Sanam Skelly

Former Concierge Extraordinaire, now I podcast. Will @ companies that do me dirty.

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@IRideMDT I wouldn’t usually comment on something like this, but the volume for the speakers in car 381 of the green line train is way too loud. It’s like getting stabbed in the ears every time the conductor speaks. Please fix this.

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@nkminea @IranIntl To destroy the prison. They will take everyone down with them. This is my greatest fear.

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@HeidiBachram LIBERATION MOVEMENT?! Slaughtering your people in the streets is liberating? These insane leftists are gonna turn me into a republican.

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@newnewstan @ShauhinDavari Just saw this. Hilarious.

[ShauhinDavari @ShauhinDavari]

Ed is invited to the mehmooni

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@newnewstan @ShauhinDavari I love this @ShauhinDavari 😂

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My cousin @ShauhinDavari is on @survivorcbs #Season48!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ShauhinDavari @ShauhinDavari]

Sue walked so I could run.

YOU KNOW THE DEAL.

#Survivor48 premieres tonight. 8pm. CBS.

#contour

[Ben Katzman @BKdegreaser69]

my new favorite tv show #californiagurls

#survivor48

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@ShauhinDavari @survivorcbs Fantastic shirt

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My cousin is on @survivorcbs !!!!!!!!!

[ShauhinDavari @ShauhinDavari]

Just to be clear. My mom is single and emotionally available.

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@Alice_Wilder I’ve been waiting for this moment. My cousin is on season 48 of survivor and I need a fan to fan girl about it with.

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Who do we need to rally at @netflix for a 2nd season of #KAOS ? It’s amazing!

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@jonlovett when does your feed turn into a Survivor reel?

[Nazanin Boniadi @NazaninBoniadi]

Grammy Award-winning Iranian recording artist @HajipourShervin has been ordered by the Islamic Republic authorities to start his 3 yr & 8 month prison sentence within the next few days. Simply for his using his art to stand for the rights of the Iranian people. #ShervinHajipour

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“Now if you standing in the door, you holding the door, you’re not hurtin me, I’m making money.” The N train conductor keeping it real and keeping it chill. #nyc #mta

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People walking 3-across arm in arm on an NYC sidewalk is some sh*t.

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Ralph’s a name we don’t hear anymore.

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The #IRCG has revitalized its terror campaign against its own people.

Listen to my episode for Sports Explains the World to hear @ParisaFarshidi describe her own experience of arrest. They will never stop until they are stopped.

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[Elica Le Bon الیکا‌ ل بن @elicalebon]

Hamid Nouri, who was tried and convicted by Sweden for his role on the 1980’s “death committee” in Iran under the newly formed Islamic Republic—ordering the extrajudicial lynching of thousands of Iranians—was just released back to Iran.

For a long time, Iranians feared after a Swedish EU diplomat, Johan Floderus, was detained on his travels to Iran, that the Islamic Republic was holding him as leverage to get back Nouri.

Sadly, we were not wrong. While the Swedish government did nothing when their Swedish-Iranian citizen Habib Chaab was kidnapped to Iran in exchange for Nouri—responding that they did not and would not negotiate with terrorists, resulting in Chaab being lynched just last year—they have suddenly changed their tune.

Now, the Swedish government has decided it actually does negotiate with terrorists, but only for ethnically Swedish citizen Johan Floderus, just like Belgium created new extradition laws just to negotiate with terrorists for its Belgian citizen, Olivier Vandercasteele (in exchange for a regime agent who came to the border of France with explosives and planned to blow up protests).

Sometimes, if they’re lucky, some Iranian dual citizens are tacked onto the end of that deal and come through the back door with them.

Meanwhile, dual Iranian hostages held in Iran, like Swedish citizen Ahmad Reza Jalili (a disaster medicine doctor held for 8 years, convicted of “espionage” in a sham trial, and sentenced to death), and German-American Jamshid Sharmahd (a software engineer held for 3 years, convicted of “corruption on earth” in a sham trial, and sentenced to death) are left behind to languish in terror cells.

“Well, what else can they do?”

1. Stop doing billion dollar oil & trade deals with the regime. If western governments didn’t empower them so much, they wouldn’t have to figure out chess moves to untangle us from their terror.

2. Prioritize Iranians. If hostage-prisoner exchanges are unavoidable, treat the lives of your Iranian citizens just like European and Americans, not second-class citizens.

Every time you release a terrorist, the Islamic Republic receives positive reinforcement to send more agents out to commit terror in the west, then take innocent hostages in exchange for getting their agents back.

It is a win-win for them and a lose-lose for the world, and we just keep spinning in the wheel of hell.

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@thehouseofpod Mark Manson! He wrote the article “Love is Not Enough,” which I live by.