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My darling sister Sepideh Kashani has been arrested in Iran, alongside her husband Houman Jokar and sister Sima Kashani. All three have disappeared into the regime's detention enterprise- we don't know who arrested them, where they are being held or why.
Sepideh and Houman are wildlife conservationists. They have already lost more than 6 years of their lives to Evin prison. They are not political. They have already sacrificed so much and their rearrest is devastating.
Sima Kashani suffers from multiple sclerosis and needs urgent medical care. Sepideh and Sima's father has a number of severe health conditions and was recently released from hospital. He needs his daughters at home to care for him.
These are some of the most remarkable, courageous and kindest people in Iran. Sepideh, Houman and Sima are not just another awful statistic in the Islamic Republic's war on its own people.
Please remember their names. Please join me in calling for their urgent release. instagram.com/reel/DaSExDkTy…
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Australian government, your time is now. @AlboMP @SenatorWong pick up the phone to Washington, bring Assange's decade+ long ordeal to an end. You might not like him, but the time has come to stand up for our fellow citizen. To stand up for freedom of speech, for whistle-blowers.
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Oh my God @SenatorPayman girl what are you doing!? What is this nonsense you are saying!?
Iran has no "democratic process," least of all one which women are allowed to participate in. You should know this- I saw you sitting in the Senate enquiry into Iran's human rights abuses just 2 years ago.
Why agree to be interviewed by Press TV, English language propaganda arm of the Islamic Republic known for broadcasting false confession videos and forced interviews with prisoners before they are executed?
The irony of Payman's using this interview to bemoan "the propaganda we receive from very single sided organisations with a specific agenda" when such a description is most fitting for Press TV itself (banned in many Western countries but curiously, not Australia)
The irony of a strong and powerful woman originally from Afghanistan, who fled that country as a refugee and is well aware of the horrific gender apartheid perpetrated there against women and girls, denying that her Iranian sisters face similar challenges just next door.
To what end, Senator? Are there really that many votes to be found in cosying up to a brutal authoritarian regime like Iran's?
I am genuinely baffled by this step from someone who in the past had expressed sympathy and solidarity for the people of Iran and their struggle for #WomanLifeFreedom
You are many things dear Senator, and in the past your contribution to parliament has been a valuable one. But 'Australia's Voice,' you absolutely are not.
Legitimately shocking: Australian Senator Fatima Payman speaks at an Iranian regime propaganda event defending the regime’s treatment of women: “Iran allows women to have a voice and participate in democracy … a reality we don’t hear in Western propaganda.”
She’s a complete psychopath. She literally put out a statement only LAST WEEK endorsing the Women Life Freedom protest movement in Iran and deleted it after this event. Screen recording proof below.
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This time exactly 2 months ago I boarded a plane at Tehran's Mehrabad airport. I can never regain the 2+ years which were stolen from me, but I am looking to the future with strength, positivity and an renewed appreciation for what I'd long taken for granted- justice and freedom.
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I have just received word that everyone within the women's political prisoner ward of Evin is SAFE and unharmed.
من همین الان خبر داشتم که همه در بند زندانیان سیاسی زنان اوین در امان هستند و آسیبی ندیده اند.
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Iran really does look like this. And it's breathtakingly beautiful. And there are infinite exotic backdrops for framing selfies for Instagram. Most tourists have an incredible time, and come home gushing about the warmth and hospitality of the Iranian people... BUT...
پروژه دوم فمتریپ (نام دیگر خونشویی) با حضور بلاگرهای خارجی آن هم زمانی که مردم در خیابانها در مقابل گلوله و باتون میایستند، سرکوب و کشته میشوند، شروع شدهاست!
«دروغهایی که با جوهر نوشته میشود، هرگز نمیتواند حقیقتی را که با خون نوشته شده پنهان کند.»-لو ژون
@hodarostami
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Front page of Iranian state newspaper Jam-e Jam speaks for itself: چشم شیطان کور شد. "Satan's eye has been blinded."
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Is it too naive of me to hope that #MahsaAmini could be Iran's Mohamed Bouazizi moment? #نه_به_جمهوري_اسلامي
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My article in today's @FinancialReview on Fatima Payman's betrayal of Iranian women's struggle for gender equality, a cause that she had repeatedly professed support for up until a week ago.
afr.com/politics/fatima-paym…
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I support the right to protest in Australia, including calling for an end to the war in Gaza. However, it was profoundly disturbing to see an enormous portrait of mass-murdering Iranian dictator Ayatollah Khamenei, holding a rifle no less, positioned directly behind the group of prominent Australians leading the march. Did this front line of protesters look behind them? Were they and their advisers aware of the presence of this potent symbol, positioned as it was to ensure maximum media coverage and, for Khamenei and the Iranian regime, maximum propaganda value?
