continue to resist and lead. And they gave the movement a face:
#Mahsaamini
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3) As the statues were pulled off their pedestals by euphoric crowds, and the streets were renamed, women lost their rights, all in the name of assuring their “well-being.”
Every act of dissent was repressed in the name of the nation’s “safety”.
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6) by stifling dissent and repressing the multiplicity of voices in the name of concern for the public “good” and “safety”.
@thomaschattwill
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There's a direct correlation between Russia's flag coming down in Kherson today and Qasem Soleimani's statue being set on fire in Iran. Neither Russia was the ubiquitous power everyone thought it was, nor was Soleimani the "beloved national hero" we were told he was.
#MahsaAmini
A statue of Qasem Soleimani, the former commander of IRGC Quds Force, has been torched in Tehran's Argentina Square, according to a video obtained by
@IranIntl
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In the 1970s, long before anyone dared to speak about gay rights and the evils of misogyny, Fereydoon Farrokhzad, a singer and a poet, dared to break these taboos in
#Iran
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2) In the spirit of “what doesn’t break me, makes me stronger”, here are my privileges: I was a Jew & a woman under the
#Antisemitic
& misogynistic regime in my beloved
#Iran
. I've the privilege of coming of age in the revolutionary era, witnessing the rise of
#Authoritarianism
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In January of 1979, a mob set fire to my aunt's home in Khonsar, Iran. Days later, she and her family had nowhere else to go but Israel. Before you wish Israel out of existence, ask yourselves where did the 90,000+ Iranian Jews go since 1979?
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Almost 12,500 people arrested in Iran protest crackdown, says rights group | Iran | The Guardian
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It wasn't the "uneducated masses" who abandoned
#SalmanRusdhie
and the cause of free speech. It was the elites in 1989, and it's the elites today, too, all laying the building blocks of the unsightly cancel culture of today:
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Iran charges female journalists who helped break Amini’s story with being CIA spies - The Washington Post
#MahsaAmini
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A second quintessential affliction on display on
@FareedZakaria
today was American narcissism. According to
@wrightr
The cause of the protests is Trump pulling out of JCPOA, not the nation’s own agency, or a regime’s 43-year corruption, brutality, and repression.
#mahsaamini
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Love is forbidden in
#Iran
. If you're a brother, like Ali Alinejad, and are not willing to turn your back on your sister,
@AlinejadMasih
, you'll receive an eight-year prison sentence. Here's my take on the story
@PostOpinions
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Many truths about the events of 1979
#Iran
haven't been told or have been subverted. The fact that the son of Massoumeh Ebtekar, the interpreter for the hostage takers, is in US while those who don't share her enmity toward the US are banned for their art is a grave injustice.
Iranians are angrily reacting to
@ebtekarm
for saying "What's all this fuss about me sending my son to the US?"
For the record, she raided the US Embassy in 1979 & took hostages. Many Iranians have been suffering since
2 artists, Justina & Faravaz, have something to tell her
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5) that caused the social inequities in the first place.
There’s no nobler cause in America today than the cause of achieving a more equitable and racially just society. And there’s not a more ignoble way to achieve this than...
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For over 20 years, you write and write.
They call you a neocon, war-monger, agent of Mossad and IDF, self-promoter, and an ugly hack.
You keep writing.
Then one day, out of the blue, this happens, and you finally exhale.
And possibly go out for a good ice cream.
#MahsaAmini
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This was the dedication in the opening pages of my memoir which was released in 2005. I was called a war-monger and a “native informant” by several academics. 17 years hence, I’m proud to have spoken of truths that are on everyone’s lips today.
#MahsaAmini
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Iranian security forces open fire on Kurdish protesters in Mahabad - The Washington Post
#MahsaAmini
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There will be sit-ins at the Capitol starting tomorrow by Iranians in diaspora in support of the movement in Iran.
#MahsaAmini
#IranRevolution
از فردا اول نوامبر مقابل کنگره آمریکا بهصورت شبانهروزی تحصن میکنیم. جمهوری اسلامی، این مافیای جنایتکار، نماینده مردم شریف ایران نیست. هر معاملهای بر سر حقوق مردم ایران باید با دولت دموکراتیک ایران که پس از #انقلاب_ایران شکل میگیرد انجام شود ولاغیر!
@DC_WLF
#مهسا_امینی
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These 3 women are languishing in prison because they handed out flowers on the subway asking their fellow citizens to join their struggle against the mandatory hijab. Surely a few generations from now their statues will adorn squares in
#Iran
for now we say their names ...
Meanwhile, in the Islamic Republic of Iran...
Yasaman Aryani & Monireh Arabshahi, mother & daughter, were each sentenced to 16 years for saying no to forced hijab last year.
The regime has recently transferred them to Karaj prison amongst common criminals.
