America should not be looking for a 🤝 w/ a regime that killed 40k in Jan in the blink of an eye and yet is free riding on the corpses of the children of Minab for propaganda.
Nor should the US have been forced to idle for the Iranians so that journalists could clear the room.
ایران ما، امروز بیش از هر زمان دیگری به اتحاد نیروهای ملی نیاز دارد. چه با حمایت خارجی و چه بدون آن، سرنوشت ایران در دستان خود ماست. ما از این رژیم فرسوده و درمانده نیرومندتریم. ما از مزدورانی که برای نمایشهای تبلیغاتی به خیابان فرستاده میشوند، مصممتر و استوارتریم.
That some in USG (and in the Iran Watcher community around the world) think this guy offers a measure of moderation would be laughable if its implications weren’t so tragic.
On Jan. 8–9, Iranians took to the streets demanding an end to the Islamic Republic. The regime's forces massacred tens of thousands of them.
Shabnam Ferdowsi was one of them: an artist who brought joy into people’s lives through dollmaking. This is a glimpse into her story.🧵
In @dcexaminer, NUFDI’s @ArmitaHooman argues that because of the Islamic Republic's ideology, the West must move beyond deterrence and support the Iranian people’s demand to end the regime.
Let's note well that the Iranian people that lost about 50k people at the hands of the Islamic regime, did not participate in the talks and thus is not represented by its outcome.
Iran is approaching 2,000 hours of a regime-imposed total internet shutdown.
Meanwhile, the Islamic Republic maintains access to the global internet as it tries to make the world forget about the people of Iran.
Silence enables repression. The world cannot look away.
And checkout the shade he is willing to throw at US reporters in Israel, while based in Iran, and using the internet which for 81 days now so many Iranians themselves are shut out from accessing. Truly shameful.
ICYMI: some threats don’t change.
The one reason why Iran has been unable to act on this threat since last summer, even in response to SnapBack, protests, war, and now the blockade is due to @POTUS’s decisive action again enrichment facilities and storage last June.
On Jan. 8–9, Iranians took to the streets en masse demanding an end to the Islamic Republic. The regime's forces massacred tens of thousands of them.
Masoud Zaatparvar, 38, an international bodybuilding champion, was one of them. This is a glimpse into his story.🧵
This morning, the regime executed Mohammad Abbasi after he was arrested during protests in January.
Another innocent Iranian murdered by the Islamic Republic on charges of "enmity against Allah".
His daughter, Fatemeh, was sentenced to 25 years.
This morning, the Islamic Republic executed Ehsan Afrashteh.
Ehsan was arrested in 2024 on false espionage charges and spent months in solitary confinement, where he was tortured into making false confessions.
The regime's machine of killing won't stop until it's gone.
Watch this short explainer to understand how the Islamic Republic builds networks of indoctrination in the United States, exporting the same ideology it uses to terrorize Iran.
Read NUFDI’s report, “The Islamic Republic’s Influence Network in the United States,” to learn more.
This morning, the Islamic Republic executed 29-year-old Master's student Erfan Shakourzadeh on false charges of espionage, after months of torture.
As the regime grows weaker and deals with unrest inside Iran, it continues to take its anger out on innocent Iranians.
This morning, the Islamic Republic murdered three more men arrested during the Lion and Sun Revolution.
The longer this regime is in power, the more innocent Iranians are killed, whether on the streets or through "trials."
Many more remain at risk of imminent execution.
Exactly. The people claiming the U.S. could’ve extended the sunsets once the regime had industrial-scale, advanced centrifuge-powered, near-zero nuclear breakout capability, 10,000 missiles, emerging ICBMs, a lethal proxy network, and $1T in sanctions relief are high on something—and it’s not reality.
Notice they didn’t say this in 2015, when they misled the public by claiming the JCPOA “cut off all pathways” to a bomb.
The ability to kill innocent Iranians en masse is a point of pride and power for the regime.
Following Trump's warnings last week to stop its execution spree, Ejei, head of the Islamic Republic's judiciary, said: "We don't pay attention to what arrogant powers say."
@NicoleGohlke How is the freedom, peace, and democracy in the monarchies of Spain, Sweden, Belgium, Norway?
You think you’re an intellectual but you are so smug and arrogant that you have become the racist imperialist.
You think you can tell Iranians what is best for them? Try again.