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Port workers in Italy refused to load arms to a ship that was destined for Israel.
“The port of Livorno will not be an accomplice in the massacre of the Palestinian people,” said the union.
Iranian women put their scarves on sticks in the middle of busy streets, as a peaceful protest to mandatory Hijab laws. We have been fighting this unfair law for three decades, slowly but consistently. We fought and we pushed back. And this is where we are today.
WRONG. Pro tip from someone who lived in Iran for many years and never attended a single involuntary march: Yes pro-government marches get reluctant crowds in tens of thousands maximum, but never this big. The government can not bring out such a crowd involuntary. This is real.
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Pro tip from a guy who marched in involuntary Soviet parades: don’t confuse the numbers of marchers in Soleimani’s funeral procession with support for the regime. When you live in a dictatorship, showing up isn’t an option. You either march or get harassed, arrested, or killed.
In Iran a 22-year-old woman named Mahsa Amini is in a coma after being violently arrested by the “morality police” for not wearing proper hijab in Tehran. Her name is trending on Persian Twitter and Instagram and Iranian users are outraged. #مهسا_امینی
Iran’s top football team holds a minute of silence before training, in honor of their fan #BlueGirl who set herself on fire and died, after she was arrested for trying to enter the stadium dressed as a boy.
Strong leadership: New Zealand Prime Minister visits grieving Muslim families, wearing hijab as a sign of respect.
She tells them: You are us.
Doctors, nurses and health workers in #Iran are risking their lives to fight #Coronavirus in a shortage of resources and equipment, but they are not losing their spirit.
This is unbelievable…
Watch dismiss brown athletes, from Iran to Guatemala, repeatedly saying “this is their culture”, while the host and other guests are sitting there listening to him go on and on, live on .
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This feminist revolution is led by brave women and men inside Iran, sparked by the death of #MahsaAmini in police custody, built upon decades of resistance against tyranny and patriarchy, demanding basic rights and dignity.
US Army Capt pays $1K and buys plane ticket for his former Afghan interpreter to fly in quickly before Trump expands the #MuslimBan.
Just spoke to an Iranian-American living in the West coast. He told me his wife and young children were held for 5-6 hours at the US-Canada border while returning home from Vancouver.
👉🏼 AMERICAN CITIZENS 👈🏼
You know who targets cultural sites?
ISIS.
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....targeted 52 Iranian sites (representing the 52 American hostages taken by Iran many years ago), some at a very high level & important to Iran & the Iranian culture, and those targets, and Iran itself, WILL BE HIT VERY FAST AND VERY HARD. The USA wants no more threats!
The little boy that took a photo with his idol Michael Phelps in 2008, defeated him tonight in #Rio2016
WOW: Iranian singer Mehdi Yarrahi has a popular song that’s critical of war. Officials asked him to change the lyrics but he refused. So at his concert they only played the music, he went offstage and let the audience sing his uncensored lyrics.
Dear media,
The US-Iran standoff is a complex story but today’s event has a simple explanation:
1. UK seized an Iranian ship two weeks ago in Gibraltar
2. Iran vowed to respond
3. Iran seized a UK ship today
4. Both want their ships back
Dozens of women join a cycling race in Kabul to protest violence against women and defend their right to education in Afghanistan.
Hamed Esmaeilion says his wife Parisa and with their daughter Reera were killed in the Ukrainian flight that crashed in #Iran last night: I called her school today and said Reera will be absent forever.
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Muslim woman steps up to an abuser who keeps harassing a Jewish family in London metro.
When you read Tony Blair‘s piece in on how #Iran is responsible for all evil in the Middle East, it is important to know that Tony Blair is getting $12 million from Saudi Arabia to advise them.
Donald Trump's new low: Mocking a journalist with physical disability, Serge Kovaleski from New York Times.
Fastest way to unify all political factions in Iran against you is to assassinate the general who led Iran’s fight against ISIS.
Fastest way to unify Iranians of all walks of life against you is to threaten to destroy their cultural heritage.
Trump did both this week.
You have to understand that no one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land.
- W. Shire
Teenage dancer, Maedeh Hojabri, was arrested in Iran. She used to record dance videos in her bedroom and upload them to her instagram with 600K followers.
