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Historian @MIT • Harvard Kennedy School MEI Faculty Affiliate • PhD • Author, “Contesting the Iranian Revolution: The Green Uprisings” ()
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🧵 On this day, the US & UK overthrew
#Iran
’s democratic govt. In its place, they installed an autocrat, & equipped it w/a vicious secret police to ensure that the coup govt stayed in power.
The coup set in motion a series of events that affected Iran, the region, & the world. 1
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This is my 7th year teaching at MIT. As a historian of the Middle East, I get a handful of heritage students in my classes each semester. This is the first semester that I’ve had a Palestinian from
#Gaza
in my class. Today he shared a fact that blew me & the class away.
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He was raised in the besieged Gaza Strip, & shared that the 1st time he met a Palestinian from the West Bank was not in the West Bank but in America.
The Israeli blockade prevented him from seeing his people in other parts of
#Palestine
. He had to wait to come here to meet them.
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Beirut is not the “Paris of the Middle East.”
It is the
#Beirut
of the Middle East—and that’s great and enough in and of itself.
We don’t need to reference a Western capital to underscore Beirut’s value. It exists on its own terms and that’s plenty.
#LebanonExplosion
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2 years ago today, the US govt assassinated
#Soleimani
, a general of the sovereign country of
#Iran
.
He was not “killed” nor did he “die” but was *assassinated* by an imperial power with no organic roots in a region that is an ocean away from its mainland.
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#Neverforget
how the US govt exploited Americans’ grief following 9/11 to invade
#Iraq
—a country that had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11.
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This is a US-printed poster used to recruit jihadists to fight the Soviet Union.
The US supports Islamism when it is allied with the US (i.e. the jihad in Afghanistan in the 80s, the Saudi govt today) & opposes it when it goes against US interests (
#Iran
/Hizbullah/Hamas).
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Now that
#WonderWoman1984
is out, remember that Gal Gadot plays a character that is about “defending those that can’t defend themselves” while in real-life she cheered on the 2014 Israeli bombardment of the largely defenseless people of
#Gaza
—all while spewing govt sound bites.
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#Facts
:
#Iran
has 0 military bases in North America.
US encircles Iran w/bases.
Iran has 0 naval presence along US shores.
US is the dominant naval power in the
#PersianGulf
.
Iran has 0 nukes.
US has 1000s.
Iran is not sanctioning the US.
US
#sanctions
are crippling Iran.
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Break every US embargo. Break every US sanctions regime. All of them. Now.
Sanctions and embargoes are a tool in the toolkit of imperialism—selectively applied for the purposes of achieving imperial goals, plain and simple.
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The US is not on the verge of “losing”
#Afghanistan
.
Afghanistan was never America’s to lose.
When you talk about other nations as if they belong to the US, you’ve internalized the imperialist mindset.
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We can be anti-imperialist & still recognize the *legitimate grievances* of Iranians protesting right now.
Condemning the morality police & the detainment & death of
#Mahsa_Amini
does not mean we support the imperialist encirclement of
#Iran
& the goal of imploding the nation.
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This is a list CIA coups just in Latin America—to say nothing of the rest of the globe.
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Dr. Muhammad Mossadeq,
#Iran
’s democratically elected premier (r. 1951-53)—ousted by a CIA/MI-6 coup.
#NeverForget
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هم #مجاهدين و هم #رضا_پهلوى ادعا ميكنند كه طرفدار سرسخت ملت ايران هستند ولى با تحريم هاى مرگبار #ترامپ عليه ملت ايران موافقند.
در واقع آنها با مرگ تدريجى ملت ايران زير تحريم هاى آمريكا موافقت دارند باين اميد كه شايد موجب بقدرت رسيدن آنها در #ايران گردد.
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US Empire is not just a physical reality that encompasses 8-900 military bases around the world, but also an internalized mindset whereby many assume the internal affairs of other nations is the business of the US and the US has the natural right to intervene around the world.
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The
#MEK
are inserting their people into the
#IranProtests2020
in an attempt to hijack the protests. Here is one woman trying to direct protests to shout a pro-MEK slogan, "Hail to the MEK," but nobody follows.
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Iraqis, not just the militiamen backed by
#Iran
, know that when
#ISIS
was preparing to march on Baghdad in 2014, nobody came to their aid but
#Suleimani
, who was the 1st on the scene to prepare the resistance to ISIS.
