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@GhanaBlackstars @Dan_Agyei Massive congratulations Dan! Very well deserved. Hope you’re doing well.

🆕 Dan Agyei joins the #BlackStars camp for the first time. ⛺️🇬🇭

🚨 Islamic Republic officials are trying to flee to Syria but their asylum request has been rejected! Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Al-Shibani says Damascus refused a humanitarian asylum request submitted by senior Iranian regime figures. He added the decision came despite significant international pressure to accept it and help ease the current crisis in the Middle East. As their leadership and command structure continue to collapse, expect more asylum requests from Islamic Republic officials, who are increasingly unwanted abroad and have few friends.

These really are incredibly extreme measures. The UK is an outlier in offering almost no protection for the unborn child - and putting woman at risk of complications and coercion.

Important polling, revealing the nuances in public opinion: —Public does not think it’s worth sacrificing safety for concept of choice —83% want psychiatric protections not in the UK bills —82% want palliative care guarantee not in the UK bills —76% want protections for poverty, lack of access to care and feeling a burden not in the UK bills —84% against doctors raising it unprompted (UK bills permit this) —67% support an opt-out for hospices and care homes; just 13% agree with Falconer and McArthur in opposing an opt-out

Day 1,636 of the Taliban persecuting #Afghan women. Alienating girls and women from public life must never be normalised. You are not forgotten. #LetAfghanGirlsLearn

The number of Christians in Türkiye has diminished from 20% to 0.3% of the population in the last 100 years. The government has specifically targeted foreign Christian workers by labelling them as national security threats, effectively banning them from re-entering the country.

If Britain doesn't want to join the strikes on the Islamic Republic of Iran—that's completely legitimate. 🇬🇧 Here are five ways it must combat the Iranian regime instead:

I visited the museum in Cairo. Very powerful, moving, wonderful testimony to Jesus!

REMEMBERING MARTYRS: In February of 2015, 21 men were killed by ISIS on a beach in Libya. They could have saved their lives by accepting Islam, but knowing what awaited them, they chose Christ. Christians around the world continue to draw inspiration from their faith.

Just watched this report on @BBCNews at Six from an Iran awash with innocent blood of as many as 40,000 and daily executions & murders. I know @bbclysedoucet had to report under strict govt control but the tone is at best astonishingly naive, at worse sympathetic and compromised; the massacre (‘protests’) is barely alluded to; its focus on ‘economic woes’ & the protesters’s ‘foreign backers’ are pure regime propaganda. As r its voxpops with chosen govt supporters. Frankly the dictator wld be delighted with this five minute propaganda film on prime news. If this was the best the BBC cld, you shldnt have gone. One really has to question what the BBC is hoping to achieve here with such a flawed and tainted report at such a sensitive time. “It’s a public holiday today, and in Tehran it feels like a family festival.” No wonder Iranian dissidents call it Ayatollah BBC. @BBCWorld

