Amanda Ferdosian 🪬

Curious about our world. Passionate about human rights, psychology, global politics, and financial markets. I aim to delight, inspire and provoke.

[Amanda Ferdosian 🪬 @AmandaFerdosian]

Home
is not a place.
It is the way
my mother says joonam.

It is saffron
on rice.

It is poetry
recited
like memory.

It is Iran,
even when
I am not there.

[Amanda Ferdosian 🪬 @AmandaFerdosian]

No foul play, no controversies, no favors, no drama. Just pure heart and a masterclass from a team that earned every second of it. Thank you for the beautiful football, España, and for the perfect ending to the 2026 World Cup.

[Amanda Ferdosian 🪬 @AmandaFerdosian]

Messi took a photo with a 5-month-old Lamine Yamal in 2007. Almost 20 years later, that kid wears his old Barca No. 19 and could be the one to end Messi’s World Cup story. Sunday can’t get here soon enough! 🇪🇸

[Amanda Ferdosian 🪬 @AmandaFerdosian]

Watched this about 937 times so far.

[Amanda Ferdosian 🪬 @AmandaFerdosian]

@cybersec_cowart Back at you. Miss you!! 💕

[Amanda Ferdosian 🪬 @AmandaFerdosian]

The Knicks have somehow turned every bar, train, office, and street corner in New York into the same room. I’ve never seen this city so united. It’s incredible.

[Amanda Ferdosian 🪬 @AmandaFerdosian]

If we learned one thing from last night: Never ever give up. Keep fighting to the last second. When the world thinks it’s over, but you know in your heart you’re just starting to cook, listen to that. And get to work. New York Forever. Knicks in five!

[Amanda Ferdosian 🪬 @AmandaFerdosian]

@drpezeshkian As an Iranian, seeing the West praise Pezeshkian is exhausting. This regime is the leading funder of terrorism and literally hangs dissidents and murders women for resisting forced hijabs. Stop falling for the "moderate" act-action.

[Amanda Ferdosian 🪬 @AmandaFerdosian]

As war escalates in Iran, political prisoners - journalists, students, human rights activists - face immediate risk of execution and forced disappearance. Demand release, an execution moratorium, and prison protections NOW.

Sign & share:
https://t.co/3a7meJT0TJ

[Amanda Ferdosian 🪬 @AmandaFerdosian]

Khamenei is gone. Words I never thought I’d say. For so many Iranians who’ve known loss, exile, and suffering under this regime, this weekend brought tearful joy.

Much uncertainty now and a long road ahead, but it feels like the turning point we’ve prayed for. To a free Iran!

[Amanda Ferdosian 🪬 @AmandaFerdosian]

This year
my Valentine’s isn’t
one person.
It’s a nation.

IRAN. 💚🤍❤️

[Amanda Ferdosian 🪬 @AmandaFerdosian]

Struggling to put into words the grief over what happened in Iran - estimates of 30,000+ lives taken in two brutal days of crackdown.

I hope by now you’ve heard about it. If not, please take a moment to read. The Iranian people deserve freedom.

https://t.co/i9GUPlfkoO

[Amanda Ferdosian 🪬 @AmandaFerdosian]

Watching things in Minnesota unfold with a heavy heart. This isn’t red vs blue. It’s about if the Constitution we all lean on still holds. Our freedoms - yours, mine, theirs - are intertwined. We deserve better. Let’s remember that. ❤️‍🩹

[Amanda Ferdosian 🪬 @AmandaFerdosian]

Thank you @NewYorker for sharing this testimony and amplifying the voices the regime is trying to erase. Opening fire on unarmed civilians is a crime. Please keep documenting names, dates, and verified footage; accountability and justice depend on it.

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

On a recent January evening, security forces began firing into a crowd of demonstrators in Mashhad, Iran. “I saw an eight-year-old child who was shot in the chest,” a pediatrician said. “This regime has no sense of humanity.” https://t.co/kN9aYfKLy1

[Arsalan Naamdar @arsalannaamdar]

No Iranian wants foreign intervention. If the Islamic Republic could have been removed internally, it would have happened already. Iranians have attempted this for over 20 years. Every attempt was crushed.

The Islamic Republic is a centralized, militarized state. It controls the judiciary, prisons, armed forces, militias, the economy, and the information space. It has repeatedly demonstrated that it is willing to kill its own population at scale to retain power.

People inside Iran therefore make a rational cost assessment.

If limited foreign intervention targeting regime infrastructure results in fewer deaths than the killings that are already occurring — and will continue to occur — then it is the lesser harm. This is not “cheering for bombing.”

Iranians do not operate on the logic of “better 1,000 killed by our own than 1 killed by a foreigner.”

Even with the internet cut, there is extensive footage from inside Iran. People have openly called for external intervention because they believe it is over for them — and for Iran — if the U.S. does not step in.

They are not asking for indiscriminate bombings all over the county. They are asking for targeted strikes on regime infrastructure.

The constant Iraq and Syria comparisons are historically illiterate. Those states are 100 years old. They were created after World War I under the Sykes–Picot framework as artificial, post-Ottoman constructs.

Iran is not comparable. Iran is a civilizational state with over 2,500 years of political continuity. It is not a colonial fabrication.

If you are not informed on Iran, do not comment on Iran.

[Amanda Ferdosian 🪬 @AmandaFerdosian]

Brave Iranians are standing unarmed against bullets & a regime that just cut off the entire country’s internet to silence them. No more statements.

Action: Restore connectivity, target the repressors financially, support the protesters.

#DigitalBlackoutIran

[Nazanin Boniadi @NazaninBoniadi]

‼️ A prominent dissident in Iran wanted me to share:

The people of Iran do not need statements or condemnations.

They are standing empty-handed in front of bullets—and they are being killed.

What Iranians need is real, practical measures against the regime.

Genuine support for protesters—not words, but action.

The restoration and protection of internet access.

An end to Western negotiations with any faction of this regime.

And the use of every powerful tool available to stop the repression and killing of civilians—so that the people’s voices are not once again suffocated in darkness and silence.

[Amanda Ferdosian 🪬 @AmandaFerdosian]

@Behnooosh1 World is upside town

[Amanda Ferdosian 🪬 @AmandaFerdosian]

When the regime shut down internet for nearly a week during 'Aban' protests in November 2019, over a thousand civilians were killed by the security forces. @elonmusk you know what to do.

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: Internet access and telephone lines cut out in Iran after demonstrators joined protests called by the exiled crown prince. https://t.co/Q0lTiCOhw8

[Amnesty Iran @AmnestyIran]

🧵 Five things you need to know about the protests in Iran.👇🏼1/7