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Laura Gilpin from her award-winning collection The Hocus-Pocus of the Universe (1977

Dear President Trump, Dear Prime Minister Netanyahu, Dear Senator Rubio, Greetings, I am a 25-year-old woman in Iran. I have sent this message to several visible Twitter accounts in the hope that through them, you or your advisors may read my words. Today, even my last hopes for life are being destroyed. I was 18 years old and had just been accepted into university when, during the November 2019 protests, many of my classmates were arrested, and 1,500 people were massacred in the streets of Iran. I was 21 when the Islamic Republic injured and killed thousands more. And this year, at the age of 25, nearly 50,000 Iranians were killed within just a few hours by the Islamic Republic through live gunfire. Our revolution had been moving forward step by step, progressing gradually, until a glimmer of hope arrived your encouraging messages about the freedom of the Iranian people. In our history, we have Cyrus the Great, who came and freed the Jews. Our view of you is not the view of a selfish opportunist, but rather as a Cyrus of the new century. In any case, our revolution was slowly advancing. But today, as I speak to you, I am filled with shock and deep concern. The streets of Tehran today are nothing like they were in the past seven years. They have sent everyone from 12-year-old children to 90-year-old old men into the streets with weapons. Every night from 7 PM, they occupy the streets and chant “death to this and that.” The streets have become filled with Afghan and Iraqi people who have made our lives unbearable. If after the genocide in Jan 2026 we were waiting only a little for an opportunity to return to the streets, now our ability to return is a thousand times less. Before your attack, at the very least our share of this land was the ability to breathe a little, but today even that has been taken from us under the accusation of being Israeli and American agents. Today they have even made the internet class-based, and our share of life in Iran has become nothing but staring in shock at the future and anxieties whose magnitude I cannot even describe. We are grateful to you for killing Khamenei, but today murderers thousands of times worse than Khamenei have taken his place Qalibaf, who used to kick students out of dormitory apartments and throw them down, and Ahmad Vahidi, whose pride is that he has killed people in the streets. We do not want you to free us, because this is a heavy burden that rests on our own shoulders. But do not make deals with these murderers. Let your name, too, be recorded in history like Cyrus the Great. Do not let the great actions you took by killing Khamenei be overshadowed and destroyed by a deal with the terrorist group ruling Iran. I hope my voice reaches you, and I hope that history will preserve a good name for you as someone who did something great for a nation under oppression. I promise that if Iran is freed under your leadership, on the day of Iran’s freedom I will do everything in my power to help build a memorial in honor of the help that you and your soldiers gave for the liberation of Iran. With gratitude, Mahsa @secrubio @realdonaldtrump @netanyahu

@Pontifex Like so many other popes in the past, you have turned a blind eye to some of the worst atrocities. The suffering of Iranian women for decades has been ignored by the church

The future belongs to men and women of peace. Justice will always triumph over injustice in the end, just as violence will never have the last word, despite all appearances. #ApostolicJourney #Algeria vatican.va/content/leo-xi…

This is very interesting. H/T @AriFleischer

John Thune doesn’t just need to be removed as Senate Leader. He needs to be primaried.

@PitzyCoco @iranidaturan You need to start entertaining the idea that you're full of shit... You know nothing about what's going on. Talk to some real Iranians they're all over social media.

@iranidaturan Oh sweetheart! The problem is that you believe Trump is acting in the best interest of anyone but himself. He is a Fascist and doesn't care about anything that you just talk about. 😒

🛑 STOP reacting and panicking over President Trump’s harsh ultimatums. He is not speaking to ordinary Iranians. Right now, he is directly addressing his real adversaries, the corrupt elite who actually run the IRGC. Iran is practically being controlled by the IRGC, a mafia-like terrorist organization. It is not merely a military force; it also dominates large parts of the economy through illegal activities, smuggling, monopolies, and money laundering. The IRGC has clear layers: at the bottom are the brainwashed Shia jihadi foot soldiers, poor, low-IQ, and indoctrinated with apocalyptic ideology. They truly believe they must burn the world to bring back the Mahdi and see America as the Great Satan. But these soldiers hold no real power; they are simply tools. The real power lies with the top leaders. These men pretend to be religious and chant “Death to America” in public, yet they live a completely double life. While they brutally oppress millions of women over hijab, chant slogans in parliament, and order the killing of Iranians seeking freedom, their own daughters and families enjoy luxurious lives in US and the West, without hijab and like royalty. But how do they get all that money? They have built massive monopolies inside Iran. China and Russia have heavily invested in the market, with kickbacks flowing straight into their pockets. They sell oil through illegal networks in Dubai, pocketing half the money meant for “jihad” and missiles, while their own soldiers live in extreme poverty. President Trump understands this reality perfectly. These bosses do not care if America strikes missile sites or nuclear facilities. They do not care if their brainwashed Basiji soldiers die. What they fear is losing their personal wealth and foreign assets. If Iran is destroyed, their investments turn to ashes. That is why Trump is pressuring them: control your fanatic soldiers, prevent stupid and dangerous moves, and keep the Strait of Hormuz open. It is not only about the strait, it is also about the 400 kg of highly enriched uranium. I personally predict that soon there will be some sort of coup inside IRGC where these top gangsters get rid of those who no longer serve them. We Iranians have watched this hypocrisy for years. These terrorists have left no other path to save Iran. I hope they behave and get their act together. But if they don’t, the full responsibility for whatever happens will lie solely with this regime. President Trump’s enemy is not Iranian people, he has told us thousands of times. This regime is a cancer destroying its own host because it refuses to die. To save Iran, we need aggressive therapy before it is too late. Be brave and trust the process. 🆘 Please share and help us to hold the regime accountable and stop destroying Iran