This same image of Khamenei + rifle became one of the core propaganda motifs splashed across IRIB state media programming in the days following Qasem Soleimani's assassination in 2020, at the time viewed from my solitary confinement cell. For me it was triggering (pun intended) and I can't imagine how upsetting it must have been for the many thousands of Iranian refugees and other victims of the regime's brutal violence who now call Australia home.
It seems almost too obvious to have to state: Australians can oppose the starvation and bloodshed in Gaza, and call for an end to the war, without having to make common cause with one of the Middle East's worst human rights abusers and perpetrators of mass atrocities.
I'm not convinced that everyone in the front row of the protest knew what was being waved behind their heads. I do hope however that those who were pictured marching in front of Khamenei's portrait denounce the presence of this image, which after all tarnishes their cause and all that they stand for. The old adage of 'my enemy's enemy' should be rejected by anyone who genuinely cares about Palestinian rights, or human rights more broadly. You can be an enemy of Israel without having to make the Iranian regime your friend.
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Iranians turn out in large numbers across Australia to show their support for the protests in Iran #مهسا_امینی #نه_به_جمهوري_اسلامي
تجمع ایرانیان مقیم ملبورن در حمایت از خیزش سراسری علیه جمهوری اسلامی
علیرضا محبی، ایران اینترنشنال گزارش میدهد
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The silence of many academics and indeed the broader university sector in the West about what is happening to Iranian students and their professors does not cease to shock me. Contrast this to the way journalists mobilise in support of one another when a journalist is attacked.
Iranian PhD candidate Nasrin Ghaderi, 35, who was studying philosophy in Tehran died on Saturday after being beaten by security forces with baton during Friday protests.
Under the regime's pressure, however, her father announced today she died of flu and underlying disease.
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1/ On this day exactly three years ago I landed at Imam Khomeini airport, Tehran. Full of excitement, I couldn't wait to explore Iran and learn more about its unique people and rich culture.
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Last week I had the genuine pleasure of meeting @ScottMorrisonMP and his lovely wife Jenny. He was warm, open, frank and well-informed about the details of my case, which he had no qualms about calling a hostage-taking. Thanks for helping get me out of a tight spot ScoMo!
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Finally someone has written about the dozens of poor Thai workers slaughtered and taken hostage by Hamas. It's telling that the Thai delegation flew straight to Tehran to beg for their freedom.
theage.com.au/world/asia/the…
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For years now the Iranian-Australian community and other victims of the IRGC, including myself, have been literally screaming at rallies, to our local MPs, in parliamentary consultations and in reports to the national security hotline that Iranian agents are operating brazenly and with few consequences here on Australian soil. Overseas we have seen numerous incidents of Iran contracting organised crime to conduct attacks on journalists, dissidents and targets within the Jewish community. Many of us have long been saying that an Iranian hand lies behind some of the antisemitic attacks which have proliferated here in Australia since October 7. We have a Senate Inquiry dating back to 2023-4 recommending the IRGC be proscribed as a terror organisation. We have been calling for more than a year for Ahmad Sadeghi, the Iranian ambassador, to be expelled from Australia due to his repeated antisemitic remarks on social media, and due to his embassy's sinister role in sponsoring the surveillance of dissidents here in Australia. I personally have petitioned two foreign ministers to sanction IRGC officials directly complicit in the wrongful detention and effective hostage-taking of myself and at least four other Australian citizens, with no response. NOW FINALLY, THE GOVERNMENT IS TAKING ACTION. I applaud Albanese and Wong for stepping up and taking decisive action against a brutal regime which has long shown itself to be an enemy of the Australian people. It's such a shame that it's taken them so long.
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So, we need more sanctions then?
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There is also a darker side. An Iran which, while promoting itself as a tourist destination in clips like this, is also busy shooting innocent protesters in the streets. Is torturing political prisoners in its jails. Is taking foreign tourists hostage for diplomatic leverage.
