Kamyar Goudarzi

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

As war with the U.S. ends, Iran steps up hangings of dissidents https://t.co/0byOcOdzLZ

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

The Islamic regime in Iran sentenced singer Parastu Ahmadi to 74 lashes for performing without a hijab

She was also banned from leaving the country and engaging in creative activities for two years. The reason for the verdict was a performance without a hijab during an online concert.

Ahmadi gained fame in December 2024, during the height of the Iranian protests, after performing the famous patriotic song in front of an empty hall.

She performed without a hijab, which is mandatory according to Islamic norms.

Soon after, Ahmadi and eight other participants of the performance were detained.

[حافظه تاریخی @hafezeh_tarikhi]

People across Iran celebrating and cheering US-Israeli strikes (Feb-Mar 2026):
"Thank you, Trump. You're doing a great job. Hit 'em hard. They deserve this."
"Well done, Trump. Well done, USA. Wipe them out."
"Well done, Israel. Well done, Bibi. Congratulations to Iranians."

[Senate Republicans @SenateGOP]

May God bless the Armed Forces of the United States and the long-suffering people of Iran.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Concern over civilian casualties is always valid; every innocent life is sacred. But I hope you also expressed outrage over the tens of thousands of Iranians slaughtered recently by the Islamic Republic for protesting for their basic human rights. No dictatorship is legitimate.

[Omid Djalili @omid9]

When you understand that these students risked their lives to do this for their teacher whose son was killed in the recent uprisings, you’ll appreciate just how remarkable this clip is.
#IranianRevolution2026
#IranMassacre

[Mark R. Levin @marklevinshow]

Get Khamenei! There’s nothing to negotiate!

[CBS News @CBSNews]

President Trump said 32,000 people were killed in Iran's crackdown on protesters, a far higher number than has previously been reported.
https://t.co/dsLZGRHr4U

[Nikki Haley @NikkiHaley]

The Iranian regime talks diplomacy while continuing to murder protesters.

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

Rare Moment of Truth at UN: Iranian women's rights activist @AlinejadMasih takes the floor at United Nations @GenevaSummit to blast European politicians who for years failed to call out the regime's terrorism and gender apartheid, points to victims in the room shot by the regime.

[Lindsey Graham @LindseyGrahamSC]

I was incredibly honored to be able to speak in Munich, Germany at a rally of 250,000 supporting the brave Iranian people. Being in the company of so many demanding freedom and justice was inspiring and one of the highlights of my life.

I have chosen the Iranian people over the ayatollah. I believe they could be good allies of the United States and would march the region toward the light.

I believe the ayatollah is a religious Nazi, who would keep the region and the world in turmoil. He's a religious fanatic who wants to purify Islam, destroy the Jewish people and come after the United States, which he refers to as the Great Satan.

2026 is the time of choosing. I've chosen the brave Iranian people over their oppressor. I do believe help is on the way.

[Melissa Lantsman @MelissaLantsman]

They thought fear would silence a nation.
Instead, this happens👇

From Tehran to Toronto, the world is watching a people who refuse to be broken by tyrants hiding behind guns and prisons. The mullahs have ruled with brutality, censorship, and blood. But they cannot jail the calls for freedom.

This is what courage looks like.
This is what freedom sounds like.

And one day, soon, Iran will belong to its people again. ✌️

[Karim Sadjadpour @ksadjadpour]

Slain Iranian protestor: “If I die before my dog, let my lifeless body be shown to him…If he senses my death, he can grieve for me and mourn me. But if he doesn’t see my lifeless body, he will think I abandoned him and will keep waiting for my return.”

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

A fresh wave of popular anger is rising in Iran, as people enraged by last month’s mass killings of protesters vent their antipathy for the regime despite the risks of a continuing crackdown https://t.co/VgAtBJrdQu

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

The Iranian regime does not reflect the people of Iran, nor their culture rooted within a deep history. I know of no other country where there’s a bigger difference between the people who lead the country and the people who live there.

[Elliot Kaufman @ElliotKaufman6]

President Trump has forged his opportunity in Iran, and this is his moment to seize it.

