P.Karami

Climate scientist working on climate modelling, climate variability, Arctic climate, decadal climate forecast 🇮🇷

[P.Karami @MPKarami]

46 days
#DigitalBlackOutIran‌

[P.Karami @MPKarami]

The people of Iran are under a total communication blackout imposed by the ruling regime.
When a government cuts off communication in the middle of war, it is clear it is not protecting its citizens.
#iran #InternetBlackoutIran

[P.Karami @MPKarami]

@IranianPlateau جسارتا، استفاده از اين map projection براى مقايسه مساحت كشورها اشتباهه.

[NetBlocks @netblocks]

📨 At 1080 hours, #Iran's internet shutdown continues to harm lives and livelihoods as the country enters its 46th day without international access. Despite a slight widening of the whitelist system, Iranians have to take risks just to get a message through to the outside world.

[فلات ایران @IranianPlateau]

A little girl on a swing at a Persian Gulf beach, following attacks by the U.S. and Israel, as military installations burn in the background.

Long live Iran

[فلات ایران @IranianPlateau]

The Hidden History of the Strait of Hormuz

Beyond Geography
While the world knows the Strait of Hormuz as a modern strategic artery, its name carries the weight of thousands of years of Persian civilization. Long before it was a global shipping lane, it was a gateway of kings and nature.

The most prominent theory links the name to the Sasanian Empire—the last great Persian dynasty and the formidable rivals of Ancient Rome. "Hormizd" was the name of five Sasanian emperors, and historical records suggest the naming of the strait dates back to the era of Iffra Hormuz, weaving the glory of ancient royalty into these very waters.

But there is a more poetic, local side to this story. In the ancient dialects of Southern Iran, the name is believed to have evolved from "Hur-mogh." In the local tongue of Hormozgan, Hur means a waterway, and Mogh refers to the Palm Tree. To the people who lived there for millennia, this wasn't just a military chokepoint; it was simply "The Passage of the Palm Groves."

Over time, the phonetic similarity between "Hormuz" and Ahura Mazda (the supreme deity of Zoroastrianism) led to a popular belief in a divine connection. While linguists still debate the roots, this spiritual resonance has kept the name legendary in Persian folklore.

Understanding these origins reminds us that the Strait of Hormuz is more than just coordinates on a map—it is a bridge where ancient empires, sacred myths, and the natural beauty of the Persian Gulf meet. 🗺️✨

Photo ©️@NASA

[Mahyar @makmahyar]

Attacking civilian infrastructure in Iran would be a strategic mistake with immediate consequences:

1) It hands the IRGC exactly what it wants: legitimacy, propaganda, and a narrative to justify itself globally.

2) It opens the door for retaliation against civilian infrastructure across the Middle East, starting with UAE and Saudi Arabia.

3) It alienates millions of Iranians, inside and outside the country, who currently oppose the regime but will not support attacks on civilians.

This doesn’t weaken the IRGC. It strengthens it.

@POTUS @realDonaldTrump I hope you consider these before you act.

#Iran

[Reza Pahlavi @PahlaviReza]

Iran is not the Islamic Republic.

Iran’s civilian infrastructure belongs to the Iranian people and to the future of a free Iran. The Islamic Republic’s infrastructure is the machinery of repression and terror used to keep that future from becoming reality.

Iran must be protected. The regime must be dismantled.

I ask President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu to continue targeting the regime and its apparatus of repression, while sparing the civilian infrastructure Iranians will need to rebuild our country.

With the support of the US and Israel, and above all the sacrifice of Iranian patriots, the hour of Iran’s freedom is at hand.

Long live Iran!

[P.Karami @MPKarami]

I haven’t been able to speak to my parents for weeks. Even Nowruz wasn’t an exception. #DigitalBlackOutIran‌

[NetBlocks @netblocks]

⚠️ Update: #Iran is entering Nowruz, the Persian New Year, in digital darkness, as the internet blackout continues into day 21 after 480 hours.

With international connectivity cut and domestic service limited, many families are unable to contact loved ones when it's most needed.

[Mehdi Parpanchi @Parpanchi]

The Islamic Republic is living inside its collapse plan. That is not evidence of resilience. It is evidence that the system is collapsing.

What many observers read as signs of endurance, continued missile fire, street repression, state broadcasting, leadership succession, and other visible signs of continuity, do not show a regime that has absorbed the shock. They show a regime falling back on the emergency mechanisms it built for the moment its center was hit and its command structure began to fracture.

This is not strength. It is a collapsing system trying to survive long enough for Washington to lose patience.

Read more:
https://t.co/3H3tCvE1vC

[P.Karami @MPKarami]

@arash_tehran You could be right when talking about a country with democratically elected politicians. In a normal country, Larijani would not be a top politician, but would have been in jail as a criminal. Which part don’t you understand?