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Fatima Payman Press TV interview in full
Also features notorious American propagandist Marzieh Hashemi who Zoomed in from Tehran, where she has dedicated her life to whitewashing the regime's crimes
nitter.app/PressTV/status/1893514…
Why Press TV still has a license to broadcast its vile propaganda from within Australia, when it has been banned by our allies overseas, is anyone's guess
@DrewPavlou
Iranian women in Sydney challenge Western narratives
@SHAHANABUTT reports from Sydney
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The Australian people cannot accept that you are willing to deal with the mullahs in Iran for myself & El-Sisi's regime in Egypt for @PeterGreste ,that you can get David Hicks out of Guantanamo, but you can't convince our close allies to end their political prosecution of Assange
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In February 2021 I filmed this one hour documentary with @SkyNewsAust about my time incarcerated in Iran. Previously behind a paywall, it is now available on YouTube. If you're interested, please take a look✌️
piped.video/watch?v=yTCLw9dX…
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This is what happens when you don't listen to local Iranian communities. They have been complaining to governments for years about the issuing of visas to regime officials and their families, and failure to take seriously IR soft power influence ops
Anti-war activists in Chicago learn to chant “Death to Israel” and “Death to America” in Farsi.
Read more from The FP’s @Olivia_Reingold: thefp.pub/4cYp5oU
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Khoda koneh that one day tourism will thrive in Iran. This country, with its ancient ruins, historic cities, vibrant culture and stunning landscapes has the potential to be a prime destination for international visitors. I hope that I will be among them. But not under this regime
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Um, what were the arguments that IRGC isn't a terror org again...?
#BREAKING IRGC Chief-Commander Salami says the threats against @IranIntl journalists which forced the channel to stop its broadcasting in the UK and move to the US "show how far the Islamic Revolution's realm of power, field of infiltration and radius of influence has extended."
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Taraneh Alidoosti has been thrown in the Intelligence Ministry's notorious 209 unit within Evin, synonymous with severe deprivation, solitary confinement and weaponisation of medical care.
In a short conversation with her father detained actress #TaranehAlidoosti said she is being held in section 209 of Evin prison [m— where prisoners are notoriously tortured — and requested her medication.
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There are very few people in the world who understand how it feels to be wrongfully imprisoned abroad and used as a diplomatic hostage.
These two 'get it' when so many others can't.
Honoured to be spending the 3rd anniversary of my precious freedom in such great company
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This is an utterly shocking story. 'Lolita,' a young Saudi woman who was forcibly married at 11 and has been the victim of years of horrific gender-based violence, was kidnapped by agents likely linked to the Saudi embassy from her flat in Melbourne. Despite having applied for asylum, she was taken against her will on a flight out of Melbourne airport with no questions asked, where the airport's CCTV camera footage was mysteriously "destroyed."
The @AusFedPolice and Border Force have serious questions to answer here. Given Saudi's well-documented history of kidnapping it's own female citizens and extraditing them back against their will, any female Saudi asylum seeker should automatically have a red flag against their name for further checks should they present at the border.
Australia owed this vulnerable woman protection, and we failed her. Profoundly. We should do all we can to remedy this by offering her PR, as @alisonbattison suggests, and attempting to track her down and provide assistance via our embassy in Riyadh.
Transnational repression is here, it is real and it's happening unchecked on our doorsteps. Iran, Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, and more. Australia needs to get serious about tackling this, or we are all less safe.
theaustralian.com.au/nation/… @gbearup
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Do you know what was stamped on the handcuffs we were forced to wear every time we left the 2A unit in #Evin , even for a trip to the hospital? Even when so weak from hunger strikes we could barely walk?
MADE IN UK.
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English-language translation of the statement released by female political prisoners in Evin in support of the arrested protesters.These brave women have added their names, in spite of the risk to themselves, to call for an end to the Islamic Republic's executions and sham trials
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"Taking hostage, kidnapping, murdering is in the DNA of the Islamic Republic" - brave @AlinejadMasih as the US Senate introduces a bill to sanction her intended kidnappers
What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas but Islamic Republic terror doesn’t stay in the Middle East. need bipartisan coordinated international campaign to confront regime’s terror. Please listen to my remarks in the Senate to introduce Masih Alinejad HUNT act
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با آرزوی نوروز مبارک برای مردم عزیزم ایران. باشد که سال جدید رفاه و آزادی را به همراه داشته باشد
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Apparently “the residents of Tehran will pay the price” for Iran’s targeting of Israeli civilian areas.
