Pouneh Rouhani

When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes. - Oprah Winfrey

[Pouneh Rouhani @Pounehr]

There’s so much ❤️ in this tweet. It’s not just a symbol of 🌈, but also true meaning of freedom. When we reach that level of freedom in Iran and Iranian society that two beautiful souls can freely kiss each other in front of Azadi ( Freedom) Tower in Tehran, Iran

[سایه‌سار🏴 @idkijustthibk]

Tired of people being perpetually shocked that we’re people, and that they can only understand that we’re people if we’re presented within a certain aesthetic.

[Carlos Montero @CMonteroOficial]

Esta es la civilización que Trump acaba de decir que morirá esta noche.

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

This is deeply alarming.

According to statements from an IRGC official, Iran’s regime has now lowered the minimum age for participation in war-related roles to just 12 years old.
Let’s be clear:
Recruiting children into military activity is a violation of international laws and the international community must not stay silent.

Twelve-year-olds, kids,being pulled into patrols, checkpoints, and military logistics.

This is the same regime that lectures the world about morality. But when it comes to survival?
They’re willing to send children into danger.

[CN Tower / Tour CN @TourCNTower]

Tonight the #CNTower will be lit green for Nowruz / Ce soir la #TourCN sera illuminée en vert pour le Norouz

[Bahar | بهار @BGhandehari]

Two completely different worlds on the same red carpet: a millionaire flaunting his NBA cards worth $30 million in a Tiffany & Co. case made of white gold, diamonds, and rubies, next to an Iranian filmmaker who faces prison when he returns to Iran after the Oscars.

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

Even though I played no part in it, like the vast majority of Iranians, one of the greatest shames I bear is what the Islamic Republic did to the great nation of Syria and its people.

Our oil paid for the destruction. Our oil paid for the carnage. And of course our oil paid for it when the regime could have used the money to help Iranians.

Together with Putin’s regime, the Islamic Republic condemned the Syrian people to unimaginable misery.

Hell isn’t hot enough for Qasem Soleimani and Ali Khamenei.

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

It has been 70 days since protests began in Iran.

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

The women of Iran carry their nation on their backs.

@IranRights_org

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

BREAKING

Islamic Republic state media has confirmed that Ali Khamenei has been killed.

HE IS DEAD!!!

Long live the great, courageous, and noble people of Iran!

[Vahid Online @Vahid]

@GoodieHimSelf جرات نمی‌کنم پیام‌ها رو باز کنم. نه بخاطر خشونت تصاویر.
اون انقدر سخت نیست که پرسش‌های مادرانی که بچه‌هاشون بازداشت شدند.
عکس گم‌شده‌شون رو می‌فرستند با چهره‌هایی که در ویدیوها محو کردم مقایسه کنم!
التماس می‌کنند فرستنده ویدیوی پیکر عزیزشون رو معرفی کنم تا از آخرین لحظاتش بپرسند.

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

Those in the West stay silent while Iranian women are killed for rejecting compulsory hijab and the Islamic regime, yet proudly celebrate World Hijab Day. And then you call Iranian women “Islamophobic” for exposing the brutality of Islamic ideology:

Before throwing that word around, look at this photo.

I know this Iranian woman personally.
Islamic Republic agents threw acid on the face of Marzieh for the crime of not wearing her hijab properly.

This is not a metaphor.
This is not a debate.
This is a human being punished under Islamic law.

As a man living safely in a democratic country with freedom of speech and bodily autonomy, you do not get to lecture Iranian women about what we are allowed to fear.

A phobia is an irrational fear. But my fear the fear of millions of us Iranians is not irrational.

We afraid of those who throw acid on our faces.
We are afraid of prison.
We are afraid of rape, blinding, and hanging. Yes, we are afraid of being executed for the “crime” of criticizing Islam.
We are afraid of assassins showing up at our doors with guns. We are afraid of getting killed for the crime of protesting.

That fear comes from lived experience not prejudice.

When Iranian women burn their compulsory hijab, we are not attacking a religion.
We are saying no to the entire Islamic regime that controls our bodies, our lives, and our future.

When you call iranian women as Islamophobic, you are not defending Muslims.

You are justifying silence.
Silence in the face of mass killing.
Silence in the face of more than 40,000 people killed.

Do not dare ever again to tell Iranian women that our fear is irrational.
Your words are the excuse the Islamic Republic uses to target us inside Iran and beyond its borders.

#IranMassacre

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

And you, Mehdi Hasan,
because I criticized Mayor Zohran Mamdani for his silence in the face of a massacre in Iran, while celebrating hijab day, you called me “Islamophobic.”

By doing this, you are handing the Islamic regime and extremist Islamists in the West, exactly the evidence they need to kill me.
Yes, This is how it works and you know it.
They will say: Masih is “Islamophobic.” She is an enemy of God. That is the language they use to justify sending killers to my door, again. I have already faced multiple assassination attempts on my life.
Your word is the excuse they use to arrest my family inside Iran, again.

Before throwing that word around, look at this photo.

I know this Iranian woman personally. She sent me this photo the day she was flogged, lashes on her body, fear and rage on her face.

This is not a metaphor.
This is not a debate.
This is a human being punished under Islamic law.

As a man living safely in a democratic country, with freedom of speech and bodily autonomy, you don’t get to lecture Iranian women about what we are allowed to fear.

A phobia is an irrational fear.

But our fear is not irrational.

We are afraid of lashes.
We are afraid of prison.
We are afraid of rape, blinding, and hanging.
We are afraid of seeing assassins with a gun in front of our house.

