Farnaz Fassihi
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Journalist @nytimes United Nations Bureau Chief Iran Mideast Diplomacy | Author | War correspondent Ellis Island Medal of Honor @Columbia & @Harvard alum
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I am grateful for the stellar support of
@nytimes
leadership voiced in this statement as I've faced months of harassment, slander, death & rape threat from some Iran opposition groups & trolls.
Thank you
@deanbaquet
@cliffordlevy
@meslackman
et al
Journalists around the globe, particularly women and journalists of color, are being targeted for the role they play in ensuring a free and informed society. They should be free to work without harassment.
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BREAKING;
#Iraq
parliament votes to expel US military from Iraq.
PM Abdul Mahdi: “It’s time for American troops to leave.”
Wow.
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Kabul right now. Brave women protesting and chanting “freedom.”
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Iran State TV's anchor resigns saying, "It was very hard for me to believe the killing of my countrymen. I apologize for lying to you on TV for 13 years."
#IranProtests2020
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History will judge Trump's enablers, normalizers and cheerleaders including Nikki Haley. I watched her do it at the UN every day.
Former UN ambassador Nikki Haley says President Trump's actions since the 2020 election "will be judged harshly by history"
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Numbers don't lie.
El Paso Fire Department crowd estimates::
Trump: 6,500
Beto O'Rourke: 10,000 - 15,000
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When singing solo is an act of defiance.
Because singing is prohibited for Iranian women.
#Iran
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He's 75. The entire country is in an uproar about police brutality and they do this.
How do you walk past, literally step over, an injured man in the street?
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Iraq PM says Gen. Soleimani was his guest & US strike was illegal.
Moqtada Sadr calls for closing of US embassy in Baghdad.
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BREAKING:
#IRAN
admits shooting down the Ukrainian Airplane says human error, accidental, the plane turned toward an IRGC military base.
#IranPlaneCrash
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Unreal foorage from
#Qom
: "We don't want Islamic Republic, we don't want it, we don't want it."
#Iranprotests
#Iran
#اعتراض_سراسری
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On the night the war ended remembering my two journalist friends killed in Afghanistan. RIP David Gilkey and Anja Niedrighaus.
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Nadia Murad & Trump exchange:
Nadia: “They [ISIS] killed my mom, my six brothers”
Trump: “Where are they now?”
Nadia: “They killed them. They’re in a mass grave in Sinjar”
Trump: “I know the area very well”
“You had the Nobel Prize?” Donald Trump learns of Yazidi activist Nadia Murad. Here’s how the interaction unfolded
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#IranProtests
What a spectacular turn of events, Islamic Republic.
Crowds chant, "Our enemy is right here, they are lying that it's America."
#UkranianPlaneCrash
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#BREAKING
:
#Iran
IRGC statement:
"We warn all allied countries of the US that if attacks are launched from bases in their countries on Iran, they will be a target of military retaliation."
#AlAssadBase
#Iraq
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Khadija Amin the new anchor on state TV last week.
Taliban taking over her seat as of Monday.
Ms. Amin told us her boss informed her Taliban have banned women from returning to work at state television.
#Afghanistan
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Iranian sources in Iran are warning that killing Gen. Qasem Sulaimani spells war.
"Official reaction will begin with a strike," one says.
#Iraq
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Another great video of Iranian medical staff treating coronavirus, strained & intimidated, dance to keep spirits up.
#كرونا
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A first & game changing shift in
#IranProtests
: reports of security forces refusing to battle the crowds.
#Iran
#تظاهرات_سراسرى_
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“They will die in uniforms because of decisions made by men in suits,” said Ukraine's President Zelensky.
This quote stands for every war.
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IDF arrested Gaza's most prominent poet Mosab Abu Toha. He wrote this haunting essay about the war for the New Yorker. PEN America has called for his immediate release.
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#IranPlaneCrash
#IranProtests
Protestors screaming for Khamenei to resign.
Chants, "All these years of crimes, Death to the Supreme Leader."
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A 345-seat chartered plane to evacuate Afghans leaves Kabul empty today because they couldn't get through Taliban checkpoints and US military gates at airport.