This is an incredibly idiotic position to take and will undermine all of Israel's objectives in this war. The Iranian people are broadly aligned with Israel in that they want to see an end to the brutal Islamic Republic regime. What they don't appreciate, is becoming collateral damage. Israel should do everything in its power to avoid any civilian casualties and keep the Iranian people, who are after all the biggest victims of this regime, out of the crosshairs.
הדיקטטור הרברבן מטהרן הפך לרוצח פחדן שיורה ירי מכוון לעבר העורף האזרחי בישראל כדי להרתיע את צה"ל מהמשך המתקפה שמקריסה את יכולותיו.
תושבי טהרן ישלמו את המחיר ובקרוב.
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Someone needs to tell @abcnews @TheLyonsDen that it's the Revolutionary Guard, not the "Republican Guard." The IRGC, which Iranians shorten to Sepah, exists to protect the Islamic revolution, not the republic (ie. the Iranian people) whom it has been brutally repressing for the past 46 years. An important distinction!
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Iranian Olympic air pistol champion hones skills shooting live targets in Syria....
#JavadForoughi, Iran's first gold at @Tokyo2020 in men's 10m air pistol, is member of Revolutionary Guards. He was sent to Syria along with #IRGC forces for 2 years. IRGC killing protesters and assassinating outside Iran.
This is an affront to the Olympic ideals.
#جواد_فروغی
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Forgive the irrelevant personal announcement dear Twitter, but... ladies and gentlemen, I am officially divorced! Time for a sneaky kardonnay? 🍾🍾 piped.video/watch?v=GrF3R8Z2…
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My dear friend #NiloufarBayani has been freed from #Evin prison for one week on medical grounds after contracting Covid. Nilou has spent more than 3 years as an innocent woman behind bars. Welcome back to the real world, my beautiful courageous sister! 🥳🍾
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I know what it means to do time for absolutely no reason whatsoever. I also know what it means to be rescued from a Covid-riddled overseas hellhole and be brought back to Australia (yes into quarantine). This outrageous policy is immoral, unjustifiable and completely unAustralian
.@hrw response to the Australian government's outrageous proposal to imprison & fine those who fly home from India during its COVID travel ban. 👇👇👇abc.net.au/news/2021-05-01/c…
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Here in Australia, whether true or not, we like to think we're better than that. @AlboMP the moment has arrived to demonstrate that your new govt really is above the empty slogans and self interested politicking of its predecessors. Keep your word. Pick up the phone. #FreeAssange
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Read my piece for @TheNationalNews about resisting injustice from within Iran's prison system.
This is for you Sepideh, Houman, Niloufar, Morad, Taher, Sam, Abdol Reza and Amir Hossein. And for Kavous Seyed-Emami. #freetheenvironmentalists
thenationalnews.com/opinion/…
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How the Iranian embassy in Turkey helped lure a child bride who had fled to Turkey and was granted asylum back to Iran. She was then beheaded by her husband, who paraded her severed head through the streets afterwards. Shameful and shocking doesn't even come close.
Iranian embassy in Turkey abetted in the beheading of 17 Yr old girl by helping the family to force her back to Iran.”
Her husband showed off her severed head in the streets in the name honor. Listen to my interview with a friend of Her.
#LetUsTalk
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The behaviour of the UK government in sanctioning Assange's extradition sends a frightening message to British journalism. We have seen how US journalism has crumbled over the years in the face of extreme partisanship, misinformation and eroding public trust.
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Could it be too much to hope that a war criminal with the blood of thousands on his hands might have finally received his just deserts?
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Ex-IRGC officer Talaei "is best known for launching a special unit to crack down on women wearing supposedly un-Islamic dress, aggressively quelling protests and spearheading an operation to seize TV satellite dishes used to bring in Western programming."
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Please don't share the video of Majidreza Rahnavard. The indignity of being strung up in public in front of a baying mob in your last moments is horrific enough, without its being immortalised via online voyeurism, even if well-meaning. We all know what this regime is capable of.
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دقیقا یک سال از #آزادی من می گذرد 🧵👇 piped.video/2aC6n0O3a8k
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The head of IRGC intelligence Mohammad Kazemi, and his deputy Hassan Mohaqeq, are dead. This is huge news for the many thousands of innocent Iranians who have been arrested, tortured and deprived of their liberty in horrific conditions for sometimes years, due to political or security 'crimes.' This includes the dozens of innocent foreigners and dual nationals who have been wrongfully detained for purposes of 'hostage diplomacy,' who are also the direct victims of these two evil men (and too many others).
