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nando161mando · 3 months

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Of course there were protests in several cities also today against the horrible conditions for retirees under Iran's theocracy, as there are every day now and as have been ongoing for several years, while the pensioners literally can't afford to put decent food on their tables.

Here's one arbitrary video from today out of many, via JinHA, the Women's News Agency.

That particular one was with/for retired teachers in Kermanshah, western Iran.

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ghostingghosty · 17 days

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Iran has launched a retaliation against Israel for the attack on a diplomatic iranian building, and therefore Iranian soil, in Damascus, Syria. The attack got little mentions in the news, and media will use this lack of information to favour Israel, as headlines are where most people stop reading. Be aware and stay informed; Israel started this, NOT Iran OR Palestine.

Israel's, with the full support and weapons of the US, ongoing genocide on palestininians, their multiple attacks on land outside their colonisation "mission", and their general military mindset of being in the right are the fault of this. This is a retaliation from Iran, and all further escalations from this situation will be due to the unhinged evilness and ego of the USA, Israel, and the West. All blood will be on the hands of the oppressors; both those who are directly feasting on the meat of their victims, those who refuse to use a leash and those who ignores the blood.

I am afraid of the prospects of the situation escalating by the US's military force being sent to, not only, "Israel" and Palestine but also, now, Iran. Hundreds of thousands of people were killed and injured in the "war against terror" and millions were affected. Not only that, but the prospects of the war reaching outside the region are also getting increasingly more of a reality, and I hope all who, before, could ignore the terrors by turning of their tv's, now will finally look, even if it is for own self-interest.

Stay informed and keep informing those around you – remember, the Western medias are zionists and many will fall for their propaganda. Stay safe. Free Palestine.

#free palestine #palestine #gaza #free gaza #politics #usa #syria #iran #gaza under attack #iran and isreal #isreal #mine #usa politics #western media #ceasefire

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heritageposts · 18 days

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iran has the right to defend itself

#like unironically #i don't want to speculate on what's going to happen but a big fuck you regardless to the western media stooges who are trying #to paint iran as the ''aggressor'' here #like this was just an attack that come out of nowhere

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breathedreamscream · 17 days

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#free palestine #iran #palestine #signal boost #precipice of further war #crimes against humanity #ethnic cleansing #war crimes #genocide #western led chaos #western enabled chaos #colonization #imperialism #greed #capitalism

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good-old-gossip · 12 days

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Western Hypocrisy at its finest You only have a right to self-defence if you are a white country

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nezreblogz · 9 days

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intersectionalpraxis · 4 months

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I can't help but think the 'Epstein list' is being used as a strategic distraction right now in mainstream media by the US government -especially considering the timing (and no, I'm not trying to make a conspiracy out of this). I know we have been waiting for this to come out, but don't let it deter you from what is happening around the world -like for instance, the developing story of a US drone striking and killing Iraqi paramilitary members in Baghdad recently -and US-backed IOF attacking Lebanon and Iran in the past few days, alongside the nonstop genocide and mass bombings, war crimes and crimes against humanity happening in Gaza. Even in the slight chance it's not, be vigilant.

#feminist #feminism #social justice #jeffrey epstein #epstein list #western media #mainstream media #iran #iraq #gaza strikes #gaza #lebanon #current events #us politics #us imperialism #free palestine

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azural83 · 2 years

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My god, the way some people actually managed to make iran's problems about themselves is outstanding.

I'm sorry that women in the west face harassment for hijab. But this has nothing to do with iran, our issues are actually going viral and they just..discuss a different topic? Many women were beaten,killed,jailed for not wanting to wear something that was forced on them 40 years ago and so many people including children were murdered for fighting against it and you just bring up women's struggles in first world countries?! I'm not saying that we shouldn't talk about them,every single issue deserves to be acknowledged; but we should NOT compare these two things at all,they're completely different

#westerns sure do love to make everything about themselves huh #iran #iran protests #iranian #iranian women #mahsa amini #police brutality #police murder #police beating #feminism #feminist #women's rights #forced hijab

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luminalunii97 · 1 year

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The Islamic Republic Executed 3 more Protesters This Morning

The regime has executed more than a hundred of kurd, baloch and Arab activists in the last few months, all of them under false or ambiguous charges. Habib Asivad, an Arab rights activists who was kidnapped from turkey and brought to Iran by the regime, was one of the recent ones.

