Arya 🐬🍉 آریا

Former punk bassist and political staffer, now experimental songwriter and healthcare data. ☭ Third Worldist.

[Arya 🐬🍉 آریا @BadSunAK]

It's been a while since I read it but if I have one critique of this book from a historical/political perspective is if you're not familiar with Iran's history you're given a version of events which doesn't explore the Qajar impact or what I wrote above
https://t.co/tZiLXvnncL

[Séamus Malekafzali @Seamus_Malek]

Saw Marjane Satrapi has a new book out after more than a decade and I got reminded of why I disliked Persepolis. Honestly a bit shocked this revisionism about the MEK just merely "enter[ing] from Iraq" slipped under the radar for many in the Iranian diaspora.

[Arya 🐬🍉 آریا @BadSunAK]

Hang on, Iran's history with communism isn't as straightforward as you see in other places. There was great factionalism and different loyalties that clashed against each other. Many Iranian communists loyal to other states were not well received locally

[walking rapidly through striations of light @_antifalockhart]

stupid to be upset but still just terribly sad to see twitter campists slandering marjane when her biggest grievance with both the shah and the irgc was imprisoning and then executing her communist uncle who taught her about palestine, for being a soviet spy no less

[Arya 🐬🍉 آریا @BadSunAK]

Iran during this period had to deal with balkanization attempts from the Soviets. You also had one of the biggest parties loyal to Soviet interests especially as it related to oil, clashing with national interests. Then you had MEK loyal to Saddam. It's a lot more complicated

[Matthew Petti 👨‍🎓 @matthew_petti]

The report seems to imply that Israel was bugging the phones of U.S. troops sent to defend Israel.

[Politics Global @PolitlcsGlobal]

🚨🇮🇷 NEW: Iran's World Cup squad has been notified they must enter and leave US soil on the same day of their matches played in the United States

All of Iran’s group stage games are in the US

- 15th June - 🇳🇿 New Zealand
- 21st June - 🇧🇪 Belgium
- ⁠26th June - 🇪🇬 Egypt

[Ruba Ali Al-Hassani رُبى الحَسَني @RubaAlHassani]

The US is truly unfit to host the World Cup. The TSA interrogated Iraqi star footballer Aymen Hussein for 7 hours over nothing worthwhile.

[Alaa @lebantineala]

"are you Israeli"

"No I'm American"

[Arya 🐬🍉 آریا @BadSunAK]

Every tweet gets better

[claudia irizarry aponte @clauirizarry]

New @EspaillatNY ad today, hitting heavily at @DarializaforNY’s controversial since-deleted tweets, airing on TV and online

[porochista khakpour she/her پوروچیستا خاکپور @PKhakpour]

@AzadehMoaveni Wish I could agree. Some clips coming out show clearly that in the last few years she was moving increasingly right. I adored her & her work. But it seems she was doubling down on accusations of bigotry (which have been around for years. I blame her French side not her Iranian)

[cody @cody_1917]

This is the most bourgeois post I have ever seen

He "writes like a child" and so he doesnt deserve a job

[Joel D. Anderson 🆓 @byjoelanderson]

Speaking of boycotts, if the other countries were righteous, they’d threaten to drop out too.

[Arya 🐬🍉 آریا @BadSunAK]

I'm sorry but if Fifa needs to grow a spine and interfere here. The host country is tampering with a participant by creating an uneven competitive situation

[The Athletic | Football @TheAthleticFC]

Iran’s soccer team and “necessary support” staff have been issued visas ahead of the World Cup but Donald Trump’s government “will not allow them to to abuse this system to sneak terrorists into the United States”, an administration official has said.

The national team has faced months of uncertainty over travel and security arrangements for the tournament since the war began on February 28, when the U.S and Israel targeted Iran with military strikes.

Full story from @AdamCrafton_ here ⬇️

🔗 https://t.co/w7u390r3eD

[Sky ☭ ⚢ @Skyfrom5to7]

Marx predates the age of imperialism & the developments since his death have shown us that the imperial core working class have long been lured into class-collaboration by the privileges that their ruling class have conceded to them, all financed by peripheral super-exploitation.

[Arya 🐬🍉 آریا @BadSunAK]

So yes, if you are outside the country you have to be careful about your language and activism so it doesn't give foreign states ammunition to help their cause against the Vatan. This is why I keep criticism of the internal affairs of Iran restricted to Iranian audiences

[Arya 🐬🍉 آریا @BadSunAK]

Seeing a lot of takes dismissing the obligation of the diasporas's loyalties to the sovereignty of Iran. This comes from a place of fundamentally not understanding Iran's historical and cultural background and why we as a society highly value loyalty to our own community

[Arya 🐬🍉 آریا @BadSunAK]

Iran was once at risk of losing its culture under the Rashidun and Umayyad caliphates. Since then we have an understanding we're never to aid foreign elements at the expense of the Vatan. Renewal is an important cultural theme so we value collectivism over US-style individualism

[Naveed @nmansoori_]

The reception of Persepolis is different now: it was published in 2000 & found warm reception in post-9/11 liberal culture; the movie was released in 2007, two years before the Green Mvmt. The milieu that supported its reception is gone, its audience jaded by war & genocide.

[fawn 💌 @fawnn404]

the funniest thing about American socialism is that it often starts from the assumption that the wealth of the imperial core already belongs to the people living there and just needs to be redistributed more fairly

[Myon ☭🔻 @Commiearabgirl]

Leftists, and especially global south leftists, must understand Americans will never, ever view us as full human beings, and they will never ever put our lives before their material interests.

[🌸🌺🌼🌹 @mcarv_s]

have they seen this one yet