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I'm very glad to see Foreign Minister Wong speak out on what's happening in Iran. However the time for condemnation has long passed, the Iranian people need action. In order to "continue to support the people of Iran" the govt must join its allies in sanctioning the regime & IRGC
Reports a protester has been sentenced to death in Iran are deeply disturbing.
Australia opposes the death penalty in all circumstances for all people.
We continue to support the people of Iran and their right to freedom of expression and equality for women and girls.
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Don't forget that, in spite of all the well-publicised, senseless killings of innocent protesters in places like Tehran and the Caspian provinces, Zahedan and Balochistan have borne the absolute brunt of the regime's horrific wave of violence.
Geographical distribution of protesters who were killed in the past 51 days in #Iran.
#MahsaAmini @NazaninBoniadi @hdagres @SkyylarThompson
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I would add that there are also a sizeable number of Iranian scholars in the West doing the same thing. I don't know if it's "Iran lobby" or merely rose-tinted nostalgia for an imagined home, but I find the lack of solidarity from those who should know better highly disturbing.
There’s a disturbing trend of non-Iranian scholars diminishing #Iran’s freedom movement & discrediting IRI opposition. I urge you to trade in your cynicism for empathy of a global community suffering from 43yrs of trauma from IRI. IQ without EQ is itself dangerously abusive.
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While Iranian women can enter the workforce (congratulations, such a high bar with which to measure women's rights) they can be barred from doing so by their husbands, are prevented by law from joining numerous professions and are prevented by custom from many others (particularly in regime-controlled spaces like the bureaucracy, politics and public service, not to mention much of IRGC, military and security services). According to the Iranian constitution, a woman cannot be president.
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On this day, exactly one year ago, I passed the gates of Evin for the very last time, at last a free woman. I wanted to be doing this 👇but instead was forced to take part in my own little IRGC propaganda film, which needless to say didn't go to plan (for them!)
دقیقا یک سال از #آزادی من می گذرد 🧵👇 piped.video/2aC6n0O3a8k
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Sometimes I don't recognise Australia anymore. An insidious kind of extremism has been creeping into our political discourse, and at its fringes is a worrying tolerance for political violence which would never have been allowed to take root in previous generations. We need muscular, robust, creative thinking from our leaders, including on how we can stop faraway foreign conflicts from affecting our social cohesion, and how we can roll back the vicious anti-semitism which has seemingly sprung out of nowhere to infect certain segments of our society. Tinkering around the edges will no longer cut it. Vague platitudes from our elected politicians will no longer cut it. The Jewish community deserve to live in peace and security, and Australia deserves better.
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“A journalist exiled in France, whose writings gave voice to Iran's disaffection, was executed by the regime founded by Ayatollah Khomeini - who, from his own exile in France four decades earlier, issued speeches that gave voice to the nation’s discontent” newstatesman.com/world/middl…
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Today is my dear sister Niloufar Bayani's 35th birthday. Her FOURTH behind bars as an innocent woman. More than 4 years have been stolen from this beautiful soul, years which should have been among the best of her life. Years she will never get back. And for what?
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Being grateful to the 🇦🇺 govt for freeing me from prison 8 YEARS before the end of my unjust sentence, and to the PM specifically for discussing the details with me in an open and frank fashion, does not constitute an endorsement of every single one of his policies #sorrynotsorry
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Iranian security forces have arrested the sister and brother-in-law of executed 2019 protester Navid Afkari as well as his 3 year old niece. Yes, they literally arrested a 3 year old. 🙄 Navid's 2 brothers Habib and Vahid have been in prison since Navid's tragic execution.
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Forget the Bomb and Help Iranians Fight Their Regime
All the other options have failed.
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"Belgium sends the message that its justice is for sale” politico.eu/article/prewrite…
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I couldn't think of a more fitting group of people to suffer a "hard landing"
These were the #Iran regime officials in Raisi's helicopter which suffered a "hard landing" today and which rescuers are trying to locate: Mohammed Ali Ale-Hashem, Khamenei's representative for East Azerbaijan Province and a member of the Assembly of Experts; Raisi; Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian; and Governor of East Azerbaijan Province Malik Rahmati.
