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A glimpse into the horrors of January in Iran.
A new documentary, This Is Our Story, uses more than 10,000 videos from on the ground at the time to capture the horror for the world to see. The filmmakers, from Iranian opposition channel Manoto, say their footage serves as a permanent record of Khamenei's bloodshed. dailymail.com/news/article-1…
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Because of the hardships I face living in Iran, I have become emotionally vulnerable. I sincerely ask those of you who support Palestine: please don't attack me or blame me for wanting to liberate my country. Please don't hurt me emotionally with your comments. Don't turn a blind eye to the suffering of the Iranian people because of Palestine, and don't support the regime in Iran simply because it supports Palestine. I hate Palestine so much that I don't even want to hear its name. And none of you seem to understand why. It's natural for us to feel this way. Palestine has always been a priority for the Iranian regime, never the Iranian people. Our money has constantly been spent on them while we, the people of Iran, have been left to live in misery and poverty. And now Islamists, communists, and leftists are using their influence behind the scenes in international politics to prevent the fall of the Iranian regime, all in the name of Palestine. After all, this regime was born out of an alliance between these very three groups. Meanwhile, we are being killed by that same regime simply because we want our country to prosper and our ancient Iranian civilization to stop being destroyed by Islamists.
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This rhetoric and behaviour is precisely why me and many like me have turned their backs on the left
NZ leftism is gonna get real feral from here on out. Young people are not gonna let this robbery of our future go unpunished. Get mad. Get mean. Accept no excuses.
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Academics tend to be the most hardline slaves to the anti imperialist, anti Western narrative so this isn’t that ‘funny’ actually.
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Shabnam 🦁 ☀️ retweeted
Muslim logic: if a woman is educated, her enslavement, dehumanization and chains are absolutely fine. Hijab is in and of itself belittling women. Grow up and acknowledge hijab subjugates women and strips us of our humanity and autonomy. Or at least stop romanticizing and glamorizing it because the enslaved woman wearing it is educated.
El-Sayeds fru, Sarah Jukaku, är läkare med examen från Columbia, master från Oxford och kandidatexamen från Michigan. Hon arbetar som psykiater. Att reducera henne till hennes hijab är i sig en förminskande kvinnosyn.
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Number 4.
I’m so sick of seeing people across social media claim Abdul El-Sayed is only getting heat “because he’s a Muslim man.” That’s not the reason. Other Muslims have been elected to office without this reaction. Repeating it just makes you look stupid. Here are the actual problems: 1- In 2012 he signed a letter to Mohamed Morsi (the Muslim Brotherhood president of Egypt) supporting his power grab and calling on him to “purge the media and the police as quickly as possible.” 2- His biological mother, Fatten Elkomy, worked for the Islamic American Relief Agency (IARA), which the U.S. Treasury designated for supporting terrorism. His half-sister has publicly said their mother was active in the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt in the 1970s. 3- His half-sister Eman Abdelhadi posted on social media about their mother’s Muslim Brotherhood activism and expressed support for family members backing the Brotherhood in Egypt. 4- He refused to condemn the IRGC when directly asked by an Iranian-American student whose family was targeted by them. Leaked audio also shows he deliberately stayed silent on Khamenei’s death because “there are a lot of people in Dearborn who are sad,” prioritizing his base over basic condemnation of a terrorist regime. 5- His father, Mohamed El-Sayed, sits on the board of Life for Relief and Development, a Michigan-based Islamic charity that paid a $780,000 settlement to the U.S. Treasury for violating sanctions by transferring money into Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. The group has also faced raids and scrutiny over alleged ties to terror-linked networks. These are documented facts.
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This mockery of the number of Iranians slaughtered by the IRGC regime within days at the beginning of this year alone is the equivalent of when doubt was cast on Gaza numbers by claiming “according to numbers by the Hamas-run Gaza ministry of health…”
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Labour wouldn’t say a word against the Islamic Republic in 2022 when protests broke out, they refused to designate the IRGC as terrorists and they have consistently watered down their language on Iranian human rights. They have selective empathy it seems
Labour’s final day campaigning is focused on Gaza!
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Shabnam 🦁 ☀️ retweeted
While @X gives Islamic Republic terrorists a platform which they use to spread propaganda against the Iranian people and the West, the terrorist regime has given #AmirHosseinMousavi the death penalty, wanting to murder him for writing his views on X, and Iranian patriots' accounts are being suspended as a result of mass reportings by IR agents. @elonmusk @Support
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One of the most well-known Iranian accounts here on X. I followed him. So that’s his face. His smile. His eyes. What a fucking pain it is to read this. What a hell it is to be Iranian in this world.
A court in Iran has sentenced political prisoner and social media activist Amirhossein Mousavi to death on charges of "corruption on earth through online activities," his lawyer, Reza Shafakhah, said Wednesday on X. Mousavi's case was heard in August by Branch 15 of Tehran's Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Abolghasem Salavati. Mousavi has been detained since December 2024. Iranian state television broadcast what was described as his forced confession in October 2025, following months of solitary confinement. Fourteen political prisoners had previously issued a statement warning that Mousavi was at risk of receiving a death sentence. iranintl.com/en/202611049169
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Shabnam 🦁 ☀️ retweeted
It makes me sad to see our flag there. It makes me sad people associate Palestine with violence and anarchy. I pray for France. I pray for the people. 🙏🙏🙏
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Shabnam 🦁 ☀️ retweeted
During the January protests in Abdanan, Iranians tore open rice bags from an IRGC store and threw the grains into the street. They took nothing. Their protest was not simply about food or poverty, but against corruption and the Islamic Republic. In Paris, looters smashed shops and ran off with the goods. But between these two, Iranians will be the ones who are executed.
