I Support This Because Women Should Never Be Made Faceless in the Name of God.
Portugal has just banned the full veil in public spaces. And a statement from its president particularly struck me:
“The face must be considered a central element of human identity and communication.”
I support this.
I have spent years fighting compulsory hijab because I believe women must be free. But covering a woman’s entire face is different.
The face is how we recognize one another, communicate, and participate in public life. A society has a legitimate interest in requiring people to show their faces in shared public spaces.
And please don’t call the burqa or niqab “women’s liberation.” I come from a region where women are erased from public life in the name of religion.
I am against forcing a woman to wear hijab.
I am also against the ideology that tells women they should disappear behind a veil.
I grew up in the Middle East. I saw how Islamists gradually turn demands into norms, and then frame any resistance as an attack on Muslims.
Women should not be erased. Not by the state. Not by religion.
“You're right, Secretary General António Guterres. The attacks of October 7th ‘did not happen in a vacuum.’ The U.N. taught the Hamas terrorists that committed atrocities. They were graduates of your UNRWA schools.”
— Hillel Neuer at the 2026 @JNS_org International Policy Summit
Here’s what a deal negotiated from a position of strength looks like:
Iran reopens the Strait of Hormuz.
The U.S. lifts its naval blockade.
Iran dismantles its nuclear program.
The U.S. provides phased sanctions relief.
Iran stops funding and arming its proxy network.
The U.S. provides additional sanctions relief.
Iran abandons its long range missile program.
The U.S. provides additional sanctions relief.
Iran ends its systematic human rights abuses and opens the country to meaningful reform.
The U.S. and its allies support economic reconstruction and investment.
Hezbollah withdraws from southern Lebanon and disarms.
Israel fully withdraws from Lebanon.
Everything is based on performance.
No upfront rewards. Iran acts first. The benefits come after.
Al Arabia claims it obtained the MOU document (document not confirmed by the U.S.)
1. The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States, together with their allies in the current war, declare upon the signing of this Memorandum of Understanding an immediate and permanent end to the war on all fronts, including Lebanon, and undertake that from now on they will not launch any hostile action against each other, and will refrain from the threat or use of force against each other. The final agreement will confirm the provisions of this Article and the remaining Articles.
2. The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States undertake to respect each other's sovereignty and territorial integrity, and to refrain from interfering in each other's internal affairs.
3. The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States undertake to negotiate and reach a final agreement within a maximum period of 60 days, extendable by mutual consent.
4. Immediately upon the signing of this Memorandum of Understanding, the United States Lift the naval blockade and prevent any interference or obstruction against the Islamic Republic of Iran, and restore traffic within a maximum of 30 days to its full capacity; the traffic of ships shall be proportional to the pre-war volume of traffic on the part of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The United States also undertakes to withdraw its forces from the surrounding areas within 30 days after the final agreement.
5. Upon signing this Memorandum of Understanding, the Islamic Republic of Iran will immediately take steps to ensure that the movement of merchant ships from the Persian Gulf to the Sea of Oman and vice versa is resumed within 30 days to the pre-war volume, taking into account the need for the removal of technical obstacles and the neutralization of mines by Iran.
6. The United States undertakes, together with its regional partners, to create a comprehensive plan agreed upon by both parties for the rehabilitation and economic development of the Islamic Republic of Iran, While ensuring financing of at least $300 billion. The implementation mechanism of this plan, as part of the final agreement, will be formulated within 60 days.
7. The United States commits to ending, on a schedule to be agreed upon as part of the final agreement, all types of sanctions currently facing the Islamic Republic of Iran, including resolutions of the United Nations Security Council and the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and all unilateral U.S. sanctions, both primary and secondary.
8. The Islamic Republic of Iran reiterates that it will never produce nuclear weapons. The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States have agreed that the fate of enriched material and the fate of all other mutually agreed nuclear-related issues, including Iran’s nuclear needs, will be adequately addressed in a final agreement; the final agreement will confirm the provisions of this Article.
9. The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States agree that, pending a final agreement, they will maintain the status quo: Iran will maintain the status quo on its nuclear program, and the United States will not impose new sanctions on Iran or strengthen its forces in the region.
10. The United States undertakes that immediately after the signing of this Memorandum of Understanding, and until the date of the lifting of sanctions, the United States Treasury Department will issue waivers for exports of Iranian crude oil, petrochemical products and their derivatives, and all related services, including banking, insurance, transportation, and the like.
Cont. 👇🏻
اینکه طالبان پس از خطبههای نماز جمعه این هفته قصد دارند زنانی را که در ملأعام نقاب بر چهره نداشتهاند شلاق بزنند، باید خشم و هراس را در وجدان هر انسان آزادهای برانگیزد.
سکوتتان را بشکنید!