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I can confirm that the two New Zealand travel bloggers, Topher Richwhite and his wife Bridget Thackwray of 'Expedition Earth,' are missing, believed arrested in Iran.
حالا نسبتاً بیربطه، ولی گاهی یاد این بندگان خدا میافتم. دو تا شهروند نیوزلندی در مسیر گشتن دنیا وارد ایران شدن، آخرین استوریشون در هایلایت هم اینه و سه ماهه معلوم نیست چی شدن. عجیبه اصلاً صدایی از سمت دولت نیوزلند یا اقوامشون اونجا هم درنمیاد.
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This is Frenchman Benjamin Briere and his campervan exploring Iran before he was kidnapped and thrown into a Mashhad prison. This case mirrors that of Australian backpackers Joely King and Mark Firkin, imprisoned in Evin in 2019 for the "crime" of taking photographs as tourists.
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Canada, the US, Germany and the EU are moving fast (by their standards) to punish Iran and the IRGC with sanctions, terror listing etc. Still crickets from @ausgov @dfat @AlboMP @SenatorWong et al. Australia, when will you start standing up for the Iranian people?
#BREAKING Germany and the EU are examining whether to classify Iran's IRGC as a terrorist organisation, FM @ABaerbock said on Sunday.
"I made it clear last week we'll launch another package of sanctions, that we'll examine how we can also list the IRGC as a terror organisation."
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For the first time since my academic career was effectively destroyed by my wrongful arrest in Iran in 2018, I have published a peer-reviewed journal article. Still not sure whether academia is where I'm meant to be, but I'm pleased to have finally got a tentative first step back on the ladder.
My article is titled 'Evaluating Australia’s consular management of cases of wrongful and arbitrary detention' and is published by the Australian Journal of Political Science @AusPSA @tandfonline
It's open access, which means anyone can download it.
Feedback welcome!
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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I urge Iranian-Australians and anyone else in Australia who is concerned with what's going on in Iran to make a submission, and call on our country to do more than offering empty condemnations.
The Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee is conducting an inquiry into human rights implications of recent violence in Iran and is calling for submissions by 16 November 2022.
More information is available from the Committee's website bit.ly/3SQMJbD
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Both Maryam Rajavi and Reza Pahlavi have been positioning themselves as self-appointed saviours of Iran in recent days. Ready to sweep in, take over and enact some sort of vague democratic transition. It is of course up to Iranians to decide what kind of government they want to have, and I would add that in my (non-Iranian) view, it should be those inside the country, who have the greatest stake in what comes next, who should determine their system of government. The Islamic Republic doesn't seem as though it's going anywhere anytime soon, although of course the situation is so precarious anything could change at any moment. However, the idea that the MEK or the son of the former Shah are the solution to all this is dangerous fantasy.
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This picture. A thousand words, a thousand reasons to stand up and support the brave women of #Afghanistan
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Soheila Hijab was the very first friend I made in Qarchak prison. She is brave, fearless and fiercely intelligent as well as uncompromising when it comes to standing up for what she believes in. She went above and beyond to help me and others.
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2/ Little did I know that this day would mark a turning point in my life, which for better and worse won't be the same again. In spite of what happened to me, I remain in awe of Iran and it's incredible, brave, strong people. It breaks my heart that, for now, I can never return.
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Utterly heartbreaking words of the father of 21 year old karate champ #MohammadMehdiKarami who has just had his death sentence confirmed by Iran's Supreme Court.
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A few things I have been wondering since @AlboMP 's announcement that the AU govt will proscribe the IRGC and kick out Iran's ambassador:
Will the Adass synagogue firebombing and other IRGC-linked attacks now be designated officially as terror attacks, given they were sponsored by a foreign terror org?
Has the IRGC been seeding antisemitism online in Australia, with content picked up and amplified by useful idiots unaware they are parroting Iran-sponsored propaganda and hate?
Will the govt take any additional steps to prevent Australians from travelling to Iran, given the heightened risks?
What is being done to assist Australian citizens to get out of Iran, given the urgent warnings and lack of consular staff on the ground?
What will become of the (at least one) Australian citizen known to be wrongfully imprisoned in Iran now that consular visits are unavailable and diplomatic negotiations have presumably ceased?
Will the police now crack down on individuals flying IRGC flags or displaying other IRGC-linked symbols at protests or in mourning 'martyrs' etc within Australia, now that the group is recognised as a terror org?
