MahdiSasar

Condensed Matter Physicist | A Wittgenstein Man Through & Through

[MahdiSasar @MahdiSasar]

همه عالم تن است و ایران دل
نیست گوینده زین قیاس خجل

چونکه ایران دل زمین باشد
دل ز تن به بود یقین باشد

[MahdiSasar @MahdiSasar]

There you go!

[tommaso @sillynous]

oh my god

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

When the 9/11 attacks happened, many Palestinians, including children, celebrated the attacks against the U.S., chanting "Allahu Akbar"

On the other hand, thousands of Iranian people showed solidarity with the USA and held candle vigils, chanting "condolences to America" and "death to terrorists".

[MahdiSasar @MahdiSasar]

I'll need some time to reflect on this amazing essay. But right now, I'm speechless...

[T. Greer @Scholars_Stage]

I strongly recommend you all read @ginevlily's essay "Silicon Man."

I'v spent the last five minutes attempting different adjectives to describe this essay--and the broader set of ideas and impulses it decocts down to essay form.

Always I circle back to the same word: evil.

[Malcolm Guite @malcolmguite]

For tonight's Spell in the Library I show you some of my mediaeval sources for vol III of Merlin's Isle which I am working on right now. https://t.co/OU1JsKvaPl

[Malcolm Guite @malcolmguite]

Midsummer night, and bonfires on the hill
Burn for the man who makes way for the Light:
‘He must increase and I diminish still,
Until his sun illuminates my night.’
A pair of sonnets for St. John the Baptist. https://t.co/Vg88hzJSRi

[Mark Dubowitz @mdubowitz]

The enduring delusion, across multiple presidents and decades, is that brutal ideological regimes like the CCP, Putin’s Russia, Kim’s North Korea, and Khamenei’s Iran can be bribed into moderation with cash, trade, and economic integration.

It reflects a uniquely American conceit: that our adversaries are just like us—that prosperity will trump ideology, and wealth will outweigh power, ambition, and fanaticism.

History keeps proving otherwise. Trump seems poised to make the same mistake as his predecessors. Reagan and the USSR seem to be the notable exception.

[Cina Foroutan-Nejad 🇮🇷 🇵🇱 @CForoutanNejad]

Republicans and Democrats may disagree on almost everything.

Yet when it comes to human rights in Iran, there is remarkable bipartisan consensus: ignore them, postpone them, and sacrifice them whenever they become inconvenient.

#IranMassacre‌

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Straits of Hormuz are named after Ahura Mazda from Zoroastrianism

[Mark R. Levin @marklevinshow]

I actually like this from Issues & Insights, which no one else to my knowledge has mentioned.

"Just as the Nazis were held accountable for their crimes, the remaining “leaders” of the [Iranian] regime must be brought to justice for the terrorism they’ve wrought abroad and the offenses, including tens of thousands of murders, they’ve committed at home. The best that any could hope for should be house arrest for life in a country far from the Middle East, which they should prefer over the obliteration they should be told they will receive if they don’t submit. We are dealing with tyrants, butchers of humans whose claim to absolute power justifies their evil acts. Extending mercy endangers hundreds of millions."

https://t.co/fZO04QafW5

[NetBlocks @netblocks]

ℹ️ #Iran's internet connectivity has now been in a state of restoration for 24 hours. Service remains heavily filtered, with new restrictions on messaging and app stores compared to pre-January. Calls for a free and open internet transcend political divisions and should be heard.

[NetBlocks @netblocks]

⌛️ It's now the 87th consecutive day of #Iran's internet blackout which has been in place for over 2064 hours. The measure has eliminated any transparency around executions, adding to the inhumane conditions and daily uncertainty faced by jailed critics, dissidents and tourists.

[Mahnaz Shirali | مهناز شیرالی @MahnazShirali]

یا واقعیت را میبینیم، مطابق آن تصمیم میگیریم و عمل می‌کنیم ؛ یا باید و شاید و اگر در می‌آوریم، همه را شماتت کرده، فحاشی می‌کنیم و نهایتا دیگران را نا‌امید کرده ‌و خودمان در ناامیدی غوطه‌ور میشویم.