I wish I could repost an image of every one of the brave people of Iran murdered in cold blood by the Islamic dictator-for-life and his corps of killers. As you can see many of them are young and courageous. I have been contacted by so many people from Iran - using VPNs or quick moments of internet availability - to thank me for putting these up and begging me to continue. (I am in contact with some people there because of the pirating of my books in Farsi.) I have also been asked by those formerly known as Western 'progressives' - why I am posted them? The images emerging now from Iran of young people, older people, boys and girls, who were murdered in the last few weeks by the Islamic Corps of Revolutionary Guards, Basij militia and imported killers from Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Pakistan, are heartbreaking but also enraging. Some depict beautiful people at play, at the gym, dancing, on motorbikes; some makeshift morgues full of bodies; some streetscenes where killers shoot down unarmed protesters; and many show families opening bodybags to find their dead children shot in the head; others discover bodies of protesters wounded then executed in hospital beds and particularly women with uteruses removed or other horrors to conceal brutal rapes... Many are not young but it looks like the slaughter of the best and brightest of Iran Gen Z. I dont want us to tire of theses or look away. So many are these images that it is hard to open the images or repost them. It is embarrassing to be thanked by Iranians for such a minor thing. But please repost them. The numbers killed are astonishing: based on sources within the murderous dictatorship, it may be as many as 36000 - 40.000 were murdered just in the first days of the terror 8/9 January and more later - making it likely that much higher than 40,000 is a horribly plausible estimate. This makes this event the most greatest massacre in modern Iranian history by far, the greatest single event cold blood slaughter in modern MIddle Eastern history since 1900. Also relevant was the Assad's liquidation of an entire town, in which armed Islamist insurgents of the Muslim Brotherhood's military arm had seized Hama, in 1982. The Assads killed around 30,000. Many civilians are tragically killed in wars but there is a special horror for the slaughter of unarmed civilians. This Iranian atrocity being far more terrible since none of the protesters were armed. There is no conflict. We live in a time of egregious comparisons to the Holocaust when the Holocaust is repellently abused and minimized by cynical cretins - radiohosts, podders, politicians- to criticize anything from vaccination to ICE raids. That is despicable and we should call it out every time: Holocaust inversion and distortion is the nowadays the vilest form of antisemitism. But here is a comparison that stands in its scale and horror: in size and horror this does resemble the two days of Babi Yar near Kiev in Sept 1941 where 33,000 Jews were killed in a ravine in cold blood. The EU has admirably and belatedly banned the murderous ICRG. The UK whose foreign policy is belated, confused and often outsourced to the most pushy clique of activists, has done nothing. Astonishing. It turns out the dictator Khamenei's son owns £100m of properties here in UK many of them on Bishops Avenue. Are they investigated and seized? It is also worth pointing out that an entire progressive movement arose against the autocracy of the Shah. And his was an autocracyand yes with a secret police. But in his forty year one reign, only around 3000 people were killed, mainly in the last year before his downfall. This week alone would have murdered in the streets, torturechambers, hospitals of Iran. It is very striking that the UN and the NGOsphere and all the celebrated 'humanitarian' organizations along with the pitiful celebrity campfollowers, actors and footballers, and university Red Guards. have barely commented on this or worse have colluded in minimalizing it or totally neglected it. Many of them organizations i revered since my childhood; hello Amnesty where is your other ball now - are silent. In doing so, they have discredited any claim to humanitarian credentials and exposed themselves. In their disgrace, those authoritarians formerly known as 'progressives' have revealed the real amorality of their humanitarian credentials and the strange hieararchy of victimdom in which victims only count if they are victims of Western allies or those regarded as Western. Just recall that these people were killed unarmed. Not in a war. And many were actually followed into hospitals and murdered still wearing intravenous drips. Women were arrested raped and returned without their uteruses. Doctors who treated them were killed. Aside from Dua Lipa belatedly this week, virtually no celebrity footballers and actors and popstars have said a word about this. The UN has been especially egregious, this week at its comic Human Rights Council, South Africa, Pakistan, Russia, China, North Korea repeatedly defended or downplayed the massacre. UN Sec-General, who will remembered as the official who destroyed the moral credibility of that essential organization, has been shamed publically by dissident @AlinejadMasih. "Where are the feminists, liberals, Hollywood elite where are those who marched for Free Palestine now?" She and many Iranians dissidents have asked where are all the 'humanitarian' protesters who filled our streets, where are the righteous actors and other boobies now? It says alot that a comedian @omid9 is still doing more than BBC or Sky to cover this story. There are a plethora of great Iranian writers historians activists - experts on the history and present - on X covering this and you should follow them. The killing is still going on. The tyranny is fatally damaged, it may fall on its own ultimately, it is now even more tainted, more likely metamorphose into an ICRG dictatorship. But history shows declining damaged regiimes can survive for years. A lame tiger is the most dangerous. For now all depends on the US President; depending on the details, a US strike might make its downfall more likely or it might not. What can we do? Not enough but keep posting the pictures for a start....

