Raha_aaa

[Sana Ebrahimi Ledene @__Injaneb96]

⚠️⚠️This is a critical post. Please read it carefully:

The lobby arm of the Islamic Republic in the U.S., the National Iranian American Council (NIAC), is working overtime in Washington. Former Capitol Hill staff confirm NIAC is holding back-to-back meetings with lawmakers and senior aides from both parties, presenting itself as the voice of Iranian Americans. In this thread, I also add a list of some of their key figures and familiar names that are either directly associated with NIAC or collaborate with them.

NIAC tells officials that Iranians want Khamenei gone, but replaced by Islamic Republic “reformists” like Rouhani. They argue that dismantling the regime is unrealistic and that reformists would negotiate with the U.S. and deliver “some freedom.”

This has been NIAC’s objective since its founding by Trita Parsi: preserve the Islamic Republic by recycling power through so-called reformists. Reformists are not opposition. They do not dismantle the system. They manage it. The structure stays. The repression stays.

Reformists push the same agenda every time: nuclear deals, sanctions relief, no outside pressure, and reframing mass protests as economic grievances, not political demands. Even when sounding moderate, they maintain the regime’s core positions: anti-American, anti-Western, anti-Israel.

You can tell a reformist by what they center and what they fear. They prioritize sanctions and negotiations over freedom. They warn more about “chaos” than executions. They oppose regime change and attack transitional leadership, especially the leadership demanded by protesters inside Iran.

NIAC and its affiliates are among the most visible voices speaking about Iran. Their access in Washington is not accidental. Their messaging is not neutral. Their function is to keep the system intact.

Protesters inside Iran are clear:
No reform. No compromise.
This is a revolution demanding the end of the Islamic Republic, transitional leadership, and a free referendum. Iranians do not want reformists recycled into power. They want the entire regime gone.

Do not fall for the lies.
Do not let regime proxies speak for us.
Stand with the Iranian people.
Free Iran.

#IranMassacre

[ايران اينترنشنال @IranIntl]

روزنامه ساندی‌تایمز در گزارشی درباره کشته شدن دست‌کم ۱۶ هزار و ۵۰۰ تا ۱۸ هزار معترض و مجروح شدن ۳۳۰ هزار تا ۳۶۰ هزار نفر دیگر در انقلاب ملی ایرانیان، به نقل از پزشکان داخل ایران نوشت احتمالا بیش از ۸ هزار معترض در سراسر ایران نابینا شده باشند.

طبق این گزارش، فقط در یک شب و فقط در تهران، بیش از ۸۰۰ مورد تخلیه چشم به‌دلیل اصابت ساچمه ثبت شد و تنها در مرکز چشم‌پزشکی کلینیک نور تهران، ۷ هزار مورد آسیب چشمی ثبت شده است.

امیر پارستا، چشم‌پزشک و مدیر پزشکی مرکز مونیخ مد که شهادت پزشکان و ویدیوها در اختیار او قرار گرفته است، گفت سرکوبگران در قیام ۱۴۰۴ از سلاح‌های نظامی استفاده کردند و زخم‌های گلوله و ترکش در سر، گردن و سینه قربانیان دیده می‌شود.

پارستا گفت: «این نسل‌کشی زیر پوشش تاریکی دیجیتال رخ داده است. گفته بودند تا متوقف شدن اعتراض‌ها می‌کشند و همین کار را می‌کنند. این‌ها حداقل‌های محتاطانه است. بسیاری از مجروحان به بیمارستان نمی‌روند چون می‌ترسند از تخت بیمارستان توسط نیروهای امنیتی ربوده شوند.»

https://t.co/QN4dRZQ6PZ

[Raha_aaa @Rahaaa_a_a]

47 years of terror, killing, lies, and instability in the region and the world. It is time to end this dictatorship once and for all—for a better Iran, a safer Middle East, and a peaceful world.

Freedom for Iran.