Will the government look into applying further sanctions on individuals within Iran who commissioned these attacks, or who have targeted Australians for instance, via hostage-taking?
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I remember watching Taraneh Alidoosti on the TV from my cell in Evin prison. Surreal to think the regime would arrest such a prominent and beloved actress, and that she might end up there herself.
Iranian actress #TaranehAlidoosti was arrested on Saturday 17th December.
On 9th November, Ms. Alidoosti published a photo of herself without compulsory hijab in her Instagram page, holding a paper with #WomanLifeFreedom written on it.
#MahsaAmini
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Brave activist rapper @ToomajSalehi convicted of "propaganda against the regime" and insulting the Supreme Leader by a Revolutionary court in Isfahan.
وبسایت هرانا خبر داد که توماج صالحی خواننده رپ اعتراضی قرار است روز ۲۲ دی ماه در دادگاه انقلاب شاهینشهر اصفهان به اتهام «تبلیغ علیه نظام و توهین به رهبری» محاکمه شود.
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Germany needs to detain Nayeri following his medical procedure and try him for crimes against humanity under universal jurisdiction, as Sweden has done with Hamid Nouri. He should not be allowed to return to Iran unless Sharmahd and Taghavi are returned to Germany.
Thread: Troubling reports which need to be confirmed that Hossein-Ali Nayeri--a member of the death panel in 1988 which greenlighted the execution of thousands of political prisoners in #Iran--has been treated at a private medical clinic in #Germany. 1/4
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1/ This is Alexei, otherwise known as Lyosha. His family migrated to Haifa from Ukraine, seeking a better life. A gentle giant and a kind soul, I backpacked throughout Russia with Alexei for several months in 2012. He was best man at my wedding.
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Really disappointed with the BBC's coverage of the Iranian (s)election. I hadn't been seeking this out, but all I seemed to hear on the World Service and elsewhere were commentary from, for example, an "independent journalist" inside Iran who openly stated she was a Jalili supporter, Adnan Tabatabai who was outed by Semafor as a soft-power influence peddler for the regime in the below expose, etc etc. It's very easy for such people to pose as neutral analysts or unbiased observers, but outlets like the BBC (and they are not by any means the only ones) must take steps to check this before giving such people airtime. It's shocking to me that many storied media organisations are still peddling the line that the Conservative/Reformist paradigm is still consequential in Iran, and that the president can somehow be a force for change. I like and respect the BBC a lot, and I will keep listening. But its coverage of Iran has often been shallow and misleading.
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A little confused that, of all people, I'm getting trolled by Iranian royalists right now 🤷🏻♀️
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Apparently I have to write this thing now!
.@UltimoPress signs Kylie Moore-Gilbert (@KMooreGilbert)'s memoir, an account of her imprisonment in Iran. @QuadrilleBooks will publish the title in the UK
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Oh how boring and predictable. I've come to DC to meet with policymakers and experts working on Iran and arbitrary detention. The Islamic Republic doesn't like that and has started a campaign attacking me on social media spreading all sorts of crazy narratives straight out of the utterly wild keifar khaast concocted in Salavati's 'revolutionary court' that I'm a spy with military training who spoke Farsi before I arrived in Iran blah blah. Guys, I actually find it super hilarious, keep it up! Plus you stole all my devices in Iran including all of the travel snaps I had from my time there. The more of these pics you post, the more obvious it is who you work for! Please keep them coming too, not only am I entertained, I can also get some of my old photos back.
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More than 30 years and a $3million bounty later, Khomeini's poisonous fatwa has finally caught up with Salman Rushdie. A black day for freedoms of speech, expression, religion & conscience. A tragic day for literature. We must pray Rushdie survives this.
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This is my beautiful friend. I can't even begin to describe what has been done to her, and stolen from her, over these past 3+ years. #NiloufarBayani #شكنجه_شدم
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To those who champion artistic freedom & freedom of expression.
To those who profess to stand against imperialist oppression.
To those who have suddenly become Middle East experts overnight.
Toomaj Salehi is your litmus test. Say his name!
