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Every single girl here is my

artappraiser — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 19:02:48 +0000

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Every single girl here is my hero. https://t.co/nUtxytdJz3
— Shaparak Khorsandi (@ShappiKhorsandi) October 5, 2022

It won't stop. The world is

barefooted — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 16:31:40 +0000

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It won't stop. The world is watching ... here's hoping the attention will lessen the bloodshed.

It's not stopping! "Mahsa

artappraiser — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 16:25:56 +0000

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It's not stopping! "Mahsa Amini" has become the new Ayatollah Khameini of the late 1970's?

When the news came out that

artappraiser — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 06:16:40 +0000

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When the news came out that students were protesting inside Sharif University & under siege by security forces, ppl rushed to the neighboring streets & showed their anger & concern for students by blowing horns. Just magnificent! #MahsaAmini #مهسا_امینی pic.twitter.com/t74xX6QKjl
— Omid Memarian (@Omid_M) October 3, 2022

And much much more if you

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 13:02:22 +0000

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And much much more if you look at her Wikipedia entry.
Rather impressive - wish the papers printed this rather than depressing Brangelina crap.

Angelina Jolie calls for

artappraiser — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 08:02:40 +0000

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Angelina Jolie calls for ‘freedom’ for Iranian women https://t.co/b5Sl7vcXUw
— Independent Lifestyle (@IndyLife) September 29, 2022

normally I would say that they need verbal support from Hollywood liberal actresses like a hole in the head, but then she also has the role of Special Envoy for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency (for a decade now! Iooked that up)

Good thread explaining the

artappraiser — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 02:28:35 +0000

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Good thread explaining the issues with Alinejad https://t.co/tVu3Dac9ss
— Nicole Grajewski (@NicoleGrajewski) September 25, 2022

Big anti-regime protests in

artappraiser — Sun, 25 Sep 2022 02:02:13 +0000

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Big anti-regime protests in Mashad? Yow.

https://t.co/PqvFe6881q
— Thomas E. Ricks (@tomricks1) September 25, 2022

Iran Protests Surge to Dozens

artappraiser — Sat, 24 Sep 2022 20:51:58 +0000

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Iran Protests Surge to Dozens of Cities (the best vetted summary you're gonna get! I have underlined a key explanatory paragraph of what has changed recently)

Iranians fed up with oppressive rules and a battered economy have faced bullets, tear gas and arrests to demand an end to the Islamic Republic’s rule

By Farnaz Fassihi and Jane Arraf @NYTimes. com, Sept. 24, 2022 Updated 4:07 p.m. ET; HAS VIDEO & PHOTOS AT LINK

The largest anti-government protests in Iran since 2009 gathered strength on Saturday, spreading to as many as 80 cities, even as the authorities escalated a crackdown that has reportedly killed at least 50 people and brought the arrests of dozens of prominent activists and journalists, according to rights groups and news media reports.

Internet access — especially on cellphone apps widely used for communication — continued to be disrupted or fully blocked, affecting Iranians’ ability to communicate with one another and the outside world. News from Iran has trickled out with many hours of delay.

While the 2009 protests erupted over an election widely condemned as fraudulent, the current demonstrations seemed focused on the Iranian security forces, with reports of vicious beatings of security officers and firebombings of the local headquarters of the notorious morality police.

In many cities, including Tehran, the capital, security forces responded by opening fire on the crowds. On Boulevard Ferdous and at the Shahrak Ekbatan apartment complex in Tehran, officers fired at windows; in the city of Rasht, they threw tear gas into apartments, according to witnesses and videos on social media.

Iranian state media said Friday that at least 35 people had been killed in the unrest, but human rights groups said on Saturday that the number is likely to be much higher. A previous death toll of 17 issued by the state news media included at least five members of the security services.

The videos posted online and the scale of the response from the authorities are difficult to independently verify, but video and photographs sent by witnesses known to The New York Times were broadly in line with the images being posted widely online.

Deep resentments and anger have been building for months, analysts say, particularly among young Iranians, in response to a crackdown ordered by the country’s hard-line president, Ebrahim Raisi, that has targeted women.

That comes on top of a litany of complaints over the years over corruption, mismanagement of the economy, inept handling of Covid and widespread political repression. The problems have persisted under Mr. Raisi, who came to power in an election in which any potential contenders were eliminated before the vote, particularly those from the reformist faction.

During the tenure of Mr. Raisi’s predecessor, the moderate Hassan Rouhani, the morality police had been discouraged from enforcing Iran’s often draconian laws against women, particularly the requirement that they wear the hijab in public in the “proper” fashion. But Iran’s powerful supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who is now said to be resting in bed after emergency surgery, engineered the ascent of Mr. Raisi, eliminating an important outlet for the frustrations of Iran’s younger generation.

Those frustrations are now boiling over. The small Kurdish city of Oshnavieh reportedly fell to protesters when local security forces retreated after days of intense fighting, the editor of a Kurdish news site said.

