تاج بخش

somewhere in economics. // your being for your people.

[Narjes Rahmati 🟩☫🟥 نرجس رحمتی @Narjes_Rahmati]

More scenes.

Sadly, the number of martyrs has now risen to four in this American terrorist attack on a wedding.

[Workshops4Gaza @Workshops4Gaza]

That letter was timed to rally popular support for this latest round of U.S. bombing of Iran, and everyone who signed it is a war criminal.

[تاج بخش @khoosh_]

@ggktly That professorship must not have been one of the opportunities the rest of us have been accused of espousing our views to get

[تاج بخش @khoosh_]

She’s drawn an overly long false equivalence between Iran & “Israel,” in the same vein as the Guardian letter she has been so frantically defending did.

Granted, this seems to be a common position certain groups are taking, but I have started to wonder if she is one of the writers of the letter.

[Fatemeh Shams @ShazzShams]

Imagine, for a moment, if this letter had been signed to stop the execution of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons or prisoners of any other nation for that matter.

Would we have faced this level of outrage, pressure, and rapidly manufactured excuses and false claims? And how would those attacking the letter be judged? Wouldn’t many of the same people be rightly called out for racism, hypocrisy, or selective outrage?

So why the double standard? If the execution of Palestinian or prisoners or those of any other nation is worthy of international condemnation, then the execution of Iranian prisoners should be too. If state violence against one group deserves solidarity, why does solidarity suddenly become complicated when the victims are Iranian?

You don’t get to claim that human rights are universal while applying them selectively.

Just ask yourself: if the victims were Palestinian, would you be making the same arguments you are making now?

[تاج بخش @khoosh_]

And it is possible that she, at the very least, offered input/edits or is in the in-group behind it. The two attempts at “regime change” she participated in & supported (“revolutions,” some call them these days) failed, as did this March letter that she attached herself to, which has similar wording about the scissors.

One must always try, try again. Eventually, there must be a tree that will bear fruit…right?

https://t.co/2OruhmGEiT

[Alex Turrall @ImReadinHere]

Interestingly, another petition from March started by a group of 'civil activists' and signed by (I think all) Iranian public figures and organizations, which uses the wording of 'trapped between two blades of a pair of scissors'

[Richard @afc_richard]

@themagic_tophat Updated….

[تاج بخش @khoosh_]

Am I just not seeing it or is there genuinely no Anki equivalent mobile app that doesn’t require payment or have some weird AI function built in?

[Iran land @Iranland7]

دنیای عجیببه

از بمباران ایران و کشته شدن مردم خوشحال بود، حالا نگران جیب مردم ایران شده.

به هر کی بگی،فکر می‌کنه اسم صفحه فلات اسرائیله

کشوری که زیرساختی براش نمونده و هر کس یه گوشه‌ش روگرفته،ویزاکارت شده دستاورد.اگه همه‌چیز خوبه، چرا سوری‌ها برنمیگردن و دنبال فرار از سوریه‌ن؟

[تاج بخش @khoosh_]

@aqsa_immortal She only ever tries to substantiate her views by basically going “I’m more Iranian than all of you,” the latest rendition of which seems to be “my mother suffered because of the Iranians AND the Americans.” She suffers because of both sides! The perfect Iranian (victim).

[تاج بخش @khoosh_]

But that’s the point. This is another facet of the decades long war effort against Iran. The intent of those like Shams is to silence a specific type of Iranian as much as they can: the ones who do not run around speaking of Iran through the same exceptionalised vilification lens & are capable of poking substantive holes in their narratives the way Ameli did re: the fictitious transgender section.

The two most effective ways to bring about silencing are either through leading the mob to ruin the target's reputation or creating enough attention around them that they are...found dead.

[Maryam Jamshidi (msjamshidi.bsky.social) @MsJamshidi]

It’s so sad to watch Iranians turn on each other like this. After what happened to Jason Arday, you’d think a prof like @ShazzShams would think twice b4 impugning the reputation of another academic, esp one who is also an Iranian woman. As a @Penn alum Im disappointed to see this

[تاج بخش @khoosh_]

Choose your vatan foroosh, the one who wrote the lie to further the perception of Iranian savagery or the one who helped him cover for it until she saw it became ammo against their cause.

