The Islamic Republic’s propaganda should never prevent us from speaking the truth.
The children killed in Minab deserve accountability. So do the thousands of Iranians killed, tortured, and disappeared by the regime.
Human rights mean defending every innocent life equally, not deciding whose suffering matters based on who pulled the trigger. Universal principles disempower propaganda.
https://t.co/DuSauG4Sue
CANADA DO NOT RE OPEN THE EMBASSY OF THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC!
Our organization, @IJCollective, was the first to report a couple days ago that Mark Carney and his government were privately making the case for why reopening Canada’s embassy in Iran would be beneficial.
When journalists followed up on our lead, they were told the information was incorrect or merely a rumour. We stand by our work. We do not publish reports without credible evidence and reliable sources.
Now, the truth is out. (See article below). Canadians must speak up and oppose any effort to normalize and restore diplomatic relations with the Islamic Republic. This is a regime responsible for the killing of children, the systematic oppression of women under gender apartheid, the sponsorship of terrorism, and the enforcement of a repressive theocratic dictatorship. It has also engaged in transnational repression, targeting dissidents, journalists, activists, and members of the Iranian diaspora far beyond its borders. The regime bears responsibility for the deaths of Canadians, including the victims of Flight PS752, and has repeatedly demonstrated contempt for international law and fundamental human rights.
At a time when Canadians continue to face concerns about foreign interference, intimidation, and transnational repression, reopening an embassy would send precisely the wrong message. We should not be creating new opportunities for a regime that has consistently sought to silence and threaten its critics abroad.
Just months ago, the regime intensified its brutal repression of the Iranian people with the slaughter of tens of thousands of innocent Iranians. Now, it appears poised to be rewarded with renewed diplomatic engagement. Mr. Carney, this is tone-deaf and cruel, not only to Canadians who have suffered because of this regime, but also to the countless Iranians who have sacrificed, suffered, and died in the struggle for freedom, justice, and human rights.
Canada must not allow the Islamic Republic to re-establish a diplomatic foothold in this country or reopen a platform from which it can advance its influence, intimidate diaspora communities, export its hateful ideology or activate its sleeper cells.
Canada, the time to act is now!
https://t.co/Rr714dbjCp
Many people think that we, the people living in Iran, have become hopeless after President Trump announced the possibility of an agreement with the Islamic Republic.
But that’s not the case. We are simply sad and depressed. We are saddened to see that the fate of our people, the destruction of our country, the repression, torture, execution, and genocide of us Iranians hold no more importance for Western governments than a few cents increase in the price of a gallon of fuel for their cars. These so-called civilized Western societies, which for years have portrayed themselves as champions of human rights and democracy, are today closing their eyes to the crimes of a terrorist regime. This regime plunders and loots Iran’s resources to finance, train, and spread radical Islamic terrorism from east to west, and has spent thousands of billions of dollars to build an atomic bomb and take the modern world hostage.
This disregard is not the right of our people. Throughout different periods of history, we have repeatedly been the saviors of other nations. We have saved the Jewish people twice in history, rescued the Kingdom of Oman from the clutches of communism, and have always stood on the side of truth.
We are not hopeless today. We are hurt because we thought that finally a president had come to the White House for whom our fate mattered more than oil and gasoline. He explicitly told us four times that help was on the way. On the first day of Operation “Hamas Fury,” he said: “Help has arrived. This may be your last chance to take your country back. For now, stay at home while we finish our job, then you take action.” He repeated this several times afterward. In addition, his Secretary of Defense and the commander of CENTCOM also repeated the same message multiple times. But all these words were forgotten as soon as the ceasefire game and negotiations began. It was the same ceasefire during which the mullahs’ regime started executing young Iranians and hanged dozens without trial or court. It was the same negotiations in which not even once were the demands of the Iranian people included among the preconditions. There were conditions about the Strait of Hormuz, oil, lifting sanctions, and even payments to the IRGC and the mullahs — but the name of the Iranian people and their basic rights was never mentioned!
