Amir Masoumzadeh

Associate Professor of Computer Science at SUNY Albany, security/privacy researcher

[Reza Pahlavi @PahlaviReza]

Whether or not Europe stands with us, whether or not your journalists do their jobs, whether or not your politicians demonstrate the courage to act, I will fight for my people and my country.

[Miad Maleki @miadmaleki]

Thanks for reading, Phil, I know it's quite a contrast to your December 2017 NYT op-ed advising President Trump to 'be quiet and do nothing' while Iranians were being slaughtered in the streets in Iran.

1/4 Let's start with a basic premise that undermines your entire framing: the Iranian people have not benefited from their country's wealth since 1979. The Islamic Republic's fiscal architecture was never designed to serve its population; it was designed to fund a revolutionary project.

Oil revenues flow to the IRGC, the Basij, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and an economically unjustified nuclear program. What flows to ordinary Iranians is blackouts, inflation, and $7/month subsidy checks. Sanctioning that revenue stream doesn't hurt Iranians, it defunds the apparatus that oppresses them. Roughly one-third of Iran's oil goes directly to the IRGC and Supreme Leader-linked entities: the very apparatus most responsible for massacring Iranians and setting up drone manufacturing sites in our backyard, Venezuela.

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

We wake up every morning to the news of another execution.
They are traumatizing an entire nation.
This morning the Islamic Republic executed Ali Fahim, another detainee for protesting.

With this execution, the number of political prisoners put to death in Iran’s prisons over the past week has risen to 11.

Say their names.
Do not normalize this.

#StopExecutionsInIran

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

“They shot me in the eyes.”

Not metaphorically. Not politically. Literally the Islamic Republic shot @kosareftekharii and intentionally blinded her for protesting during “Woman,Life, Freedom” revolution.

And meanwhile, in Berlin, some are out there holding Islamic flags chanting for the same ideology that blinded her:
“Hussein, Hussein is our pride… martyrdom is our pride.”

Let’s be clear: if your “pride” requires women to lose their eyesight for asking basic rights, that’s not culture, that’s cruelty, that’s crime against humanity with a PR team in Western countries.

You don’t get to celebrate martyrdom in Europe while exporting misery to Iran. That’s not solidarity. Stand with the victims who lost their eyes or the family members of those who love their children, not with Islamic Republic.
Stay strong Kosar.

💔✌️

[Karim Sadjadpour @ksadjadpour]

1 The defining deliberations of this war aren't between the US and Iran, but Trump and himself. He’s vacillated between walking away and promising to bomb Iran to the Stone Age. Iran has been consistent: Its ideology is resistance, its strategy is chaos, its endgame is survival.

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

I’m not just angry. I’m furious with you Elizabeth Warren.

Stop using the suffering of my people as political ammunition against Donald Trump.

You say you are grieving for those killed in this “unnecessary war.”
Really? I checked your social media. More than 20 posts attacking President Trump after he removed a monster terrorist of Iran, Ali Khamenei, but not one post grieving the massacre of more than 32,000 unarmed Iranian people. Why? Shocking.

More than 10,000 protesters were intentionally blinded by security forces. Young women were shot in the eyes. Students were beaten to death. Families were burying their children. Where were you then?

We are not a tool. The pain of us Iranians is not a talking point for your partisan battles.

As a woman, your silence while women in Iran were being shot, jailed, and blinded is more than disappointing. It is insulting. No it is beyond that. It is a slap in the face of Iranian mothers burying their children who have been killed by Islamic Republic.

I cannot ignore this hypocrisy.
Our suffering did not fit your narrative. Our voices were inconvenient. Now that the situation serves your political agenda, you speak loudly.

Very heartbreaking to see, powerful women in the West totally ignoring Iranians being slaughtered. 💔

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

To you, Zohran Mamdani! You stayed quiet when we have faced massacre, when Islamic Republic assassins were sent here in New York to kill us, stay quiet now!

STOP lecturing us Iranians about peace.

I don’t feel safe in New York listening to someone like you, Mamdani, who sympathizes with the regime that killed more than 30,000 unarmed Iranians in less than 24 hours. You talk about “safety” of this beautiful city? Listen carefully; Safety without justice means nothing.
We Iranians do not allow you to lecture us about war while you had nothing to say when the Islamic Republic shot schoolgirls and blinded more than 10,000 innocent people in the streets. You were busy celebrating the hijab while women of my beloved country Iran were jailed and raped by Islamic Security forces for removing it. And NOW you find your voice to defend the regime? No. I will not let you claim the moral high ground.
The people of Iran want to be free. Where were you when they needed solidarity?

New York belongs to people who stand against terrorism not those who excuse it.

This city is stronger than fear.
Stronger than propaganda.
Stronger than you think.