#WhiteWednesdays
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"I'm the national coach of Israeli women's team. We like Iran's people. We're friends. We can work together. For me, we're like brothers, like family. I wish one day we can go to
#Iran
and you can come to
#Israel
."
Let 43 years of hate end!
Israeli athletes next to Iranian athletes in the Olympics.
Islamic Republic of Iran wants Iranians to hate Israelis. But many ordinary Iranians & Israelis don't care about politics.
Iranian athlete Vahid Sarlak, member of
#United4Navid
, together with the Israeli Olympic Team
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By creating a luxury hijab brand,
@Nordstrom
is helping perpetuate the idea that hijab is just another piece of garment. In most of the world, hijab is a symbol of subjugation, and making it fashionable without raising awareness about it is irresponsible:
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تمانیت ارضی ایران آینده با ناسزاها ونمایش شوونیسم ملی حفظ نمیشود. آنچه تمامیت ارضی را حفظ خواهد کرد شناختن و ارج نهادن به اقلیتی است که قرنها ستم کشیده و سرکوب شده است و باز با اینهمه در هر فرصت تاریخی از کوشش برای حقوق ملی کوتاهی نکرده است.
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Among the most flawed narratives that have misinformed the American public about Iran has been the 1953 coup. Glad to see someone set the record straight. Bravo!
#MahsaAmini
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جامعه کردتان را بشناسید. از آنچه تا امروز برای ایران و ایرانی کرده اند قدردانی کنید. آنان را در صدر تصمیم گیریها و ائتلافات امروزتان قرار دهید و برای آینده ایشان و حفظ فرهنگ و هویتشان بکوشید. اگر چنین کنید تمامیت ارضی ایران را حفظ کرده اید.
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This MEP is an absolute rock star!
#MahsaAmini
Last Sunday, I asked you on
#Twitter
what a world without the (so-called) Islamic regime of
#Iran
what look like -
I brought some of your answers with me, when addressing the 🇪🇺 European parliament.
We all share these hopes and dreams.
#JinJiyanAzadi
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2) and who lost all they ever had, would have had nowhere else to go.
Two: The most important words in the Hebrew scripture for me are, “Remember your departure from Egypt.” Iran is my Egypt. By remembering Iran, I’m precisely fulfilling what every Jew has done
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1-Today is the
#WorldRefugeeDay
. I arrived in the United States as a refugee in 1985. I was 19. I only had a backback & knew little English. I came from Iran, a country whose citizens face travel ban under Trump today. America took me in and helped me start a new life.
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I can’t remember the last time these women joined to take a single position.
I commend them for this, but also hope they realize how Iran’s movement has made their solidarity possible.
Iranian women are reminding the world what feminism needs to be about: a universal cause
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۵۰ سال پیش عبدالرحمان قاسملو، از مهمترین و فرهیخته ترین چهره های سیاسی ایران قرن بیست گفت در چهارچوب یک ایران دمکراتیک که در آن حقوق اقلیت کرد در نظر گرفته شود، کردها انگیزهای برای جدایی نخواهند داشت.
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42 years ago today, Ayatollah Khomeini was asked how he felt about returning to
#Iran
after his long exile, to which he said, "Nothing." No single word has ever captured so well the ruthlessness of the man in whom so much hope had been invested or foreshadowed the bleakness ahead
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If only the democratic world recognized that our destinies are bound together as keenly as the tyrants do.
#MahsaAmini
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Two questions for
@USEnvoyIran
:
1) How's a regime that lies so blatantly a reliable negotiations partner?
2) Why do you continue to encourage the regime to change policy when Iranians want to change the regime?
#MahsaAmini
Also not true-Iran didn’t give a limited number of drones before the war. They transferred dozens just this summer & have military personnel in occupied Ukraine helping Russia use them against Ukrainian civilians. Confronted with evidence, they need a new policy, not a new story.
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The murder of
#RuhollahZam
in
#Iran
today offers a great teachable moment for the
#HumanRights
community: It matters NOT whether we agreed with his journalism or liked him as a person. We must all object to his kidnapping & execution regardless of our personal feelings.
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All this talk about the Queen reminds me of Iran's Farah Diba without whom Iran's film industry wouldn't exist. Nor would generations of artists & young readers who benefited from the grants she established for the arts and the public libraries she built.
#GodSaveOurQueen
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The US implicates the Saudi prince, MBS, in the killing of
#Khashoggi
. Kudos to the administration for holding the Saudi leadership accountable. Now it's time to do the same with
#Iran
for the brutal kidnapping and execution of the journalist Ruhallah Zam:
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هیچ اقلیتی به سبب تهدید وفادار به اکثریت نخواهد ماند. اگر آنانی که هنوز قدرت به دست نگرفته اند به خط ونشان کشیدن برای جامعه کرد و یا هرگروه دیگری می پردازند یعنی خود آنان اگر روزی به قدرت برسند با ستمگران امروز فرقی نخواهند داشت.