No! We are not hopeless, and we will not go back. In fact, we cannot go back, because the path behind us is blocked by a sea of blood from our friends and comrades.
The Islamic Republic regime, in an era known as the age of communication, shut down the internet for the Iranian people for three months. In this digital prison, it carried out repression, torture, and massacre of Iranians, while the world that claims to be advanced, civilized, and responsible did not take even one step to free the people of Iran from this digital darkness.
#IranMassacre
#IranWar
احتمالاً شنیدهاید که جهادگران الله به فرماندهی عبدالله عامر، پس از حمله به ایران و در جریان فتح شهر استخر، بهدلیل مقاومت مردم، آنقدر کشتار کردند که گفته میشود جوی خون به راه افتاد. شرح این روایت در کتاب «تاریخ دول الإسلام» اثر ذهبی، صفحه ۱۴، اینگونه آمده است:
«به سبب پایداری درازمدت استخر و تلفاتی که عربان در راه دستیابی به استخر داده بودند، عبدالله عامر سوگند خورده بود که وقتی بر استخر دست یابد، چندان کشتار کند که جوی خون از دروازه شهر بیرون برود؛ ولی او نمیدانست که خون به جریان نمیافتد. هرچه مردم کشته شدند، خون به راه نیفتاد. او برای آنکه به سوگندش عمل کند و در پیشگاه الله شرمنده نشود، فرمان داد تا بر خونها آب بستند تا به جریان افتاد و از دروازه شهر گذشت.»
اما مردم جهان شاید اینها را افسانه یا قصه بدانند؛ اما ما در جایجای ایران، در هجدهم و نوزدهم دیماه، جوی خون را با چشمان خود دیدیم؛ که فرزندان عبدالله عامر، یعنی جمهوری اسلامی، رقم زدند.
ویدیو از خونهای مردم نورآباد ممسنی است.
I will not shutup about the January massacre committed by the Islamic Republic for the rest of my days. I know many Iranians feel the same.
Some want to move on like the regime didn’t carry out the largest mass killing in Iran’s modern history.
Wishing the worst for deniers.
Women in Iran are being imprisoned, beaten & even murdered for fighting against hijab laws, AOC wears one in solidarity with Islamists. Feckless moron.
Wow, shocking, this is @AOC respond:
You find hijab "fun." #MahsaAmini called it a death sentence.
That's not a custom. That's not a fun learning experience. That's a woman's life. Women live under Sharia laws are not your cultural tourism. We are dying for the freedom you performed as hospitality.
You represent New York City. I live in New York City too , I find it interesting that my congresswoman can wear hijab and smile for a photo, up, but didn’t find time to show up to federal court in New York when 4 hitmen hired by an Islamic regime comes to kill a New Yorker.
Anyway, I'll be in New York court in August facing Islamic regime’s hitman #5. Solidarity, right? Or it’s nut fun!
⚠️ New horrific video:
#IRGC hacked and dismembered protesters with machetes.
You can clearly see a regime agent holding a machete in his hand. Pure barbarity.
This is the true face of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Share. Share. Share. The world must see these crimes.
#JavidShah #InTheFinalBattlePahlaviReturns
#IranMassacre
Why is no one in the world talking about the daily executions of Iranians by the terrorist Islamic Republic?
Does anyone hear our voice?
#IranMassacre#IranWar
The fantasy that the post-Khamenei regime would somehow moderate is collapsing in real time.
According to new reporting, Iran’s new leadership is even more IRGC-controlled and is already rebuilding its military infrastructure after the war. A senior Israeli official says the regime has resumed production of “critical” weapons systems, including new ballistic missiles, launchers, and anti-aircraft systems, not just repairing old stockpiles.
At the same time, the regime is reportedly reconstituting proxy networks, escalating arrests and executions internally, tightening internet controls, and doubling down on anti-Western and anti-Israel ideology.