His death won’t just anger Iranians, but Iraqis as well.
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These Iranians would like to bring “freedom & democracy” to
#Iran
😂 I can’t think of a more unqualified bunch.
#DCProtests
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When you humanize
#Iran
& Iranians, it makes it harder for warmongers to justify sanctions & war based on a faceless enemy.
The trolls upset about this video are the same ones who support sanctions/war—anything that will achieve their power hungry political aims.
Share widely.
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#Soleimani
wasn’t “taken out” (taken out to where, dinner?).
Nor should it be phrased as “
#Suleimani
’s death” as if he died on his own of natural causes.
But the correct phrasing is:
“
#Trump
*assassinated* Soleimani, a general of the sovereign country of
#Iran
.”
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#Iran
downed an unmanned stealth drone last summer—a downing that shocked the Pentagon.
If there are no US casualties in these 2 US bases tonight, then that was intentional. It does not speak to Iran’s lack of capability. It’s a message.
Leave it at that,
@realDonaldTrump
.
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When Americans say the National Guard presence in DC reminds them of
#Iraq
, show them these photos of the US war & occupation of Iraq so they stop making such silly comparisons.
#DCProtests
#Inauguration2021
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منظور اصلى #ترامپ: "#ايران بايد بيدفاع بماند: بدون سلاح اتمى، دفاع موشكى و فرمانده نظامى. ايران فقط بايد زير تحريم باشد. ولى ما ميتوانيم سلاح اتمى خود را تقويت كنيم، صنعت سلاح اتمى بدشمنان ايران بدهيم و سيل سلاحهاى نظامى وارد كشورهاى اطراف ايران نماييم.
حق با زورگوست.” #سليماني
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Former Clinton-era Secretary of Defense William Cohen on CNN just told Americans to be cautious of a
#falseflag
operation in which
#Iran
’s enemies could attack the US, blame it on Iran, and sit and watch the US go to war with their enemy.
#Trump
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Never trust a US-based “human rights activist” who focuses on human rights abuses in enemy countries while remaining silent on systemic racism in the US &
#BlackLivesMatter
. Never.
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The assassination of the Iranian scientist again brings
#Iran
& region to the precipice of war.
Imagine being an Iranian inside the country. Your country is being sanctioned by what Pompeo calls the most severe sanctions ever imposed on a country in the history of the world.
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Pointing out US hypocrisy over Russia's Ukraine policy doesnt equate to support for Putin. Rather, it highlights how the US doesnt have the legitimacy to talk about respecting other nations' sovereignty when it’s the foremost violator of other nations' sovereignty—plain & simple.
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Mourners gather in
#Soleimani
's hometown of
#Kerman
, chanting "The flagbearer hasn't returned."
#Suleimani
#Iran
#قاسم_سليماني #سليماني
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"...Iranians were unable to access Johns Hopkins University's
#coronavirus
database bc of US-imposed economic restrictions, not govt censorship...The map is hosted by ArcGIS Online...which has banned most of its services in
#Iran
to comply w/US sanctions."
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They used to introduce her as a journalist without mentioning she worked for the US State Department. Now she’s being introduced in a more sacred light—an “unpaid mother.” She was & is verifiably a contract employee of the US govt.
Find reliable/credible sources of
#Iran
info.
“Unpaid”?
Alinejad has received over $488,000 in US federal contracts, including $95,000 thus far for 2022.
She supported the misogynistic Trump administration’s “maximum pressure” sanctions (now continued by Biden) which disproportionately affected the lives of Iranian women.
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When asked if I’m Muslim, I straight up say “Yes.”
I don’t qualify it with a “but I’m not religious” or “but I’m non-practicing” or “but I’m more culturally Muslim than anything else.”
Don’t feel the need to explain yourself. If someone passes judgment, that’s there problem.
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When the media presents Israelis & Palestinians as 2 sides to a conflict, note the asymmetry:
#Israel
is colonizing
#Palestine
, not the reverse; Israel receives $3 bil in US military aid, Palestinians don’t have a military; Israel has nukes, Palestinians don’t even have tanks.
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You can’t be religious, invoke the below Quranic verse to underscore Islam’s grace, and also support *compulsory* hijab. The verse negates the legitimacy of the hijab being compulsory.