That fear comes from lived experience, not prejudice.

When you label women like her and women like me as “Islamophobic,” you are not defending Muslims.

You are justifying silence. Silence in the face of mass killing.
Silence in the face of more than 40,000 people killed.

Do not dare, ever again, to tell me and Iranian women that our fear is irrational.
#IranMassacre

[Monjula Ray 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🥥 @queerBengali]

Yeah I can’t imagine why people who have been forced to live with the religious police don’t like that religion

Baffling lol

[Toronto Police @TorontoPolice]

150,000 demonstrators and zero incidents.

Thanks to the meticulous planning, effective on‑the‑ground work, and professionalism of our members and specialized units, yesterday’s event in the heart of our city remained safe and peaceful.

[Yasmine Mohammed 🦋 ياسمين محمد @YasMohammedxx]

I can’t boycott @hudabeauty for supporting the Iranian regime that is massacring people daily because I’m already boycotting her for being an antisemitic psychopath.

[Barry Rosen @brosen1501]

I was the press attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran when I was taken hostage for 444 days by the zealous followers of Ayatollah Khomeini. During that time, the spokesperson for the hostage‑takers, Massoumeh Ebtekar—whom we called “Mary”—interrogated us with venom and publicly threatened to put us on “trial” and execute us on the spot.

Today, in a bitter irony, Ebtekar’s son, Issah Hashemi, lives comfortably in Los Angeles and works as an academic.

And now another example of this hypocrisy has been challenged. Dr. Fatemeh Larijani‑Ardeshir, daughter of Ali Larijani—the Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council and a key figure in the violent crackdown on Iranian protesters—was just “dismissed” from Emory University’s Winship Cancer Institute. This came only days after the U.S. Treasury sanctioned Ali Larijani and other architects of the Islamic Republic’s repression. Emory has not said whether her dismissal is tied to those sanctions.

For many in the Iranian diaspora—and for those of us who survived captivity—the presence of regime offspring living privileged lives in the U.S. has become a flashpoint for anger after decades of repression. We have watched the Islamic Republic murder thousands of protesters, extort grieving families for the bodies of their loved ones, and force them to bury their children in silence.

Meanwhile, the children of regime elites enjoy safety, freedom, and opportunity in the very country their parents condemn.

This contradiction is now at the center of a growing movement—one gaining momentum with each new revelation. Justice demands that we confront this hypocrisy.

[Vahid Online @Vahid]

"#سپهر_بابا کجایی؟"
⚠️12 minutes of heartbreaking footage from the Kahrizak Forensic Medicine Center in #Tehran:
لعنت بهت خامنه‌ای جنایتکار! بچه‌هامون رو کجا آوردی؟
این سند جنایت جمهوری اسلامیه!
این کشتار رو ۱۸و۱۹ دی مرتکب شده!
دنیا ببینید! فیلم نیست واقعیته!
#کهریزک #تهران #Iran

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

The Wall Street Journal opinion page has printed an op-ed by the foreign minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran about the recent protests (as part of the ongoing revolution) and the massacre carried out by the Islamic Republic.

It is disgraceful.

First — it contradicts the WSJ’s own excellent reporting on the regime’s crackdown.

Second, you don’t need to give opinion space to an official from an openly authoritarian regime to spread lies.

Third, failing to fact-check his claims or add a fact-check window beneath his absolute lies is disgraceful.

The op-ed is FILLED with unquestionable lies and atrocity denial.

I have included all of it in this post so that they don’t get traffic for it.

[Sarai (Sarah Idan) Miss Iraq @RealSarahIdan]

One of the things that truly angers me is watching people try to argue that a future Iranian revolution will lead to democracy by throwing Iraqis under the bus.
They claim that Iraqis didn’t want democracy or “didn’t have western views” have you seen Iraq in 70s? And even under Saddam until 2003? Hijab was a rare sight in the cities. They claim Iraqis are “backwards and don’t want freedom.”

These people have never set foot in Iraq. They don’t speak Arabic. They don’t know our history, our pain, or our reality.
If you’ve never been to Iraq, if you’re not Iraqi, you do not get to rewrite our story.
Iraq’s road to freedom didn’t “fail” because Iraqis rejected democracy. It failed because the moment Saddam’s regime fell, our country was flooded by foreign Islamist fighters from Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Turkey etc , Radical Sunni and Shia, who turned Iraq into a battlefield. They fought each other for power and dragged us into a civil war we did not want. And our resources were being stolen as we were in trapped in this deliberate civil war.
I WAS there. I LIVED it.

Most Iraqis didn’t want chaos, sectarian war, or militias. We wanted safety. We wanted freedom. We wanted to live.
It takes a special kind of privilege to speak about a people whose suffering you never experienced and then blame them for it. To pretend Iraqis “didn’t want freedom” while ignoring that we were invaded, hijacked, and torn apart by outside forces, especially the Iranian regime and its proxies - is dishonest and cruel.

And to those Iranians who repeat this narrative: if you’re doing this, stop.
I’m seeing some resorting to disguised racism, comparing themselves to Arabs, implying Arabs are backward, that we don’t want freedom, that we’re somehow different in our humanity. That is false. It is dangerous. And it is exactly the kind of thinking tyrants depend on!

I will continue to fight for the Iranian people and their freedom.
But I will not tolerate racism, sectarianism, or fake narratives pushed by people who talk out of sheer ignorance.
If you don’t know what happened in Iraq, then keep us out of your mouth. Otherwise these words in Iraqi on my hoodie is my message to you. Shukran! 🇮🇶

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

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