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Voria Ghafouri, a notable soccer player and former member of the national team, was arrested by Iranian authorities. He has always been outspoken about social and political concerns. Voria has openly backed the protesters and visited the families of victims in Mahabad over the past three months

#voria ghafouri #iran #mahsa amini

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Are you looking for a way to support the people protesting in Iran?

Zhina Amini (Reported as Mahsa Amini, her birth name) a Kurdish woman was killed earlier this month by the morality police in Iran for wearing a headscarf in what they deemed to be an improper manner. Protests have since broken out across the country and a number of other Iranians have been killed since.

The internet has been shut down in many places and deaths are incredible common. The last time the Iranian government shut down the internet like this, over a thousand people died.

So what can you do?

Share Iranian people’s words and news about what is going on.

Recognize that this is not about Islam but about a tyrannical government (so don’t use this as an excuse to be Islamophobic). These people need our support, not our commentary.

Help support Iranians gain access to proxies through apps like the Tor Project’s Project Snowflake. This will pair you, who is likely in a safer country (I say as someone in the US who assumes much of following is in North America or Europe), with an Iranian person trying to access the internet as long as you are online. This is a really simple step you can take to help Iranians connect to the outside world so they can use their voices and let loved ones know they are alive.

#iran #mahsa amini

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Stand with muslim women for their fight against religious fundamentalism, not against them

#iran #afghanistan #mahsa amini #feminism

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SOS 🆘

Please spread the word and help the people Mahabad, THEY NEED YOUR HELP!!!!

Be their voice!!!

#help iran #iran #mahsa amini

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You know what’s fucked up? The fact that we have to explain this to westerners at all. Like we need their permission to hate on our own fucking religion. Guess what. Even if we are Islamophobic that doesn’t make it wrong. Hell we’ve had to deal with this fucking religion a lot more than you, so we get to hate it if we want. You think you are the only people progressive enough to be allowed to hate on your religion?! Get off your high horse.

a helpful slideshow created by my friend @the-celestial-bitch and her sister who can no longer access her blog from her country and has asked me to post in her stead instead

this is what she said:

this is a direct response to all the people whose reaction to what’s happening in iran is a calling them islamophobic and blocking them, furthering the oppression they’re experiencing by the government’s hands. please read this, and repost it on Twitter or Instagram and stop the misinformation from spreading

#i’m nit sitting here calling prolife movement christianophobic #cause I know better #iran #mahsa amini

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A Mullah holding a sign saying #execute-them to support mass executions of protesters

The caption says “they don’t work, they don’t earn their money, they’re not sent to mandatory civil service, their job is spreading superstition and nonsense, they’re called Mullah and they want us killed”

#iran #mahsa amini #fuck islamic fundamentalism

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Iranian Kurds are under the fire of Islam Republic.

Credit to @iranianpopart on instagram

#iran #mahsa amini #kurdistan

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CNN has confirmed about the rape of Armita Abbasi by the Islamic regime and said that to protect of our source at Imam Ali Hospital, we will not publish any name.Armita was arrested by the Islamic regime in Karaj and her mother has no information about her.

#armita abbasi #iran #mahsa amini

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I've seen non Iranians admiring the Islamic Republic national football team for not singing the national anthem. And then they were confused as to why iranians were happy that the team lost. Yes not singing the anthem might have consequences for them, but it won't change the fact that these people went to visit Raisi, the Islamic Republic president and bowed to him, posed happily for pictures while we were dealing with Kiam Pirfalak news, and said they don't care about politics and what's going on Iran in an interview, stating that they will focus on the game only. Not singing the anthem is nothing in comparison. And you might think they were under pressure. So were other athletes in Iran, let's see what they did:

Picture on the right is Elnaz Rekabi, an Iranian rock climber who was the first athlete to take off her hijab during Mahsa Amini protests to show her solidarity with people. She's currently under house arrest. she wasn't the first Iranian woman ever doing that. On the left, that's Shohreh Bayat, her story is so sad.

In many interviews I've seen of her, she always cries when she says her story. She was to referee the final of the Women's World Chess Championship a couple of years ago. While in another country she decided to wear her hijab loosely in an act of rebellion. She got warning from Islamic Republic twice and everytime she made it worse. She was asked to apologize but she refused, saying that she wouldn't apologize for what she believes in. At last, even though she wasn't ready to leave everything behind and start from scratch in a foreign country, she decided to ditch the compulsory hijab completely and never come back to Iran, because her life would be in danger if she did. Because of her choice she can't come back to visit her family anymore. her family supported her which made the authorities to force her father to resign (her father was the president of chess association in Gilan, Iran).

Then we had Iranian national beach soccer team. I think they were the first group who refused to sing Islamic republic national anthem. And after they got threatened to sing the anthem, they did something even more iconic. One of the players cut his imaginary hair after he scored.