#Iran
#MahsaAmini
#Mahsa_Amini
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When Iranians inside
#Iran
criticize US repression of the
#GeorgeFloydProtests
, some Americans respond: “Mind your own business.”
At they same time, these very Americans see events inside Iran as very much their business, & offer proclamations all the time.
That’s the point...
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The US: Submit or implode via US sanctions.
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The unsung hero.
#Iran
#Afghanistan
This self-sacrificing Iranian teacher used to go to a local park to educate her sole Afghan student as the girl did not have a smartphone to attend the online classes during the pandemic.
The dedicated teacher, Farahnaz Agheli, passed away a few days ago from Covid-19.
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This is big. The Harvard University daily, The Harvard Crimson, has come out publicly in support of BDS and Palestinian liberation—this despite enormous pressure from pro-Israel groups.
#Palestine
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Translation: “We have the right the strike anywhere in the world at any time. It is the nature of our empire. Every bomb we drop is a force for good. When we do it, we call it ‘spreading freedom,’ or a ‘good first step.’ When others do it, we call it ‘terrorism.’”
U.S. strikes against Iranian-backed Shia militia groups in Iraq and Syria are overdue, but a good first step. The ayatollahs must pay a steep price for their ongoing support for terrorism.
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Staggering: “More than 45,000
#veterans
& active-duty service members have killed themselves in the past 6 years. That is more than 20 deaths a day — in other words, more suicides each year than the total American military deaths in
#Afghanistan
&
#Iraq
.”
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#Islam
or a lack of education in the Muslim world are not the main cause of terrorism, but the wars. There was no AlQaeda until the Soviet invasion of
#Afghanistan
in 79, no Hizbullah until the Israeli invasion of
#Lebanon
in 82, & no AlQaeda in
#Iraq
until the US invasion of 03.
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#Facts
:
-
#IranPlaneCrash
is an utter tragedy.
- Iranians have every right to be angry & to protest; authorities should be held to account.
- The US govt has no credibility vis-a-vis
#Iran
& should mind its own business—Pompeo is blatantly intervening in Iran’s domestic affairs.
The voice of the Iranian people is clear. They are fed up with the regime’s lies, corruption, ineptitude, and brutality of the IRGC under
@khamenei_ir
's kleptocracy. We stand with the Iranian people who deserve a better future.
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.
@NegarMortazavi
is a good friend, so I would like to publicly denounce such a vile, sexist, & dehumanizing attack on her.
Too many female friends on Twitter are attacked using such sexist language.
It’s not enough to refrain from this discourse but we must actively fight it.
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If you’re an Iranian in the US, & you’ve accepted $$$ from the US govt in support of your political work against the
#Iran
’ian govt then by definition you’re *propagandist* of the US govt.
This applies to the think tank types as well as journalists working for US govt agencies.
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If the US wants to talk to
#Iran
about its missile program, then it must be prepared to also talk about the US bases that encircle Iran, the military hardware the US sells to Iran’s enemies, & US support for Saddam in the Iran-Iraq War—all of which drive Iran’s missile program.
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I got choked up today lecturing about the Iran-Iraq War bc of a specific moment.
My students def noticed. It was unavoidable. Another student got choked up too.
Sometimes what I teach is so deeply felt, and these heartaches are part of the story.
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#Suleimani
was an old man but above all a soldier & a believer. He was not destined to die of prostate cancer.
His death under such circumstances only means that his legend will grow akin to Che after his death in 67.
He may be dead, but you’ll hear about him for decades.
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Translation: “Today & everyday, we pretend to care about Iranian women while we sanction those very women into destitution. We often frame our imperial policies in the name of saving women from the savages, but in reality our policies hurt men & women alike.”
#Iran
#IranProtests
Today and every day, we stand in solidarity with the women of
#Iran
, who face the wrath of a regime that has institutionalized and condoned violence against those who demand equality whether for the way they wish to dress or for their desire to pray & worship freely.
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The regime is not taking
#COVID2019
seriously. Not enough people are being tested, and there’s a shortage of diagnostic kits. The leader is talking about how all this is a conspiracy, tasking a man who thinks prayer is the solution.
I’m talking about the
#Trump
admin, not
#Iran
.
