Ivan Karamazov ایوان کارامازوف

زن زندگی آزادی

[Ivan Karamazov ایوان کارامازوف @Ivan24815571]

بالاترین مقام برای هر انسان داشتن #آزادی است.

[Bahar | بهار @BGhandehari]

While everyone debates the Guardian letter, here are some much more important letters, written at great risk by the very political prisoners currently being treated as mere footnotes to ideological arguments.

These are the voices that actually deserve our attention. ⬇️

[بهار دهکردی @BaharAtish]

اساتید دانشگاه‌های جهان در حمایت از زندانیان ایران و در اعتراض به موج گسترده‌ی اعدام‌ها نامه نوشته‌اند؛ حالا جریان «محور مقاومت» از این اقدام خشمگین است و برای پس‌گرفتن امضاها فشار می‌آورد.
-وظیفه‌ی ماست مطالبه‌ی توقف احکام اعدام را از دل این نامه، از فضای آکادمیک به نهادهای حقوق بشری و مجاری دیپلماتیک هرچه گسترده‌تر ببریم.
#نه_به_اعدام

https://t.co/c3zAuUoEzF

[Fatemeh Shams @ShazzShams]

Angela Davis is a role model. An inspiration. So much for those who cowardly pull out their signatures to learn from this woman.

[Siavash Ardalan @BBCArdalan]

جایزه ای که امشب کاوه مدنی از پادشاه سوئد دریافت کرد، به «نوبل آب» شهرت داره. او فقط اولین ایرانی نیست که این جایزه رو‌ میگیره، که در سن ۴۴ سالکی جوان تربن هم هست. کاوه مدنی مفهوم «ورشکستگی آبی» رو وارد گفتمان جهانی توسعه پایدار کرد و توانست بحث محدودیتهای سیاستگذاری، منافع متضاد و عامل رفتار انسانی رو ��ر چارچوب فرضیه بازی وارد مقوله مدیریت آب کنه. مسأله آب، مسأله ای حیاتی برای ایران و جهان است و داشتن یک دانشمند بنام ایرانی در این حوزه مایه افتخار و امیدواریست.

[Bahar | بهار @BGhandehari]

The claim that the letter creates “asymmetries of power” is just wrong. The letter explicitly denounces US and Israeli aggression, war, sanctions, and the violence inflicted on Iranian civilians. It also condemns the Islamic Republic’s repression, executions, torture, and imprisonment of political dissidents.

The letter does not deny one form of oppression in order to acknowledge the other. It explicitly recognizes both.

Two structures of oppression can exist at the same time. We cannot shut up about domestic repression just because we consider foreign aggression a greater or more powerful form of violence. One injustice does not cancel out another.

If acknowledging the Islamic Republic’s repression is considered an “asymmetry of power,” then we are effectively saying Iranian political prisoners’ suffering matters less because another form of violence is more powerful. Their torture, imprisonment, and executions do not become less real because bombs are being dropped by another oppressive force. That is the part I find so deeply disappointing.

What a shame to remove your name from a letter acknowledging the violence faced by political prisoners simply because of public pressure, much of it coming from people in the business of whitewashing the Iranian regime. @sinanantoon

[IranWire @IranWireEnglish]

Near the Caspian Sea in the city of Gilan on Sunday, August 23, 2026, a group of protesters during their ongoing weekly protests, demanded the release of political prisoners and protesters. They chanted slogans including: "No to execution, no to war." Younes Azadbar, who had recently been released on bail, was also present at this gathering. The demonstrators called for the freedom of imprisoned workers, teachers, political students, and protesters.

[Yassin Al Haj Saleh @Yassinhs]

Proud to be one of the signatories of this letter in Solidarity with politcal prisoners in Iran.

https://t.co/Tp2n7PS2wD

[Martin Shaw @martinshawx]

There is a war on—but there are also executions taking place in Iran.

I don’t see the critics of the Open Letter suggesting that the repression should be suspended while the war takes place, but speaking up for Iranian prisoners should be paused.