This morning the regime executed 3 more protesters who has been arrested during the nation wide Jîna revolution. They were tortured and forced to confess to a murder they didn't commit. In fact, there's a document that shows the murder was the regime guards doing. typical.

The three political prisoners wrote from jail on Wednesday urging the people to stop their execution.

Describing themselves as "children of Iran" in the letter, the three prisoners said: "Hello. We ask our dear fellow citizens not to let them kill us. We need your help. We need your support.

On Sunday night, demonstrators had gathered outside the prison hoping to stop the feared hangings. Campaigners say the prisoners were tortured into confessions, and there is no reliable evidence against them. -Iran International News

As it was mentioned, people tried to stop the execution by protesting and gathering in front of the prison and it was postponed but at the end the regime executed them anyway.

Meanwhile Iran has been chosen to chair the UN Human Rights Council 2023 Social Forum. This is not a joke anymore, it's the tragedy of western human rights. Apparently murdering your people for protesting grants you a human rights council chair in west.

#iran #mahsa amini #jina amini #iran protests #iran revolution #politics #human rights #middle east #tw execution #protests #middle east news #human rights violation #united nations #us politics #social activism #death to the dictator #death to the islamic republic regime #the circus that is western human rights council #the joke that is united nations

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hussyknee · 17 days

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I don't know what's going on and I'm not sure I want to find out, but I thought the "people seeking self-determination" thing was about Palestine. Iran is very much not seeking self-determination, it's a theocratic state crushing its own people to the extent that some Iranians hate Palestine just because its government is supporting it.

In this instance, the US and its allies are absolutely at fault because they allowed their rabid dog to provoke Iran into open war, which they've been trying to do for entirely too long. But whatever happens is not in fact entirely on them (for God's sake stop glossing over all the other genocidal western nation that lent their enthusiastic support thus far), it's also on Iran because they chose this. Iran is invested in Palestine and helping Hamas and Hezbollah as a proxy war against the axis of Saudi Arabia-Israel-United States (that now seems to be escalating into a direct war) which has been the case for decades, partially because of the ethnic and religious battle lines and partially because of oil and nuclear interests. The United States and Saudi and Israel being evil doesn't mean Iran isn't also evil, especially considering two of its closest allies are Assad and Erdogan, ntm Putin. If you want to deny that they're also all genociders and despots, I can only call down all the curses of their millions of victims and their families down on your head. They matter no less than Palestinians. They matter as well as Palestinians right the fuck now, because being caught between two nuclear powers at open war is fucking terrifying for the whole region, especially Iranians. This is not a victory strike, it's an escalating disaster that might lay waste to multiple Global South countries in a myriad ways.

Someone said that the US left-wing has realized that US exceptionalism and imperialism is bad, but doesn't understand that part of it is centering the US in all world politics and conflicts and seeing the US as special in any way, including as a special evil or oppressor. If you want to be anti-imperialist and decolonial please internalise that all nation states are oppressive, artificial, post-colonial evils, that the US is just one colonizer and imperialist among many, and its fascism nothing unique. Please follow the geo-politics and news of other nations, especially in the Global South. The only special thing about the US is that it has the most military and economic power and too much influence in the Security Council, but that doesn't mean every other military power and SC member is either a puppet or a brave resistance.

Decolonization and anti-imperialism is learning to situate yourself as just one among many, just another settler colony benefiting from white supremacy, just another imperialist, just another nation state headed by power hungry supremacists. Casting every opposing power as a plucky little underdog champion is just your usual noble savage racism out in force, silencing and dehumanizing the people in those countries fighting for their own rights and freedoms.