15 innocent Iranians executed this morning #IranMassacre

The images emerging now from Iran of young people, older people, boys and girls, who were murdered in the last few weeks by the Iranian Islamic dictator, the Islamic Corps of Revolutionary Guards, Basij militia and imported killers from Iraq, are heartbreaking but also enraging. Some depict beautiful people at play, at the gym, dancing, on motorbikes; some makeshift morgues full of bodies; some streetscenes where killers shoot down unarmed protesters; and many show families opening bodybags to find their dead children shot in the head; others discover bodies of protesters wounded then executed in hospital beds and particularly women with uteruses removed or other horrors to conceal brutal rapes... Many are not young but it looks like the slaughter of the best and brightest of Iran Gen Z. Ive tried to repost these here. I dont want us to tire of theses or look away. So many are these images that it is hard to open the images or repost them. I have been contacted by people in Iran (who weirdly read my books in pirated Farsi editions) who manage to come online in various ways and they beg me to keep posting these images and faces and keep talking about them. Embarrassingly they thank me just for doing this! That is why i am writing this now. We must keep going and keep doing so. The numbers killed are astonishing: based on sources within the murderous dictatorship, it may be as many as 36000 were murdered just in the first days of the terror 8/9 January and more later - making it likely that 40,000 is a horribly plausible estimate. This makes this event the most greatest massacre in modern Iranian history by far, the greatest single event slaughter in modern MIddle Eastern history since 1900 - along with the Assad's liquidation of an entire town, site of Islamist insurgents, Hama, in 1982 when around 30,000 were killed. Both of them not taking place in wars but in cold blood - and this Iranian atrocity being far more terrible since none of the protesters were armed. We live in a time of egregious comparisons to the Holocaust when the Holocaust is repellently abused and minimized by cynical cretins - radiohosts, podders, politicians- to criticize anything from vaccination to ICE raids. But here is a comparison that stands in its scale and horror: in size and horror this does resemble the two days of Babi Yar near Kiev in Sept 1941 where 33,000 Jews were killed. It is also worth pointing out that an entire progressive movement arose against the autocracy of the Shah. And his was an autocracy. But in his forty year one reign, only around 3000 people were killed, mainly in the last year before his downfall. This week alone would have murdered in the streets, torturechambers, hospitals of Iran. It is very striking that the UN has barely commented on this; its sec-general has been shamed publically by dissident @AlinejadMasih; many countries have refused to vote against Iran; many of those formerly known as 'progressives' are silent or supporting the regime - incredibly; some famous so-called 'humanitarian' NGOs - many of them organizations i revered since my childhood; hello Amnesty where is your other ball now - are silent. In doing so, they have discredited any claim to humanitarian credentials and exposed themselves. Many Iranians dissidents have asked where are all the 'humanitarian' protesters who filled our streets, where are the righteous actors and other boobies now? It says alot that a comedian @omid9 is still doing more than BBC or Sky to cover this story. There are a plethora of great Iranian writers historians activists on X covering this. The killing is still going on. The tyranny is fatally damaged, it may fall on its own ultimately, it is now even more tainted, more likely metamorphose into an ICRG dictatorship. But history shows declining damaged regiimes can survive for years. Britain - as usual desperately doing a lamely virtuous catchup following more determinated players in foreign policy, sometimes sensible things, othertimes foolish - is i think banning ICRG but when the lumbering EU is ahead of you, we should worry; it should also seize the properties owned by Khamenei family and dynasties; and do more. For now all depends on the US President; depending on the details, a US strike might make its downfall more likely or it might not. What can we do? Not enough but keep posting the pictures for a start....

From Damascus, Antiochian Greeks raise their voice: Stop the killing. Protect Christians in Syria In Greek Από τη Δαμασκό, οι Αντιοχειανοί Έλληνες υψώνουν τη φωνή τους: Σταματήστε τις δολοφονίες. Προστατέψτε τους Χριστιανούς στη Συρία.

Request deportation of Hadi and Zeinab Larijani, Iran's ruling elite, from the UK - Sign the Petition! c.org/hwDQhJ5scg via @UKChange

LIST OF SHAME — Members of U.N. Human Rights Council that refused to endorse request for urgent session on Iran massacre, which is being held this Friday, Jan. 23: 🇶🇦 Qatar 🇨🇳 China 🇨🇺 Cuba 🇧🇷 Brazil 🇵🇰 Pakistan 🇲🇽 Mexico 🇪🇬 Egypt 🇮🇶 Iraq 🇿🇦 South Africa 🇧🇮 Burundi 🇰🇼 Kuwait ...

So shocking. Lord have mercy on Iran.

Israeli settler terrorists continue their ethnic cleansing campaign in Ras Ein al-Auja, near Jericho in the West Bank, under the protection of the Israeli army. Another 20 Palestinian families were forcibly expelled from their land.

“The Sunday Times has obtained a new report from doctors on the ground, which says at least 16,500 protesters have died and 330,000 have been injured, most of them in two days of utter slaughter in the most brutal crackdown by the clerical regime in its 47-year existence.” - Iran report says 16,500 dead in ‘genocide under digital darkness’. - The Times and The Sunday Times apple.news/Auch-tp7rTNyHn…