The problem was never just Khamenei. It’s the entire Islamist system. And yet the West is already talking about sanctions relief and another deal while the regime rearms.
@iranidaturan My hypothesis: He is alive but severely disfigured in the face, possibly physically incapacitated. Presenting him in this state as Iran’s leader would not project a position of strength. So they hide him.
محراب عبداللهزاده جوانی عاشق آرایشگری و سرشار از زندگی بود؛ از بازداشتشدگان خیزش «زن، زندگی، آزادی» که هنگام اجرای حکم تنها ۲٨ سال داشت. حتی اجازه آخرین ملاقات با خانوادهاش را به او ندادند. محراب مخفیانه، در ۱۳ اردیبهشت ۱۴۰۵، در زندان ارومیه اعدام شد.
I’m exhausted by this Iran whiplash. We put the Iranian people through hell with maximum pressure and sanctions, watched their currency and living standards collapse, and were told it was the only way to get a “better” deal than Obama’s. We even encouraged them to go out in the streets and risk their lives, telling them help was on the way. Now after all that we’re suddenly “ok” with a 20 year suspension of the nuclear program if Tehran makes a “real” commitment. That is not regime change. That is not zero enrichment forever. That is a tougher, longer version of the same time limited arms control logic we said was unacceptable. As a Trump supporter, I’ll say it clearly this is disgraceful and people deserve honesty about what we paid and what we actually got. @potus@marklevinshow
Yassamin Ansari, Chris Murphy, Ro Khanna, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, AOC, Ilhan Omar, and the rest of you NIAC endorsed, hypocrites, it’s time to put your money where your mouth is.
Seventy six days of internet blackout in Iran, and you’re still chasing your political ambitions and your hatred for Trump instead of doing something tangible for the people of Iran and for American national security. @marklevinshow@seanhannity #internetblackoutiniran
The Islamic Republic is winning the propaganda war.
I discussed this and more at this year’s @MilkenInstitute Global Conference.
Full panel discussion ‘Fighting for Freedom: Global Voices for Democracy’ with esteemed friends and colleagues:
https://t.co/VQEMlW07EP
#miglobal
“Embarrassment and shame”?
Trita, the embarrassment is that a man presented to the West as an “Iranian voice” keeps functioning like the regime’s defense attorney in a suit.
You saw Iranians dancing and called it selfish revenge.
Of course you did.
That is the whole trick:
erase the terrorist Islamic Regime occupying Iran,
replace it with “Iran,”
then shame Iranians for not mourning the cage when the jailer gets hit.
They were not dancing because civilians were suffering.
They were dancing because the IRGC, the same machine that shoots us, rapes us, tortures us, hangs our youth, imports militias into our streets, and cuts the internet so no one hears us scream, finally felt fear.
They danced because fear changed sides for one brief moment.
They danced for every mother who had to dance at her child’s grave because the regime left her no other language for defiance.
They danced for the people who wrote Javid Shah in blood.
For the January dead.
For the prisoners.
For the disappeared.
For the families forced to bury names while parasites like you lecture them on the “proper” timing of hope.
You say they should have waited until the regime fell.
How convenient.
Iranians inside Iran get killed for dancing, chanting, filming, mourning, connecting to the internet, or stepping outside the regime’s line of slavery. But diaspora Iranians are supposed to sit quietly too, so your narrative stays clean?
No.
You say they are indifferent to suffering.
They know suffering better than your entire career.
Their families are inside the cage.
Their friends are in prison.
Their country is under blackout.
Their people are being hanged.
Their streets are full of checkpoints and foreign militias.
What they refuse to do is cry for the regime’s military infrastructure as if it were Iran.
That is your game.
You blur the homeland with the occupier.
You call the regime’s pain “national suffering.”
You call Iranian joy “shame.”
You call the desire to end a death cult “revenge.”
You are not embarrassed by blood.
You are embarrassed by Iranians who no longer perform helplessness for your politics.
The shame is not the dance.
The shame is the devil’s advocate still pretending the prison is the country.