Eye-opener on @stevegrubershow with @STRUANSTEVENSON:
Iran is heading to another uprising.
Reza Pahlavi is definitely not a solution.
90 million Iranians want the mullahs gone and reject any authoritarian rule.
No Shah. No Mullahs.
Many dismiss online threats by Pahlavi supporters as “harmless.”
Here is Dr. Masjoody speaking out about those threats. He was later murdered in Canada by individuals described as ardent Pahlavi supporters.
Threats should never be dismissed as harmless.
From Ahmad Chalabi to Reza Pahlavi: The politics of manufactured opposition | OP-ED by @ProfSheehan, interim dean of the College of Public Affairs at the University of Baltimore, and @Dr_Rafizadeh, a Harvard-educated Iranian-American political scientist. https://t.co/Ct2kb4Fzv1
Abhorrent public executions are used in dictatorships like Iran, Afghanistan, and North Korea.
We might not be surprised by the savagery of the Mullahs or by dictatorships which routinely resort to barbarism.
But such macabre and grotesque spectacles should have no place in a democracy like the United States.
In 1849 Charles Dickens wrote to The Times after witnessing a public execution and said “I stand astounded and appalled by the wickedness it exhibits.”
Britain banned public executions in 1868. The death penalty has been banned in all cases since 1998.
In the case of Iran, tomorrow’s “No to Execution Tuesdays”campaign will be marked by political prisoners across 66 Iranian prisons who have staged weekly hunger strikes demanding the abolition of the death penalty.
Gina Romero, UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, will join tomorrow's hunger strike campaign and has shared this video:
https://t.co/jl8LnRFgDQ
If we truly believe in the Greek, Roman, Judaea-Christian values which have shaped our civilisation, we must be clear in spelling out what distinguishes us from barbarism- public executions being a very clear example.
I will stand in solidarity with Iran’s political prisoners and protesters by taking part in the “No to Executions Tuesdays” hunger strike campaign alongside UN Special Rapporteur Gina Romero (@Ginitastar). As a young Iranian, I stand especially with the young political prisoners and those facing execution on death row. The world must not remain silent while their lives are at risk.
#NoToExecutionTuesdays #StopExecutionsInIran
#نه_به_اعدام
انتقال به انفرادی و خطر فوری اعدام برای #رضا_زنگنه و #حمید_کاظمی
بر اساس گزارشهای دریافتی از داخل زندان #قزلحصار کرج، رضا زنگنه و حمید کاظمی از واحد ۳ سالن ۳۷ این زندان ناگهان به سوئیتهای انفرادی منتقل شدهاند، اقدامی که موجی از نگرانی را درباره احتمال اجرای قریبالوقوع حکم اعدام آنها به وجود آورده است.
رضا زنگنه، جوان ۲۷ ساله اهل ملایر و ساکن ملارد که به شغل تعمیرکاری خودروهای خارجی مشغول بود، در ۱۴ فروردین ۱۴۰۵ بازداشت شد و متعاقباً تحت اتهامهای ساختگی به اعدام محکوم گردید. با وجود ارسال پرونده وی به دیوان عالی کشور، وضعیت فرجامخواهی او در هالهای از ابهام قرار دارد و نزدیکانش تمامی اتهامات را شدیداً تکذیب کردهاند.
همزمان، حمید کاظمی از بازداشتشدگان دیماه ۱۴۰۴ نیز در شرایطی مشابه به انفرادی منتقل شده و اطلاعات دقیقی از وضعیت پرونده او در دست نیست. خانواده و نزدیکان این دو زندانی در بیم و امیدی سوزان به سر میبرند و نیازمند واکنش فوری و گسترده افکار عمومی برای نجات جان عزیزانشان هستند.
#StopExecutionsInIran
Message to conference on World Day Against the Death Penalty
October 10th is the #WorldDayAgainsttheDeathPenalty.
On this day, we honor all the brave men and women in Iran who were executed for their struggle for freedom.
The World Day Against the Death Penalty is humanity's clear "No" to this regime—a regime defined by executions and massacres.
https://t.co/Qrm0VVVIsy
🚨 UN Special Rapporteur Gina Romero, on hunger strike this Tuesday in solidarity with “No to Execution Tuesdays” in Iran’s prisons, told me why she joined on the 142nd week.
Her message to Iran’s political prisoners:
«میخواهم از دو زنی بگویم که به اعدام محکوم شدهاند...»
سخنرانی تکاندهنده دومینیک آتیاس.
رئیس بنیاد وکلای اروپایی.
صدای این دادخواهی باشید 👇👇
#نه_به_اعدام#StopExecutionsInIran
Neda Mohammadi, 24 years old, was shot and killed by the clerical regime's repressive forces on the night of January 9, 2026, in Tehran's Piroozi district.
The number of those killed during #IranProtestsJanuary2026 reached several thousand, with at least 50,000 individuals arrested. Killings were carried out across all 31 provinces.
Security forces fired assault weapons into crowds from rooftops and elevated positions.
The impunity of the regime's leaders must end, and they should be tried and brought to justice before national courts under the principle of universal jurisdiction.
Read Neda's story 👇
https://t.co/fhPevWTU7J
It is 3:30 PM on Monday, October 12th in Colombia, which means it’s midnight in Iran and Tuesday, October 13th has just begun. I have just finished my last meal, as my 24-hour hunger strike starts now.
I join #NoToExecutionTuesdays in solidarity with the brave people of Iran.