Crushing.
#Afghanistan
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#IranAttacks
Sources in Iran say if US doesn't retaliate then Iran will also de-escalate. But if it does, then it's war.
IRGC statements reflect same.
#Iran
#Iraq
#Alasad
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Read my story on Mikey to restore your faith in humanity: He was the lead Afghan interpreter for the Special Forces. Trapped & in hiding in Kabul, the soldiers lead a global campaign to rescue him.
#Mikey
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My neighborhood newsstand guy, a Pakistani American, asked me to record a message for his 7th grade daughter.
Her dream is to be a journalist, he said.
What should I say, I asked.
"Tell her she can do it, like you did."
Made my day.
#journalism
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#IranProtests
takeaway:
I've covered Iran for 25+ years. Never seen protests this brazen, this angry, this widespread.
This is serious. That's why there is a total Internet blackout. Regime is scared.
#InternetForIran
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Zaki Anwari, 17, fell off the U.S. military plane & died.
He was a member of Afghanistan's national youth soccer team. He saw the arrival of the Taliban as "the end of his dreams & sports opportunities," said a sports official.
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Last month Kimia Yousefi carried Afghanistan's flag in Tokyo's Olympic games. Today she is a refugee in Iran.
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NEW: Hundreds of Afghan students & alumni of American University in Kabul told evacuations are canceled after 7 hours waiting in buses today to get to the airport. They are in panic and say their names and passport information was shared with the Taliban.
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#Iran
State Funeral for Gen. Sulaimani begins in Tehran. Millions are out. Sea of endless people by 6 am. In 25 years covering Iran, have never seen anything like this.
#SoleimaniFuneral
#IranAttacks
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Iranian diplomat sources say: Any prospect of negotiations with the US are finished. Talk is of revenge.
#Iran
#Iraq
#Sulaimani
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#BREAKING
: Iran Revolutionary Guards begin "fierce revenge" on US. Iranian ballistic missiles hit Al Assad military base in
#Iraq
, largest US base.
And It Begins.
#Soleimani
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Wow! Special Forces to cowd: I didn't join military to go to war w/ you.
Crowd cheers: He is with us, with us.
#IranProtests
#تظاهرات_سراری
زیباترین ویدیوی #اعتراضات_سراسری ؛
با این ویدیو اسک ریختم، کاش همه سربازان اینگونه در کنار مردم باشند. نام این #سرباز _وطن در تاریخ ایران جاودانه میشود.
۱۱دی ۹۶
پنجمین روز #تظاهرات_سراسرى
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When US invaded
#Iraq
on false claims, did it ever imagine 20 years later it's bases would come under missile fire from
#Iran
? And Iraq would tell US to get out?
Reminder that nations can start wars but they can't control how it ends.
#IranAttacks
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In rare unity, Iranians demand halt to executions.
Seeking new ways to get heard, nearly 5 million tweets.
Celebrities, soccer stars, politicians & ordinary folks join campaign.
Outrage over death penalty for three young protestors.
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A friend from Kabul left me a goodbye voice message. He said he is supposed to go to airport tomorrow to be evacuated but in case there is an explosion and he dies, he is saying his goodbyes. Too much grief.😢
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Ukrainian soldier reciting Persian poetry in the battle field. The poem, addressed to a lover, asks who will tell you the news of my death?
"به چه میاندیشی، چه کسی باور کرد، جنگل جان مرا آتش عشق تو خاکستر کرد."
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Wondering why many of us journalists are not on the ground for
#IranProtests
:
In 2009 uprising I was in Tehran & govt. foreign press office warned me that snipers had been ordered to take out the
@WSJ
reporter (me) in the crowd. They even had my picture.
#بنزین_۳۰۰۰_تومانی
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A first in
#IranianProtests
#Rasht
crowds chant: "Death to Revolutionary Guards."
#Iran
#IRGC
#تظاهرات
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It's wild that Washington pundits & US officials are surprised that Trump's
#Iran
policy has backfired. Iran watchers, UN & European diplomats have been warning of this day since Trump pulled out of JCPOA in May.
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This never gets old.
President of America, the beacon of the free press, calling media "enemy of the people."
