Amirhossein Nobakht Pardasti was only 21.
The Islamic regime tortured him because of a tattoo, damaged the skin around it, and broke his nose and jaw. The pain was so severe that his face remained frozen in agony.
Then they shot him in the head.
I woke up this morning filled with grief and rage.
Three more protesters were hanged this morning in Iran. Publicly, from cranes, to show the consequences of dissent.
A fourth young woman, Anahita Azarshab, was shot and killed for protesting the hangings.
If you haven’t breathed a word about them, don’t you dare speak up to protest the war on their killers.
چهل و شش سال از درگذشت پدرم میگذرد، اما او امروز زندهترین چهره سیاسی در پیشگاه تاریخ و دل ایرانیان است.
شعله عشق ملت ایران به او روز به روز بلندتر و فروزانتر میشود. همانطور که جاویدنام مجیدرضا رهنورد به نیابت از میلیونها جوان ایرانی نوشت: «نسلی عاشقت شد، که تو را هرگز ندید».
پدرم با تمام وجود، عاشقِ ایران بود. قلب او با طبیعت این خاک میتپید و باریدن باران بر دشتهای ایران، برایش بهترین و زیباترین خبر بود.
او در ۲۲ سالگی، کشور را در شرایط دشوار اشغال متفقین تحویل گرفت و با تکیه بر میهنپرستی، ایران را به سوی دروازههای تمدن بزرگ هدایت کرد. اگر فاجعه ۵۷، مسیر تاریخ ما را منحرف نمیکرد، ایران امروز یکی از درخشانترین قطبهای رفاه و توسعه در جهان بود.
هممیهنانم، اگر به راه او باور داریم، مسئولیت بزرگی بر دوش ماست. برای وفاداری به نگاه او، ما باید ایران را از این فرقه تبهکار پس بگیریم و آن را دوباره بسازیم.
پاینده ایران
Elle était violoniste.
Elle était belle.
Elle a été tuée par balle le 9 janvier parce qu’elle voulait que l’Iran soit libre.
Elle s’appelait Sanam Pourbabaie.
Two days ago, all 12 of these innocent young men were alive. Ten remain.
The Islamic regime intends to hang them all.
Their only crime was asking for freedom.
@JDVance
Did you really called 94 million Iranians Terrorists?!
Are you serious?
And you were supposed to be the leftists voice in Trumps administration?!!!
How can someone be that ignorant and the vice president of United States of America at the same time?
#IranianNotMuslim
#KingRezaPahlaviForIran
Six months ago, tonight, Tehran went dark. All of Iran went dark. And into that darkness, millions of Iranians walked out of their homes anyway.
January 8th and 9th were not just two nights of protest. They were the night Iran's silence broke. Millions came into the streets, into the squares, onto their rooftops — but the regime answered them with bullets. Tens of thousands of my compatriots were killed in those forty-eight hours. Tens of thousands more have been arrested, tortured, and sentenced to die since.
They came out, determined and brave. I think of them every day. On those two nights I lost countrymen I will never get to meet. I do not hear a statistic when I hear the number 40,000. I see a son who did not come home to his mother. A daughter who will not sit at her family's table again. I think of each of them the way I would think of my own child, my own brother, my own sister. I carry the weight of every one of those names. But the families of the fallen I meet with, week after week, hearten our nation's will to carry on. Their children did not die in vain. They died for freedom, and they died with pride.
History will remember what these men and women did; I will make sure of it. Like the resistance who stood against tyranny in occupied Europe, and like the revolutionaries who fought for liberty in America. But theirs was a particular bravery. They had no army, no air cover, nothing but the belief in what they stood for. They stood anyway. A united nation choosing to face the guns together rather than live one more day in fear. The men and women of the 8th and 9th of January will be remembered in Iran's history as the greatest generation that preferred to die free and standing than to live cowered on their knees.
To the international community, I ask this: do not let a negotiating table in Geneva or Islamabad erase what happened in the streets of Tehran, Mashhad, and Kermanshah. They died for freedom. And when they are free, the Strait of Hormuz will open. The nuclear threat will end. And we will have true peace.
I have told my compatriots: what you did on January 8th and 9th cannot be undone. Together, we will reclaim our country’s rightful place in the world, our national dignity, and honor the lives of our heroes. Now is the time to reassess, regroup, and rededicate ourselves to victory.
We honor the fallen by finishing what they started. A free Iran is no longer a matter of hope. It is a matter of fact.
And know that my brave compatriots are not just fighting for their own liberation but for the peace and stability of the world.
“You do not negotiate with an executioner while he is still holding the knife. 40,000 Iranians did not die so the free world could capitulate.”
From Prince Reza Pahlavi's op-ed in Le Figaro:
https://t.co/eNeOQtfD5d
40,000 Iranian protesters were massacred by the Islamic regime in January simply for protesting for freedom.
Stand with the Iranian people against the Islamic regime.
As the regime holds Ali Khamenei’s funeral and stages state-sponsored mourning in Tehran, many Iranians are heading north for a holiday, dancing in traffic on the road.
The contrast between the regime’s propaganda and the public mood speaks for itself.
Ayatollah Khomeini, founder of Iran’s Islamic regime:
“Virgin female prisoners must be raped before execution, so they don’t go to heaven.”
This is the evil ideology that still rules Iran.
As it signs a Memorandum of Understanding for “peace”, the Islamic Republic just executed two more protesters from January 8th and 9th.
This is the consequence of making a deal with this criminal regime. To do a deal with a regime that murdered more than 40,000 protestors in two days in January is morally wrong and strategically misguided.
Dealing with this regime will fail and we will all face the consequences. The regime’s 47-year war against the Iranian people continues. Just as it has never made peace with its own citizens, it will never truly make peace with the world.
The international community should back the people of Iran’s fight for freedom. Put them center in any negotiations and in their Iran policy. But let me be clear - with or without international support - this regime will fall. The people of Iran will liberate themselves from tyranny.