[Kristyan Benedict @Kristyan_B_]

An open letter to Iran’s political prisoners - “In solidarity and with love”
https://t.co/g4roRslKJN

[Grannies4Equality @grannies4equal]

This ⬇️

Our own principles beautifully articulated 🙏

Set it to music, we will never tire of singing it

Supporting the superb letter to Iranian prisoners

A commitment to the oppressed everywhere

No more betrayal & denial by faux 'anti-imperialists'

https://t.co/upzBWnqx5q

[Ivan Karamazov ایوان کارامازوف @Ivan24815571]

@ninianomada گامی رو به جلو بود از نظر من،
اینهمه فشار که امضاشونو پس بگیرن هم شاهد جالبی شد.

[دومان بهرامی @DumanBahrami1]

Shame on you, Charlotte.

[Mat Nashed @matnashed]

If the Left can't move beyond simple duality to understand that power is a relationship - an unequal one, but a relationship nonetheless - that results in imperial and state violence against civilians in hegemonic and counter-hegomic ways, then its project of solidarity is doomed

[Aria the goat herding drunk daoist آریا @maybeornotaria]

The campism has become so dominant in online discourse that people forget what internationalism and solidarity with the working class actually looks like.

You can critique the letter, but it was well timed when prison and death sentences are at an all time high.

[Ivan Karamazov ایوان کارامازوف @Ivan24815571]

@rashidkhalidi @NadiaAbuElHaj1 @RepRobinKelly

[Ivan Karamazov ایوان کارامازوف @Ivan24815571]

As an Iranian social activist, I found the letter deeply heartwarming. It recognized something that too often gets lost: we should not have to choose between opposing imperialism and opposing the repression of people inside Iran.

I agree that power is deeply asymmetric, and the letter can be clarified or expanded if needed. But its core was truly right!

Many Iranians who are themselves pro-Palestine, anti-Zionist and anti-imperialist have been deeply alienated by parts of the global Left ignoring or minimising our internal oppression. For some, that silence has even shaken their trust in the broader anti-imperialist movement.

That is why this letter mattered. It was reassuring to see prominent anti-imperialist voices acknowledge the whole of our pain.

@sinanantoon
Signing it was a meaningful step forward. It is genuinely sad to see people feel compelled to step back from something that gave many of us hope that our struggles could finally be seen together.

Withdrawing the signature wasn’t necessary. You could clarify what was missing and add context, while still standing behind its core solidarity.

An open letter to Iran’s political prisoners, trapped ‘between two blades of a scissors’ https://t.co/PajcQ8vyqJ

[Kaveh Shahrooz کاوه شهروز @kshahrooz]

Director of electronicintifada calling the letter of solidarity with Iran's political prisoners "the pro-imperialist, anti-Iran" letter and celebrating that some cowards withdrew their signatures.
It's no surprise that the Palestinian cause is despised by so many freedom-seeking Iranians.

[Ivan Karamazov ایوان کارامازوف @Ivan24815571]

For many Iranians, especially those of us who are also anti-imperialist and pro-Palestine, standing by this letter means a great deal. Thank you for standing by your signature.

[Yassin Al Haj Saleh @Yassinhs]

Proud to be one of the signatories of this letter in Solidarity with politcal prisoners in Iran.

https://t.co/Tp2n7PS2wD

[آرش یوسفی -ARASH @arash_Cosmo]

شبکه اینترنشنال واقعاً ترسناکه…

به نظرم کسایی که اونجا کار می‌کنن، صرفاً کارمند یه رسانه معمولی نیستن و دارن برای یه سیستم جاسوسی کار می‌کنن. یعنی من واقعاً اینترنشنال رو بیشتر از اینکه یه خبرگزاری بدونم، یه شبکه اطلاعاتی و جاسوسی می‌بینم.

حتی به نظرم کانال ۱۲ اسرائیل، با‌شرف‌تر از اینترنشناله…

[Ivan Karamazov ایوان کارامازوف @Ivan24815571]

@SMohyeddin Interesting. I would have thought that, from a journalistic perspective, the substance of the letter would be more significant than its origin story or the peripheral drama around it. To me, what the letter actually says matters much more than where it came from.