“Since last night, Oshnavieh has been governed by the people,” a Kurdish official, Hussein Yazdanpana, said in an interview, adding that women had thrown off their mandatory head scarves in celebration.

“The liberation has far-reaching consequences for other cities,” he said, describing the town as a gateway to other Kurdish areas of Iran.

Ammar Golie, an Iranian Kurd based in Germany who edits the news site NNS Roj, has been in regular contact with residents of Oshnavieh, which is in West Azerbaijan Province and has a population of 40,000 ethnic Kurds. He said the residents had set up roadblocks at the gateway to the city’s only two roads.

Videos posted on social media show large crowds marching in the streets of Oshnavieh, many wearing traditional Kurdish garb, and chanting, “Freedom.” Another video shows intense gunfights over control of the city’s Police Headquarters.

Mr. Golie said local contacts had told him that an army battalion and a unit of the Revolutionary Guards Corps from the nearest city, Oroumiyeh, had been deployed to crush the protests and take Oshnavieh back.

“We are expecting blood to be spilled,” Mr. Golie said. “It’s an extremely tense situation.”

The nationwide uprising was ignited by the death of a 22-year-old woman, Mahsa Amini, in the custody of the morality police on Sept. 16. Ms. Amini was arrested on accusations of violating the hijab mandate. Women have led the past week’s demonstrations, some ripping off their head scarves, waving them and burning them as men have cheered them on.

For seven days and nights, Iranians have taken to the streets, facing bullets, tear gas, beatings and arrests to send a message to the clerics who have led the nation for 43 years. They have chanted for an end to the Islamic Republic’s rule, according to witnesses and videos shared on social media.

In Tehran, protests have changed shape from large gatherings at designated landmarks to smaller cells spread in most neighborhoods — including the affluent northern section and the working-class southern parts.

In the religious city of Qum, the power center of the Shiite faith and the government’s power base, videos posted on social media show scenes never seen before: young women stripping off their hijabs and crowds chanting against Ayatollah Khamenei, and calling him the nation’s “shame.”

President Raisi, upon returning to Iran from New York, where he addressed the United Nations General Assembly, warned on Friday in a speech at Tehran’s airport that the government would “not allow, under any circumstances, for the security of the country and public to be jeopardized.”

The Ministry of Intelligence sent a text message to all cellphone users warning that anyone participating in the demonstrations, which it said were organized by Iran’s enemies, would be punished according to Shariah law. Copies of the texts were shared with The New York Times and also posted on social media.

The Committee to Protect Journalists said that at least 11 journalists, including Niloofar Hamedi, the reporter from the daily newspaper Shargh who was the first to report on Ms. Amini’s case and interviewed her family in the hospital, had been arrested.

Among the activists arrested were Majid Tavakoli and the sociologist Mohammadreza Jalaeipour, the organization said.

Farnaz Fassihi is a reporter for The New York Times based in New York. Previously she was a senior writer and war correspondent for the Wall Street Journal for 17 years based in the Middle East. @farnazfassihi

Jane Arraf is the Baghdad bureau chief. She has covered the defining events of Iraq’s history for three decades, as well as many equally important stories that never made it into the history books. @janearraf

Tehran, Friday night. Day 8

artappraiser — Sat, 24 Sep 2022 05:59:24 +0000

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Tehran, Friday night. Day 8 of anti-regime protests. pic.twitter.com/J7WN6x6F2X
— Frida Ghitis (@FridaGhitis) September 24, 2022

A huge crowd of protesters marches in west Tehran as cars sound horns in support, on the eighth night of protests in Iran over the death of #MahsaAmini in morality police custody amid a nationwide internet shutdown.#pic.twitter.com/Uig5Ju5WhL
— Shayan Sardarizadeh (@Shayan86) September 24, 2022

Iranian teenagers remove their headscarves and chant, "Death to Khamenei" as they walk past cars honking in solidarity on Tehran's Keshavarz Boulevard. #MahsaAmini pic.twitter.com/hEfk4FuUsU
— Holly Dagres (@hdagres) September 23, 2022

Iranian regime is arresting journalists faster than ever. It’s another effort to hide the truth https://t.co/3z7ajmPcqG
— Frida Ghitis (@FridaGhitis) September 23, 2022

Tonight in Sattar Khan district, central Tehran, protesters chant "mullahs must go away" on night eight of protests in Iran over the death of #MahsaAmini in morality police custody despite an internet shutdown imposed by the authorities.# pic.twitter.com/N6cEXlN2sa
— Shayan Sardarizadeh (@Shayan86) September 23, 2022

A few moments of the vibe in Tehran, tonight. The contagious feeling of liberation, and the support of the honking cars.....
##Mahsa_Amini #IranProtests2022 #مهسا_امینی #OpIran pic.twitter.com/PCjZ7zzE7r
— Omid Memarian (@Omid_M) September 23, 2022