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True story. To commemorate 40th anniversary of the horrific injustice done to the 10 Bahá’í women of Shiraz 18th of June 1983
@TinySpeck_
& I made this.
Pippa Walton mirrors the last days of the life of Mona Mahmoudnizhad who was hanged aged 17.
#OurStoryIsOne
#GenderEquality
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The internet is now being cut in Iran because they don’t want people to see things like this: a man slaps a woman and thinks he can calmly walk away. Where such actions were commonplace before, there are now dire consequences - significantly handed out by other men.
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Extraordinary clip from 20 years ago. David Bowie sharing what he feels about what the internet is going to turn into. And he’s not wrong.
Paxman: it’s just a tool tho isn’t it?
Bowie: No it’s not.
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Possibly the greatest 30 seconds of sport you will ever see anywhere
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Why does everybody keep complaining about this government? They’re doing brilliantly. For example my car used to only hold £65 of petrol, now it holds £90 worth. That’s way more than a couple of years ago when Jeremy Corbyn was Prime Minister.
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Good news. 16 year old
#SoniaSharifi
- down to be executed as of yesterday - was released from Ilam prison today at 3pm after being detained for a month. Thank you to everyone for spreading her name and image. Say their names, save a life.
#IranRevoIution
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Thread:
1/. As the death toll rises to 41 today, four women you should know who were deliberately and unlawfully killed in Iran when protesting gender apartheid and the killing of
#Masha_Amini
:
Hadis Najafi, aged 20, shot six times when security forces opened fire on her.
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Oil workers in Iran walk out. Hugely brave. Unbelievably significant.
#IranRevolution
#Mahsa_Amini
#IranProtests2022
#OpIran
#NationalStrikes
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Incredible video. Afghan dad jokingly says school is only for boys. Watch his remarkable daughter - who can’t be more than 5 or 6 years old - respond with these arguments.
Afghan girls have been denied access to schools and universities. This little girl's courage represents…
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The Queen sat alone, socially distanced, at her husband’s funeral is going to be an enduring image. When she said, aged 21 in April 1947 that she was going to serve her country, she meant every word of it.
#PrincePhilipfuneral
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All kinds of dichotomies live side by side. But Swastiska & Poppy has to be the best idiot we’ve seen in recent times
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One of the most heartbreaking things I’ve ever seen: a grief-stricken father sat holding the hand of his 15-year-old daughter crushed to death beneath the rubble of a building in Turkey.
Up to 20,000 now feared dead.
#earthquakeinturkey
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In the absence of any adults in the room, so glad to see Israeli and Palestinian mothers make this important stand. Great to see diplomats and politicians join them.
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A week now since the upsetting news that Sean Lock was no longer with us. I share this now as an example of how an outstanding comic goes with unexpected insanity, his instincts saying somewhere there’s a going to be pay off - and a lightning wit like Sean’s will find always it.
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Nigel Farage spends his life failing to get people deported. And then he tries to help someone stay in a country, and they get deported.
#Novax
#NoVisaEither
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Regardless of being aware of his demons with drink & drugs and despite the world facing humanitarian catastrophes & seismic challenges that threaten our very existence right now, it’s still a shock to wake up to news about the sad passing of a colossal talent like Matthew Perry.
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“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” - George Orwell, Animal Farm
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A woman removed from the
#IRI
National Council For Engineering for not wearing her hijab correctly just did this on stage and got applause for it. Women in
#Iran
are stronger now than ever, raising their voices against corruption & coercion wherever they can.
#IranRevoIution
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Morality police attacks a woman not wearing hijab in a car. Watch her fight back despite getting punched in the face.
To the undecided men: choose a side. And for the sake of humanity make interventions. This woman is all women of Iran. You’d do well to support them.
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At a party in West London 1983 (I was 17) she stood laughing at me when I was dancing. She did not look 7 years older than me and I genuinely thought I could mesmerise her into my life with ludicrous moves. She laughed and I danced. We didn’t say a word to each other. When 1985…
Sade turned 65 today…hard to believe.
Her son Izaak shared this new photo of his mom.
I love her.