[P.Karami @MPKarami]

@AmirKh1982 دقيقا، سلام به تو خنگ وطن فروش

[AKBARIN @MJ_Akbarin]

گزارش امروز سازمان ملل: بدون جنگ، مجموعه اعدام‌ها و کشتارها و بازداشت‌های جمهوری اسلامی، «فقط در یکسال» بیش از ۶۰ هزار نفر! شامل مردم بی‌سلاح، پزشکان، پرستاران، کودکان و شلیک سیستماتیک به چشم‌ها. نماینده جمهوری اسلامی در پاسخ گفت: به جای «چیزهای پیش پا افتاده» از جنگ بگویید.

[P.Karami @MPKarami]

@FaceTheNation @margbrennan When a government cuts off communication in the middle of war, it is clear it is not protecting its citizens. A government does not blackout truth unless truth threatens it. Silencing a nation is a clear sign that its people are treated as hostages. This horror regime must end.

[P.Karami @MPKarami]

Nicely said 👇

[فلات ایران @IranianPlateau]

An Iranian today wants to stand outside three suffocating fences: the "Third World," the "Middle East"—not as a geography, but as the backward cultural stereotype people like @vali_Nasr instantly evoke—and the "Ummah" club.

We have every right to reject these imposed caricatures and demand to be a disciplined, developed NATION. Yet, the moment we do, Nasr and his ilk reflexively label it "wanting to be white."
The reality is that Nasr and parts of the Western Left crave an Iran that is Arabized and "Pakistanized"—a chaotic landscape of dishdashas and sandals that fits their aesthetic of "authentic" misery. They cannot tolerate an orderly, nationally disciplined Iran because they associate the rule of law exclusively with the West. Their problem isn't skin tone; it is a fundamental aversion to any reality where Ahura Mazda (Light) triumphs over Ahriman (Darkness). They preach the virtues of "tradition" for us while safely enjoying the protections of Western legal systems for themselves.

Nasr’s claim that Iranian support for Israel is a quest for "whiteness" is a total non-sequitur. It ignores that Jews were historically the primary victims of white supremacy, and it conveniently overlooks that the actual "white" academic elite in Harvard and Europe are the loudest voices for Gaza. There is zero causal link; there is only Nasr's hollow, racialized preconception.

Iran is an ancient nation that refuses to be a prop in your performative lectures. Vali Nasr is a performative liar, less concerned with the truth than with his own diminishing role in misleading academia. We aren't begging for whiteness; we are demanding the dignity to define ourselves beyond your outdated orientalist tropes.

[P.Karami @MPKarami]

@borhanimohsen1 چرا از حكومت نميپرسى كه بدون خونريزى و كشتار، قدرت رو واگذار نكرد به مردم؟ انتظار شما اين بود كه مردم بقاى حكومت رو تحمل ميكردن كه امثال شما هر از گاهى يه اصلاح مسخره گوشه قانون بزنن؟ چرا وانمود ميكنى نميفهمى؟ همون كشتار ديماه حكومت كافى بود كه الان ديگه از خجالت حرفى نزنى.

[P.Karami @MPKarami]

@elonmusk The people of Iran are under a total communication blackout imposed by the ruling regime.
When a government cuts off communication in the middle of war, it is clear it is not protecting its citizens. It is abandoning them in darkness and fear.
#DigitalBlackOutIran‌

[Morad Vaisi @RezaVaisi]

@elonmusk
Dear Elon,
In these critical days, the people of Iran need internet access. Please help them stay connected as they struggle to reclaim their country from the rule of the mullahs. Stand with the Iranian people. Iran will not forget its friends.

[P.Karami @MPKarami]

#DigitalBlackOutIran

[P.Karami @MPKarami]

The people of Iran are under a total communication blackout imposed by the ruling regime.
When a government cuts off communication in the middle of war, it is clear it is not protecting its citizens.
#iran #InternetBlackoutIran

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

I met in Paris with the exiled Crown Prince of Iran, @PahlaviReza. We discussed in detail the situation in Iran and the region, as well as the U.S. operation against the terrorist regime. The Crown Prince and his team briefed me on signals they are receiving from inside the country. The regime’s hierarchy has indeed already suffered significant losses, and it is crucial that the Iranian regime gains nothing from this and that the people of Iran have greater protection for their lives and more opportunities to determine their own fate. We spoke about how international pressure and joint efforts could help achieve this.

Ukraine truly wants to see a free Iran that will not cooperate with Russia or destabilize the Middle East, Europe, and the world. I am grateful to the Crown Prince for his clear assurances of support for Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. Our teams will remain in communication.