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The scenes in Iran are astonishing. How far will these protests go?
Alireza Nader علیرضا نادر
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This man in Iran slapped a woman. He thought he could get away with it. Things are different right now.
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Iranian women — no Hijab — sing the Farsi version of Bella Ciao, the anti-fascist anthem of the Italian resistance during WW II nitter.app/daniellebraunOL/status…
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Tehran. Women’s uprising.
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They have lost fear of the regime.
Masih Alinejad
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Ukrainian soldiers in the trenches singing the Ukrainian version of the WWII anti-fascist Italian resistance anthem Bella Ciao nitter.app/CharaCamgirl/status/15…
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The protests are not getting any smaller in Iran.
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Tehran, Friday night. Day 8 of anti-regime protests. nitter.app/1500tasvir/status/1573…
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It’s a womens’s revolution. Men are joining in. They’re all fed up with the regime.
〰️آلباتروس سرخ〰️
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Little girls in Iran flapping their headscarves in the air.
Yashar Ali 🐘
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The infamous Evin prison in Tehran is on fire. Gunfire heard. This is big. nitter.app/1500tasvir/status/1581…
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Justice Clarence Thomas checked the box “none” for his wife’s income during a period when Ginni Thomas earned more than $686,000 from the Heritage Foundation. When called on the lie, he said it was “due to a misunderstanding of the filing instructions" washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
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Women and men turn over police cars
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This short clip will help you understand why the Titanic mini sub is missing and why this was an accident waiting to happen. nitter.app/FnpMarieOH/status/1670…
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Can a tyrannical regime prepared to stay in power at any cost be defeated? That is the question. nitter.app/lilygrutcher/status/15…
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Isfahan, Iran. Are they unstoppable?
Vahid Online
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Iran, Shiraz, Saturday. Women are leading this uprising against repression. Forced hijab is the symbol. Removing it is the sign of resistance. nitter.app/1500tasvir/status/1573…
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Iranian women committing the crime of eating in a restaurant without wearing a headcover.
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Former Chinese leader Hu Jintao taken out of the Chinese Party Congress — apparently against his will. What happened? Hu was China’s top official before Xi. Did he oppose Xi’s historic power grab? CNN reporting on the incident censored in China
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Women are waving the hijab in the air near Evin prison nitter.app/Afshin_Ismaeli/status/…
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You want to see courage: Women in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan hold a protest in support of Iran. One sign says: “Iran has risen, now it’s our turn” nitter.app/dwnews/status/15755285…
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Protesters in China now calling for democracy. "We don't want a dictatorship. We want democracy. We don't want a leader. We want voting. We stand with the people of Xinjiang. We stand with the women of Iran.”
Borzou Daragahi 🖊🗒
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The chant now in Iran: “We will fight, we will die, we will take Iran back” nitter.app/1500tasvir/status/1574…
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Georgia Update: The turnout gap between women and men has continued to widen. Per @GeorgiaVotes
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The protests in China are getting bigger. And they’re emerging in multiple places across the country.
Tom Mackenzie
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Another beautiful “Bella Ciao” in Farsi. The song is catching on as Iranian women lead a revolt, standing against a repressive theocratic dictatorship.
Lilith
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Women of all ages are defying Iran’s repressive regime.
Yashar Ali 🐘
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Iran, Wednesday, protesters push back, force riot police to retreat.
IranProtests.com
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Neyshabur, Iran. Protesters take down a statue of Ayatollah Khomeini
Darya Safai MP
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Iran protests continue on Wednesday
Babak Taghvaee - Μπάπακ Τακβαίε - بابک تقوایی
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Replying to @elonmusk
That’s why it’s so sad watching you play with it like it’s a toy and you’re a child.
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The home (now museum) of Ayatollah Khomeini, founder of the Islamic Republic, set on fire by Iranian protesters.
