Amir Soltani

cinephile and engineer, among other things.

[Amir Soltani @amiresque]

Devastating news from Iran: legendary new wave filmmaker Dariush Mehrjui (of THE COW, among many others) has been stabbed to death in his home, along with his wife. He was one of greatest icons of Iranian cinema. I'm speechless.

[Telegraph Football @TeleFootball]

'In this World Cup’s great convergence of 48 nations, one is conspicuously not receiving the same treatment as the other 47.

'And however much Gianni Infantino might try to posture as the ultimate peacemaker, he must surely see that the longer this problem persists, the graver the implications will be for his tournament’s integrity.'

Read @oliverbrown_tel's column on the treatment of Iran at the World Cup 👇
https://t.co/mO35aEoFDJ

[Amir Soltani @amiresque]

Tribute to the host nation

[Troll Football @TrollFootball]

Iranian player Mohebi really did the gun shooting celebration at the USA crowd 😭

[- @Hazdinho]

Screaming “shame on you” to football players whilst crying and dancing for the US president that killed their own people.

This is in same hour as the US president said he couldn’t give a fuck about a regime change.

Shame on who again? Absolute fucking retards

[Amir Soltani @amiresque]

Describing the vicious morality police as "the faithful and the poor" is legitimately unhinged.

[pedagogical Mustazafeen - rate limited @voidedpedagogy]

@Lilyspad21 Oh that's why she had to show the faithful and poor women like this in that book.

[Amir Soltani @amiresque]

Satrapi's death has led to a level of commentary so degenerate that I didn't think was humanly possible. Making idiotic statements like this publicly requires a level of misplaced confidence no one should be capable of.

[pedagogical Mustazafeen - rate limited @voidedpedagogy]

That persepolis clown's main problem with Iran is it ended up being the revolution of the poor and the faithful. For her secular Iran means one which still maintained relations to West where she can still enjoy her luxuries. She didn't care about the Mustazafeen.

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

It’s the youngest country he could think of

[wayne @citrushemlock]

the woke orientalism going on here is really interesting. Iranians can not be their own people with their own hopes, desires, and struggles. Instead, they must serve the interests of their nation, and failing to do so is abberant.

[ig: shereenshafi @shereeny]

if you didn’t know who marjane satrapi was and you saw some of this discourse about her, you might think she was akin to, like, henry kissinger

[Marc-Antoine Leroy @ghjattu_neru]

C'est un peu comme se plaindre de la représentation des miliciens ou des agents de la Gestapo dans les films sur la Seconde Guerre Mondiale, ici, elle dépeint littéralement la police des mœurs iranienne avec ses yeux d'enfant.

Si ça vous choque, questionnez vous !

[Milan Busk @KarolusWangus]

That's literally what they are, is the thing. Soulless, formless, black robed enforcers.

[💭 @mrhimedanshi]

Cause they want to cosplay as anti-imperial revolutionists in the comfort of their own homes while women should shut up and suffer in silence under this violence to protect their image

[Nazanin Nour @NazaninNour]

The discourse around Marjane Satrapi’s death has been vile and nauseating.

God forbid a woman with lived experience under a repressive regime writes about her experience.

Iranians are allowed to exist outside of your Israel-Palestine-Islam fantasies btw. Grow up, get educated.

[سایه‌سار🏴 @idkijustthibk]

You know families who get mad at children who talk about having been abused to strangers due to having fewer filters? That's how IR supporters see Marjane Satrapi's art. They don't deny the veracity of most elements, only that it was expressed, to an audience they disapprove.

[Amir Soltani @amiresque]

Imagine saying this about an artist who just died of illness, who was grieving the recent death of her husband. "Literally died of grief over one gangly Swedish white guy".

And this person describes himself as leftist "community organizer". Fucking vile.

[Saman Rasoulpour @SamRasoulpour]

مرجان ساتراپی خالق «پرسپولیس» بود؛ روایتی جهانی از اینکه استبداد چگونه وارد خانه، مدرسه، بدن، عشق و حافظه آدم‌ها می‌شود. او ایران را از کلیشه «قربانی خاموش» یا «جامعه بنیادگرا» بیرون کشید و مردمی زنده، آزادخواه، شوخ، زخمی و باکرامت را به جهان نشان داد.

در اوج شهرت، مهم‌ترین نشان دولتی فرانسه، لژیون دونور فرانسه را هم نپذیرفت؛ در اعتراض به ریاکاری پاریس در قبال مردم ایران و جنبش زن، زندگی، آزادی.

و در نهایت، او یک سال پس از مرگ ماتیاس ریپا، همسر و عشق زندگی‌اش، «از اندوه» رفت.

همین سه تصویر کافی است تا وقتی از او حرف می‌زنیم، با احترام، دقت و شرافت حرف بزنیم؛ درباره انسانی شریف، عاشق، آزاد و راست‌قامت.

[سایه‌سار🏴 @idkijustthibk]

I love how all the yapping about Persepolis is entirely unconcerned with whether or not what was depicted was true, but whether or not it was “Islamophobic propaganda”

[Amir Soltani @amiresque]

I swear to God I can't tell anymore if these are bots or just idiots. We live in an era where we have to convince Western "leftists" who have never set foot in our countries that the Iranian regime and Hamas are bad actually.

[mariana 𖤓˚࿔ @myworldofwind]

oh surely these were the only iranian women featured in the film

also it doesnt matter at all that theyre members of the morality police which has resulted in so many women being abused by the iranian state

can leftists learn what the term "critical support" actually means?

[سرکه نمکی @SaltyyVinegarr]

istg if I see another non-Iranian person calling our lived experience "propaganda"