« When this report from the Guardian was spread, I called you and said why are you writing lies, no one other than I has any communication with Sakineh’s family. You said please don’t expose it, because I’ll get fired and maybe deported [from the UK] and maybe even executed. This is the only reason I didn’t expose it. »

[Mina Ahadi @MinaAhadi9]

وقتی این گزارش از گاردین پخش شد، زنگ زدم به تو و گفتم چرا دروغ می‌نویسی، جز من کسی با خانواده سکینه ارتباط ندارد. گفتی لطفا افشاگری نکن چون اخراج و شاید دیپورت شوم و ممکنست اعدام شوم. فقط و فقط به همین دلیل افشاگری نکردم.
آقای سعید کمالی دهقان، در آغوش حکومت اسلامی آرام بگیر و بیش از اینها خرابکاری نکن.

[تاج بخش @khoosh_]

@GeneralJacq @danker_hank "Khomenei" huh. You really know your stuff.

[تاج بخش @khoosh_]

The propagation of myths like the one below is why I had no interest in any claims that people were blowing the atrocious Guardian letter out of proportion.

This one self-spawned & continues to be repeated to this day, having successfully create a (perceived) cultural norm that helped further the idea of Iran as a land of savage animals.

[Mo Mahdinejad 🎒 @MOMNJD]

سکینه محمدی آشتیانی رو یادتونه؟
زنی که شوهرش رو کشته بود و بدروغ گفته میشد حکم سنگسار گرفته! دروغی که باعث شد حتی یه فیلمم با تاثیر ازش ساخته بشه؟
مثل روزهای پس از #دی_۱۴۰۴ چقدر تو سر و کلمون زدیم و اشک ریختیم حالا معلوم شده که کل داستان ساختگی بوده و مصاحبه جعلی!
همش دروغه! همش!

[Workshops4Gaza @Workshops4Gaza]

This letter protests, among other things, the fact that Iran “calls for the elimination of Israel.” So Angela Davis, Robin DG Kelly and the other signatories believe that Israel has a right to exist.

[PressTV Extra @PresstvExtra]

Iranian Sunni security force member Nader Sarani Sakhi was martyred after being attacked by armed terrorists in the Shirabad district of Zahedan, in Iran’s Sistan and Baluchestan Province.

[تاج بخش @khoosh_]

“If the sky were green, it would be green.” But it’s not; it’s blue.

It would be far more efficient & honest for those who have been running defence this past weekend to just come to terms with how their foundational politics are imperialism-laden instead of creating imaginary scenarios in an attempt to justify the moral void that appears inherent to their general “leftist” belief systems.

[Paused Homer 🏴 @StephenElsberry]

Like Iran and other ‘anti-imperialist’ states wouldn’t create their own empires if the US vanished

[تاج بخش @khoosh_]

@ImReadinHere @inquilabzin She removed the excuse that she didn’t read it before signing.

https://t.co/aFQhff3urp

[🗝️🔻💐 lifeline4gaza.com 💐🔻 🗝️ @rveedotte]

OK well you should explain how it got there in the first place @minlayla77

[Dr Vira Ameli | ویرا عاملی @viraameli]

Much has already been written about the hypocrisy of this letter. But one claim deserves particular attention. The authors repeat the story that Israel struck the ‘transgender section’ of Evin prison, purportedly housing 100 transgender prisoners. This false story circulated internationally after it was reported by the New York Times, before later investigations found no evidence to support it and the key source denied ever making the claim attributed to him.

Having spent my PhD years researching HIV in Iran, a subject that necessarily involved studying the legal, social and healthcare realities facing transgender people, I know full well that transgender people are not imprisoned in Iran for being transgender. Iran legally recognises transgender people and permits gender reassignment surgery. Furthermore, there are no dedicated prison wings housing 100 transgender prisoners.

Yet people who were willing to uncritically repeat such an implausible story are now writing open letters to Iranian prisoners, as though they possess a deep understanding of the people they claim to write to. It is another reminder of how often narratives about Iran are constructed from assumptions and second-hand mythologies, rather than from serious engagement with realities on the ground.

https://t.co/Sav02QXd2I

[تاج بخش @khoosh_]

I would argue it's not hard to refuse at all.

It is correct that in refusing, you will probably not end up with a substantial level of any of the attributes listed below, e.g., you won't end up monetarily wealthy or regularly receiving accolades from the masses. However, none of these are actually able to hold you when you inevitably find yourself floating through life nor are you able to take them with you to greet God when you return to him.

[Sunny Singh @ProfSunnySingh]

A reminder to be wary of those who speak of justice and liberation from the imperial core. Empire’s lure of power adjacency, influence, comfort and legacy are VERY hard to refuse (and yet refuse we must)