

Sean Dodson
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The course director of postgraduate journalism and public relations at Leeds Beckett University. A former judge of the Orwell Prize. Views are mine





Front page of Islamic Republic newspaper “Payame Ma”. Headline “Jan Bakhtegan” (the dead) printing names of the victims. Almost impossible to count how many they acknowledge but as killings and executions continue we know it’s a fraction of the total number. News of thousands in the countryside also slaughtered is being received. Now that the regime of the Islamic Republic has officially become a pariah state with the whole of the Western world putting the IRGC on the terrorist list, the regime are displaying a belligerent “no one likes us, we don’t care” attitude. Far from being a sombre respecting of the dead, of unarmed innocents, men women and children, all of them with grieving families who found their bodies in body bags days later in makeshift morgues, this headline tells a different story. It’s a zero shame message to the world: “IF WE can do this to our OWN people think what WE could do to YOU, Europe and America.” If they were trying to convince the world they’re a legitimate government and NOT terrorists, this ain’t it. ⬇️ #IranMassacre #IranianRevolution2026


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I cover my head visiting a mosque. I also don’t wear a bikini in church. The video is me talking about diversity- that we won’t all agree all the time, but we can stand up to those who promote hate together. No wonder those who rely on hate for clicks find that threatening.