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When
#Israel
assassinated Hizbullah’s chief, Shekh Abbas Al-Musawi, in 92, Nasrallah stepped up. Hizbullah not only endured but grew w/him at the helm.
If true that the US assassinated
#Suleimani
, it doesnt mean that the IRGC will collapse nor
#Iran
.
History suggests otherwise.
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Reza Pahlavi: “The US returning to the
#Iran
deal would be a big mistake.”
Is there a more unqualified, self-serving, vengeful, half-man than him?
He’s living large off the wealth his family plundered from Iran while he supports the heinous sanctions immiserating “his” people.
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Democrats and Republicans are two sides of the same imperialist coin.
#Iran
With Iran resuming its enrichment of uranium, we asked Pres. Biden if the U.S. will lift sanctions first in order to get Iran back to the negotiating table on a nuclear deal.
“No,” Pres. Biden says, affirming that Iran will have to stop its enrichment program first
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You can’t support justice by supporting unjust deeds.
If you support the
#IranProtests
against the gas hikes bc of the dire economic situation but you also support the sanctions on
#Iran
that are torpedoing the economy then you are part of the problem, not the solution.
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Whether Democrat or Republican, the lie is still the same.
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If Zeinab Soleimani having an iPhone upsets you more than the US assassinating her father, General
#Soleimani
, then you need to take a long look in the mirror.
#Iran
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From an Iranian friend: “Just a reminder in the midst of scary AF news. This is what the capital of Iran looks like. Not a camel or desert cave in sight. My dad is somewhere in one of those high rises right now.”
#Iran
#Soleimani
#Suleimani
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If youre talking about the
#coronavirus
, how its affecting
#Iran
, & govt mismanagement without mentioning how US sanctions are impacting Iran's ability to contain
#COVID19
, then youre simply politicizing the crisis for your political aims, using lives as stats to serve your ends.
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US imperialism knows no bounds or shame; the Democratic Party & the Republican Party are two sides of the same imperialism coin.
We are imposing sanctions on Iranian petroleum and petrochemical producers, transporters, and front companies. Absent a commitment from Iran to return to the JCPOA, an outcome we continue to pursue, we will keep using our authorities to target Iran's exports of energy products.
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Never forget, the
#Iran
nuclear deal was meant not only to prevent nukes but create the space for better relations between signatories.
#Trump
’s subversion of the deal & unilateral sanctions on Iran paved the way to where we are now.
#Suleimani
*All this turmoil began w/Trump.*
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All are custodians of Empire—they just operate under a different guise.
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Iranian monarchists on democracy when it comes to the Shah: “
#Iran
needed an authoritarian figure to modernize the nation.”
Iranian monarchists on democracy when it comes to current govt: “The regime is authoritarian; Iran needs democracy via reinstating the Pahlavi dynasty.”
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The
#Saudi
standard of the “normal country”:
-Bomb
#Yemen
;
-Put down Arab Spring in
#Bahrain
;
-Murder journalists like
#Khashoggi
;
-Finance coup govt in
#Egypt
;
-Fund renegade general in
#Libya
;
-Spread Salafi extremism everytwhere;
-Back jihadis in
#Syria
;
-Execute dissidents.
Iran has to act like a normal country if it wants to be treated like one: Saudi foreign minister
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Nothing bothers me more than an Iranian who wants the US or Israel to bomb
#Iran
.
I have seen at least one clown in my social media network publicly thank
#Israel
for assassinating
#Fakhrizadeh
.
These *few* have really internalized imperialism to their very core. So obscene.
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You don’t have to be anti-Islam bigot to criticize the Iranian govt.
You can have enormous respect for Islam, its noble messenger, & his holy progeny—as I do—and still criticize the Iranian govt.
In fact, the most scathing critiques of the Iranian govt are the religious ones.
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Translation: “We will exact intense financial pressure on the Iranian *people* to implode
#Iran
so as to achieve our political goals vis-a-vis the govt. We could care less about the Iranian people; their suffering is a useful political tool in the service of our imperial aims.”
.
@SecPompeo
: We are re-imposing sanctions to exact intense financial pressure on the Iranian regime as we seek a new diplomatic solution. We will work in concert with our allies and partners to deter Iranian aggression. We will continue to advocate for the Iranian people.
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