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My personal crusade: spreading the correct pronunciation of Iran.
EEEE-Raan
not Eye-Ran
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Iranian diaspora has heavy “pick-me” energy. I shall not elaborate
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The more I think about
@RonanFarrow
story on
@CBS
& Les Moonves the more I wonder why the broader issues cited in that piece aren't being discussed. The everyday treatment of female producers is as concerning as Moonves' own actions plus... they span the industry.
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Sources in
#Iran
say even when not in protest, women are walking around
#Tehran
without hijab and no one seems to be saying anything, one source said even at the airport women are hijab less
#IranProtests2022
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A must read for tv bookers and producers. Guests matter and so does their background and expertise 👇🏼
Masih Alinejad isn’t just an Iranian journalist and activist. She’s on the U.S. government payroll and works for the increasingly “rabidly pro-Trump” Voice of America. Media outlets that host her should tell us that
#Soleimani
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Guess what day it is dear friends.
On August 19th 1953 the west pushed forward one of the biggest blunders in Iran.
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Five years.
It’s been five years since the Iranian regime arrested my incredibly brave and courageous cousin Niloufar Bayani. Keep her and her colleagues and all the other innocent Iranians in your thoughts.
#IranRevolution2023
#IranProtests2023
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Iran's President responds to Trump's threats with the number of Iranian civilians that were killed in the downed
#IranAir
flight.
A moment in history that Iranians will never forget and for which the US never faced consequences.
Those who refer to the number 52 should also remember the number 290.
#IR655
Never threaten the Iranian nation.
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This graphic is making the rounds in social media in honor of
#NavidAfkari
For non-Persian speakers/readers: it is a play on words. Absolutely heartbreaking.
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On September 9th I spoke to a group of
#Iranian
students who lost their visas as they were headed to the US. They are still in Iran, still at a loss of what to do.
My latest for NBC
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This is a dangerous road to go down. We will no doubt through this revolution have many policy disagreements but attacking journalists, activists, policy makers & accusing them of horrendous crimes and allowing our pain to rule us will hurt us all down the road.
#IranRevoIution
These are some of the individuals that play a role in suppressing Iranian women and executing the protesters. These arw the external arms of the Islamic Republic.
@AzadehMoaveni
@AssalRad
@NegarMortazavi
@AliVaez
@TParsi
@barbaraslavin1
@milanimohsen
@Sinatoossi
@JAbdi
@maasalan
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Massive crowds protesting tonight in Tehran. A nation that is grief stricken
#UkranianPlaneCrash
#IraqProtests
#PS752
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Please keep my wonderful and brave cousin Niloufar Bayani in your thoughts along with my friend’s father Morad Tahbaz and all the others.
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What is truly heartbreaking here is seeing a country that itself is struggling under the weight of economic sanx & covid, where they have shortages of their own goods helping another country facing some similar struggles. 💔
Tehran’s Mehrabad international airport earlier today - as boxes and boxes of relief supplies along with a 22-member Iranian medical team left for Beirut.
#LebanonExplosion
#BeirutBlast
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A few things:
1. The Shah forced women out of the hijab through a compulsory royal decree, taking away a women's choice. The law was faced with enormous backlash and subsequently caused religious women to not pursue higher ed or join the workforce as much.
First the Islamic Republic oppressed women via forced hijab, silenced them by diminishing their legal rights & leadership positions, robbed them of their futures by reintroducing child marriage, and now it is literally erasing women from society.
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One more time for the people in the back👇
My Iranian dad is routinely wowed by how the algo knows he likes soccer videos and weird diy hacks- as well as videos of people shuffling- who knew.
Worst thing: when you end up on the wrong tiktok channel &need to find your way back.
The best part of TikTok isn’t the posting...it’s the algorithm used for the for you page that serves you the most perfectly curated TikToks. It’s truly a marvel.
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I’m lucky to have a mom who took me all over Iran. We’d take a bus, go from city to village from site to site. I’ve gone from one oldest churches in the world, to Kandovan to Mashhad (yes I’m a Mashti) back to Tehran and beyond again. Despite the heat, Persepolis astounded me.
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I don’t want to make this about me but... how come no one is ever trying to win the middle eastern vote. 🤷🏻♀️
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My grandma & role model is a Doctor of History & at the ripe age of 87 continues to work & write, she has fully earned the right to that title and I’d be appalled if she was told otherwise.
