Sujit John

One day, everyone will always have been against this.

I used to generally flip the News9 live channel (@TV9Bharatvarsh) while scrolling the tv on my remote, but yesterday I paused when I saw a news report flashing from the streets of Teheran. Sumaira Khan (@sumairakh) an intrepid news reporter, was giving the viewers a glimpse of the goings-on in war-ravaged Iran. It appeared everything was normal there, even as war clouds were hanging in the air, with President Trump repeating his profanities against the Iranian civilisation. We saw people in Teheran — men, women and children — going about their way as in any other city. But Sumaira specially drew our attention to the scores of women who were passing through that busy marketplace she was reporting from. Quite a few of them were burqa-clad, but there were many women who went about without any covering on their heads. As a matter of fact, there were some young girls who strode across in modern, fashionable clothes. Sumaira was at pains to bust the misconception that Iranian women were under strict official vigil to follow the traditional Islamic dress code. It was good to see that TV9 group sent a reporter to Iran to show us that, contrary to the West’s false propaganda, women retain their own agency in Iran. ( @sujitjohn drew our attention to this very point in an opinion piece in @timesofindia the other day). I have not come across any other Indian TV news channel sending a reporter to Iran to show how Iranians are coping after the illegal and barbaric US-Israeli attack on their country. @IndiaToday TV dispatched a reporter to invader Israel to show how the killer IDF is going about its murderous mission!Some other channels too followed the same beaten script to suck up to the powers-that-be. We must commend the News9Live for its bold decision to place a reporter in Iran to show the lives and the resolve of the people of the only country in the world which stood up for Palestinians, victims of the US-Israeli genocide!

Israel killed every single person in this photo in Lebanon. Every. Single. One. All journalists. Targeted and assassinated intentionally. For reporting the truth from the frontlines.

@CaVivekkhatri Also, DCs barely create any jobs, except during the building period, does not require any ecosystem of component suppliers around it, like say in car manufacturing. All the people using these DCs will be sitting in places like Bangalore. So not sure what the advantages are.

@CaVivekkhatri From Gemini: This is due to community pushback and related concerns. This resistance has transformed data centers into a major "NIMBY" (Not In My Backyard) flashpoint. Should give an idea what could happen in Vizag by 2030.

While you slept, $50 BILLION got locked into ONE Indian city. Not Mumbai. Not Bengaluru. Not Hyderabad. VIZAG. Google. Reliance. Adani. Meta. Sify. L&T - all bet on the same coast in 90 days. This is the biggest infrastructure bet in modern Indian history. And nobody is talking about WHY. A thread you'll come back to in 2030 🧵👇

@will_christou So tragic, such a crime

Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil was found dead after hours of searching under rubble. She was killed in an Israeli strike, after the Israeli army fired at ambulances trying to reach her, delaying her rescue. She is the fourth journalist killed by Israel while in the field since 2 March. She was a professional, kind and dedicated journalist, and always a pleasure to run into in the field.

@sanchezcastejon This is courage!

Justo hoy, Netanyahu lanza su ataque más duro contra el Líbano desde que empezó la ofensiva. Su desprecio por la vida y el derecho internacional es intolerable. Toca hablar claro: - Líbano debe formar parte del alto al fuego. - La comunidad internacional debe condenar esta nueva violación del derecho internacional. - La Unión Europea debe suspender su Acuerdo de Asociación con Israel. - Y no debe haber impunidad ante estos actos criminales.

@_InfoGram_ This is courage!

Very valuable messages here for youngsters, from Prof B Ravindran of IIT Madras.

@Prashant260514 Mahsa Amini played a big role in the changes Iran is seeing today. Read and understand before you start responding.

@sujitjohn Did You send this post to the parents of Mahsa Amini also? Do tell them how liberated u felt, how wrong she was to just die!

This article on my visit to #Tehran in November, which appeared in The Times of India (#TOI) last week, was met with almost disbelief, many described it as a “huge eye-opener”. Do read the story if you haven't already.

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A supermarket in Iran put up a sign: "It's not a problem. If you need something, take it. After the war you can pay for it." Iranians have never been more united.

@sanjukta 1 US tomahawk killed 160 school children. Lancet recently published that US, EU sanctions have killed 38 million people. What exactly is your point?

Unable to deal with the losses in the war, Iran has started executing protesters and critiques without fair trial in order to instill fear amongst people. In two days they excuted 4 youth including a teenager Saleh Mohammadi, a member of Iran's national wrestling team. It appears there were no evidence against these men of the crime they were accused of. In any case there's no fair and transparent judiciary unde in Iran. When the regime is this evil and violent, telling them to make internal change through protests is a cruel joke cracked from the comfort of one's arm chair @sujitjohn. People of Iran need external help to get rid of the evil regime. bbc.com/news/articles/…

@sanjukta The US signed a deal with the Taliban and left the women of the country to their fate.

I don't know enough about the other nations but the Afghan women were 100% better off when Taliban was gone. They were studying, joining workforce and excelling. Why Taliban is back, that's another conversation. I find it hard to believe that no good will come from the overturning of dictatorship and theocracy. There will be some good.

There you go, another attempt to somehow defend and protect the Islamic regime. This man visited Tehran and saw not all women wear Hijab. That's because after the 2022 uprising and protests, some women decided to openly defy the mandatory hijab law but it doesn't mean the law does not exist or that they are not at risk of fine and imprisonment.

@sanjukta US gave similar arguments for their invasions of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Syria... Can you tell me if women are today better off in those countries, or worse? Saudi Arabian women arguably have the most restrictions. US has long been its greatest ally. How do you see that?

Perhaps you are right sir. But every theory or idea has its only threshold of how far it remains true and when it breaks. After a point, you no longer stand and watch the house burn thinking it's not our fight, let there be internal efforts to douse the fire. If enough people like you wrote eloquent Op Eds and books and raised your voice loud enough against the Islamic regime in the last 47 years, then perhaps the women of Iran would have had some hope of change from within. Today they have no hope after they have seen protests being crushed, protesters slaughtered. Today they are thanking US-Israel and celebrating.

Iran is nothing like what most imagine.