#مائده_هژبرى
Comedian honors Saudi women’s rights activist Loujain Al-hathloul who has been tortured in prison: I wish there was a powerful person at the White House who could WhatsApp MBS and ask him to get her out of prison (camera pans to Jared Kushner)
Iran faces coronavirus catastrophe: Researchers estimate Iran will not reach the peak of epidemic till late May, and up to to 3.5 million people could die as a result - thanks to a lack of international aid and government mismanagement.
1. On this day in 1953 the CIA staged a coup in Iran and overthrew its democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh.
Iran's main reformist party calls for an end to the mandatory Islamic dress code for women in force since 1983. The Union of Islamic Iran People's Party also calls for winding down of morality police charged with enforcing the dress code. #MahsaAmini
Iranian students with valid visas being deported at US borders: Amin was placed in a chilly cell for 6 hrs then transported in cuffs and chains to an immigration detention facility in Georgia. The officers there ordered him to strip naked in front of them.
First Iranian woman to win an Olympics medal, 18 year old Kimia Alizadeh, just won a bronze in Taekwondo. #Rio2016
Every American has heard of the hostage crisis in Iran. But most have never heard that a few years later their Navy killed 290 Iranian civilians including 66 children. Both sides have a long list of grievances against each other. This fight is not one-sided. twitter.com/shaunking/stat
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Source in Tehran tells me Soleimani assasination is seen as a massive attack on Iran. Says Iranians may wait and not react immediately to avoid starting a classic war but he says: The region will not be safe for American soldiers for years to come.
#Iran
A billionaire and a Washington Post journalist laugh at and her 70% tax rate for the super rich. Then an MIT professor corrects them both.
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Canada now has a 50% female cabinet, a Muslim minister, 2 Sikhs, 2 First Nations, a blind, and an astronaut. Kudos
First Iranian American woman State Representative in the US. Congrats!
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ATTENTION
If you know anyone of Iranian decent who has been questioned, stopped, detained at US borders please send me a direct message. Prominent members of Congress are inquiring about this and would like to know mire details.
PLEASE RETWEET
As a little girl growing up in Iran, I loved watching and Captain was one of my favorites. The film was fully dubbed into Persian by great actors, also every single song was re-written in Persian and performed over the original music.
RIP #ChristopherPlummer
BREAKING: Progressive members of Congress are asking other lawmakers to call on Trump to ease sanctions on Iran as the country fights #COVIDー19. Iran is the epicenter in the Middle East, with many war-torn countries and broken health systems.
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These women are really brave. Taking off your Hijab on a busy street to make such a political statement could get you arrested, detained, and even fined or imprisoned in Iran.
Top: 'Peaceful Protesters'
Bottom: 'Rioters'
#PHxMosque
Iranians post videos of themselves dancing to show solidarity with teenage dancer Maedeh Hojabri who was arrested for posting her dance videos on instagram.
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You know who targets cultural sites?
ISIS
Bernie Sanders just said this about US and Iran...
Washington NOW: Curfew started ten minutes ago at 11pm but few humdreds protesters still in front of the White House chanting “hands up don’t shoot” and “take off all your riot here, I don’t see no riot here”.
#BlackLivesMatterDC
Iranians are praising health workers who risk their lives on the front lines of the fight against #Coronavirus. This is Dr Niloofar Nisi who works days and night at a test laboratory in the southern city of Ahvaz.
Iran was going to retaliate sooner or later, one way or the other. There was no way they would let this go.
But Iran is now trying to make it clear that this is a retaliation for one action, not an escalation into a full-on war.
There is no appetite for war in #Iran.
To the brave, long-suffering people of Iran: Stay away from cultural sites.
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To the brave, long-suffering people of Iran: I've stood with you since the beginning of my Presidency, and my Administration will continue to stand with you. We are following your protests closely, and are inspired by your courage.
Pompeo called Netanyahu, MBS, and MBZ more than once in the past few days to discuss Iran, per State Department.
And today AFTER the assassination of Qassim Soleimani he is calling America’s closest allies in Europe, UK, Germany, ... to explain the attack to them.
Iran's all men diplomatic team meets European Union's all women diplomatic team. Bravo EU.