Women are not just here to be spouses & secondary to men’s lives
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Iran is not the belligerent country many think it is. It is restrained, calculated and typically precise in its decision making.
#Iran
President
@HassanRouhani
: Iranian nation is wise enough not to fall in Israel trap. We will respond to
#Fakhrizadeh
assassination "in an appropriate time"
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Today was the last trial for my incredible and strong cousin Niloufar. Accusation of “sowing corruption on earth” for her and three others which carried the death penalty were dropped.
#anyhopefornature
This is the best news I’ve heard all day.
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Proud to say
@UPonMSNBC
did today. We were joined by
@NegarMortazavi
and
@ArianeTabatabai
.
Tomorrow we will be joined by
@nargesbajoghli
. Tune in!
TV bookers: for God's sake get some female voices on air about the Iran crisis, preferably Arab or Persian. It doesn't have to be me but it needs to be someone.
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Some personal News...
Tomorrow will be my last day
@CNBC
. I am so excited to be joining the
@UPonMSNBC
team as a producer for
@davidgura
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This is a travesty. Millions of people struggling just to make it day to day, struggling to make enough to eat, to take care of their children. It is heartbreaking.
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People forget he was deeply religious and very superstitious
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“The last thing they need is for the US State Department to undermine their protests by manipulating their grievances for political potshots."
@sarahleah1
Great piece from
@NegarMortazavi
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1 of my fav smells is car exhaust/pollution mixed with recently watered plants/trees & hot wet pavement. Why do I like such a smell? It smells like
#Tehran
summers. Did the city condition me to like the scent of pollution? Yes. Eau du paykan anyday. 2x on sundays. Don’t @ me
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Covering
#RussiaUkraineConflict
from the UAE and watching probably one of the hardest working anchors
@AliVelshi
and his guests - they're putting together history, analysis, on the ground breaking news- I urge everyone to watch
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I love this country oh so much.
Love these slice of life videos I get from
#Iran
. Street musicians & a passerby sing everyone’s favorite Ebi song. “Love Song.” قصه عشق
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This is what dreams are made of. A homemade lavashak delivery from Iran 🤤 I’d share but honestly I don’t want too.
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I’d chalk this up to Iranian strategy rather than impotence. Iran’s gov doesn’t make decisions thoughtlessly.
Plus, this is symbolic of America’s wrongs against
#Iran
. Iranians inside & abroad do not think this was a show of impotence. It’s a national tragedy. 66 children died
This is peculiar. Despite thundering threats at the time, Iran never retaliated for the downing of
#IR655
... if anything, it became a symbol of Iranian impotence.
Why would Rouhani want to draw attention to that?
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This is a huge deal 👇🏼
#IranProtests
Iran petrochemical workers have gone on strike in Asalouyeh, Bushehr, Oct10, day23 of Iran Protests. Up until now, strikes had been limited to Kurdistan Province plus students and some online businesses. This is a major escalation. #مهسا_امینی
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This is the problem with sanctions. The planes are old, can’t get new parts, bad things happen.
I’m old enough to remember the last sanctions regime when planes were literally dropping out of the sky all summer.
Sanctions hurt average
#Iranians
IRAN: Passengers evacuate a Caspian Airline plane after it slides off the runway and stops in the middle of a street in the southern city of Mahshahr.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg and my grandma Mansoureh Ettehadieh have the same birthday and are the same age... both have turned 87 today, March 15th and both are women I look up too.
Here’s to my Amaman 🥳
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My entire Instagram feed is in mourning.
Hundred of black posts.
And this 👇🏼
“Stand Up, Get Dressed, Come
Amir Kabir University 17:30”
#IranPlaneCrash
#PS752
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Not a political statement: but he literally looks like he could be my uncle. We are Iranian.
I’m supposed to believe this man’s ancestors are from the Middle East?🤣
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Little sangak so trendy with the sourdough. As the kids would say... it got a glow-up
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Happy Father’s Day to the greatest.
Thanks for letting me be your twin.