Farzad Fattahi
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Day 9
Iran, Shiraz, Saturday. Women are leading this uprising against repression. Forced hijab is the symbol. Removing it is the sign of resistance. nitter.app/1500tasvir/status/1573…
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The soldiers in Bakhmut asked Zelensky to give their battle flag to the US Congress; the flag of Ukraine signed by its defenders
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Karan, Iran. Saturday. Women marching without hijab. Protests continue
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Iranian football team protesting against the regime by refusing to sing the Islamic Republic’s national anthem at World Cup in Qatar.
Amichai Stein
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On the 40th day after #MahsaAmini’s death while in custody of the Iranian regime, thousands of protesters take to the streets, despite authorities efforts to stop them. This is in her home town Saqiz
mademoiselle saltaneh
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Shiraz, Iran. This uprising continues undeterred, despite a brutal crackdown.
Rana Rahimpour
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Tehran today. Students at Polytechnic University
Rana Rahimpour
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More amazing scenes from Iran.
cheshm_abi
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Tehran tonight: Protestors chant We are all Nika. Vow they are ready to fight and say the Supreme leader is on his way out
Rana Rahimpour
Remember the incredibly brave Nika Shahkarami, who disappeared after shedding her hijab, and later turned up dead? CNN tracked down moment by moment what the regime did. edition.cnn.com/2022/10/27/m…
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Iranian women removed the hijab and wave it in the air as a shout for freedom. Making sure #MahsaAmini’s death was not in vain. nitter.app/1500tasvir/status/1575…
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Iranian Kurdistan, Tuesday. The chant is “Gen, Gian, Azadi”. “Women, Life, Freedom”.
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We don’t know what’s going to happen to Iranian climber Elnaz Rekabi, who defiantly competed without a headscarf. But Iranians gave her a heroe’s welcome at Tehran airport.
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Thursday: Iran protests continue. Regime gradually shutting down internet access. nitter.app/Iran03004057/status/15…
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Hijab off after 80 years
Mother of Sattar Beheshti, who was tortured to death in Iran in 2012, removes her hijab after 80 yrs "for our young people." She has never given up her quest for justice, and now is standing for all of Iran’s sons & daughters. #Mahsa_Amini. #مهسا_امینی nitter.app/satarfoundation/status…
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The bravery of Iranian women nitter.app/1500tasvir/status/1572…
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Now they’re protesting in Wuhan, China, where it all started
李老师不是你老师
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Sound up. Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov claims the war was launched against Russia and the audience explodes with laughter. nitter.app/SlavaUk30722777/status…
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Why all the crackpots? Here’s the explanation, from Hanna Arendt
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Iranian President Raisi visited a women’s university. The women greeted him with chants of “Death to the oppressor, whether it is a king or a [supreme] leader”
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Listen to Buenos Aires after Argentina won the World Cup.
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Angry protests continue in China. This in Beijing.
李老师不是你老师
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Little known fact: women make up 22% of Ukraine’s military.
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Traffic jams late tonight in Tehran, reportedly from people rushing to Evin prison, now in flames. Relatives of the inmates — political prisoners — terrified for their loved ones.
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Iranian woman wearing a “Women, life, freedom” t-shirt was removed from a World Cup stadium by Qatari officials. Why is @FIFA allowing this level of repression? Why was Qatar allowed to host the event?
Hila
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He was found guilty of telling these exact lies, smearing E Jean Carrol. Can she sue him again?
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This was a very bad week for: Vladimir Putin The Iranian regime Donald Trump
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Organizers say more than 600,000 Israelis turned out today, the 12th consecutive weeks of protests, the biggest demonstration in the country’s history. Israelis say they’re democracy is at stake
שקמה ברסלר Shikma Bressler
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Fetterman wore a suit. He’s now Senator Fetterman.
Heartland Signal
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Happy Presidents' Day
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Trump has lost Mike Pompeo. “Trump had classified docs when he shouldn’t have had them, and when given the opportunity to return them he chose not to do that .. That’s inconsistent with protecting America’s soldiers .”
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Some in Iran’s security forces have joined the protests. If this spreads, the regime will be in real danger.
Saman Arbabi
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In the streets of Tehran the chants of “Death to the dictator,” as Evin prison burns. This is not a call for reform. It’s a call for an end to the oppressive regime. nitter.app/i/status/1581378547280…
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Huge demonstration in Berlin in support of the Iranian protesters and their “Woman, life, freedom!”movement.