Those who still think that this President supports the people of Iran, please take note:
He wants to target “Iranian Culture”
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....targeted 52 Iranian sites (representing the 52 American hostages taken by Iran many years ago), some at a very high level & important to Iran & the Iranian culture, and those targets, and Iran itself, WILL BE HIT VERY FAST AND VERY HARD. The USA wants no more threats!
QUESTION
On the night of a military operation with the chance of a retaliatory response and while air defense systems are on highest alert, why allow civilian planes fly over the capital to lead to such a devastating yet preventable tragedy?
#PS572
I told that the outpouring of anger across Iran is because many women see themselves in #MahsaAmini and many men see their own sisters in her, saying she could be any of us and this could have happened to any of us.
As the feminist uprising continues across Iran, artists continue to produce incredible art that is inspired by this movement. This poster is by Rashin Kheiriyeh from one the main slogans of these protests: Woman, Life, Freedom
Iran: Holy Savior Cathedral known as Vank, built in 17th century in the Armenian quarter in historic city of Isfahan
November: Hundreds of thousands risked their lives to protest against government.
Last week: Millions of Iranians came out for funeral of Soleimani.
Now: Thousands of Iranians protest the downing of Ukrainian plane by Iranian missile.
Don’t get confused. They are all Iranians.
Iranian users are angry at Swiss Ambassador for presenting these packages as if it is a humanitarian gift. This medicine was PURCHASED by Iran but had to be imported through a special Swiss channel because US economic sanctions limit the import of medicine
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Last tweet from a PhD student in Toronto who was killed on the Ukrainian flight crash in #Iran says:
I predicted that the war would start right before my flight. Forgive me for my good and bad deeds.
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من پیشبینی کرده بودم دم پروازم جنگ بشه 
اقا خوبی بدی دیدید حلال کنید
اقا خوبی بدی دیدید حلال کنیدGive me your English-speaking skilled workers, your Chinese millionaires investing in Kushner family's real estates...
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"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
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More women put their scarves on sticks in the middle of busy streets in Iran to protest mandatory Hijab laws.
Looks like FDD has deleted the conspiracy tweet against right after I pointed it out, but with no explanation or clarification. Here is the deleted tweet for those who missed.
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FDD is also pushing out unfounded conspiracies about @IlhanMN twitter.com/FDD_Iran/statu…
I spoke to the cousin of an Iranian-American family who were returning to their home in Seattle from Canada. Told me they were held and questioned for 4 hours at the border. Husband and wife, their two sons, daughter in law, and 7 year old grandchild.
👉🏼 AMERICAN CITIZENS 👈🏼
IMPORTANT: So the CBP lied when they said there was no directive to profile people at the border. Looks like there is indeed a directive asking officers to profile people based on their national origin (Iranian, Lebanese, Palestinian) and their religion and sect (Shia).
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis breaks with Trump and says Iran Nuclear Deal includes ‘robust’ verification. He says after reading the deal three times, he was struck by how tough it is.
As an Iranian-American journalist in exile, I'm used to online attacks. But I didn't expect the State Department to fund them. The project repeatedly tried to discredit me. And I wasn't their only target.
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Quick recap of Trump’s Iran policy:
After issuing a travel ban on all Iranians, calling them “a terrorist nation”, exiting an international nuclear deal against everyone’s advice, imposing broad sanctions on the entire Iranian economy, Trump is now threatening to destroy #Iran.
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If Iran wants to fight, that will be the official end of Iran. Never threaten the United States again!
We will protest Trump's new ban on refugees and immigrants this Sunday at the White House. Join us at 1-3pm.
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Iran released an Android app to help people self-diagnose the #Coronavirus rather than going to a hospital. But Google removed it from its app store saying: Developer accounts from Iran are not allowed on Google Play.
Hardliner in Tehran tells me killing Soleimani is a disproportionate response to embassy protests and makes no sense. Says: They either wanted to kill an Iraqi militia commander and hit Soleimani by mistake, or they are true morons.
So the uses taxpayer money to fund online attacks on because the organization is researching the human cost of US sanctions in #Iran.
Is this even legal?
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This is a US State Department funded account. twitter.com/IranDisinfo/st…
Iranians react to threat to target Iran’s important cultural sites by tweeting photos of their favorite sites using hashtag #IranianCulturalSites👇🏼
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Women remove their hijab in the city of Saqez at Mahsa Amini’s funeral, protesting mandatory hijab and morality police, chanting “dawn with the dictator”
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Ehsan Mansouri
Iran director Asghar Farhadi wins his second #Oscars for best foreign film The Salesman but is not there to receive it due to #MuslimBan.
