Wonderer 🇮🇷🇺🇲

[Kambiz Hosseini @kambizhosseini]

You weren’t around when we rose from nothing and built one of the world’s great civilizations. Watch your language when you speak about the people of Iran.
As for the Islamic Republic, the Ayatollahs, and the IRGC, be our guest, and take them back to the Big Bang! If you can. We will be happy to see them wipe off the earth, and we definitely thank you for it.

But respect the people of Iran. Don’t lose your allies.

[NetBlocks @netblocks]

⚠️ Update: #Iran's internet blackout has entered day 16 as the measure continues in its third week, with the public cut off from international networks for 360 hours. Chosen influencers enjoy whitelisting while state media report a new wave of arrests targeting Starlink users.

[Wonderer 🇮🇷🇺🇲 @MoeinForoughi]

Message from inside Iran during the internet blackout:
“We are okay and our only fear is that the attacks will stop while the mullahs are still in power.”

[Isaac de Castro @isaacdecastro]

“I hate the iranian diaspora” “i hate miami cubans”

You hate free people. You hate that they are not oppressed and can speak their minds and are standing up for their own people instead of spreading your propaganda

[Wonderer 🇮🇷🇺🇲 @MoeinForoughi]

@NYCMayor

[Wonderer 🇮🇷🇺🇲 @MoeinForoughi]

Lincoln seems impressed by Iranian New Yorkers rejoicing at Khamenei’s death.

[Wonderer 🇮🇷🇺🇲 @MoeinForoughi]

Ali Khamenei is gone. What defined us and bound us as a nation over the past two months was our collective grief. Now, that bond has transformed into shared joy and happiness.

[Fox News @FoxNews]

BREAKING: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei confirmed dead after Israeli strike.

[Wonderer 🇮🇷🇺🇲 @MoeinForoughi]

As @NYCMayor, you should listen to the tens of thousands of Iranian New Yorkers and eco their voice, who have expressed their views at multiple NYC rallies over the past month—instead of promoting your Islamist agenda and sympathies. Otherwise, just remain silent.

[Wonderer 🇮🇷🇺🇲 @MoeinForoughi]

As an Iranian New Yorker, I support and see strikes on Iran’s regime as tragic but a necessary evil to help end 47 years of brutal oppression of my people. I reject such simplistic sympathies for a regime that massacred tens of thousands of protesters just last month.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.  Americans do not want this. They do not want another war in pursuit of regime change. They want relief from the affordability crisis. They want peace.

I am focused on making sure that every New Yorker is safe. I have been in contact with our Police Commissioner and emergency management officials. We are taking proactive steps, including increasing coordination across agencies and enhancing patrols of sensitive locations out of an abundance of caution.

Additionally, I want to speak directly to Iranian New Yorkers: you are part of the fabric of this city — you are our neighbors, small business owners, students, artists, workers, and community leaders. You will be safe here.

[Wonderer 🇮🇷🇺🇲 @MoeinForoughi]

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If you don’t support us, fine.
But stop denying our reality.
Stop supporting the regime and its narrative.
And if you can’t show basic human solidarity, just shut the f up!

[Wonderer 🇮🇷🇺🇲 @MoeinForoughi]

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Why do so many left-wing activists and media ignore the #IranMassacre , or worse, echo the Ayotalloh’s narrative and in this case, laugh at Iranians while we mourn over 36,000 of civilians brutally killed by an ISIS-like Islamist regime?

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Don’t know whether to laugh or cry

[Wonderer 🇮🇷🇺🇲 @MoeinForoughi]

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Tens of thousands of unarmed civilians killed while demanding regime change are dismissed as “too complex,” denied empathy, or even mocked, despite the fact that more Iranian civilians were killed on January 8-9 than in an entire year of the Gaza war.

[Fardad Farahzad | فرداد فرحزاد @FardadFarahzad]

The Iranian uprising has become an awkward dilemma for much of the left. It is openly pro-Western, unapologetically secular, and explicitly hostile to political Islam. There is no favored “exotic victim” to romanticize, no anti-American slogans to recycle, no colonial guilt to put to use and for that very reason, exposes how selective so many proclaimed solidarities really are.

[Wonderer 🇮🇷🇺🇲 @MoeinForoughi]

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در زبان لاکانی‌این پروژه تلاشی ناموفق برای تحمیل یک Name-of-the-Father جدید بود، اما پدری که از یک «دیگری» (امت اسلامی) ساخته شده بود و مبتنی بر طرد و انشقاق بود. فریاد جاويدشاه‌ فریاد ناخودآگاه جامعه برای فرار از فقدان (lack) و بازگشت به نقطه مرکزی(point de capiton) ثبات است.

[Wonderer 🇮🇷🇺🇲 @MoeinForoughi]

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چرا مردم فریاد #جاویدشاه می‌زنند؟
اهمیت شاه و این شعار فراتر از نقش سیاسی یا شخصیت و عملکرد فردی رضا پهلوی است و جنبه‌ی مهم روانی دارد. از دیدگاه روان‌کاوی، شاه نماد نیازهای عمیق روانی جامعه‌ای در حال گذار است که به یک پدر نمادین (symbolic father) نیاز دارد.

[Wonderer 🇮🇷🇺🇲 @MoeinForoughi]

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پس از انقلاب ۵۷، جمهوری اسلامی تلاش کرد شاه را با اربابی جدید (ولی فقیه) جایگزین کند؛ اما این جایگزینی نه از مسیر تداوم نمادین، بلکه از طریق انکار و حذف فعال هویت ملیِ پیشین صورت گرفت. نظمی ایدئولوژیک که می‌کوشید نمادهای ملی و تاریخی را با هویت مذهبی جایگزین کند.