@OfficialToomaj
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Elnaz Rekabi knew she'd be arrested if she returned to Iran, yet she did so anyway. The bravery of Iran's women is boundless
EXCLUSIVE: a female Iranian athlete who did not wear a hijab at an international competition will be directly transferred to Evin prison from the airport, IranWire can reveal.
iranwire.com/en/politics/108… #Iran #Truth #Mahsa_Aminiمهساامینی #MahsaAmini #hijab
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I challenge you to watch this clip of murdered teen Sarina Esmailzadeh, full of life and wise beyond her years, and not shed a tear #مهسا_امینی #نه_به_جمهوري_اسلامي
Her name is #SarinaEsmailzadeh,she was 16 when she joined #IranProtests2022 demanding her basic human rights.Islamic Republic forces hit her in the head and killed her. Her family were threatened to silence- HOLD @khamenei_ir ACCOUNTABLE FOR THIS CRIME
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Iran just hanged two intellectually-curious, open-minded young men for the 'crime' of having the intelligence to question the regime's all-pervasive brainwashing, and the bravery to express their doubts online to others. A despicable act straight out of the Middle Ages.
Iran's judiciary today announced the execution of Yousef Mehrdad and Sadrollah Fazeli Zare for "insulting" the Prophet Muhammad & Islamic sanctities. They were also accused of running "anti-religion" social media accounts.
They were arrested 3 years ago & executed this morning.
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This is Benjamin Briere, the French tourist on trial in Mashhad for (heaven forbid) taking photographs and posting a comment on social media about compulsory hijab. The latest victim of a long list of foreigners held hostage by #Iran
#سعید_دهقان، وکیل دادگستری از برگزاری جلسه آخرین دفاع #بنجامین_بریر، توریست فرانسوی بازداشت شده خبر داد. به گفته او اتهامات این توریست جوان، در خصوص عکسبرداری و همچنین طرح سوال در رابطه با حجاب اجباری در ایران در شبکه های اجتماعی عنوان شده است./۱
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My friend Soheila Hejab has been on hunger strike in Qarchak prison for the past 2 weeks. She is suffering from low blood pressure and stomach and kidney problems. She is protesting the harassment of her and her family by members of the security forces.
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I was interviewed about Assange's prison conditions on tonight's 7:30 Report @abc730 @jamesglenday
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Why do I love this pic so much?
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Iran International @IranIntl has been forced to close its London offices due to threats from the Iranian regime, yet Khamenei's representative in the UK is allowed to maintain a "community centre" in London, enjoying all benefits of tax breaks, charitable status etc. Go figure 🤷🏻♀️
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Australia should sanction Iran’s communications minister, Eisa Zarepour, who did his PhD at the University of New South Wales. He has already been sanctioned by the United States and the European Union.
- @NazaninBoniadi
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To all the monarchist trolls busy attacking me last week who are now celebrating the latest airstrikes: Guess who built Evin prison
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I may be free, but there are countless innocent others still imprisoned in Iran whom deserve your support. Next, freedom for @FaribaRoland @FreeNazanin @FreeMassud @freeanoosheh @AmiriFree @Free_Djalali #freenahid @FreeTheNamazis @FreekamranG and many many unnamed Iranians
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Cecilia Sala was probably not arrested in Iran because she is a journalist. She had been given a permit by the regime and a journalism visa to enter the country. She would have been closely vetted and she would have understood the parameters of what is safe/unsafe to cover.
This press release from the US Justice Dept provides insight into what was likely the real motive, one even more insidious.
3 days before Cecilia's arrest, an Iranian IRGC member, Mohammad Abedini Najafabadi, was charged with "conspiring to export sophisticated electronic components from the United States to Iran" and "providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization." He was arrested in ITALY at the behest of the United States.
History tells us that this is not a coincidence. Olivier Vandecasteele, Johan Floderus, and now Cecilia Sala. All three EU citizens were arrested to compel their countries to release dangerous IRGC thugs with blood on their hands. Cecilia is the latest victim of the Islamic Republic's increasingly brazen hostage diplomacy. The IRGC went looking for Italians, and they found her.
It's beyond time that the EU and all Western democracies start to take this growing geopolitical threat seriously.
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February 21 marks the first anniversary of the death penalty verdict for German citizen #JamshidSharmahd
The Islamic Republic executed more than 800 people throughout 2023. Every state-ordered murder leaves deep wounds in Iranian society.
Let's not forget Iran. #CutTheRope !
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In support of @HostageAid 's Barry Rosen @brosen1501 who is on hunger strike outside the nuclear negotiations in Vienna. Barry is calling for all hostages held in Iran to be freed before any deal is signed. #FreeTheHostages
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