Then we had these two scenes after scoring. They were recreating an inhuman thing Islamic republic did. The guy on the right is Khodanoor Lajei. He was murdered on bloody Friday in Zahedan. He was a Baloch guy. I'm going to post about Balochs and the thing that's been done to them by Islamic republic in details. For now know that this guy got killed in protests but this picture of him is for a couple of months back. He insulted a Basiji guy or something, Islamic republic police chained him to a pole in the middle of the city to make him an example for others, after beating him. When he asked for water they brought him a cup but they put it out of his reach in front of him and laughed at his thirst. (You see why we hate Islamic Republic, IRGC and Basij?!) The picture got out only after his death because Baloch people didn't think the rest of Iran would care about them enough to react. That broke my heart unspeakably much.

With so much bravery, our national girl's basketball team has been posting photos without mandatory hijab ever since the protests have begun.

Last but not least, Parmida Ghasemi, iranian archer ditching mandatory hijab inside of iran. She took it out for receiving the prize and while she was being photographed.

(Btw, non of these women "forgot" their hijab accidentally. If you're iranian you learn to never forget your hijab since you're 7, the age you start school. Without a formal head wearing you won't be allowed to attend school classes. When you grow up with it, you'll get used to it. You have no idea how weird it feels to not wear a veil in public, I'm still getting used to it.)

we've witnessed many iconic brave moves by our athletes but non of them said we don't give a shit about what's happening in Iran before the game. I'm not saying they won't be redeemed one day, I'm just saying they should work to win their respect back.

#iran #mahsa amini

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As a western leftist, if western "leftists" are pathetic, it's because people are incapable of separating things and jump to conclusion all the time. Western leftists are so scared of a rise of Islamophobia, which is understandable, that they just shut down any criticisms, which isn't. Instead of separating normal Muslims and extremists, they put them all together and defend them together. You cannot say "this is a harmful ideology" because people immediately jump to "but it's Islam!" Last year, someone tried to establish a "day without hijab" as a day of support for Iranian afab individuals and others in the same predicament, and leftists immediately called it "Islamophobic" because they didn't care to look further than "a day without hijab". Some idiots even said we have no reasons for it, and it should only exist in countries where the hijab is forced (I don't think the gov would be okay with that. Maybe use your brain). No, they didn't do any research because, if they had, they would know it was put in place by Iranian refugees, Muslim women who wanted their own to show supports to their people back home. It wasn't our place to talk in the slightest. And most of the time, they prefer to listen to Muslims individuals who would reinforce these ideas of no criticisms than to Muslims individuals who criticize the system and are open-minded. I have seen multiple people with religious trauma being insulted for having religious trauma with Islam. So yeah, western "leftist" will not stand against the Iranian gov because it would be "Islamophobic", and that everything is beautiful and perfect with Islam

Very well put. They pretend like they are against the western centric narrative but they are just as much western-centric as the right-wingers. It's unfortunetly not a few phenomena if you look at the history of iranian leftists and their western counterparts.

#iran #asks

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why is the video of the father dancing at his daughter’s funeral from ata ocagi episode 78 posted 2018 on youtube? irgov mouthpiece probably spread it around so they can say “look they’re lying”

thank you so much for the heads up

#asks

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@crashlandia I remember her work in Iran and how boldly she dared to ask questions that no one else dared to ask and how she was usually attacked and called all kind of names. I really admired how she managed to keep her cool in the face of that much hatred and keep on working as a journalist, because the kind of reaction she received from those in power was genuinely scary. Since her departure the regime has tried to kill her and taken her family hostage but she hasn’t backed down. She is a very brave journalist and there is no doubt in that.

It’s very notable that both pro and anti-regime old men can not stand her because she is very much the opposite of what an ideal Iranian woman should be. She is loud where we are taught to keep quiet, she is brash where we are taught to be non-confrontational, she is opinionated where we are taught to be compliant. She is stepping on all kinds of toes with her attitude.

Saying that, I don’t know what her political views are beyond her feminism and anti-regime activism. I don’t know if she has any. She’s not a political thinker and I honestly don’t really care about her political alliances because she is more of a whistleblower than anything.(all in all, journalist generally don’t make very profound political thinkers )

#she is also a bit annoying but that’s not her fault #iran #mahsa amini #masih alinejad #asks

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#iran #mahsa amini

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Iran fans protesting today at the World Cup match against England, as well as this none of the teams players sung along to the anthem.

#iran #women life freedom #mahsa amini

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This is Mahabad, Iran. Protesters sitting on the street, clapping, music playing in the background.

Source: centerforhumanrights

#mahsa amini #iran

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#iran #mahsa amini

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The lifeless body of Zeinab Ferdosi, 17 years old, was found on the streets. There were strangle marks around her neck but the IRGC pigs have been pressuring her family to announce the cause of death as a pedestrian accident.

#mahsa amini #iran