𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐎𝐋𝐃 𝐓𝐎𝐑 🇪🇺

EU Advocacy Regulatory Public Affairs Consultant for +23 years | Political Communications & Campaigning | Trainer & Speaker | #BeersPoliticsEU starter

[𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐎𝐋𝐃 𝐓𝐎𝐑 🇪🇺 @HaroldTor]

🧬 #EU #BiotechAct
• Strategic project permits: 10 months (but +3 months loophole)
• 24h suspicious transaction reporting, 3‑year records
• Phase 2 (industrial #biotech) in 2026 – no rules yet
Worst‑case: your US competitor gets 6‑mth review, you wait 13 mths
Full analysis👇

[𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐎𝐋𝐃 𝐓𝐎𝐑 🇪🇺 @HaroldTor]

#IAA: EU wants 25% low-carbon steel in every bridge by 2029. EV batteries must be 70% EU-made. Germany calls it a “bureaucratic monster.” France calls it a fortress. The real fight? A 3‑year cliff‑edge for cathode supply chains.

Watch the breakdown 👇

https://t.co/KemP7jch5W

[𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐎𝐋𝐃 𝐓𝐎𝐑 🇪🇺 @HaroldTor]

🇪🇺 #DigitalNetworksAct: one rulebook for 27 countries.
✅ Single Passport
⚠️ Centralised spectrum (6 member states say no)
🔁Article 192 – voluntary conciliation = backdoor for “fair share” fees?
Full breakdown 👇
#EUTelecom #NetNeutrality

[𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐎𝐋𝐃 𝐓𝐎𝐑 🇪🇺 @HaroldTor]

EU wants to blacklist entire countries from your digital supply chain.

The EU Cybersecurity Act 2 gives ENISA new teeth & a “high‑risk country” mechanism.

But how to prove a country’s legal system is a security threat? That’s the real battleground.

Watch the short ↓
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[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

If you claim to support human rights yet can’t bring yourself to show solidarity with those fighting for their liberty in Iran, you’ve revealed yourself. You don’t give a damn about people being oppressed and brutalised so long as it’s being done by the enemies of your enemies.

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

The Iranian regime once again tries to survive by sheer brutality toward its own people.

[Iran Spectator @IranSpec]

⚠️ 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬 ⚠️

🇮🇷 | MASSACRE FOOTAGE HAS BEEN LEAKED FROM IRAN!

We can see armed forces gunning down unarmed civilians in the streets.

REPOST, RETWEET, RETWEET!

[Tahmineh Dehbozorgi @DeTahmineh]

The Western liberal media is ignoring the Iranian uprising because explaining it would force an admission it is desperate to avoid: the Iranian people are rebelling against Islam itself, and that fact shatters the moral framework through which these institutions understand the world.

Ideally, to cover an uprising is not just to show crowds and slogans. It requires answering a basic question: why are people risking death? In Iran, the answer is simple and unavoidable. The people are rising up because the Islamic Republic of Iran has spent decades suffocating every aspect of life—speech, work, family, art, women, and economic survival—under a clerical system that treats liberty as a crime. There is no way to tell that story without confronting the nature of the regime.

Western media refuses to do so because it has fundamentally misunderstood Islam. Or worse, it has chosen not to understand it.

Islam, in Western progressive discourse, has been racialized. It is treated not as a belief system or a political ideology, but as a stand-in for race or ethnicity. Criticizing Islam is framed as an attack on “brown people,” Arabs, or “the Middle East,” as if Islam were a skin color rather than a doctrine.

This confusion is rooted in historical illiteracy. Western liberal media routinely collapses entire civilizations into a single stereotype: “all Middle Easterners are Arabs,” “all Arabs are Muslim,” and “all Muslims are a monolithic, oppressed identity group by white European colonizers.” Iranians disappear entirely in this framework. Their language, history, and culture—Persian, not Arab; ancient, not colonial; distinct, not interchangeable—are erased.

By treating Islam as a racial identity rather than an ideology, Western media strips millions of people of their ability to reject it. Iranian protesters become unintelligible. Their rebellion cannot be processed without breaking the rule that Islam must not be criticized. So instead of listening to Iranians, the media speaks over them—or ignores them entirely.

There is another reason the Iranian uprising is so threatening to Western media is economic issues.

As you know, Iran is not only a religious dictatorship. It is a centrally controlled, state-dominated economy where markets are strangled, private enterprise is criminalized or co-opted, and economic survival depends on proximity to political power. Decades of price controls, subsidies, nationalization, and bureaucratic micromanagement have obliterated the middle class and entrenched corruption as the only functional system. The result is not equality or justice. It is poverty, stagnation, and dependence on government’s dark void of empty promises.