#american exceptionalism #american imperialism #western imperialism #genocide apologia #iran #world news #decolonization #imperialism #colonialism #global south #racism #fascism #tankies #knee of huss

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solidsnakecake · 17 days

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All you making jokes about WWIII: sincerely, get fucked and wrecked.

#my people are terrified #and shitty ass westerners make it a joke #iran

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heritageposts · 2 months

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Podcast w/Rania Khalek and Nima Shirazi, link + transcript above ↑

#worth reading/listen to rn seeing how western politicians and the media keeps relying on the 'Big Scary Iran' narrative #to justify the ongoing genocide in gaza #(with iran presented as this 'puppet master' dictating the actions of non-US aligned groups in the region)#before the words 'iran-backed' leaves your mouth you should at least be able to identify who the axis of resistance is and why they exist #also... what happened in iran in 1953? who was mosaddegh? what were his political goals and achievements? and so on #anyway...#palestine #axis of resistance #iran #ansarallah #hezbollah

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calling-the-angels · 12 days

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Shame on you, USA Today!

This is the shoddiest piece of "journalism" I have ever seen. @usatoday

Examples (emphasis mine):

"Explosions were heard in Iran after Israel launched missile strikes in retaliation for a barrage of more than 300 drones and missiles fired by Tehran over the weekend..."

"It was unclear what targets had been hit inside Iran. Iran's weekend swarm of munitions and Israel's response marked the first direct exchanges of fire between the regional arch-enemies."

"Israel, the U.S. and other regional and Western allies joined forces on Saturday to blast hundreds of Iranian drones, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles out of the sky after they were fired at Israel."

"That attack was itself an act of retaliation after Iran's supreme leader, Ali Khameni, blamed Israel for an airstrike on the Iranian embassy compound in Damascus, Syria, that killed several people including a leading Revolutionary Guards commander."

"Officials have been on edge about the possibility of a regional war since the Palestinian militant group Hamas rampaged across southern Israel on Oct. 7, killing 1,200 and taking more than 200 people hostage. More than 30,000 Palestinians have died in the ensuing six months in Israeli airstrikes and ground fire, according to the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry."

Language -- and how you use it -- matters, dammit.

It matters what words you use to describe an action. The word you choose tells the reader context clues about what is an acceptable action and what is not. It influences viewpoints about what you are reporting on. Using words and phrases like "barrage" and "swarm of munitions" while painting Israel's actions as a simple "response" without context is a gross manipulation tactic.

It is a gross manipulation tactic to paint the actions of "Israel, the U.S. and other regional and Western allies" as this heroic and epic fantasy where they "joined forces" and "blasted" enemy fire "out of the sky" after they were "fired at Israel." Why did they fire at Israel? Go on, you reported on it. Despite the fact that this linked article features the same shameful use of deliberate word choices to manipulate your readers, you even quoted the Iranian ambassador Hossein Akbari saying that the Iranian response would be "the same magnitude and harshness." Is that not what the terrible "barrage" of missiles and drones fired over the weekend was? Surely, you will bring this up in the article.

"The attack was itself an act of retaliation..." Great, we are going to mention that Israel attacked Iran first. "... after Iran's supreme leader, Ali Khameni, blamed Israel for an airstrike on the Iranian embassy compound in Damascus, Syria." What the fuck. Not only do you then continue on to diminish the lives lost in that airstrike using word choices like "killed several people" and then highlighting one's military connections. It is a blatant manipulation tactic to frame Israel's attack as retaliatory due to an accusation of violence that only "killed several people." Fuck you for diminishing the lives of those in the Middle East living this fucking war/nightmare. Fuck you.

And then, to add insult to injury, you use more inflammatory language to associate Palestinians with a "militant group" called Hamas that "rampaged across southern Israel on Oct. 7." Is Hamas a part of local authority in Gaza? Yes. But painting Palestinians in broad brush strokes with that tone and word association is extremely dangerous and damaging. It's almost similar to how Israeli propaganda speaks about Palestinians...

