🇮🇷 An Iranian woman in exile lashes out against those who defend Iran's Islamic dictatorship:
“The Iranian people are against this regime. The Islamic Republic of Iran has been oppressing us for the last 47 years.”
🙋♀️Hello - Iranian here.
For those fixated on 'legality' to excuse the regime in Iran - F*ck You.
No, I will not let you be my voice. You don't get to narrate my story, you don't get to claim moral superiority. You don't get to tell me my feelings are wrong.
Is it legal to throw women in prison for strands of hair? Is it legal to mass execute people? Is it legal to turn a fertile land into a parched desert? Is it legal to rape? Is it legal to shoot innocent people? Is it legal to kill children? Is it legal to torture people to death? Is it legal to spread terrorism? Is it legal to deprive people of a livelihood? Is it legal to shoot people in the eye to blind them? Is it legal to silence people and take away all of their human rights? Is it legal to shoot down a passenger plane? Is it legal to drive millions to leave their country? Is it legal to jail women for singing and dancing? Is it legal to disappear people including children?
You will never experience anything like Iranians have experienced for the last 47 years.
Iranians have fought barehanded and they've paid a price. All up to 1,000,000 (one million) Iranians have been murdered since the regime came to power.
Your books on 'civil disobedience' and 'collective protest' are useless against an armed opposition that is ideologically driven and will kill all that stand in its way.
You want legality? The world has a duty to protect innocent lives. It's enshrined in R2P. Some people seem to think Iranians aren't humans. The murder, genocide and massacre of Iranians receives scant media attention - hence scant sympathy.
Those who proclaim to care about 'human rights' must think Iranians are animals and not worthy. Their hatred of Israel and US is so great they've lost all perspective.
Yes, Iranians are happy. They're happy someone took out Ali Khamenei and many others directly responsible for so much pain and agony.
And you know what? We're unashamedly hopeful that with the help of the world's superpower, we can reclaim our country and build a better tomorrow.
We know there's a long way to go, but give us this brief moment of reprieve, because daily we sit and try to tell the story of the lives lost, those at risk of execution, those under torture. We've seen the pictures and videos of massacres taking place.
Our dance and happiness comes with a heavy weight. We do so, in knowledge of the many who never lived to see this day.
The day of freedom will come to Iran, it's glorious - and we're not sorry if some outside help contributed to making that happen.
So don't speak on my behalf and stop excusing this regime on grounds of 'anti-colonialism'. and 'anti-Zionism'.
#Iran
@BruceUnfiltered This is brilliant and very refreshing to see two people who have different opinions having a chat rather than screaming at each other and hurling abuse
We Agreed on Democracy. Nothing Else.
I spoke with Andy, a 70-year-old old-school communist, on the streets of Whitehall.
Different ideologies. No shouting. No abuse.
A calm conversation about communism, protest culture, and where the ideology actually is today.
And I still walked away unsure what modern communism really stands for.
Back in September last year I spoke to Andy and realised id never aired the entire interview, plus lots of you weren't following me back then, so here we go.
#StreetPolitics#FreeSpeech#PoliticalDialogue#Democracy#UKPolitics#RealConversations
“I would like to thank the punisher - Harvey Weinstein”
“I would like to thank the bomber - Harvey Weinstein”
“I would like to thank God and Harvey Weinstein, who would do anything”
ITS ALL OF THEM ‼️
Proud moment to share this one.
BBC Earth Asia have picked up The Great Wall with Ash Dykes!!!!!!
The series premieres next week, airing every evening from 15–20 February at 9pm SGT, taking the journey to audiences across Asia and into hundreds of millions of homes.
This marks another major milestone working with the BBC, and it’s surreal to see a project like this continue its life far beyond where it began.
Grateful to the entire team behind the scenes who helped bring this story to screen.
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Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam, Taiwan, South Korea, Mongolia, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos and Brunei.
In New Zealand, native Māoris protest against Islamic immigration and destroy the jihadist flag while performing the traditional Haka.
“New Zealand is Christian. Muslims are not welcome here!”
@Carra23@rioferdy5@FIFAcom What has @rioferdy5 got to do with ticket prices for the world cup, don't think he can get them changed,
I agree the prices are outrageous and I imagine you are spitting feathers about it @Carra23
And rightly so, he was fantastic when he came on.
Thoughts on the price of the World Cup tickets @rioferdy5
A man of the people would surely call @FIFAcom & Infantino out 🤷🏻♂️
Or was your pay packet for the draw (acting 🤯😭) to buy your silence 🤫
@LewisSteele_ It’s time they abandoned the 3pm kick off blackout. It’s tragic that in 2025 I can’t watch my football team play because of a rule from the 1960’s.
The TV companies have missed a trick not putting the Liverpool v Brighton game on, haven't they? Anyway looking forward to Brentford v Leeds in the Sunday 4.30pm slot and Burnley v Fulham at 5.30pm Saturday
Women and girls are not pulled out of Afghanistan earthquake rubble because men won’t touch them.
Afghan women cant be doctor and cant go to male doctor and Afghan women dont have rights to learn.
What are these meassges to world?
@curtiswoodhous8@NOELY1982@_lknighty That's got to be some sick joke, £95 for what was always the cheapest option for a takeaway, how can that be right 🤯
@NOELY1982@_lknighty Anything under £5 now feels like happy hour! I was in Scarborough on Sunday, fish and chips x 4 with 4 cans of coke £95! It’s ridiculous