Pic 1: Manhattan pre-Corona
Pic 2: Tehran pre-Rev, Baba & Amou
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It seems to be a lack of understanding of how Iran and Iranians work. Sanction the supreme leader antogonzies, makes it near impossible for talks. Sanctioning Zarif— makes the people mad, he has decent approval ratings & people view him as a voice of reason
Let's be clear—These new sanctions add no meaningful economic pressure on Iran. They are expressly intended to make it harder for Iran to justify diplomatic negotiations + harder for the US to offer sanctions relief. They are shackles on diplomacy.
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This is a critical post- it is an unpopular take but it is the most realistic take I've seen. The
#Iranian
diaspora really & truly discounts the base of the Iranian government, millions of Iranians & discounts the many qs that need to be answered
Most of the Iran analysis American policymakers, and especially the hawks, rely upon is pure wishcasting.
And the professional Iran-watchers are mostly wishcasters. It's dangerous for America, and I hope to give you an example that will help you see how and why.
I don't claim
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Perhaps one of my most favorite streets in the world.
@blondeintehran
And I'll end with this – Tehran's historic Vali-asr street, said to be the longest street in the Middle East, is known for plane trees SO colossal that, at points, they form a lush, green canopy overhead that obscures the sky from view.
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Feels like someone watched
@AliVelshi
‘a monologue this morning... 👀
Pete Buttigieg says Democrats should focus on cutting the deficit, which fell under Obama and is soaring under Trump.
“The time has come for my party to get a lot more comfortable owning this issue... It’s not fashionable in progressive circles to talk too much about the debt.”
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Today was not only my 27th birthday but also chahrshanbe souri which is my favorite.
Feeling happy to have celebrated with
@FerroTV
and remotely wiith
@ntabrizy
,
@arash_tehran
and my family🔥🔥ready for the good juju
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This is an incredibly dangerous and quite reckless strategy. Playing with the lives of normal people
US strategy on
#Iran
:
Sanctions have made the lives of ordinary Iranians much worse and Pompeo hopes that would make Iranians rise up against the regime and change its behavior.
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If you missed the live today here is a clip! More on Instagram. A great convo with my dear friend Cyrus on racism and Iranians- teaching anti-blackness, assimilation fans having those uncomfortable conversations
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Not to toot a horn but, (toot toot) look also at weekend coverage,
@MSNBC
was chockablock with women speaking about Iran/ Iraq over the last two weekends! Experts in their fields 👇🏼 plus
@yasminv
anchoring!
@NegarMortazavi
@ArianeTabatabai
@hdagres
@AzadehMoaveni
@ZainabSalbi
Among the top ten Iran analysts appearing most frequently on major US news networks to discuss the Soleimani fallout there were precisely ZERO women. Only CNN featured any - 3 out of 10. C'mon news networks, there are masses of GREAT women experts on Iran
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#Coronavirus
Taskforce update: We are still dehumanizing Iranians and their struggle in combating the virus and the immense impact of US sanx on their ability to keep people safe and healthy.
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"
#Iran
will for the first time grant citizenship to children born to an Iranian mother and foreign father after a long-awaited bill was signed into law by the powerful Guardian Council in a significant victory for women’s rights."
A big win for all!
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“Heshmat Alavi appears not to exist. Alavi’s persona is a propaganda operation run by the Iranian opposition group Mojahedin-e-Khalq, which is known by the initials MEK, two sources told The Intercept.”
A must read today looking into the
#MEK
propaganda machine 👇🏼
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How many gojeh sabz is too many gojeh sabz? I'm not saying that I, an adult was unable to control myself and have been housing green plums covered in salts but, I'm not not saying that.
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Twitter during
#IranProtests2022
or any Iran protest is interesting as it is really made up of people who want the same thing but have different ideas of how to get there yelling in the most toxic way into the ether. Most of whom, have never been to modern day Iran.
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I think about this constantly: Just a little over a year ago there was 0 talk of war with Iran thanks to the JCPOA. Now, everyday we incrementally see escalation that could easily push either country into an unwanted war.
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4. None of these points are meant to detract from some of the very real problems facing Iranian women but to ignore facts, figures and history does no one good.
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Speaking to Iranian voters about their decision to sit out the elections and it's not just that they are apathetic or disillusioned- they are tired, and utterly exhausted.
#IranElection2021
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2. Yes, women's leadership is lacking (as it is around the world) let's not forget that Iran has women in parliament & cabinet positions & the CEO of Iran Air is a woman (just a few examples)
3. In the last half decade almost half of
#Iran
's student population is women
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