@ZarkFiles I live there and this is a lie. The Dutch capital gains tax is actually much better than the US. First 60k invested gets no tax. After that they assume I make 3 to 6% and tax that gain. Stop misinforming people. Wealth tax is a good thing.
Do you remember ISIS? It ruled 12 million people for five years on a $2 billion war chest. The world built a 90-member coalition to erase it.
The Islamic Republic has run the same project for 47 years on a trillion dollars of oil; with embassies, a UN seat, a nuclear program and a central bank. At least 1,639 hanged in 2025. At least 5,000 political prisoners executed in one summer in 1988. ~1,500 protesters killed in two weeks in 2019, and 10s of thousands in two days in January. It shut down internet to the entire country for close to two months while slaughtering civilians.
ISIS filmed its executions. IR's propagandists stand outside the White House making sham interviews.
IR is ISIS with a central bank and 90 million hostages: young, educated, and among the most pro-Western societies on earth.
I asked American students why they don’t protest when women are whipped and shot in Iran and Afghanistan.
The answers expose a contradiction nobody wants to talk about.
We must change the narrative so the younger generation stops lending cover to Hamas, Hezbollah, Taliban and the Islamic Republic. That's why I choose to travel and speak to students face-to-face. I listen first, without judgment. Then I share what it means to live under Sharia law not as an abstraction, but as a lived reality.
Truth is not a phobia. Calling out the whipping of women is not hate. Staying silent about it is.
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!
:@krishgm you're right, it's hard to find accurate data when men with guns and ropes murder anybody reporting the truth.
Nevertheless, sources exist. Here are two significant ones.
1. GAMAAN recorded 80%+ opposition in 2024 https://t.co/XWw2JxPGjM
2. Leaked government polling showed 92% dissatisfaction in late 2025 https://t.co/L7Quti7Ajy
Critically, both of these polls were conducted before the government slaughtered 40,000+ in January. While the west barely seemed to notice, the bloodshed was an epochal event for Iranians. The already tenuous social contract was fundamentally and irreparably broken.
The pro-regime rallies we see so widely shared across feckless western news sources are a sham. No doubt with 5-10% of 92m people, the government is able to generate some genuine organic displays, but they still need to coerce attendees with food, cash, and legal leverage. https://t.co/uhXbhyeDga
Our families in Iran report the same thing. Obviously this is anecdotal and potentially biased, but everyone we speak to believes the government has less than 10% support. You can argue a percent here or there, but the fact is this is an overwhelming supermajority. This is not 52:48.
Of course the Islamic Republic itself indirectly confirms this. The internet remains blocked to everyone except approved propaganda voices, and they don't even trust their own footsoldiers any more, importing Hashd al Shaabi & Fatimayoon fighters en masse from Iraq & Afghanistan. If they had the support they claim, the internet would be open and Iranians would be manning the checkpoints. In fact there wouldn't be checkpoints at all.
So, it's fine to question. Omid answered you well. But the debate you present bears no relation to reality on the ground. To give you the benefit of the doubt, well-meaning journalists such as yourself are responsible for creating an image of Iranian society in the west that is miles from the truth.
Stop normalising this regime. It is a hostile occupying force holding hostage 85m+ lives for the sake of a dying depraved ideology. Use your platform to tell this truth, show the west what is going on. Talk about the executions happening every day. Talk about the celebrations when Khamenei was killed. Talk about the Iranian voices begging for the ceasefire to end, as nothing is more terrifying than being left alone with these barbarians.
I can help you do a journalism. DM me I'll show you sources, I'll put you in touch with Iranians who can attest to all of this. Omid is great, there are millions more.
Iran elected as member of an UN committee dealing with human rights. While the ayatollahs are hanging freedom loving innocent people in droves, the Netherlands voted in favor, @MinBZ??
Have you gone completely crazy? This is a betrayal of the Iranian people.
#Iran#freedom