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For the last 9 years many of us said Trump ripped up the JCPOA because he just wanted his own name on a deal. He never cared about Iranians. He barely cares about his own children. The Iranian people lose in all of this. This is why they feel they have no allies & no support.

جانِ اسیرِ ما #فاطمه_سپهری.

پاره‌ای از جانِ ما در اسارت است. هر کس که به خاطر فریادِ آزادی در بند است، پاره‌ای از جانِ همه‌ی آزادی‌خواهان است. جانِ ما باید آزاد شود. همه‌ی زندانیان سیاسی، فارغ از گرایش‌ها و باورهایشان، بدون تبعیض، بدون استثنا و بدون هیچ شرطی، باید آزاد شوند. A part of our soul is in captivity. Anyone imprisoned for raising their voice for freedom is a part of the soul of all freedom loving people. Our soul must be set free. All political prisoners, regardless of their beliefs or affiliations, must be released without discrimination, without exception, and without any conditions.

Yup

@miakhalifa A lot of us out here who hate war, Israel and the regime. We hate them all. The pro Israel bunch are just loud and bullies and hateful!

before I start supporting the Iran team too loudly, are they ‘am israel chai’ or normal Iranians who aren’t self hating?

@netanyahu You’re a ridiculous liar who has been saying they’re weeks from having a nuke for thirty straight years. They were never close. You just wanted to use America to wipe out all your regional rivals, so you could steal more of your neighbors land.

What’s it like being an Iranian in the diaspora right now?

When a Palestinian or Lebanese icon dies, nobody asks, “Well, where did they stand on Iran?” Assholes like this view Iranians through their own ill informed, ignorant, uneducated world view. You are no different than the monsters you claim to be fighting.

یکی از اصول بنیادین جمهوریت این است که نیروهای مسلح تحت فرمان و نظارتِ نهادهای منتخبِ مردم باشند، نه آن‌که خود به قدرتی مستقل و فراتر از اراده‌ی ملت تبدیل شوند، که در این صورت «جمهوری» تنها نامی فریبنده برای پنهان کردنِ یک دیکتاتوری است.

هيج جنبشی در مقابل دیگری نبوده، هيچ آزادى‌خواهى در مقابل دیگری نيست. هر نوع ايستادگی در مقابل ديكتاتورى و هر قدمى در راه آزادى و عدالت قابل ستايش است. مسيرى كه خواسته يا ناخواسته در آن قدم گذاشته‌ايم يک پيست مسابقه نيست، اين یک رقابت نيست، مقاومت است، از خودگذشتگی است، اختلاف نظرها به معناى دشمنی نيستند، ما «گشتاپو» و «کا‌گ‌ب» نيستيم كه همديگر را تفتيش عقيده كنيم، براى «اتحاد» كافيست وطن و هموطن‌هايمان را دوست بداريم. اولين گام‌هاى اين مسير، متفاوت بودنِ رفتار خودمان با ديكتاتور است، «تماميت خواهى» از ويژگی‌هاى آزادى‌خواهان نيست، «ترور شخصيتی، تهمت و فحاشی» ‌رفتارِ مبارزِ آزادى خواه نیست. زیباترین نمودِ آزادی‌خواهی، رفتار متفاوت با استبداد است. قطعاً هیچکدام از ما نمی‌خواهیم یک چرخه‌ی بی‌پایان را هزاران بار دیگر طى كنيم، اشتباهات تكرارى، هزينه‌هاى تكرارى، لحظه‌ی آزادى را به وضوح ديدن‌های تكرارى، و باز هم نرسيدن‌های تكرارى. مردم عادى تا ابد حق اشتباه دارند، اما پرچم‌دارها نه، چرا که جان دیگران وسیله‌ی «آزمون و خطا» هیچکس نیست. بیایید یک بار برای همیشه، فقط یک قدم که مهم‌ترین گام است را با هم برداریم، راهِ آزادی از تفاوتِ ما با استبداد آغاز می‌شود. مهم‌ترین پیروزی، شبیه نشدن به همان چیزیست که با آن می‌جنگیم.

بعد از اینهمه زجری که هموطن‌هاتون متحمل شدن هنوز هم بجای دیکتاتورها با مردمی که متفاوت فکر می‌کنند می‌جنگید؟

@OfficialToomaj Love you . My Brave Toomaj!!

