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GENEVA (AP) - UN refugee agency says up to 3.2 million people in Iran have been displaced by the war.

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Some of you get so mad when people point out the obvious. But you're not mad at the people in power who deliver nothing.

Bush II set the bar very high but between this, USAID, the mass deportation atrocities and a conservative projection of the result of the anti-vax movement I think we can pretty definitively say Trump is the worst President now

A screenshot from an article featuring a photo of a stone carved artwork, showing ancient writing and depicting the Goddess Inanna. The Goddess has wings, she holds a scepter in one hand and has one leg bent and resting on a lion's back. The text reads "of people living outside the gender binary in ancient Mesopotamia. The words of Enheduanna, Inanna’s High Priestess in the city of Ur in the 23rd Century BCE, attest to this. In her Passionate Inanna she writes: ‘To destroy, to create, to tear out, to establish are yours, Inanna. / To turn a man into a woman and a woman into a man are yours, Inanna.’ (115-131). The exact meanings of the original Sumerian cannot be known for sure; the passage could instead relate simply to gender stereotypes, but this is not the only instance of ancient references to people living outside the gender binary. "

A screenshot from an article, the text reads "In Sumerian times, priests for Inanna known as the gala were said to have been created by the god Enki to sing laments for her, one of their central roles in her temple. From the beginning of the Old Babylonian Period, their role was heavily expanded, and mourning rites originally sung by women replaced over time by members of the gala. Men who joined the priesthood in devotion for Inanna became women for all intents and purposes, adopting female names and singing in the Sumerian eme-sal dialect, reserved for feminine speakers to render the speech of female gods. The gala were heavily involved in her temples, performing elegies and lamentations, presiding over religious rites and healed and looked after the sick and poor. They were respected members of the community, closely related"

Trans people have always existed and always will, in every culture, since the beginning of the human race. We will always be here, they cannot stop us. (From Ancient Mesopotamian Transgender and Non-Binary Identities - by Morg Daniels ) www.academuseducation.co.uk/post/ancient...

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Shah Cheragh mosque ( شاه چراغ ), Shiraz

my favorite place I visited

400-500 years older than Israel, gets destroyed by Israel

Home | Children of Persia

One excellent organization I know for Iran is Children of Persia. All volunteer-run, they work in Iran’s poorest villages and towns and have a U.S. Treasury dept license (hard to get!) to transfer funds. I know the people who run it. They are worth your donations as well.
www.childrenofpersia.org

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Misc photos

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Misc photos taken while traveling

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This country is old and its beautiful, full of wonderfully beautiful people

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Golpayegan (گلپایگان), Isfahan

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Qom ( قم )

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Vank Cathedral ( کلیسای آمناپرکی ), Isfahan

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Khaju Bridge ( پل خواجو ), Isfahan

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more Perspolis photos

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Tomb of Cyrus the Great ( آرامگاه کوروش بزرگ ), Pasargadae

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Yazd ( یزد )

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Zoroastrian Fire Temple of Yazd ( آتش بهرام یزد ), Yazd

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Caspian Sea ( دریای کاسپین ), Mazandaran Province

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Persepolis : (تخت جمشید / “takht-e jamshīd), Marvdasht

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Shah Cheragh mosque ( شاه چراغ ), Shiraz

my favorite place I visited

I’m so sad about what’s happening in Iran I think I’m just gonna photo dump a bunch of photos I took from my trip back in 2016 on here to work through my grief

A pretty stark example of how “kitchen table issues” as a basis for opposition to an illegal war can lead you astray politically.

strange that the same army that sent waves of suicide bombers against the Iraqis and have had their country’s government meddled with by US/UK in the past because of oil aren’t backing down! who woulda thought !

This Iranian man broke me. These are ordinary people whose lives are being destroyed and who are being killed by U.S. and Israeli airstrikes.

he’s doing better !! he’s got a whole round of meds he’s working through right now :)

"all men really want is to feel like the hero" okay then volunteer at a food bank. get narcan training. step in when a woman is being harassed on the street. help out an elderly neighbor with shopping or home repairs. learn how to safely de-escalate fights. help your friends move. join or start your workplace union. become a big brother or volunteer coach for kids' sports. clean up your local park or get involved in some local conservation campaign. do your own damn dishes. notice what needs to be done and then do it. the world doesn't need heroes, it needs helpers. there are literally so many paths to finding a sense of self-respect and worth through pro-social behaviors that improve your immediate local community and help build your network of close personal connections. but these guys don't give a shit about actually contributing anything to the world. they just want to whine and fantasize.