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Just waiting for Nigel Farage to come and push me back into the water.
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Heart broken to hear about the passing of Sean Lock. Wonderful human being and easily one of the funniest on and off the stage. Love that he shunned social media and remained aloof from petty squabbles. Devastating loss.
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I believe a local criminal gang stole my car. I have, of course, now asked the leader of that gang to conduct an inquiry.
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The world is finally aware that the “Islamic” Republic of Iran have been funding and training the terrorists that attacked Israel. So here are SOME QUESTIONS FOR THE REGIME:
HOW DO YOU EVEN DARE TO SPEAK OUT against Israeli oppression, when 10M Jews, Christians, Bahá’ís and…
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After being made a Knight, Billy Connolly wrote to Eric Idle:
“Dear Eric, As you rightly observed, I was knighted this morning, and, in my new position as Knight of the Realm, I have decided that I will no longer squander my good time by hanging out with scruff like you. So you…
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This is Captain Behnam Zarei, a police officer called to a scene in
#Iran
by a pro-regime woman insisting he arrest another woman for not wearing Hijab. A brave man. Hopefully thousands like him joining the people tomorrow.
#Feb16
#IranRevolution
#OpIran
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While the West believes there is reform coming and that “the morality police have been abolished” (no they haven’t) this is what’s really happening ⬇️
#WomanLifeFreedom
#OpIran
#Mahsa_Amini
Hossein Jalali, Iran Parliament member: bank accounts of women not wearing hijab properly will be blocked soon.
The IR lacks enough oppressing forces, so it comes up with new tactics to put pressure on women.
#مهسا_امینی
#MahsaAmini
#IranRevoIution
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Considering male lions sleep on average 20 hours a day and spend the 4 hours they're awake attempting to copulate, eating & licking their own bollocks I'd say this was a pretty accurate metaphor.
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Last image of
#MahsaAmini
alive moments before being severely beaten for showing hair from under her hijab. In a coma for two days before dying from her head injuries Sept 16th.
Her name has become the most shared hashtag of all time. A name that sparked 11 months of ongoing…
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A level results day. Time for my annual tweet:
After 13 retakes the clearing system sent me to Ulster Uni Coleraine during the troubles where I got a degree, was nicknamed ‘Fenian Turk’ & clapped an Orangemen's Day parade thinking Holland were playing N. Ireland in a friendly.
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Reports flooding in that regime in Iran are now gassing women-only dorms at universities. Girls are dropping like flies. This is systematic, industrial-scale targeting of women as revenge for
#WomanLifeFreedom
movement.
@BBCNews
@Channel4News
@mrjamesob
this needs to be covered.
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Ireland sends a message of hope.
#IsraelPalestineConflict
Huge respect to Patrick Kielty for these important closing words on
@RTELateLateShow
FYI Patrick’s own father John "Jack" Kielty was shot dead in 1988 by a group calling themselves the Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF)…
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Did anyone over 50 ever imagine watching Top of the Pops 40 odd years ago that our only reliable information about present day corruption & the destruction of the environment would be coming from the singer of The Undertones?
104 days after been fined £90m for dumping sewage into the environment and less than 12 hours after Gov voted to protect water companies and not our rivers,
@SouthernWater
were dumping sewage at 60, yes 60, different locations along the south coast of England.
#COP26
hypocrisy
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What about Jennifer Arcuri?
- My private life is nobody's business but my own.
How many children have you actually got?
- My private life is nobody's business but my own.
What's going on with Priti Patel?
- My girlfriend is pregnant!
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"in-prisoned"? Guess he means "imprisoned"
As Tommy would agree, if you're going to live in the UK you should learn the language 🇬🇧
The support I'm receiving is unreal, after 10 yrs of being beaten battered, in-prisoned, & slandered people are finally hearing my voice
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Just coming to terms with the unexpected passing of Paul O’Grady. I don’t think I’ve ever been so immediately enamoured with a personality on a first meeting. He truly elevated the very atmosphere in which he moved. God rest his mighty soul.
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The thin line between great goalkeeping skill and high end slapstick comedy
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This kind of stuff, filmed in 1980s & early 90s, if released today would be trending on here for days. He died 2014 aged 56. What a loss.