Covering Iran honestly would require acknowledging that these policies are harmful. They have been tried. They have failed. Catastrophically.

This is deeply inconvenient for Western media institutions that routinely promote expansive state control, centralized economic planning, and technocratic governance as morally enlightened alternatives to liberal capitalism. Iran demonstrates where such systems lead when insulated from accountability and enforced by ideology. It shows that when the state controls livelihoods, non-conformity becomes existentially dangerous. That lesson cannot be acknowledged without undermining the moral authority of those who advocate similar ideas in softer language.

Western liberal media prefers not to hear this. Acknowledging it would require abandoning the lazy moral categories that dominate modern discourse: oppressor and oppressed, colonizer and colonized, white and non-white. Iranian protesters do not fit. They show that authoritarianism is not a Western invention imposed from outside, but something many societies are actively trying to escape.

That is what terrifies Western liberal media. And that is why the Iranian people are being ignored.

So the silence continues.

[Frédéric Encel @FredericEncel]

Pacifique, humaniste et féministe face à un régime meurtrier, fanatique et misogyne, cette révolution est d’une absolue légitimité et mérite tout notre soutien.

[Hannah Neumann @HNeumannMEP]

The Regime in #Iran turned off the internet and even street lights in Teheran so the world wouldn’t see how big the crowds are.

Iranians still went out in thousands, lit the crowds with their phones and circumvented the Blackout.

Let’s amplify their voices:
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[sophia aram @SophiaAram]

Les progressistes occidentaux peinent à comprendre la rébellion contre la République islamique parce qu’ils considèrent la religion musulmane comme une identité raciale et non une idéologie, et tout rejet de l'islam comme raciste.
Le plus comique étant que les mollahs font partie de ceux qui ont le plus œuvré pour populariser cette idée en occident où elle devrait leur survivre.
#Iran #IranRevolution2026
🙏🏻 @DeTahmineh

[Bart Groothuis @bgroothuis]

Het dappere Iraanse volk maakt schoon schip en wil voorwaarts. Het moet over zijn met het onder geweld dragen van een hoofddoek, het zaaien van terreur en het exporteren van geopolitieke chaos. Documenteer de misdaden en verwelkom de daders straks in Den Haag 🦁Malieveld vandaag:

[𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐎𝐋𝐃 𝐓𝐎𝐑 🇪🇺 @HaroldTor]

@IratxeGarper @sanchezcastejon ¿Por qué no ha hecho ningún comentario en apoyo de los ciudadanos de Irán que luchan contra un régimen islámico opresor?

[Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen]

Tehran’s streets, and cities around the world, echo with the footsteps of Iranian women and men demanding freedom.

Freedom to speak, to gather, to travel and above all to live freely.

Europe stands fully behind them.

We unequivocally condemn the violent repression of these legitimate demonstrations.

Those responsible will be remembered on the wrong side of history.

We call for the immediate release of all imprisoned demonstrators.

We call for the restoration of full internet access. And we call, at last, for fundamental rights to be respected.

[𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐎𝐋𝐃 𝐓𝐎𝐑 🇪🇺 @HaroldTor]

@JensFranssen Serieus? Niet omdat mensen niet onder de Sharia en een onderdrukkende Moslim regering willen leven die allerlei mensenrechten en menselijke waardigheid schendt door vrouwen een hijab te laten dragen en homoseksuele mannen en vrouwen te vermoorden?

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

“The woke brigade are the least inclusive, the least tolerant, the least kind people. They became the fascists they claim to hate.. They became cancellers of free speech. That’s not liberalism. It’s the antithesis of liberalism.”

~ Piers Morgan

[𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐎𝐋𝐃 𝐓𝐎𝐑 🇪🇺 @HaroldTor]

@AymDeLamotte @BeOstbelgien @lesoir @GLBouchez C'est le cocktail Molotov de Stalinistes, Taliban et "they/them".

[𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐎𝐋𝐃 𝐓𝐎𝐑 🇪🇺 @HaroldTor]

@JohnCleese Because the BBC and many in power are now paradoxically supporting the oppressors rather than the oppressed. They bend their back to a specific religious force while ignoring the position of the masses.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

The BBC's way of reporting on the protests in
Iran is to quote a statement by Khamenei that
the protestors are vandals trying to please Trump

What on earth are thinking of ?

Shameful

[Mark Dubowitz @mdubowitz]

Says it all — and more.