Heartbreaking 💔
They killed a 21-year-old rapper in prison. No one knows how.
Erfan Mirzaei, a 21-year-old rapper arrested during Iran’s January protests.
His “crime”? A video on his phone showing that he had attended protests.
The regime used that video to accuse him of moharebeh (“waging war against God”) and sentence him to death.
Now, no one can say for certain how Erfan died.
Some reports say he was secretly executed early Sunday morning, September 6, without his family being informed. Others, citing people close to him, say he died after months of torture and beatings aimed at forcing a confession.
When his body was returned, his family reportedly found his hands, legs and pelvis broken, with bruises and swelling covering his face and body.
His family says they had previously been threatened not to speak about his fate.
Even his burial was kept secret. Authorities reportedly refused to allow him to be buried in Isfahan and buried him under heavy security in the village of Gharghen in Faridan.
We don’t know whether Erfan was executed or beaten to death in prison. His family doesn’t know either.
But we know this:
Iran’s regime has silenced the voice of a 21-year-old artist forever.
#Erfan_Mirzaei
World Cup Exit Reactions:
🇰🇷South Korea: immediate national inquiry, special tribunal. Coach canceled from polite society
🇳🇴Norway: Massive rowing party in downtown Oslo. Everyone’s drunk on aquavit and happy
🇺🇸USA: sorry? what is this sport? oh right, it's gay anyway
🏴England: TUCHEL OUT in 48-point Impact font on the front pages and endless streams of commentators dissecting the 4-2-3-1 formation. Total self-flagellation and promises to never believe that football's ever coming home again
🇧🇷Brazil: 18,000-word philosophical treatises tracing the decline of the Seleção to the rise of neopentecostalism
🇯🇵Japan: Coach performs polite post-match bow; promises to further develop youth academies and do better
🇩🇪Germany: Emergency DFB (Deutscher Fußball-Bund) Summit to analyze what went wrong with soul-searching German efficiency and thoroughness. Already produced tactical white paper titled “Gegenpressing 2.0: Rebuilding the German Soul.”
🇦🇷Argentina:
Lo de la @Argentina (@AFA) es la definición de antifútbol y mal perder. No supieron ganar en el campo y han demostrado una falta de dignidad absoluta fuera de él. Dar la espalda y negar el aplauso a la @SEFutbol es una actitud marrullera, tosca e inaceptable para profesionales.
China runs the largest environmental deficit on the planet. It burns more coal than the rest of the world combined, floods global markets with subsidized products that destroy local industries from Brazil to Germany, and fishes out oceans that belong to everyone. And yet Pew and Gallup find that across Latin America, Africa and Southeast Asia, China now polls better than the United States. The explanation is uncomfortable: America is losing the contest of narratives by choice.
China shows up with ports, railways and loans. The terms are often predatory, but the pitch is respectful. American leadership, meanwhile, talks about acquiring Greenland, absorbing Canada and taking back the Panama Canal. To a voter in Copenhagen or Panama City, one superpower offers infrastructure and the other offers annexation. Every demand for Greenland is a Chinese talking point. Every tariff on a friend confirms the story Beijing tells the Global South: that America is imperial and China is merely transactional.
The substantive case against China is overwhelming: intellectual property theft, dumping, debt traps, the Uyghurs. America should win this argument in a walk. Strength attracts and coercion repels. America built the most successful alliance system in history by being the country others wanted to join, never the country others feared being swallowed by. China has no allies, only clients. The free world follows America because it chooses to, and no empire was ever loved into existence by threatening its friends.
@EkonomiGabriel Nope det är rätt från början. Comunidad de vecinos är dom som sköter gemensamma utrymmen och kostnader. I Spanien finns inte BRfser. Finns nog bara i Sverige
TV and newspaper editors used to decide what made the news. Now non-human algorithms designed to maximize engagement decide what most people see. Is it any wonder that we can no longer agree on the most basic facts?
From Sept 2025 @howtoacademy event with @ritulashah. Watch the whole thing: https://t.co/JpvX1X5VHY