@Acosta
Trump ends his rant in the Oval Office with the President of Finland: "You have corrupt media in this country and it truly is the enemy of the people."
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#IranProtests2020
Iran is a tinderbox. In November it was gas prices. In January it's downing of plane.
People are fed up.
Tehran chants, "We don't want missiles, we don't want bombs. We don't want corrupt officials."
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Our exclusive story on the mass killing in Mahshar. Revolutionary Guards forces surrounded, shot and killed 40 to 100 demonstrators — mostly unarmed young men — in a sugar cane field where they had sought refuge.
#IranProtests
w/
@rickgladstone
#ماهشهر
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This looks like the conditions of Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq when we toured it circa 2004.
@jdawsey1
VP saw 384 men sleeping inside fences, on concrete w/no pillows or mats. They said they hadn’t showered in weeks, wanted toothbrushes, food. Stench was overwhelming. CBP said they were fed regularly, could brush daily & recently got access to shower (many hadn’t for 10-20 days.)
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In 2 years of covering
@UN
, never seen all 14 members of
#UNSC
unanimously condemn the actions/decisions of another member as they are doing w/
#US
#Jerusalem
today.
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Iran arrests the man who recorded the video showing missiles brought down Ukrainian Airlines plane. That video was first verified by
@nytimes
& was first public proof of the tragedy.
#IranProtest2020
فردی که لحظه برخورد موشک با #هواپیمای_اوکراینی را پیش از شلیک و برخورد، ضبط و آن را برای شبکه سعودی فرستاده بود در رباطکریم دستگیر شد/نورنیوز
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Loving the videos of heroic Iranian medical staff battling coronavirus & dancing through it all to lift spirit of patients! Because we dance:)
در روزهای اخیر، ویدیوهای مختلفی منتشر شده است که نشان میدهد پزشکان، پرستاران و دیگر دستاندرکاران بیمارستانهای کشور در خط مقدم جنگ با کرونا چگونه با رقص و پایکوبی تلاش میکنند تا اضطراب ناشی از هجوم ویروس کرونا در ایران را مغلوب کنند. گلچینی از این ویدیوها را تماشا کنید.
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I'm a child of immigrants. When I was a kid, everyone I knew wished they could raise their children in America. Now, everyone I know wishes they could raise their children outside of America.
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Rouhani says it will be quid pro quo with Biden:
If US signs, so will Iran.
If US issues order, so will Iran.
If US returns to commitments, so will Iran.
"Trump's political life ended today. Trump died but JCPOA lives," Rouhani said.
روحانی:
*اگر در آمریکا امضایی شود در برابر آن هم یک امضا میبینند نه بیشتر
*فرمانی صادر شد ما هم فرمان صادر میکنیم
*اگر برگردند به تعهدات ما هم به تعهداتمان عمل میکنیم
*زندگی سیاسی ترامپ امروز تمام می شود
*ترامپ مٌرد اما برجام زنده ماند
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Iran executes champion wrestler Navid Afkari. Ingoring international and domestic outcry and threat to be ousted from world sport community.
No words.
#نوید_افکاری
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Tonight's Security Council meeting on Ukraine was the most dramatic one I have covered. In real time, history in the making. As diplomats pleaded for peace and diplomacy news came of Putin's declaring start of special military operation. The room was stunned.
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Beyond tragic. Afghanistan's Sports Federation announced a member of the National Youth Soccer Team was one of the people who fell off the US military plane & died. A child. Zaki Anvari.
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First video report of a massive explosion with red light around Tehran, heard by many residents. Reports of a military outpost around there.
#Iran
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BREAKING:
Public mourning gatherings turn into protests in
#Iran
. Angry crowds chanting, "Death to the liars."
#IranPlaneCrash
#UkrainePlaneCrash
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#IranProtests
Day 5 Wrap:
1.It's an uprising. Clashes turn deadly.
2.
#Rouhani
tried but failed to address anger.
3.
#Iranians
fed up w/the entire system.
4.Nation-wide strikes called.
5.Internet/Apps still blocked.
#تظاهرات_سرارى
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Middle East burning.
