@WONDEROUSW0MAN I feel horrible for the Palestinians who're being actively murdered en masse and having their suffering be used by pseudo-activists to pat themselves on the back. It's always "Palestine this Palestine that" until they have to actually do something meaningful for the Palestinians.
People inside Iran are not symbols of anti-imperialism. They are not a tool for “bringing down the empire” for you. They are not there for you to hold up their corpses as symbols of the cruelty of the empire, and be silent whenever who killed them was the state you fetishize.
To those who say "it's her choice" I used to say the same thing about my own Hijab.
I was covered head to toe. Even on the beach. Even with my male relatives. And when people challenged me, I said: this is my choice. You know why? Because the other option was burning in hell, hung by my hair for eternity. That's what they taught me since childhood.
Yes, let me repeat it for you to just understand about our version of “freedom of choice.” I grew up in an Islamist culture that gave me two options. Cover yourself and go to heaven. Or don't cover, and be hanged by your hair and burned in hell.
Like when someone puts a gun to your head and says "you can go left or right", technically, yes, that's a choice.
I picked heaven. I called it freedom. And I believed it, because that's what happens when fear is all you've ever known.
And if you think I shouldn't be telling you my story, I don't care. I really, genuinely, from the bottom of my heart, don't care. The women still living under that "choice"? I care about them.
#LetUsTalk
They execute in war.
They execute in peace.
There is not a single day they stop executing.
They are hanging our sons and daughters for one “crime”: standing for their homeland and dreaming of a free Iran.
This is Benyamin Naghdi. A champion. A son of Iran. He has been dragged to the gallows on the basis of a forced confession.
Now he stands alone.
We’ve seen this nightmare before. We’ve woken up too many mornings to the news that another body has been handed back to a family after dawn, another life stolen by the Islamic Republic.
While the world looks away, they are already preparing the next execution.
These two Iranians were hanged this morning: Omid Behzad. Pouria Safvat.
The regime told their family not to talk to Media, keep quiet if you don’t want them to die. And now Two lives, ended. No announced arrest date. No trial date. Just "confessions." We know exactly how those confessions are taken.
The charge: working for Mossad. That's what they say about everyone who demands freedom. Mossad. CIA. The enemy. It's always the same script, label them a spy so the world looks away. When they send assassins in front of my house, they use the same script.
These young people just wanted to have a normal life, to have freedom.
Getting hanged for protesting. Getting hanged for demanding freedom. This has become the new normal and the world is watching it happen.
We don't deserve to be behind bars for wanting to be free. We don't deserve to open our doors and find assassins and killers standing outside.
#StopExecutionsInIran
Today, Iranian regime hanged him in secret in Shahroud، no warning, no farewell. His family was told to come at 3am to collect his body.
Arvin Kheirkhah was 20 years old. This is his last words to his family:
"Don't let me be forgotten. Don't let the path we walked go silent."
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☠️ Drugs are a critical part of the Islamic Republic's strategy, fueling both its global narcotics trafficking networks and the widespread drug use associated with the IRGC and its proxy groups.
Here, an IRGC sniper is seen using drugs before murdering Iranian youths and protestors.
Across the Islamic Republic's proxy network, Hezbollah has been linked to Captagon use and trafficking, while khat is widely chewed by the Houthis.
Drugs can numb empathy, lower inhibitions, and help normalize extreme violence, making it easier for fighters to commit brutal acts.
Beyond the battlefield, narcotics have long been intertwined with the financing, operations, and culture of many of the Islamic Republic's proxy forces.