WSJ editorial:

[Wall Street Journal Opinion @WSJopinion]

Iran’s regime and its proxies are at their weakest, and its people are waiting. Trump has forged his opportunity, and this is his moment to seize it.
https://t.co/aFcbE5QPE2

[S Sebag Montefiore @simonmontefiore]

The images emerging now from Iran of young people, older people, boys and girls, who were murdered in the last few weeks by the Iranian Islamic dictator, the Islamic Corps of Revolutionary Guards, Basij militia and imported killers from Iraq, are heartbreaking but also enraging.
Some depict beautiful people at play, at the gym, dancing, on motorbikes; some makeshift morgues full of bodies; some streetscenes where killers shoot down unarmed protesters; and many show families opening bodybags to find their dead children shot in the head; others discover bodies of protesters wounded then executed in hospital beds and particularly women with uteruses removed or other horrors to conceal brutal rapes... Many are not young but it looks like the slaughter of the best and brightest of Iran Gen Z. Ive tried to repost these here.
I dont want us to tire of theses or look away. So many are these images that it is hard to open the images or repost them.
I have been contacted by people in Iran (who weirdly read my books in pirated Farsi editions) who manage to come online in various ways and they beg me to keep posting these images and faces and keep talking about them. Embarrassingly they thank me just for doing this! That is why i am writing this now. We must keep going and keep doing so.
The numbers killed are astonishing: based on sources within the murderous dictatorship, it may be as many as 36000 were murdered just in the first days of the terror 8/9 January and more later - making it likely that 40,000 is a horribly plausible estimate.
This makes this event the most greatest massacre in modern Iranian history by far, the greatest single event slaughter in modern MIddle Eastern history since 1900 - along with the Assad's liquidation of an entire town, site of Islamist insurgents, Hama, in 1982 when around 30,000 were killed. Both of them not taking place in wars but in cold blood - and this Iranian atrocity being far more terrible since none of the protesters were armed.
We live in a time of egregious comparisons to the Holocaust when the Holocaust is repellently abused and minimized by cynical cretins - radiohosts, podders, politicians- to criticize anything from vaccination to ICE raids. But here is a comparison that stands in its scale and horror: in size and horror this does resemble the two days of Babi Yar near Kiev in Sept 1941 where 33,000 Jews were killed. It is also worth pointing out that an entire progressive movement arose against the autocracy of the Shah. And his was an autocracy. But in his forty year one reign, only around 3000 people were killed, mainly in the last year before his downfall. This week alone would have murdered in the streets, torturechambers, hospitals of Iran. It is very striking that the UN has barely commented on this; its sec-general has been shamed publically by dissident @AlinejadMasih; many countries have refused to vote against Iran; many of those formerly known as 'progressives' are silent or supporting the regime - incredibly; some famous so-called 'humanitarian' NGOs - many of them organizations i revered since my childhood; hello Amnesty where is your other ball now - are silent. In doing so, they have discredited any claim to humanitarian credentials and exposed themselves.
Many Iranians dissidents have asked where are all the 'humanitarian' protesters who filled our streets, where are the righteous actors and other boobies now? It says alot that a comedian @omid9 is still doing more than BBC or Sky to cover this story. There are a plethora of great Iranian writers historians activists on X covering this. The killing is still going on.
The tyranny is fatally damaged, it may fall on its own ultimately, it is now even more tainted, more likely metamorphose into an ICRG dictatorship. But history shows declining damaged regiimes can survive for years. Britain - as usual desperately doing a lamely virtuous catchup following more determinated players in foreign policy, sometimes sensible things, othertimes foolish - is i think banning ICRG but when the lumbering EU is ahead of you, we should worry; it should also seize the properties owned by Khamenei family and dynasties; and do more.
For now all depends on the US President; depending on the details, a US strike might make its downfall more likely or it might not. What can we do? Not enough but keep posting the pictures for a start....

[Kevin Vuong 🇨🇦 @KevinVuongxMP]

Validated by @TorontoPolice, there was an incredible 150,000 people marching in support of the brave & courageous people of Iran, and against the #IranMassacre by the murderous Islamic regime occupying Iran. #IranRevolution2026‌

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

History will record: Amnesty International chief Agnes Callamard was quicker to campaign for a Hamas terrorist colonel than she was for innocent Iranian protesters massacred by the terrorist Islamic regime that arms Hamas.
https://t.co/btUTQxCSrj