#RikMayall
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Goodbye Shane. Fairytale of New York today played from speakers with mourners celebrating his life & legacy.
Not just the best Xmas song of all time, one of the greatest songs ever written.
The final verse resonates with anyone who’s lived and loved:
Shane: I could have…
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Midwife Nurse who lost an eye after being shot by the Basiji back at work. Nothing will stop the people.
#IranRevolution
❤️👏🏼
#Mahsa_Amini
#OpIran
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2/. Ghazale Chelavi, a 32 year old mountaineer shot in the head in Amol city after chanting “we are all Masha Amini”
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3/. Hanane Kia, aged 23, shot and killed by Iranian security forces during the protests.
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4/. Mahsa Mogoi, aged 18, died in Isfahan during the protests, shot by Iranian security forces.
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Girls in Iran continue to defy hijab laws. A group called “The Smarties” who dye their hair and walk around without hijab have been drawing international attention.
On one excursion, a police officer warned one of the Smarties, Mahla (blue hair) about not wearing a hijab and…
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This is incredible. 48 year old Egyptian Paralympian Ibrahim Hamadtou who lost his arms in a train accident aged 10 in Tokyo today. Could have played football but took up table tennis “as a challenge.” How inspiring is this? (via
@Ch4Paralympics
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Sean was a season ticket holder and followed the blues home and away. He died aged 58. Shall we honour him at the next home game (v Aston Villa 11.09.21) with a minute's applause as a celebratory tribute at the 58 minute mark?
Everyone at Chelsea FC is saddened to learn of the passing of Sean Lock.
Sean was a much-loved comedian, fan of the Blues and a regular at Stamford Bridge. We send our deepest condolences to his family and friends. 💙
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5/. There are many others, including another young woman’s death horrifically caught on camera, seen by millions. These brave & courageous women will never be forgotten, their deaths never forgiven and there will be justice.
#Mahsa_Amini
#IranProtests2022
#IranRevolution
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We’ve done it. For years inventors have tried to create a time machine. Now Britain has done it: riots on the streets, unemployment rocketing and blokes banging on about the Union flag. All we need now is some Punk rock and we’re back somewhere in the mid to late 1970s
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No pic of Grenfell Tower Landlord yet Ethiopian bloke w faulty fridge which started fire after power surge named front page Daily Mail?
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Somewhere there is a city-sized warehouse full of letters and parcels for Liz Truss that can’t be delivered because no one has any idea what planet she lives on.
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Gary’s hands are tied so he’s spouting corporate nonsense here and minimising a major incident.
I was at
#CFCWHU
Sept last year what would have been a good last min West Ham equaliser was chalked off for a supposed foul by Jarrod Bowen on CFC keeper Mendy in the build up. The…
Jurgen Klopp handled the situation well last night after the game. Most football fans will have had empathy with what happened and recognised it was wrong!
However Liverpools statement tonight is a mistake! Talk of exploring all options ( what does that mean!!! ) and sporting…
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The main question about the Oxford/Cambridge boat race is NOT wether they should follow tradition and throw the winning Cox into the filthy Thames water, it’s when we’re going to STOP focussing so much TV coverage over this nonsense race that means absolutely nothing to anyone.
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Has anyone ever called another person a “shithole”? Feeling the need to lie about everything all the time is truly remarkable.
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Keep searching The BBC for any mention of Boris Johnson meeting Steve Bannon - nothing. I guess a man who could be our next PM blatantly lying about taking advice from a white supremacist is just not in the public interest
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Cried with laughter 24 years ago at
#TheRoyleFamily
Xmas special, cried with laughter again tonight. Grandmother (Liz Smith) an underrated comedy powerhouse got me lightheaded twice. Losing Caroline Aherne in 2016 aged 52 remains one of biggest losses to comedy of all time. This…
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Dear Leaders,
You’ve been fighting the wrong war, the wrong enemy. You've spent billions on nuclear weapons & ballistic missiles you will never use when a few quid on some masks & gloves could have saved thousands of lives.
You're fired. All of you.
Yours,
The People.