Alireza Nader علیرضا نادر
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Iranian climber Elnaz Rekabi in international competition appears without wearing a hijab, in open defiance of the regime’s requirements for women.
Maziar
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Student protests in the schools. Iranians, especially women, have had enough. nitter.app/1500tasvir/status/1576…
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The weather forecast for Iran, delivered from neighboring Azerbaijan. Watch to the end.
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More from the massive anti regime turnout protest today in Karan, Iran, marking the 40th day since the killing of Hadis Najafi. nitter.app/1500tasvir/status/1588…
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Evin is where the regime locks up its political prisoners
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Huge demonstration in Tehran metro station. Crowds cheer as protesters set a hijab on fire.
Vahid Online
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Gen. Milley warning about Trump, without using his name: "We don't take an oath to a king, or queen, or a tyrant or a dictator. And we don't take an oath to a wannabe dictator"
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Huge protest in Javanrud, Iran. Reports of security forces shooting protesters nitter.app/DTehrany/status/159463…
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Women at Iran’s AlZahra University, an all-women’s U in Tehran where they jeered President Raisi, sang the revolutionary anti-fascist anthem Bella Ciao.
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“Aazadi, Aazadi” “Freedom, freedom,” they’re chanting in Iran
Isfahan, Iran. Are they unstoppable?
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Tehran
آنسوی دیوارها
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They’re chanting “Woman, life, freedom!” (Volume up)
Little girls in Iran flapping their headscarves in the air.
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The astonishingly brave Nika Shakarami is dead. Killed by the Iranian regime.
Nika Shakarami, 17, was arrested during #IranProtests after burning her headscarf. After a week security forces delivered her dead body to her family w/ her nose fully smashed & her skull broken with multiple blows. Outrage over her murder is now adding fuel to fire of protests.
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Isfahan, Iran. Chant: “Women, life, freedom!”
Samira Mohyeddin سمیرا
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Iran: protests continue
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Huge protests today in #Karaj, Iran.
Ali Javanmardi
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Iran: street clashes today between security forces and protesters in Tabriz.
Borzou Daragahi 🖊🗒
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Iranian regime is arresting journalists faster than ever. It’s another effort to hide the truth
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Iran: Women are leading this uprising. Men are joining in.
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Russia: Womens’s protest in Yakutsk. Chant: Give us back our grandfathers. (Men as old as 62 being forced to go fight in Ukraine) Some women arrested.
SOTA
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Mahabad, Iran. Thursday. Government building on fire, reportedly set aflame by protesters
𝓘𝓻𝓪𝓷 𝓟𝓪𝓷𝓸𝓻𝓪𝓶𝓪 𝓝𝓮𝔀𝓼
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Moscow today
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Wow, guest on Russian TV says Russia violated international law by invading Ukraine and Ukraine finds it unconscionable to surrender.
Meanwhile in Russia: several panelists threw some truth grenades at the stunned TV hosts, look how those angry propagandists pummeled the pundit who said that by destroying the infrastructure, Russia is waging a cruel, sadistic war against civilians. He won't be invited back.
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Is there a run on Russian banks?
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Anger is boiling over in Iran. The people have had enough. They didn’t take it from this regime enforcer.
ERSHAD ALIJANI
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BBC Persian reports; A well-informed source told the BBC that Elnaz’s friends say they have not been able to conta her since last night. BBC contacted the hotel in South Korea where the Iranian team was staying and learned that the team members left the hotel on Monday morning
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The soldier in the back is loading her machine gun’s magazine with bullets as she sings
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Compare the spirit of Ukrainian forces defending their country from that of Russians forced to fight in an unprovoked war of choice, whose main purpose was to cover an authoritarian leader with glory and defend him from the appeal of democracy.
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Iranians are fighting the police.
Emily Schrader - אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر
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Iran today; oil workers strike. Chant: “do not fear. We are all together” nitter.app/1500tasvir/status/1579…
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