واقعیت اینست که جوان ایرانی برای نبرد و کشتن و کشته شدن تربیت نشده. برخلاف مادران فلسطینی، مادران ایرانی سرباز بدنیا نیاوردند و‌سرباز تربیت نکردند.
واقعیت اینست که یک شبه نمی توان به چریک و کماندو بدل شد.
واقعیت اینست که دشمن ما قاتلانی پرورده که جنایت و تجاوز و کشتار مایه افتخارشان است.

اینجا بود که ما فهمیدیم بدون کمک خارجی از پس این جنایتکاران علیه بشریت بر نمی آییم و این هیچ جای شرمندگی ندارد، واقعیت محض است.

ما با صدای بلند از جامعه جهانی کمک خواستیم و هیچکس به کمک ما نیامد مگر اسراییل و امریکا.
بدون کمک آنها خامنه ای هنوز زنده بود و پسر بی همه ‌چیزش محو نشده بود.
بدون کمک خارجی، حکومت همچنان در حال پول پارو کردن و غارت ثروت ما بود.

بجای فرمان قیام دادن به‌ یک ملت در بند،
بجای اینکه از خارج دستور این میدهید که به هیچکس
امید نباید داشت و بجای رواج نا‌امیدی، واقعیات را همانگونه که هستند ببینید و برای آن حل بیاندیشید.

[Mark Dubowitz @mdubowitz]

If this deal is being praised by Rob Malley, Wendy Sherman, and Ben Rhodes, that’s a strong indication we may be looking at another fatally flawed agreement — one that amounts to surrender to Iran.

I’ll reserve final judgment until we see the details.

[Richard Nixon Foundation @nixonfoundation]

For the mothers.

[Cina Foroutan-Nejad 🇮🇷 🇵🇱 @CForoutanNejad]

کاش اینهایی که مدام می‌گن راه فلان مبارزه "مدنیه" بگن روزهای ۱۸ و ۱۹ دی دقیقا چه نوع مبارزه‌ای انجام شد. آیا جز این بود که یک عده به "مدنی‌ترین شکل ممکن" خواستار کناره‌گیری حکومتی شدند که توان تامین امنیت، اقتصاد و آینده ایران را ندارد و همزمان شکل حکومت مد نظرشون را در عموم اعلام کردند؟ مگه انقلابهای رنگی که مثال مورد علاقه همه کنشگران مدنیست چیزی جز این بودند؟
عده‌ای در کشورهای بلوک شرق سابق خواستار پایان کمونیسم و جانشینی حکومتهای کمونیستی با حکومتهای آزاد شدند. از قضا حکومتها هم به شکلی کمابیش مدنی با تغییر از طریق رفراندوم موافقت کردند.

[Sana Ebrahimi Ledene @SanaELedene]

Hey @elonmusk,

They just murdered a man in Iran for owning a Starlink terminal.
Iran has now been under a total internet blackout for 62 days.
This is why Starlink isn’t just cool tech, it is freedom.
The world needs to see this. Please help amplify.🙏🏻

[Kusha @kusha_alagband]

Tucker Carlson calls Iran “one of the most liberal countries in the Middle East” and then lets out that insane Jack Nicholson in the shining laugh, while the actual footage shows bodies in the streets, teenagers shot in the head, the January massacres, an entire country in an internet blackout for the last 60 days. Someone is paying him to say this. Qatar, the regime, take your pick. And when any of us Iranians with our real names and verified accounts push back, we’re called “Israeli bots.” Watch the video.

[MahdiSasar @MahdiSasar]

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[Reza Pahlavi Communications @PahlaviComms]

من اینجا هستم تا بگویم چقدر مهم است که جهان فقط نظاره‌گر نباشد، بلکه به شیوه‌ای انسانی برای نجات جان‌های بیشتر مداخله کند.

شاهزاده رضا پهلوی
برلین، ۳ اردیبهشت ۲۵۸۵/۱۴۰۵

[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.