Massive fire breaks out at food warehouse in Ajman, UAE.
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Tehran billboard replaces Gen. Soleimani's photo with the names of victims perished in airplane tragedy.
#IranProtests2020
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#IranPlaneCrash
What I hear from every
#Iranian
I talk to: "Our lives have no value to them. Look at how Canada is mourning our immigrants. Our own country kills us."
#IranProtests
#UkranianPlaneCrash
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#IranProtests2020
Taraneh Alidoosti, Iran's most famous actress, writes on her Instagram page w/ 6 million followers:
"We are not citizens. We are hostages, millions of hostages."
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#IranianProtests
have not quieted down, we are getting videos w/delay due to interne & app disruption.
#Tehran
: #تطاهرات_سراسری
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#IranProtests2020
Pooneh & Arash, genius graduates of Sharif University, got married a few days before they boarded Ukrainian Airlines.
Today was their funeral in Tehran. RIP.
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I ask
@realDonaldTrump
again: If you differntiate between
#Iran
regime & people, then why do you ban
#Iranians
from entering the US?
#Iran
#IranianProtests
#TravelBan
The entire world understands that the good people of Iran want change, and, other than the vast military power of the United States, that Iran’s people are what their leaders fear the most....
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When a scam falls apart, it collapses fast. Afghanistan was a Ponzi scheme sold to the American people. A house of cards.
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Ahmad Masoud, the son of legendary Ahmad Shah Masoud, declares the start of an armed resistance against the Taliban forming in the Panjshir Valley.
He penned this op-ed:
#Afghanistan
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Rare personal video of Gen. Suleimani reciting poetry shared by a source in
#Iran
. About friends departing & him being left behind.
#قاسم_سليماني
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#IranProtests
gaining size & spreading to more than a dozen cities. Crowds in Ahwaz chant, "Don't be afraid, we are together." Riot police out spraying protestors.
#Iran
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#Iraq
fallout of Trump decision to strike
#Soleimani
:
1. Parliament votes to expel US military.
2. Sadr calls for closure of US embassy.
3. Coalition to fight ISIS is at risk.
4. NATO suspends training Iraqi forces.
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I have also covered plenty of state sponsored rallies in
#Iran
where crowd is bused in. It never gets bigger than tens of thousands.
This is millions. This is not coerced.
#SoleimaniFuneral
#قاسم_سیلمانی
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Pooneh & Arash.
Their wedding photo from a few days ago.
They died in
#ukraineplanecrash
today.
He was a math olympian gold medalist. Both graduate students of computer science, Alberta University.
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I ran the WSJ's Baghdad bureau for 4 years from invasion to civil war, never thought I'd see
#Iraq
parliament expel American military.
Even
#Soleimani
couldn't have dreamed this.
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Read my investigation into
#Iran
's Me Too:
Sexual abuse allegations surfaced against more than 100 men on social media, the most prominent an internationally famous artist Aydin Aghdashloo.
#آیدین_آغداشلو
#من_هم
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#IranianProtests
escalate. Now crowds are attacking police, governor, government outposts.
#Iran
##اعتراض_سراسری
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Why were commercial planes allowed to take off from
#Iran
in the middle of a military operation, missile attacks & possibility of US strikes? Why?
(regardless of cause of crash)
#ukraineplanecrash
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My Iranian friends & family before 2020 election: We don't understand electoral law. How does it work?
Today: Have the ballots in Bucks country Pennsylvania been counted, what about Clark country Nevada? PA has 20 electoral votes!
#ElectionResults2020
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Attacks were timed around 1.20 am exact same time the US assassinated Gen. Soleimani.
#Iraq
#AlAssadBase
#Iran
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The idea that
#Iran
Revolutionary Guards won't retaliate against US surgical strikes is a dangerous fantasy. Whoever is selling this idea to Congress is naive or delusional.
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Resiliant Iranians on a summer night in magical Isfahan. Iran swept in crisis but full of life.
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....If the Democrats are successful in removing the President from office (which they will never be), it will cause a Civil War like fracture in this Nation from which our Country will never heal.” Pastor Robert Jeffress,
@FoxNews
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