#IranRevolution2026

[Daily Mail @DailyMail]

Iran 'killed 16,500 protesters and injured more than 300,000' in brutal crackdown, report claims - as regime accused of 'genocide under cover of digital darkness' https://t.co/x5P0kUiuTe

[Pablo Manríquez @PabloReports]

Fwiw—

"RoW" = Rest of World

[Raha_aaa @Rahaaa_a_a]

@ninadkul1001 @David_J_Bier Of course that's NOT OK. No immigrant should suffer like that. But that doesn't mean we should spread the problem to everyone else. The real issue is not per-country cap, it's insufficient num of GCs. Demand is way higher than supply.

[Raha_aaa @Rahaaa_a_a]

@brrhaspati Hate to break it to u but opponents (including immigrants and US citizens) are right here in US, using actual LOGIC to shine light on the consequences of this act. EAGLE act doesn't solve your problem, only spread it to ROW. We know it & you know it too!
#NoEagleAct

[ayn @aynea_1]

@BlueRedBlackW And, it shld also be noted, despite a short “debate” on the House floor yesterday, there still has been NO public debate on the bill over the 10+ yrs it has been repeatedly introduced! NO opportunity for all stakeholders to voice concerns OR for Congress to hear them! #NoEagleAct

[Reza Engineer @Rezaaa7225]

@BlueRedBlackW Behind the beautiful words of “equality” and “fairness”, they wanna ignore the human rights of +190 countries around the world including Americans! You guys destroyed the fairness by abusing 70% of H1B in the US. #NoEagleAct

[Rad @BlueRedBlackW]

This is why IV's main strategy has been suppressing opponents, harassment, and sneaking EagleAct into other bills! They did everything to avoid a public debate for +10ys! This year they failed and yesterday debate revealed the monster inside this bill
#NoEagleAct

[Pablo Manríquez @PabloReports]

#EagleAct is one of those bills that the more Congress actually looks into it, the more members oppose it. Not exactly the hallmark of a good bill.

[U.S. Tech Workers @USTechWorkers]

Here are the stats for the last 3 years from the same DHS report. Not one European country even lands in the top 15 for new Green Card recipients. And this is with country-cap quotas! Removal of the country-caps would allow complete monopolization by one or two countries.

[U.S. Tech Workers @USTechWorkers]

On the House floor today, @RepZoeLofgren claimed that country cap quotas for Green Cards, a fixture of the Immigration Act of 1965 (Hart-Cellar) is “racist” because it’s designed to favor immigrants from “Western Europe”.
@DHSgov’s report says otherwise: https://t.co/YBiUsD52AY

[Cwhats New @CWhatsNew]

@RepJayapal The existing 7% per country cap, equal for every country. Indian nationals are already taking 25%, higher than the 7% because they take over leftover quotas from other countries. Which part is not fair? People from just one country, India, take 73% of the whole H1B.#NoEagleAct

[Raha_aaa @Rahaaa_a_a]

@RepJayapal Can you comment on the consequences of this act on diversity when eventually all the GCs are going to be rewarded to 1 or 2 nations? That's a serious FLAW of this act & looks like all the supporters are trying to sweep that under the rug!
#NoEagleAct

[Starkian Hypothesis @Starkian7789]

Why Eagle Act Immigration Bill is against True Diversity:
Immigration Restrictionists and Progressive Diversity Advocates United in Opposition
#EagleAct #NoEagleAct

https://t.co/d5iEd0Nv8k

[Rep Andy Biggs @RepAndyBiggsAZ]

I oppose the EAGLE Act.

This bill will do nothing to secure our border or address the crisis the Biden Administration has created.

This bill will dramatically alter our legal immigration system and only benefit immigrants from a few countries.

[U.S. Tech Workers @USTechWorkers]

..country to monopolize all the Green Cards. Indians receive the LARGEST share of employment-based Green Cards every fiscal year! Here’s the report by Lofgren’s former aide who heads USCIS now:

[U.S. Tech Workers @USTechWorkers]

@RepMcClintock does a great job debunking this bill. He correctly points out that the Indians currently take the largest share of employment-based Green Cards every year due to spill-over of unused Green Cards from other countries.