سازمانهایی که برای دفاع از حقوق بشر فعالیت میکنند، تا این لحظه چه کردهاند؟ چرا این سطح از خشونت و سرکوب، تیتر اول رسانههای جهان نیست؟ چرا صدای زنان افغانستان بار دیگر در هیاهوی سیاست و جنگ گم شده است؟
از خواهرانمان در هرات بنویسیم. از زنانی که هر روز با محدودیت، تحقیر و تهدید روبهرو هستند. نگذاریم رنج آنها زیر اخبار جنگ مدفون شود.
#زنان_افغانستان
#زنان_هرات
#زن_زندگی_آزادی
"Change medication."
Carolin Bohl was murdered by Hamas terrorists on October 7. In a new article, her mother recounts the harrowing details of her final moments. She also speaks about the humiliation she faced in a room with UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese and many Free Palestine activists.
In response to a post with the quote, Francesca's writes to a mother who lost her innocent child, "Change medication."
This is not some random person spreading hate on the internet. This is a United Nations Special Rapporteur, who would rather post a retort to a grieving mother than condemn terrorists who murdered, raped, and kidnapped civilians.
BREAKING: Iran launches ballistic missile attack against Israel.
Targeting civilians with missiles is a war crime.
We call on the U.N. Security Council to meet immediately and condemn Iran's blatant aggression in violation of the U.N. Charter, and its breaking of the ceasefire.
À l’adresse de cette gauche abjecte qui va soi disant pleurer Marjane Satrapi
Écoutez ce qu’elle disait de la « féministe en carton » madame Sandrine Rousseau
J’espère qu’elle ne va pas la ramener
Paix à ton âme Marjane Satrapi 💙🙏
Quando pensávamos ultrapassada a (...) luta de classe, até mesmo a luta dos sexos (...) e nos julgávamos mergulhados já na fase das lutas identitárias (...) eis que se antevê no horizonte a Guerra dos Chapéus-de-Sol. https://t.co/HlCAp0nNNc
@mfatima_carv Não sei se sabe, mas em Qom, o hijab é obrigatório na rua, embora o realmente aconselhado seja o chador. E não precisa de ir lá entrevistar ninguém.
É só fazer as contas ao retrocesso
Em 1979, Oriana Fallaci tirou o trapo da cabeça enquanto entrevistava o Aiatolá Khomeini na cidade sagrada de Qum.
Em 2026, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez aparece com um trapo na cabeça em NY, ao lado de Zohran Mamdani. https://t.co/FOTsH2Ssmn
Hello @AOC, while you smiled in a hijab at a New York event, I was in Federal Court facing the 4th hitman hired by the Islamic Republic to assassinate me, for campaigning for Iranian women to have the same freedom you performed for a photo op. Will you come to court with me in August when I face the 5th hitman? Or does solidarity only work when it doesn't offend the Islamic regime?
You wore hijab voluntarily in New York. Women are killed in Iran for taking it off.
You are the very woman who, at every opportunity, protests against violence against women, decries gender segregation, and champions "inclusion." Yet here you stand, smiling and wearing a hijab, at an event in New York, in the heart of the West, where men and women are strictly separated. To me and millions of Iranian women, this does not look like a choice. It is no longer "My body, my choice," but rather "My body for votes."
They who claim to fight for women's self-determination in the name of feminism voluntarily embrace an ideology that mandates our women cover their hair simply because they are women. They enjoy the prosperity, freedom, and privileges of the Western world, where they may live as autonomous individuals , yet they simultaneously accept that other women should not be afforded the same rights.
#LetUsTalk
«Tenho uma teoria. Quanto maior o disparate, maior a sua divulgação. E agora vou provar que tenho razão, divulgando eu própria o disparate.»
https://t.co/nq9E82nqCB
NO JOKE: 🇨🇳 China, which oppresses 1.5 billion people and gave the world the Coronavirus, has just been elected to the @WHO Executive Board, empowering Xi Jinping to shape global health policy.
WATCH: @HillelNeuer reveals which U.N. officials are funded by Qatar, China, and Russia to attack America, Israel, and the West at the United Nations.
Read UN Watch's new report here: https://t.co/1sryrmtv8E
🚨 BREAKING: New report by UN Watch reveals UN “experts” accepted millions of dollars from China, Russia, and Qatar before attacking the U.S., Israel, and the West.
🧵 See the report’s most striking findings:
While Trump negotiates a deal with the Islamic Republic, a deal with zero human rights clauses, regime is hanging people in silence. Today they hanged another innocent Iranian.
Mojtaba Kian was arrested, tried, and executed in less than 50 days.
All of it happened under a 13-week internet blackout the longest state-imposed digital blackout in human history.
No witnesses. No international pressure. No chance for his family to scream for help.
You cannot make peace with a regime that executes their own people faster than the world can count them.
None of the U.S. presidents included human rights as a central condition in their nuclear deals with the Islamic Republic. That omission gave the regime power, money, legitimacy, and time while the Iranian people paid the price.
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Mr. President @BarackObama! Recently, you said the Iran nuclear deal "worked."
Congratulation, sir .You're right and here, I explain exactly how it worked for us, the Iranian people. The ones who weren't at the negotiating table.
I think you'll find it very… illuminating.