Hoda Katebi هدی کاتبی

organizer, writer, lawyer / no negotiations for liberation /📍Oakland & Chicago

[Hoda Katebi هدی کاتبی @hodakatebi]

I wrote this very personal essay while trying to navigate grief & liberation in the face of a cannibalizing Iranian diaspora.
At the end of the day, we have to be able to hold contradiction & not cede our agency to our oppressors. We have no other choice.
https://t.co/cWt1HlhRrj

[Alireza Talakoubnejad @websterkaroon]

I was deeply moved by this deeply personal, eloquent piece by the ever talented @hodakatebi about being unfairly attacked & betrayed by people on all sides, including those close to her, because she publicly holds the very moral stance of opposing both dictatorship & imperialism

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🗞️ Israel’s military is using an AI-powered targeting system to track and kill individuals in Lebanon, in a system that experts say cannot reliably discern between fighters and civilians, the Los Angeles Times reported this week.

The system pulls from phone metadata, facial recognition, drone surveillance, SIM card tracking, and social media, processed through platforms including Palantir’s Maven.

A senior Israeli military AI official told the Times the system generates target profiles in seconds, work that once took hundreds of analysts weeks.

Experts raised two distinct concerns:

🔹The first is false positives: the system identifies threats through behavioral patterns rather than direct evidence of combatant activity, meaning relatives, financiers, and administrators are routinely flagged because their communication patterns look similar to fighters.

🔹The second is that the system cannot reason, it only pattern-matches. If the data feeding it is flawed, it repeats the same lethal mistakes at scale, with no human stopping to question the output.

[Harsha Walia (she/her) @HarshaWalia]

“This unjustifiable war on the Iranian people has undermined decades of social uprisings and peoples’ struggles in Iran, and our revolutionary struggles have been interrupted and replaced with a nationalism that has emboldened hard-liners.” - Hoda Katebi

https://t.co/1A76nhGkxK

[Hoda Katebi هدی کاتبی @hodakatebi]

@sikandereazam00 @PKhakpour Thank you for reading <3

[Hoda Katebi هدی کاتبی @hodakatebi]

I wrote this very personal essay while trying to navigate grief & liberation in the face of a cannibalizing Iranian diaspora.
At the end of the day, we have to be able to hold contradiction & not cede our agency to our oppressors. We have no other choice.
https://t.co/cWt1HlhRrj

[Debdutta Chakraborty @debdutta_c]

What a brilliant, brilliant essay by @hodakatebi

The one piece on Iran everyone should and must read.

[Alex Shams @alexshams_]

The scandal currently rocking Iranian twitter:

Reza Pahlavi appears to be registered as a voter in the United States.

Which would mean he's a US citizen.

Which by law means he renounced any claims to a foreign throne.

Which renders moot his campaign to be Iran's next Shah

[promise li @promise__li]

“This unjustifiable war on the Iranian people has undermined decades of social uprisings and peoples’ struggles in Iran, and our revolutionary struggles have been interrupted and replaced with a nationalism that has emboldened hard-liners.”

[Hoda Katebi هدی کاتبی @hodakatebi]

@MRSocialSavior <3 thank you for taking the time to read a very long essay!

[Jacobin @jacobin]

An Iranian American reflects on how the diaspora, grieving for the Iranians caught between domestic repression and imperialist intervention, came to be at war with itself. https://t.co/BVahqVPfk5

[Alex Shams @alexshams_]

"While graves were dug across Iran, Reza Pahlavi — who encouraged people to take to the streets, yet never put himself on the line — etched his flag on their tombstones.

The Iranian dead became their own kind of currency, and Iran International — the Persian-language, Saudi-funded, and Pahlavi-supporting diaspora media company based in London — flooded the market."

https://t.co/ce02d5hIwP

[Jacobin @jacobin]

An Iranian American reflects on how the diaspora, grieving for the Iranians caught between domestic repression and imperialist intervention, came to be at war with itself. https://t.co/BVahqVPN9D

[Verso Books @VersoBooks]

"Time in war is often measured by intensity rather than duration."

Dr. Samaneh Moafi and Omid Montazery provide a harrowing account of Iran during Israel's twelve day siege.

[Reza H. Akbari @rezahakbari]

Ongoing thread of the names, images, and brief bios of Iranian civilians killed during #Israel's attacks on #Iran from June 13 to June 24:

[Socialism Conference @socialismconf]

JUST ANNOUNCED!

Join @hodakatebi and Bill Ayers
for an urgent discussion situating the recent Israeli/US attacks on Iran in historical, regional, and global context.

Organized with @wearedissenters

https://t.co/bG3yZoJFdU

[Hoda Katebi هدی کاتبی @hodakatebi]

“Pahlavi admitted that he could only imagine returning to Iran on a part-time basis, as his social life & personal commitments were rooted in the US, where he’s lived most of his life.”

This piece by some of my fav Iranian scholars on @jacobin is 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼https://t.co/FcIBFRW8Zl

[Hoda Katebi هدی کاتبی @hodakatebi]

Whether or not this “ceasefire” is true, I just hope @PahlaviReza is crying and screaming right now 🎀

[Hoda Katebi هدی کاتبی @hodakatebi]

Not to mention the devastating consequences this is will likely have on Iranian ppl. Every sanction, every bomb, only further justifies Iranian state repression against its own ppl in the name of “an existential foreign threat.” This “war” will only emboldened Iranian hardliners.

[Hoda Katebi هدی کاتبی @hodakatebi]

You don’t get to set a house on fire & call yourself a hero when the flames are out. 1k+ Iranians were killed & Israel continues to massacre Palestinians at aid sites. There is no accountability for war crimes Israel commits—or the system & ideologies that hold it up.

[Hoda Katebi هدی کاتبی @hodakatebi]

From Tehran 💔 After Israel’s intense bombing on the eve of the ceasefire, everyone I spoke to in Tehran said last night was the worst night of their lives. “Ceasefire” is need relief, but it is neither accountability nor justice.

[Hoda Katebi هدی کاتبی @hodakatebi]

This would be the best moment to push for an arms embargo on Israel

[jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill]

"I'm really unhappy" with Israel, Trump says. He says he is also unhappy with Iran, but keeps emphasizing Israel's role. Referring to both nations' conduct today, he said, "They don't know what the fuck they're doing."