Masih Alinejad

Iranian Journalist & Activist | President of @WLCongress | Member of Heal Animal Rescue

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

I am a woman from a small village in northern Iran.
Jailed for protesting.
Beaten for showing my hair.
Expelled from parliament for exposing their corruption.
Forced into exile.
My sister was paraded on state TV to publicly disown me.
My brother was imprisoned as punishment.
My mother was interrogated to stop her from expressing love for me.
Assassins were sent to New York, three times, to kill me.
And now I’m supposed to sit next to them at the U.N. Security Council.
Thanks @USAmbUN for finally giving me a seat, so I can call out the regime, and the U.N. leadership that still legitimizes it.
This is my full address to the UN Security Council about
#IranRevoIution2026 and a massacre unfolding in Iran.

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

وظیفه ما گرفتن یقه همه سیاستمدارانی است که کل قتل عام یک ملت را تقلیل دادن به تنگه هرمز و منویات و مذاکرات خودشان با یک حکومت تروریست بدون اینکه خواستار توقف بدون قید و شرط اعدام‌ها شوند. روی صحبتم در این مصاحبه با ترامپ و اروپایی هاست.

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

Islamic Republic of Iran get the red carpet at the UN while protesters get hanged in Iran.

President Trump and European leaders: You want peace with terrorist regime? Then answer one question: What are you doing to stop the executions and transnational repression?

@CBSNews

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

Islamic Republic of Iran get the red carpet at the UN while protesters get hanged in Iran.

President Trump and European leaders: You want peace with terrorist regime? Then answer one question: What are you doing to stop the executions and transnational repression?

@CBSNews

[Mark R. Levin @marklevinshow]

You’re right

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

As I walked off the CBS set this morning, a young producer stopped me backstage. She was shy. She hesitated. Then she asked: "Did you say a woman were blinded… intentionally? What do you mean?"

I showed her the picture of Kosar. I showed her the picture of Ali. I said: yes. This is not a stray bullet. The snipers of the Islamic Republic aim for the eyes. A pellet gun fired point blank at a face. They want the world to stop watching, so they take away the eyes of the ones who watched.

Kosar was shot in the eye during the Woman Life Freedom uprising. Her friend Ali Zarei was blinded the same way. Now Ali sits on death row, waiting to be executed. Kosar asked me to tell CBS about him. So I did.

More than 10,000 people have been blinded, intentionally, during the Woman Life Freedom and the recent uprisings. This is the real Handmaid's Tale. Yes, you’re fiction is our reality.💔

I carry this burden every time I walk into a studio or when I go on the stage, because some people in the West cannot believe this is happening In the 21st century. Believe it. And say their names.
#StopExecutionsInIran

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

The killers get the microphone at the United Nations. This brave woman got a bullet in her eyes.
Another protester blinded just like her is about to be executed in Iran. Two blinded protesters. One voice from Iran. She asked me to send this message to the world.

Today on CBS I'll say what no one at the UN will: the negotiations have a regime on one side and Washington on the other. Where are 80 million Iranians? Our innocent people are in prison, not at the table. The voice of dissidents is missing. A deal over our heads will never bring peace.
@kosareftekharii

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

Madam High Representative, before the diplomacy, look at these faces. @kajakallas

These women were blinded by the Iranian regime's snipers for the crime of protesting the killing of Mahsa Jina Amini, for showing a little bit of their hair. This is the leader you just sat with.

Thank you for raising the executions and domestic repression. It matters enormously when more than 70 people remain at imminent risk of execution for protesting.

But the Iranian people deserve to hear the answer. What did he say to you? We all know he denies the January massacre of peaceful protesters. He is very good at normalizing a murderous regime that blinded these women simply for demanding their basic rights.

So please tell us:
Did he make any concrete commitment to halt executions and protect the innocent women and men currently facing death sentences?

And please create space to hear directly from the dissidents, women's rights defenders, former prisoners, and the families who live with the consequences of these policies every single day. They are the real voice of Iran.

[Kaja Kallas @kajakallas]

I met with Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.

We addressed diplomatic prospects for ending the US-Iran war and fully re-opening the Strait of Hormuz. There were no tolls or fees for passage before the war, and there should be none after the war.

Navigation must be free and unimpeded, both in the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab al-Mandab Strait.

I also raised domestic repression inside Iran, including the sharp rise in executions and death sentences.

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

The president and foreign minister of the same regime that sent these 5 men in New York City to kill me are right now walking the streets of New York under protection.

They should be arrested and face accountability not red carpets.

Those responsible for transnational repression and assassination plots must not be treated as normal diplomats.

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

As islamic Republic of Iran’s officials take the stage at the UN, Ali Zarei sits in solitary confinement in Qezel Hesar prison under a death sentence.

He is 27. A gas station worker. A young Iranian protesters wounded during the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising.

First the IRGC took his eye. Now they want to take his life.