[Amir Masoumzadeh @archx0r]

What Four Protesters Witnessed During Iran’s Deadly Crackdown https://t.co/qbKbCGwYar

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

London, England, now

Khamenei fetishists out on the street celebrating his mass slaughter of Iranians

[Nazanin Boniadi @NazaninBoniadi]

According to the Islamic Republic, 11,000 Iranian civilians were killed in the 8 year Iran-Iraq war.

The regime has by all accounts killed more Iranian civilians in just 48 hours.

[Nariman Gharib @NarimanGharib]

We've received some reports indicating that the Iranian regime is using handheld/vehicular scanners to detect WiFi signals (especially networks with default or strong names) to locate Starlink sources.

Why? Because WiFi is FAR easier to detect than satellite signals. Starlink's uplink/downlink is highly directional and hard to pinpoint from ground level, but your router's WiFi broadcasts in all directions from your home.

If your friends are inside Iran using Starlink: tell them to enable Bypass Mode to disable the built-in WiFi, or at minimum hide their SSID and change the network name.

[Sarah Raviani @sarahraviani]

This came after thousands were killed in just 48 hours and nearly 20,000 people were reportedly arrested. Iran already has one of the highest execution rates in the world, often leading per capita and second only to China in total numbers.

If there were truly no plans to continue the killing, the internet would not still be shut down. The blackout exists for one reason: to hide the regime’s brutality from the world.

Halting executions does not mean the violence has stopped. It only buys the regime time to torture innocents and prepare the next wave of repression out of sight.

[Amir Masoumzadeh @archx0r]

Hear @AlinejadMasih's powerful voice at the UN Security Council emergency meeting on Iran as she addresses the regime’s massacre. Notice the Islamic regime representative’s leg trembling in the opening seconds whether from fear or rage, certainly not shame

[Mark Dubowitz @mdubowitz]

Kudos to @USUN and @USAmbUN for this UNSC hearing and for amplifying Iranian-American voices.

@AlinejadMasih and @radiojibi testified to the regime’s brutality firsthand. Tragically, there are countless more stories.

[Iran International English @IranIntl_En]

At least 12,000 people were killed in the largest killing in Iran’s contemporary history, carried out largely over two consecutive nights on January 8 and 9, Iran International’s editorial board concluded, based on a review of sources and medical data.

Iran is under a coordinated blackout aimed not only at security control but at concealing the truth, reflected in internet cuts, crippled communications, media shutdowns, and the intimidation of journalists and witnesses.

Publication was delayed until the evidence converged.

The assessment is based on a multi-stage review of information from a source close to the Supreme National Security Council; two sources in the presidential office; accounts from several sources within the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Mashhad, Kermanshah and Isfahan; testimonies from eyewitnesses and families of those killed; field reports; data linked to medical centers; and information provided by doctors and nurses in multiple cities.
https://t.co/EPjCpZlr2p

[Mehdi Parpanchi @Parpanchi]

For Western media, casualty figures released by Hamas are treated as undisputed fact and quoted immediately.

But when Khamenei’s security forces slaughter thousands of people in Iran in just three days, Western media fall silent. Instead, they cautiously repeat figures like “65 dead,” carefully avoiding anything that might endanger their access. Many Western journalists are actively seeking visas now and know exactly where the red lines are.

In a matter of days or weeks, the slaughterhouse will be washed clean and prepared for your visit. You will be escorted through a staged reality and introduced to handpicked families who will tell you their Basiji son was killed by rioters, or that their daughter was killed by rioters while she was returning home from school!

You will report the Islamic Republic’s narrative and publish it as news.

Have a safe trip.

[Jason Brodsky @JasonMBrodsky]

Horrifying footage from Kahrizak Medical Examiner's Office in Tehran, #Iran. This was on Thursday, January 8. The Islamic Republic is engaged in a massacre of the Iranian people. The Iranian people need support from the U.S. and its allies and partners beyond tweets and statements. And Khamenei and his henchmen need to pay dearly for this.

[Mark Dubowitz @mdubowitz]

“U.S. action will unite Iranians behind the regime.”

BULLSHIT. ABSOLUTE BULLSHIT.

We’ve been fed this lie by regime defenders for decades.

It never happens.

Iranians are being massacred.

American action needed — now.

[Thomas Chatterton Williams @thomaschattwill]

One of the hardest things to empathize with: genuinely ignorant westerners enjoying a quality of life the overwhelming majority of human beings of any place or time would give anything to experience glamorizing backwards politics and ideologies that would devour them if given half the chance.

[Kasra Aarabi @KasraAarabi]

1)🚨 Let’s talk chemical poisoning attacks on schools in Iran which have specifically targeted schoolgirls. These ongoing attacks have received v little media attention, so in this 🧵 @SaeidGolkar & I take an in-depth look and analyse 👇

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

Wow I’m speechless! Today the US government asked the Iranian regime that killed #MahsaAmini and more than 500 people who protested her murder to investigate their own crimes.
On @CNN I responded to this nonsense and gave more details about the chemical attacks on schoolgirls.
@donlemon https://t.co/s9F88ghFOw