Reading @clairlemon 's account of the Adelaide literary intifada but, in a Smorgasbord of lunacy, this is insane
'In 2024, Abdel-Fattah helped drive Jewish Australian songwriter Deborah Conway out of the Perth Festival’s Literature and Ideas program for “normalising genocide”'
My compatriots,
The world has not just seen and heard your voice and courage, it is now responding.
By now, you have probably heard the message from the President of the United States. Help is on the way.
Continue the fight, as you have done so far.
Do not allow this regime to create the illusion that life is normal.
After all the massacres, there is a sea of blood between us and this regime.
Save the names of all these criminals. They will be prosecuted for what they have done.
But I also have a special message for members of the Army.
You are the national military of Iran, not the military of the Islamic Republic.
You have a duty to protect the lives of your compatriots.
You do not have much time. Join them as soon as possible.
My Fellow Countrymen,
The Islamic Republic has reached its end and is in the process of collapsing. Khamenei, like a frightened rat, has gone into hiding underground and has lost control of the situation. What has begun is irreversible. The future is bright, and together, we will pass through this sharp turn in history.
In these difficult days, my heart is with all the defenseless citizens who have been harmed and have fallen victim to Khamenei's warmongering and delusions. For years, I have tried to prevent our homeland from being consumed by the fire of war.
The end of the Islamic Republic is the end of its 46-year war against the Iranian nation.
The regime’s apparatus of repression is falling apart. All it takes now is a nationwide uprising to put an end to this nightmare once and for all.
Now is the time to rise; the time to reclaim Iran. Let us all come forward—from Bandar Abbas to Bandar Anzali, from Shiraz to Isfahan, from Tabriz to Zahedan, from Mashhad to Ahvaz, from Shahr-e Kord to Kermanshah—and bring about the end of this regime.
Do not fear the day after the fall of the Islamic Republic. Iran will not descend into civil war or instability. We have a plan for Iran’s future and its flourishing. We are prepared for the first hundred days after the fall, for the transitional period, and for the establishment of a national and democratic government—by the Iranian people and for the Iranian people.
To the military, law enforcement, security forces, and state employees—many of whom have been sending me messages in recent days—I say: Do not stand against the Iranian people for the sake of a regime whose fall has begun and is inevitable. Do not sacrifice yourselves for a decaying regime. By standing with the people, you can save your lives. Play a historic role in the transition from the Islamic Republic, and take part in building the future of Iran.
A free and flourishing Iran lies ahead of us. May we be together soon.
Long live Iran!
Long live the Iranian nation!
Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister @Antonio_Tajani sends a strong message—Now more than ever, it’s clear—@UNRWA is not the solution; it’s the problem:
“We don’t want to work with UNRWA, and we condemn the use of UNRWA offices as a prison for Israeli hostages.”
Our national broadcaster @ABCaustralia, funded by tax payers’ money, has aired a segment totally legitimising praise for a listed terrorist organisation.
Every Aussie should be complaining.
Enough is is enough @AlboMP@VictoriaPolice#auspol#Australia#protests
So, apparently Hamas’ top guy in Lebanon, Fateh Essharif, also runs UNRWA's teachers association.
And UNRWA,being the ever-vigilant institution,even rewarded him with a certificate of appreciation.
Maybe @UNLazzarini would care to explain what exactly UNRWA is up to these days?
Support for a proscribed terrorist organisation has no place on the streets of Melbourne.
Anyone breaking counter-terrorism legislation should face the full force of the law.
Today Melbourne had its ‘Sydney Opera House moment’, with open incitement of violence towards the Jewish community - the predictable consequence of failing to enforce the law since 7 October. Extremism like this will flourish until there are consequences.
Why the hell is @VictoriaPolice allowing these extremists to take our streets hostage in the name of a prescribed terror organisation?!
ARREST AND DEPORT NOW!!
@australian Offer them a pay increase in line with inflation on the condition that their productivity increases. If they disagree, hire new workers and terminate their employment.
If you look around the Middle East & conclude the biggest human rights problem is tiny, multi-cultural, democratic Israel, worthy of dozens of UN condemnations while the murderous, anti-women, anti-freedom dictatorships around it are not, you are at best a useful idiot.
Providing a platform for authoritarian regimes to have equal status with democratic nations has turned the UN into a cesspool. It was designed to freeze the Cold War between nuclear superpowers, and it mostly worked. The model became obsolete & toxic when the Cold War ended.