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Thousands headed to Azadi Sq. tonight.
The plan:
“The movement of millions of Iranians to Tehran's Azadi Sq. occupying it, settling in tents and the support of the nation to the besieged people will be a big step to end the Khamenei dictatorship”
#IranRevolution
💚🤍❤️
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The conflict has gone into utterly unprecedented territory. The ONLY action we have now - as humanity - is to call for an immediate ceasefire. There literally is no other thing to do or say at this point. Any speculation on this ‘report’ or that ‘report’ on who is to blame makes…
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Look at all these legends who appeared in The Love Boat. Number 7 will blow your mind.
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The bloke is plain clothes is “Morality Police”. He got got lucky and he won’t do this again in a hurry. Otherwise the department will soon be renamed the “Mortality Police”.
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This was the video I tried to tweet early this morning which became “disabled content” within minutes. Enjoy it while you can ⬇️
USA’s Antonee Robinson consoles Iran’s Ramin Rezaian after America’s victory. Iran’s regime has tried hard to brainwash its people against the US, but most Americans who’ve been to Iran will tell you it’s among the friendliest places they’ve ever visited.
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Press conference for
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immediate acknowledgment that her detainment 💯 connected to UK debt to Iran. And mentions 3 Iranian officials who came to negotiate but detained at a UK detention centre in 2013 which contributed to Iran going down hostage route
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7/. & GC FEMINISTS!
WHERE ARE YOU?
Where are your voices standing up for women in Iran 🇮🇷 right now?
Do you genuinely care about women’s rights or are you just keyboard warriors only interested in Twitter pile ons?
This is your moment.
LET’S BE ‘AVIN’ YOU!
#Mahsa_Amini
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Utterly disgraceful.
It’s 2023 on planet Earth and they still harass girls in Iran like this who don’t wear hijab in public. They are filmed to get them abducted and then forced to make false confessions just to STAY ALIVE.
Exactly what happened to this girl a few days ago.…
The authorities in Iran forced this woman to do a false confession on State TV. her crime is to resist force hijab & shouts in the face of the morality police that “I am a woman and I’m not scared of you.”
To support her, repeat her own powerful words.
#WomanLifeFreedom
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Looking forward to the next Olympic Games opening ceremony Paris 2024 when Brexiteers demand the BBC pixilate the flags of the other countries.
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It's impossible to be upset by what Donald Tusk said unless you are one of the stupid idiots he's talking about
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This is how you answer a tricky question on a diametrically opposed news network and literally stop the interviewers in their tracks
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The courage of Iranian women is staggering. This is well known activist
#SepidehQolian
4 years & 7 months in prison, released literally moments ago and the FIRST thing she does (by the gates) is:
“Evil Khamenei, we’re going to bury you!”
#IranRevoIution
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Something seriously wrong with people defacing a young girl’s gravestone. But is there more to this?
Yalda Aghafazli was a 19 year old protester who died mysteriously a day after being released from prison last November.
In a phone call to a friend as she was being released…
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On R5 Live two Ukranian
@ChelseaFC
fans just said they’ll be watching the game in a basement under bombardment. Between siren raids will try to fix satelite dish on roof. They say CFC is bigger than RA and the game today one of the few distractions to keep them sane.
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6/. Use hashtag
#Mahsa_Amini
not
#Masha
her name was MAHSA. A real chance to get awareness out about this urgent issue. Tho it’s Iran 🇮🇷 it’s not just a Middle Eastern issue it’s a global human rights issue so like
@yungblud
&
@DUALIPA
feel free to share your own posts & thoughts
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This is what I’m asking: is being a racist a “lawful political viewpoint”? This is important. If football clubs ban fans for racism and we all support them in that, then why aren’t we supporting this bank when they do the same thing?
Our PM is now saying “if a racist can’t put…
@omid9
You serious ? Restricting someone's ability to bank based on their lawful political opinions has no place in a civilised and free society.
If it happened to Farage, it could happen to you.
Freedom of speech is not a negotiable plus - it's essential to how our democracy functions.