“Hi Iranians,
We sanction your economy and destroy your lives. We put a travel ban so you can’t come here to visit loved ones, even for weddings and funerals. But hey look at this special #Nowruz table at State Department that we set for no other nation.”
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Second Iranian mathematician wins the Fields Medal, the Nobel prize for maths. Professor Caucher Birkar, 40, of Cambridge University grew up on a farm near the Kurdish city of Marivan in Western Iran. He studied math at the Tehran University, then moved to the UK as a refugee.
Iran's flag bearer in Rio is Paralympic archer Zahra Nemati, the only Iranian woman with an Olympics gold medal.
Media colleagues,
YES - Iran has increased its Uranium enrichment levels, but it is not even close to weapons-grade.
NO - Iran is not building nuclear weapons. They are slowly pushing the limits of a nuclear deal which Trump violated a year ago.
17 people killed by flash floods in #Iran after heavy rain in the last few days. This video is from Shiraz, a major city in the south. Horrific images. (Thread)
Iranians flood Twitter with photos of favorite cultural sites as Trump threatens them with destruction. As I said, the fastest way to unify Iranians of all walks of life against you is to threaten to destroy their cultural heritage.
#IranianCulturalSites
Iconic image of the daughter of Minoo Majidi, the women who was shot dead in protests in Kermanshah last week, standing at her mom’s grave with her own hair in hand. Iranian women have been cutting their hair as a sign of grief and resistance. #MahsaAmini
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Iranian American actress Kathreen Khavari wore a dress with a message for Trump at the premiere of Big Little Lies in Hollywood. #MuslimBan
Italian father says he wants to to a cafe despite the family’s warning and then... 😄 ☕️ 🇮🇹
Iranian doctor explains social distancing in a short video: If we stay close together in public, the #coronavirus will easily get to all of us like this fire. But if we all stay home, even if one person gets the virus, it will not be transmitted and we can contain it.
We have seen this movie before...
The Trump administration is pushing us towards war with Iran — and it all sounds alarmingly similar to Bush just before he invaded Iraq.
Anti-government protests continue in dozens of cities across #Iran
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Wild glimpse from tonight in Kashmar, in northeast Iran
Iran basically offered an exit ramp to Trump (a high-profile and flashy attack but with no casualties) and Trump took it.
No escalation today. A relief for all in region.
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من دیگر خبرنگار ایران اینترنشنال نیستم. از این به بعد یک تحلیلگر مستقل خواهم بود و به عنوان مهمان در همه شبکههای فارسی و انگلیسی حضور خواهم داشت.
از شما ممنونم که کار من را دنبال میکنید و همیشه نظرات خوب و انتقادات سازندهتان را با من در میان گذاشتهاید.
نگار مرتضوی، واشنگتن
Heartwarming: Internet taxi driver in Iran calls the company support line and asks them to refund the passenger that he is now driving to a hospital.
Operator asks why?
Driver says because the passenger is a Coronavirus nurse and I don’t charge Coronavirus nurses.
Iranian pilot Neshat Jahandari receives four stripes to become the 2nd female captain in #Iran. It’s not easy to climb the ladder in such a male-dominated industry. Kudos to Neshat for shattering a glass ceiling for little girls everywhere.
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VIVA! Federal Judge Ann Donnelly appointed by Obama confirmed by Senate 95-2 temporarily blocks Trump's #MuslimBan
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It is not a coincidence that the same person is pushing out Islamophobia, xenophobia, and racism all at the same time. These are all part and parcel of White supremacy.
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Always remember that Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is a gigantic racist who is willfully ignorant...twitter.com/FirenzeMike/st
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The BBC has been banned in North Korea, Zimbabwe, Myanmar, Uzbekistan, Rwanda, China and the White House. #FirstAmendment
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Kareem Nikoui, 20-year-old Iranian-American from California, was among 13 U.S. Marines killed in the Kabul airport attack.
Iranian female spectators at Azadi stadium sing for #BlueGirl who set herself on fire and died last month, after she was arrested and charged for trying to enter the stadium dressed as a man.
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