His mother held 52 American diplomats and citizens hostage in Iran for 444 days, from November 4, 1979, to January 20, 1981. He is now living comfortably in LA. Deport Eissa Hashemi.

@ardashir_313 @gghamari Blow me

@gghamari No one sane people believes your lies.

To all the non-Iranians attacking me in the comments, thinking they know better than me: I WAS BORN IN A COUNTRY WHERE THE "GOVERNMENT" RAPES WOMEN AND GIRLS BEFORE HANGING THEM FOR "CRIMES AGAINST ALLAH" BECAUSE THEIR SICK RELIGION WANTS THEIR SOULS TO GO TO HELL. So shut up.

@gghamari We have facts, not traitors you accepted to send your own country to stone age. Fck ur ass.

@gghamari Western middle class socialist women love to pontificate and stick their noses where it's not wanted.

During the Iran/Iraq war these same ghouls sent out children to march across mine fields to clear the way for the troops. They were handed cheaply painted 'golden keys' to get into Paradise as martyrs. I am not making this up. And yes, the regime brags about raping young women sentenced to death. City of London Conglomerate has MUCH to answer for. grok.com/share/c2hhcmQt…

@gghamari #FreeIran‌ #Islam

@gghamari Don't pay attention to the retards, they're everywhere

The US has been engaged in active military operations against Iran for 38 days. 13 Americans have died. During that same period, 40+ Americans have died by homicide in Chicago. Media silence.... So spare me your fake fcking moral outrage!!

I am the 3rd in this post to repost: I am Iranian and also have LOTS of family spread out inside Iran that say: NOTHING , I repeat NOTHING is scarier than the regime surviving..

Dear American friends who think your government is the same as the Islamic Republic in Iran, While your government was moving heaven and earth, and spending hundreds of millions of dollars to save one American and bring him back home, the regime in Iran just executed two protesters arrested for the crime of protesting on January 8 and 9, with no proper trial and no access to lawyers. Their names are Mohammad Amin Biglary, just 19 years old and Shahin Vahed Parast, 30 years old. If you still think these two are the same, open your eyes. This is the difference between a country that values life and a regime that murders its youth for speaking out.

They fought the enemy for 13 hours Multiple requests for help 🆘 DENIED Obama gave a stand-down despite assets being just 2.5 miles away They were abandoned to die as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, slept soundly in her bed Don’t memory hole the betrayal of Benghazi

In @playbookdc I have many more names of jihadists who are tied to the Iranian regime and other Islamic terror movements who are living here in the US on green cards. I will be reporting all of them to ICE, DHS and the US State Department. These individuals need to be held accountable because they are actively supporting Iran’s regime and IRGC forces who are threatening US national security and calling for the death of US soldiers and President Trump. Thank you, @SecRubio @StateDept for acting on the reporting and evidence I sent you. Our country is safer with Qasem Soleimani’s niece and grand niece in @ICEgov detention. Cc: @ASDylanJohnson @marcorubio

@iam_johnw @raybrat54 On the bright side for Dawn, only the winners are invited to our nation's White House.

As war now dominates the headlines, it’s critical to remember how we got here. In January, Iran’s security forces carried out one of the deadliest crackdowns in the country’s modern history and at the same time, a parallel war was unfolding online. This special report reveals how Tehran seeded the false narrative that the uprising was a CIA–Mossad plot and how far-left influencers, far-right voices, bot farms and foreign amplification networks helped spread it worldwide. Drawing on exclusive findings from the Network Contagion Research Institute and interviews with leading analysts, this investigation exposes how the regime exports propaganda to whitewash mass killings and shape global opinion — even as conflict escalates today. An Iran International and The Free Press investigation by @NegarMojtahedi and @FPJaySolomon.