بعد از سه ماه قطعیِ اینترنت، تسلیت میگم به خانواده‌های قربانیان، چه مردم بی‌گناهی که در جنگ کشته شدند، مثل «فرشته‌های میناب» چه کسانی که اعدام شدند. و عمیقاً متأسفم بابت فشارهای اقتصادی ناشی از جنگ اما امیدوارم به فردای روشنی که می‌تونیم با هم بهش برسیم. نکته‌ی دیگه‌ای که لازم به گفتن می‌دونم: اینترنتی که دیروز وصل شد، لطفی به ما نیست، بلکه حقِ ماست، اون هم بدون فیلتر. دقیقا مثل انتخابات آزاد، آزادی بیان، آزادی تجمع، آزادی احزاب و خیلی از آزادی‌های دیگه که جزو حقوق ما هستند، نه لطف.

یه مثلی هست میگه«تو برو خود را باش». من بعد از دی ماه موزیک منتشر کردم، از کشته شده‌ها و زندانی‌ها نوشتم، تنهایی پلاکارد بردم خیابون… شما چکار کردید؟

هفتاد و چهار روز از بازداشتِ #حسین_افراسیاب یکی از معدود رپرهایی که همیشه بدون ترس و لکنت زبان کنار هموطن‌هایمان بود، می‌گذرد. تمام زندانیان سیاسی و عقیدتی، و تمام معترضین باید آزاد شوند.

Daniel Smith the trash bag of a Premier makes up slogans that don’t make sense, who changes legislation to make it makes it easier for these separatists. But tell her Alberta isn’t going anywhere.

After kissing Trump's ass for several years (going so far as to adopt "Make Iran Great Again" as a slogan just so Trump might look in their direction), this has now become the position of Pahlavi's staff at @NUFDIran 👇🏻 These people deserve nothing but your scorn.

In the name of my daughter, Reera My daughter, Reera, would have turned sixteen today. Reera and her mother, my beloved wife, Parisa, were among the passengers of Flight #PS752, shot down by missiles fired by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in the skies above Tehran on January 8, 2020. Every birthday that arrives without Reera is no longer a day on the calendar. It is another season passing through an unfinished life. I think of everything that was stolen from us. From me. From Parisa. From our daughter, Reera. My child was murdered by a criminal regime. Anyone who has lost a child knows that grief is not only the pain of absence. It is the slow accumulation of futures that never came to pass. We spend the years imagining the lives denied to them. How would they laugh now?
How would they speak?
Would they gather their hair behind their shoulders or let it move freely in the wind?
Would they still belong to spring, or would autumn one day become their season? If they had lived. For me, these questions are both alive and impossible to answer. But more than anything, what darkens my days are the conversations I have lost with Reera. With every sunset, with every reluctant awakening into another morning, with every book, every film, every sorrow and beauty unfolding in the world, I find myself thinking: another conversation has been taken from me. Another moment when I might have asked her what she thought. What she felt. How she saw the world. So sometimes I imagine her answers. I imagine her voice returning briefly through memory. No one truly understands this endless suspension except those who have lost someone they loved to injustice. Reera was a gifted runner. She played on a soccer team in Richmond Hill. Had she been allowed to live, she might have become a remarkable athlete. Every father carries dreams for his child’s sixteenth birthday. Some small. Some immense. Mine now exist only in fragments, buried beneath memory and longing. Two years ago, I began to think that perhaps I could run in her memory on her birthday. She is no longer beside me, yet when I run carrying her image, I feel I am telling the world something simple and undeniable: For me, a world without Reera is not a beautiful world. A world without the children stolen by cruelty, by missile, by bullet, by bomb, can never be beautiful. Tomorrow morning, I will run the Ottawa Marathon in memory of my daughter, Reera. These past two years of training, the pain, the solitude, the discipline, have all been for her, the most beautiful girl in the world to me, who was, who is, and who always will be. As long as I live, I will not forgive those who took her from me. And as long as I live, I will not forget the murder of my wife, Parisa, and my daughter, Reera. #PS752justice

I’m not going to post Trump’s rage bait map of Iran. Iran has been around longer than the U.S., & Trump’s entire ancestral line. Iran has endured wars, invasions, & revolutions. Iran will belong to Iranians, not the red white & blue, when the Islamic Regime falls. 💚🤍❤️🦁☀️

The Athletic reported that FIFA will most likely ban symbols related to Iran’s pre-revolutionary history. Obviously referring to the lion & sun, a flag which brave protesters raised in the midst of bullets & a massacre in January. Good luck enforcing that, @FIFAWorldCup! 🦁☀️