Everyone at this rally is chanting about Iran.
The only Iranian there is standing alone.
She actually lived under the regime they’re talking about.
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Everyone at this rally is chanting about Iran.
The only Iranian there is standing alone.
She actually lived under the regime they’re talking about.
Firstly the money was Iranian from prior to the regime, secondly, that money was used to fund terrorism and build nuclear capabilities. Not a cent went to the people.
Western “activists” insisting on progress within their own societies while at the same time insisting we support the most regressive ideologies in the Middle East is one of the most egregious forms of racism we are witnessing today.
You were silent when the regime was killing Iranians.
Now you’re outraged?
In America, criticizing your government is protected speech.
In Iran, it can cost you your life.
You debate procedure.
Iranians survive tyranny.
Stop speaking over us.
Appointing the Islamic Republic of Iran to help “uphold” the UN Charter is like handing a match to an arsonist and calling it fire prevention.
The UN keeps legitimizing the regime, and we’re supposed to take them seriously?
The UN is a dangerous joke.
If you don’t recognize the Islamic Republic in Iran as legitimate, you don’t adopt its language.
Calling Prince Reza Pahlavi a “pretender to the throne” only makes sense inside the regime’s own framework for denying his legitimacy.
This Language isn’t neutral, and Iranians see it very clearly.
Imagine if the October 7 massacre lasted four weeks, with no end in sight. Imagine if Israel had no IDF to stop it. That is what Iranians are living through right now… Mass murder, slaughter, rape. Speak up for Iran.
"Imagine if the October 7 massacre lasted four weeks, with no end in sight.
Imagine if Israel had no IDF to stop it.
That is what Iranians are living through right now… Mass murder, slaughter, rape.
Speak up for Iran." @matthewnouriel.bsky.social
#FreeIran
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"I am #Iranian, #Jewish, and #gay, and growing up at the intersection of those identities was not easy. At the same time, I was always acutely aware of the privilege I carried. My parents left Iran, which meant I was not raised under the Islamic Republic, and that fact alone likely saved my life."
The situation in Iran has exposed how much of today’s western “activism” is driven by aesthetics and tribal belonging rather than principle.
Real activism costs social standing, it doesn’t elevate it—and that’s a lesson much of today’s trendy social justice culture still hasn’t learned.
Israelis and Iranians are fighting the same enemy—islamism.
No amount of mental gymnastics or pseudo intellectual bullshit spewed by western “activists” will change that.
A full scale war is waging in Iran.
One side has weapons, the other has nothing but courage— and 47 years of repression.
Neutrality favors the side with weapons.
Whose side are you on?
What the clout-chasing, Amazon-bought keffiyeh wearing, wannabe “activists” who went hard for Hamas don’t get is that real activism risks your social standing, it doesn’t elevate it.
They’re silent about Iran because they’re more concerned about what their comrades think than actual human rights.
You all asking why isn’t Barack Obama speaking up about Iran?
He already said it all in 2016 when he transferred $1.7 billion to the regime in cash.
Imagine if the October 7 massacre lasted four weeks, with no end in sight.
Imagine if Israel had no IDF to stop it.
That is what Iranians are living through right now… Mass murder, slaughter, rape.
Speak up for Iran.
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🎥🎙️⌨️ @matthewnouriel.bsky.social - We've been wondering why so many self-appointed social justice voices who were so loud about Gaza stayed silent about Iran.
Now that a couple have spoken up, it's become quite clear their silence would be better.
“No foreign intervention in Iran” is wrong.
The Islamic Republic itself is the foreign intervention.
Iranians are asking for help. People should listen to them.
#FreeIran
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They're not outraged by the slaughter of Iranians.
They're outraged by Israel.
"If I have any role beyond speaking out, I hope it is to help nurture that connection and to insist that Jewish and Iranian futures do not need to be imagined in opposition to one another."
- Matthew Nouriel
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#FreeIran
If Donald trumps repeated promises to help the Iranian people who are being slaughtered by the thousands are all a bluff, he will go down in history as a bigger traitor to the Iranians than Carter.
President trump— SEND HELP NOW.
I left the left.
I didn’t change my values… The left abandoned them.
In protests across Iran, one of the chants you hear is “Iran.”
It’s a declaration that the people and the regime are not the same thing.
Iran ≠ the regime.
Iran just went dark.
The regime shut down the internet during mass protests.
Visibility is protection.
SPEAK UP FOR IRAN
It’s impressive af how every western wannabe socialist tankie is suddenly an oil expert.
When ideology matters more than people, it stops being justice.
Solidarity listens. Performance speaks over.
A young man in an olive green military uniform smiles at the camera, giving the "shaka" sign with his right hand. He wears a black watch on his left wrist and a light brown strap across his body. In the background are a sign with Hebrew writing, a fence, and trees. The sign partially visible behind the man reads: "בית החייל".
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Guy Karmiel, at the age of 20, was killed in the war in Gaza a year ago.
He left behind a loving family: his mother, father, and three younger sisters.
All of us—family and friends—miss him deeply, and this past year has been incredibly difficult.
In Iran, people risk their lives tearing down the regime’s terrorist flags.
In the West, cos playing revolutionaries wave those same flags for clout.
Resistance vs performance.
Don’t confuse the two.
This brave Arab-Israeli trans-woman speaks true resistance, with clear, calm defiance.
This is what real trans activism looks like, not fighting for those who wish to murder you.
Authoritarians panic when they lose control of the narrative…
Even over a rainbow flag.
Young woman with long brown hair resting her chin on her hand, looking serene. Text beside her highlights her abduction in Iran for speaking out, location unknown. Expresses urgency for help and awareness.
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Not enough non-Iranians know her name, and that's exactly what the regime wants.
Bita Shafiei is 19 years old.
She was abducted for posting a video supporting Prince Reza Pahlavi, and calling for freedom.
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