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#IlhanOmar
used an incomplete sentence when she spoke to
@voguemagazine
. She said
#Hijab
means power & beauty. She forgot to add because she lives in democratic US. When she lived in Somalia or any other place where hijab is law but not choice it means only misery.
@AlinejadMasih
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Proud of
@AlinejadMasih
who's the most innovative, resilient, & tireless opposition figure against the
#Iranian
regime. She's inviting all to boycott the upcoming elections. 41 years & a great nation's on the verge of ruin. 1500 killed, 7000 in prison only since Nov. Why vote?
In Iran elections mean choosing between a murderous and a more murderous candidate.
Don't participate in 2020's sham elections. Don't legitimise the bloodbath by the regime. Don't forget the victims of
#IranProtests
Our new campaign
#RedInkBoycott
#راي_بي_راي
#انگشت_در_خون
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در سال ۱۹۴۱، ۷ سال پیش از تاسیس اسراییل، صدها یهودی در عراق در قتل عامی که اینک به نام «فرهود» از آن یاد می کنیم، به قتل رسیدند. بنابراین، باید پرسید آیا عود هم از این پس ممنوع و موسیقی عرب هم ناشنیدنی است ؟
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In 1978, when 420 people died in an arson at
#CinemaRex
#Iranians
demanded the ouster of the Shah. Yrs later, we learned the fire had been Khomeini's scheme. Now
#ukraineplanecrash
has become their Rex. Which's to say the arc of history always bends toward justice.
#iranprotest
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Senator Tom Cotton's op-ed for the
@NYTimes
was explosive and caused a senior editor, James Bennet, to resign for running a “non-factual” piece. But, other politicians, such as Iran’s Foreign Minister, have never had their non-factual pieces so severely scrutinized.
THREAD ⬇️
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What are the key qualities of a true leader?
The ability to place the cause above one’s ego, for one.
On perfect display by Yasmine Pahlavi in the clip below!
#MahsaAmini
My friend Yasmine Pahlavi stands among the people and quiets chants in support of her family. Because she understands that our collective priority should be focusing on the people of Iran and supporting their movement for self-determination. Beautiful.
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Dear
@mPinoe
: The girl here wished to do what you do. She was a
#soccer
fan born on the wrong side of the planet where
#GenderApartheid
is in effect. She snuck into a stadium but was arrested & sent to prison. She died in protest. Will you be her voice?
#FifaStandUp4Sahar
I received this photos from friend of
#SaharKhodayari
the
#bluegirl
who died after setting herself on fire. Her family are under pressure and they are not allowed to give any interview.
#FifaStandUp4Sahar
her crime was trying to sneak into stadium in Iran where is ban for women
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Ex Iranian assistant prosecutor, Hamid Nouri, charged with war crimes, is standing trial in Sweden. The human rights community everywhere has much reason to rejoice in the prosecution of someone who probably thought he’d gotten away with the murder of 3000 political prisoners.
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I made my kids listen to this. You’re not my kids, but It’s good for you, too!
@ksadjadpour
#MahsaAmini
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3) and continues to do from the beginning of history.
Three: In other words, it’s my duty to speak truth to power. That’s all I wish to do.
I’m no one’s leader, nor do I aspire to be. I hope the movement wraps up quickly for the people’s sake, and for my own, because
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Once upon a time, Middle East was the beacon of sexual & religious diversity.
Rest in power Sarah Higazi, who bravely waved a rainbow flag at a concert in Cairo in 2017.
She faced torture, imprisonment and humiliation in Egypt
She committed suicide in Canada.
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4) I can’t wait to sit down to write my next book.
Four: You’re welcome to continue your attacks, but should know that your efforts may prove more productive elsewhere. I’ve lived through 1979, half of iran-Iraq war, survived months as a penniless refugee, raised children,
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The EU is right to impose sanctions on
#Belarus
over the arrest of
#RamanPratasevich
. But the
#Iranian
journalist, Ruhallah Zam, was similarly kidnapped and executed while the west kept silent. Why?
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Rumors are surfacing already that if Trump hadn't tweeted about
#NavidAfkari
, he'd not have been killed. It's another way of saying that when Trump doesn't tweet,
#Iran
doesn't execute activists. Moral of the story: Silence has never saved anyone from a tyrant.
#BanIRSports4Navid
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Thank you,
@HillaryClinton
. Please take the next logical step of asking the UN to launch an investigation into the crimes committed against the women and girls in the last 7 weeks.
#MahsaAmini
#IranRevoIution
Join me in standing in solidarity with Iranian women and girls.
The oppressive Islamic Republic of Iran’s regime should not be on the UN Commission on the Status for Women.
Add your voice to this open letter to demand
#IRIoffCSW
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