You then discredit any reporting about the "self defense" that Israel has visited on Gaza and Palestine in the 6 months since October. You do this by stating that the shocking idea of "30,000 Palestinian deaths" (which has already been reported on by far more reputable news sources... though they have their own faults) is the reported deaths by the "Hamas-run Gaza health ministry." Since you have already done the job of describing Hamas as a "militant group" that "rampages" across Israel, do you think that associating the most reliable death count with the "enemy" isn't a disgusting manipulation tactic that belittles and diminishes the very real genocide happening against the Palestinians? Caused by their occupier, Israel?

You aren't news or journalism like you frame yourself to be through your website layout, articles, and tv shows. You are propaganda, bought and paid for by the Israeli occupation. You are on the wrong side of history.

I hope that you and the Western media that have used similar tactics are used in future journalism classes at universities and colleges around the world. I hope you are used as an example of terrible, bad reporting informed only by biases and internal memos telling you what to say. I am disgusted.

Fuck Israel. Fuck the IOF. Fuck Western media.

🇵🇸FREE PALESTINE🇵🇸

#iran #israel #palestine #middle east #regional war?#usatoday #western media #free gaza #free palestine #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #gaza genocide #gaza #i hope this post makes sense i was so blinded with rage that i kind of blacked out while typing #the lack of journalism ethics bothers me to my core

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good-old-gossip · 14 days

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"Israel bombed Iran’s consulate in Damascus two weeks ago - an unbridled act of aggression. And yet, rather than condemning Israel’s dangerous belligerence, western leaders lined up behind Washington’s favourite client state.

They ensured Tehran would have to pursue a military response instead. Iran launched a salvo of drones and missiles at Israel at the weekend in what amounted to a largely symbolic show of strength. Suddenly, western politicians from US President Joe Biden to British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak have become ardent champions of "restraint".

And yet there were no calls by western leaders for "restraint" as Israel bombed Gaza into ruins week after week. Biden's officials are airing concerns that Israel is ready to “do something rash” in an attempt to drag the US into a wider war.

Calling for Israel to exercise "restraint" now, as its entrenched lobbies flex their muscles meddling in western politics, and self-confessed fascists rule Israel’s government, is beyond parody. If the West really prized restraint, they should have insisted on it from Israel decades ago."

✍️ by Jonathan Cook

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thebusylilbee · 17 days

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as predicted The West is acting like Iran is starting this out of nowhere instead of as a retaliation for the bombing of their embassy in Syria... only Israel has the right to defend itself at all cost apparently. what a sick joke.

#no respect for nothing and no one except western/zionist interests #complete and utter hypocrisy #well all this shit is on you so fuck you #bee tries to talk #israel #iran #uk #free palestine #zionism #'Opening wider conflict' oh im sorry did Israel not attack Lebanon and Syria and the iranian embassy??

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intersectionalpraxis · 17 days

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"🚨By striking Iran's embassy in Syria, Netanyahu knew Iran would have to strike back. So as the world watches these small suicide drones flying towards Israel, with GPS jammed (means they won't hit their targets), Netanyahu is managing to switch the narrative, framing Israel as a victim and silence US criticism of Israel's genocide in Gaza by taunting Iran to "directly" attack.

🚨This is a symbolic attack. The drones won't cause harm. Iran has long range ballistic missiles, it seemingly didn't use.

🚨Instead US & West will rally behind Israel - which will gladly be framed as the victim, even as they continue to slaughter Palestinians in West Bank and Gaza.

🚨What a bunch of BS. Iran, is simply saving face domestically, and Netanyahu is getting exactly what he bargained for with his April 1 strike on Iran's embassy in Syria."

#social justice #breaking news #global news #politics #iran #syria #iranian embassy #zionist occupation #zionism is terrorism #us imperialism #us foreign policy #western imperialism #free palestine

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