Be his voice before it is too late.
#AliZarei #StopExecutionsInIran

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

Mayor Mamdani, you said war criminals who set foot in New York should be arrested.
Good news. One is in New York city this week.
The president of the Islamic Republic is coming to the United Nations, right here in New York.
He heads the regime that massacre innocent protesters. They gunned down unarmed protesters in the streets, hanged our children, and sent its agents to Brooklyn to kidnap and kill a New Yorker.
That New Yorker is me. The FBI files and federal indictments are public. Look them up.
If you have the courage to talk about arresting those responsible for crimes against humanity, start with the man sleeping five miles from your office.
Are you willing to act, Mayor? Or do Iranian lives not count?

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

Mayor Mamdani, you said war criminals who set foot in New York should be arrested.
Good news. One is in New York city this week.
The president of the Islamic Republic is coming to the United Nations, right here in New York.
He heads the regime that massacre innocent protesters. They gunned down unarmed protesters in the streets, hanged our children, and sent its agents to Brooklyn to kidnap and kill a New Yorker.
That New Yorker is me. The FBI files and federal indictments are public. Look them up.
If you have the courage to talk about arresting those responsible for crimes against humanity, start with the man sleeping five miles from your office.
Are you willing to act, Mayor? Or do Iranian lives not count?

[Rebecca Schönenbach @if_rebecca]

And now let's return to what's really important:

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

URGENT ACTION NEEDED.

Today we learned that Ali Zarei, a political prisoner sentenced to death and one of the protesters shot in the eye during Iran’s 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom uprising, has been transferred to solitary confinement in Ghezel Hesar Prison. His transfer raises grave fears for his life.

And now, another voice is reaching us from behind prison walls.

Ali has already survived being shot and losing sight in one eye. He must not now be executed for his political activities.

The international community, the United Nations, and governments around the world must act urgently. Demand that the Islamic Republic halt Ali Zarei’s execution and protect his life.

Be his voice. Save Ali Zarei.

#SaveAliZarei #StopExecutionsInIran

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

This is Ali Zarei’s voice from inside prison.

Let’s be his voice and not let the regime take the life of another innocent Iranian.

#Alizarei
#Iran

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

Hello everyone, this is a message from inside prison, from a young Iranian woman who is about to be executed. Please help me to amplify her voice before they hang her. 💔

«Remember my name, maybe I will not be able to speak again.»

This is the voice of Najmeh Amini, a 23 year old accounting student, speaking from Vakilabad Prison in Mashhad. In her voice message she says: «Be my voice. I am an innocent girl, a young woman full of hopes and dreams.»

Najmeh is one of the detainees of the January uprising .

She spent months in detention without a verdict, denied access to a lawyer of her choice and pressured during interrogation. In August, her trial was held at the Revolutionary Court of Mashhad on charges of «assembly and collusion» and «insulting sacred values.»

She said in her voice message that her death sentence was issued on September 16, 2026.

In her own words: «People, I only want justice and the chance to defend myself.» And this is her dream: «Before the rope ends my life, let me see my Iran prosperous and free.»

Be her voice and all of political prisoners, especially those at risk of execution.

#NajmehAmini
#StopExecutionsInIran

[Antoine Vanner @AntoineVanner]

"So when you have freedom, use it. Protect it. And remember those who are sacrificing everything just to experience it."

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

Nobody gave Iranian women their freedom. They took it back. So that is why the regime hired these undercover police to crack down on women!

Recently on Christiane Amanpour's video, I heard it again: the reformist government allowed its people to light candles for the victims of September 11.

Today some in the West repeat the same false narrative about Iranian people. They say; Look, the government is changing. They allow women to show their hair, they give permission to women to run marathons without hijab!

Let me be clear: Nobody gave Iranian people anything. Iranians were never “given” these freedoms. Women of Iran have continued walking unveiled despite arrests, intimidation and pressure. The Islamic Republic has not abolished compulsory hijab.

This week, the Islamic Republic staged its massive Janfada mobilization. Authorities claim more than 300,000 people participated and over 600,000 volunteers registered for military training alongside the Basij and Revolutionary Guard. They are in charge of harassing unveiled women in the streets. That is the real face of this "reform."

So when I see a woman without hijab, I do not see permission from the government. I see someone who broke through the wall herself. I see a society that changed from below, because ordinary Iranians refused to wait for permission to be free.

#WomanLifeFreedom

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

Six months ago, I filmed women running freely in the New York Marathon and dreamed of seeing this in Iran. Today, that dream is coming true. One day, a free Iran will too.

Four years ago, Mahsa Jina Amini was killed in the custody of Iran’s morality police for wearing inappropriate hijab.

Now look at Iran. This is tody, Iranian women are running through the streets of Tehran with their hair uncovered, together, visible, unafraid.

They wanted Mahsa’s death to frighten women back into silence. Instead, her name became a symbol of a generation that refuses to disappear.

You can police a woman’s hair. You can arrest her. You can threaten her. But you cannot imprison courage.

Woman. Life. Freedom.

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

The Islamic Republic just executed Hossein Padaran for "spying for Israel."

No lawyer. No public indictment. No announced execution date. His family never heard a word.

From arrest to the gallows, no one heard from this human being.

This regime doesn't execute spies. It executes people in the dark.
💔

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

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