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Shabnam 🦁 ☀️ retweeted
„They live in a world that you know nothing about“
Ein Gericht in der Islamischen Republik hat eine Frau zu 50 Peitschenhieben verurteilt👇 - In der Urteilsbegründung steht, dass sie dabei gefilmt wurde, wie sie einem Freund an dessen Geburtstag einen Kuchen überreichte, ihn umarmte und küsste... #انقلاب_شیروخورشید
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Shabnam 🦁 ☀️ retweeted
Some people care more about the romanticized idea of “armed resistance” than they do about human rights, justice, or the sanctity of human life.
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Shabnam 🦁 ☀️ retweeted
The morality police are back on Iran’s streets. Why isn’t the mainstream media talking about this?
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Brave people of Iran 💪🏻
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei was booed by audience members after being invited to the podium for a short speech during a performance of the orchestral production “Arash” in Tehran on Friday, according to footage circulating on social media.
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Shabnam 🦁 ☀️ retweeted
An Iranian couple was imprisoned over the anti-regime uprising in January. Alireza Sepahi was sentenced to death, but Mahshad Keshani, who received a five-year sentence, insisted on marrying him before he was executed. Their lawyer: “When he understood that she was serious, he began to cry and signed the document. Mahshad was completely determined. Alireza was crying, and something deeply painful and beautiful happened. Even the prison officers began to cry.” thetimes.com/world/middle-ea…
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These people I can understand - they’re brainwashed and deep in the Islamist ideology To see my friends fall for this shit has been incredibly eye opening over the last few years.
Protesting the killing of Palestinian children while holding the flag of a terrorist organization that slaughtered Syrian children. Fuck these people.
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Shabnam 🦁 ☀️ retweeted
Stupidity is not resistance. Entering an adversary's lair knowing you are the weaker party is not an act of heroism, and gambling with the fate of an entire people is not courage. Nor can leaving civilians to pay the price while leaders hide underground be portrayed as resistance. October 7 was an utter disaster—a reckless gamble paid for with the lives of an entire people.
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Shabnam 🦁 ☀️ retweeted
Alireza Sepahi, 25, was executed at dawn today in Isfahan. The night before his execution, he married his fiancée, Mahshad Kashani, who is also imprisoned for taking part in the January protests. They asked to see each other one last time. They were never allowed to. Alireza was sentenced to death amid serious allegations of torture, coerced testimony and grave due-process violations. We mustn’t allow the names of these brave souls to become statistics. The Islamic Republic’s atrocities cannot be normalized.
🔴The death sentence of Alireza Sepahi, born in 2001 and a detainee of the January 2026 protests, was carried out at dawn on Monday, October 5, 2026, in Isfahan’s Dastgerd Prison. He was one of the defendants in the case known as the "Alikhani Square of Isfahan" and had been arrested on January 10, 2026. 🔸The judicial proceedings against Alireza Sepahi were marred by severe due process violations, including effective denial of access to a legal counsel, failure to provide a copy of the verdict, holding court sessions via video conference, and ignoring defense evidence. A source close to the family stated that CCTV footage and other documents existed showing that Alireza Sepahi was not present at Alikhani Square at the time of the incident cited in the case. Nevertheless, Judge Morteza Barati had sentenced him to four death sentences. 🔸Additionally, a number of other defendants in the case stated that they were subjected to pressure and torture during interrogations to force them to confirm Alireza Sepahi's presence at the scene. To date, no independent or effective investigation has been conducted into these allegations or the manner in which statements were extracted.
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Shabnam 🦁 ☀️ retweeted
Last night, Alireza Sepahi became a husband over a crackling prison phone line. This morning, they hanged him. He was 25 years old. Look at the calculated, monstrous sequence of what this occupying cartel did to him: First, they broke into his home and shot him four times in the legs. Then they dragged him to a cell and struck his fresh bullet wounds until they bled again. They forced his mother to listen to his screams—and then locked her away for five years for the crime of being his mother. Then they executed his cousin. Then they walked him to the gallows months ago, where his heart gave out under the terror. They revived him in a hospital—not out of mercy, but because they wanted the pleasure of killing him themselves. Then, last night, they granted his final request: to marry Mahshad, the love of his life, who is locked in a cell of her own. Two political prisoners reciting marriage vows through a receiver, praying for a final embrace they were denied. And before those vows could even fade from the wire, they dropped the trapdoor. Mahshad became a widow before she ever got to hold her husband as a free woman. Alireza was not a statistic to be added to some international tally sheet. He was a son. A cousin. A 25 yearold boy in love, who should have woken up this morning as a newlywed beneath the sun. I want to write out the sheer, suffocating pain in my chest, but language is too small to carry this kind of grief. Yet my silence is worse. I refuse to let this tyranny become just another headline. I refuse to let the butchering of our youth become normal. They are slaughtering us one by one in the dark, in the most brutal ways imaginable, while the world looks away. So I will shout his name into the void until my lungs bleed. Even if the words are insufficient. Even if the world remains stubbornly blind. May the pen that refuses to write what is being done to my people shatter into dust.
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