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60 all girls schools reported in 9 cities chemically attacked. No govt. in history has ever attacked its own children with chemical weapons IN SCHOOLS. Look how they treat a mother of a poisoned child. Video highlights grey suit bloke to identify him.
#OpIran
#IranRevolution
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Fears rising they plan to execute
#MohammadMehdiKarami
this morning in a public arena.’ Messages received from Nazarabad region of
#Karaj
indicating deployment of security forces in the main squares meaning they’re preparing for it.
@Twitter
let’s get to work.
#StopExecutions
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First they said Lee Anderson was suspended from the Tory party not for what he said but for refusing to apologise for what he said. Then they said he was suspended from the Tory party because of what he said not because he refused to apologise for it. And now he’s issued a…
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Excellent statement from
@LFC
demanding “full transparency” on how the VAR team got a decision so ridiculously wrong. Make public the conversation that took place between VAR & the ref. If rugby does it live on TV then a recording must exist. Release it. Will benefit everyone.
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Huge congratulations to
#OmidDjalili
, named as one of the people of the year by Emily Maitlis on the Newsagents podcast, for his continuous campaigning to bring attention to the struggle facing women in
#Iran
.
@omid9
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I never expected even 20,000 views for this. 9M views already in 3 days shows what’s going on in Iran right now is nothing short of incredible. The unwavering courage of the men and women there needs our continued support. Thank you for sharing this so widely.
The internet is now being cut in Iran because they don’t want people to see things like this: a man slaps a woman and thinks he can calmly walk away. Where such actions were commonplace before, there are now dire consequences - significantly handed out by other men.
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The real issue here is the PM has to ask an “ethics advisor” if what his minister has done is unethical. He can't work it out for himself. It's like ethics is a complete mystery to him. The main question being: can we get away with this?
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Today remembering the birthday of another young “Daughter of Iran” taken on Nov 16th in Tabriz during the uprisings last year, whose bravery and humanity will not be forgotten. Her death certainly never forgiven.
Aylar Haghi, a fourth-year medical student, was killed after…
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Brexit “will join Suez and Iraq in the great pantheon of catastrophic British errors. But as its support ebbs away, we’ll still be left with the scars. Those who inflicted them on us should hang their heads in shame.” Bang on piece by
@IanDunt
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2-0. Incredible scenes. Iran clearly the better team. Let’s be clear. The longer the Iran team stays in the more this murdering terrorist regime will be highlighted, condemned and toppled. Well done boys.
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Message from
@OfficialToomaj
account asking us to get the hashtags #توماج_صالحی and
#FreeToomaj
trending. Coordinated at:
16.30 UK
20.00 Iran
17.30 Europe
8.30 LA
11.30 NY
Tomaj has been in solitary confinement for 84 days. We are his voice.
#IranRevoIution
#IRGCterrorists
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Mr. Farage accepts apology by the BBC and makes an important stand for racists everywhere. Racists are an endangered group and must be protected.
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Another one gone. Reza Dehboyid tortured to death #رضا_دهبوید
A photo circulating WhatsApp shows the horrific injuries they inflicted on him which I won’t share. But clear the regime released that image to intimidate protesters. This is him.
RIP Reza joon.
#IranRevolution2022
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They do not care one jot if a girl’s head is smashed into the rim of a car door. Which is why no one believes the regime’s assertion that
#ArmitaGaravand
is currently in a coma after sustaining head injuries from an altercation with these despicable thugs “due to a collapse…
Women abducted off the streets in Iran for showing their hair.
That’s what you’re looking at. A woman being cattle prodded & shoved into a roaming hijab enforcers van. 🚐
Let’s not normalize or culturalize this. It’s nothing but criminal & deadly.
#آرمیتا_گراوند #مهسا_امينی
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Non socially distanced white people lying on the floor with their hands behind their backs chanting “I can’t breathe” the most powerful non violent depiction of an act of violence I’ve ever seen
#GeorgeFloydProtests
Incredible scene at Colorado’s Capitol right now. Thousands of protesters are lying face down with their hands behind their backs chanting “I can’t breathe.” They’re doing this for 9 mins.
#copolitics
#denverprotest
#GeorgeFloyd
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