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A good time for Iranian literature ... #FreeIran

Jacob wrote: "A good time for Iranian literature ... #FreeIran"

indeed 🤍 #FreeIran

Ladan wrote: "Jacob wrote: "A good time for Iranian literature ... #FreeIran"

indeed 🤍 #FreeIran"

My thoughts are with you, I have dear friends in Iran who have referred terrible stories.

Jacob wrote: "Ladan wrote: "Jacob wrote: "A good time for Iranian literature ... #FreeIran"

indeed 🤍 #FreeIran"

My thoughts are with you, I have dear friends in Iran who have referred terrible stories."

Tusind tack Jacob 🤍
What has happened and is still happening under the Islamic Republic is a real massacre and a crime against humanity. I feel deeply disappointed in how much of the world stays silent. My family is there, and this is very personal to me. Still, I have strong hope that this time people will succeed in gaining freedom.

I am trying to keep awareness up - mainly through my LinkedIn posts and "some of the world" is listening.
Yesterday I saw OPEC sending celebrations on the 47th - that is nothing but shameful!

“You keep erasing. We’ll keep writing. This time, it has to happen.”
Graffiti in Iran.

Jacob wrote: "I am trying to keep awareness up - mainly through my LinkedIn posts and "some of the world" is listening.
Yesterday I saw OPEC sending celebrations on the 47th - that is nothing but shameful!

“Yo..."

I appreciate it, it means a lot 🤍
Such a shameful move from OPEC.
Erasing won’t stop the movement.

There’s real hope seeing how Reza Pahlavi, whose name Iranians have been chanting in the streets, is now being invited to major international platforms like the Munich Security Conference and meeting world leaders there, while the islamic regime representatives are being sidelined.

#FreeIran

What maters most from outside Iran is keeping the information flow at highest possible level; show the world the truth and point to all the false AI generated shit from the regime with millions of happy people celebrating - at gunpoint. I would have linked to my latest LI post, but that is of course not allowed here.

Jacob wrote: "What maters most from outside Iran is keeping the information flow at highest possible level; show the world the truth and point to all the false AI generated shit from the regime with millions of ..."

I completely agree.

The Islamic Republic cannot produce a credible narrative, even with the help of AI. The videos they have released are almost laughable to us; they are full of technical flaws and inconsistencies that are obvious even to the naked eye. This level of propaganda no longer works.

Inviting handpicked journalists and relying on sympathetic media outlets does not replace independent reporting. If the regime is telling the truth, why are independent international journalists not allowed to enter Iran freely and report without censorship? Why were the internet and communication lines shut down? Why are there heavy sentences for possessing Starlink?

Despite slow internet and severe repression, the news and videos that people manage to send out (at the risk of their lives) show only a small fraction of what is happening. Numerous videos and reports indicate the killing of children, ongoing executions, violence and rape in prisons, pressure on doctors and hospitals to deny treatment to protesters. Protestors were kidnapped from hospitals and shut in the forehead. These constitute crimes against humanity, the silence or hesitation of most international institutions, and the delays in designating the IRGC as a terrorist organization are difficult to justify while people continue to pay the price. If the regime is truthful, it should welcome independent oversight and investigation instead of blocking the flow of information.

Millions in the streets chanted the name of Reza Pahlavi, demonstrating that there is a leadership and a transition plan. If the West truly stands for human rights, it must listen to the people of Iran and examine lawful mechanisms such as the Responsibility to Protect to prevent further killings and protect civilians.

When unarmed people are shot with military weapons, denying reality only benefits the continuation of violence. This is about human dignity and human lives.

We see it everywhere, the information flow being blocked and only the chosen few being allowed to report, the tame ones.
I thought I had seen it all with the Russian bots celebrating the war on Ukraine, but I see more and more "bot like" profiles cheering for Khamenei, pronouncing him the next best thing after sliced bread.

The updates I get from Iran are like this: "Unfortunately, we are still struggling to secure my brother’s release. The situation is deeply distressing. The court and the judge have not personally reviewed the cases of those arrested or currently in prison. Instead, the judge has issued the same ruling for everyone: 30 days of temporary detention.
After 30 days, some detainees may be released, while others may face a longer period of imprisonment. A number of families have already managed to free their loved ones by paying the requested amounts."

"Today we went to meet my brother in prison, while my father and my other brother went to the court as the previous days since 3 weeks ago and what?
A new dirty game has begun. They say that to secure the release of prisoners, families must pay 3,000,000,000 rials (about €1,800). Otherwise, they are told to wait and see what happens.
We are waiting to see what would happen in the next days as there are many people in prison and I think nobody can afford to pay that amount. Many people are struggling to secure their daily needs and those fucking bastards are playing our young heroes in prison."

"Jacob, Jacob, Jacob,
They are playing a filthy game—one so cruel it’s almost impossible to imagine, let alone believe.
When families go to claim the bodies of their loved ones, they are demanded money—between €2,000 and €10,000—just to receive the corpse.
They even calculate the price of death: €2,000 for every bullet used to kill them."

If you like, you can catch me on Telegram, the "code name" is in my bio.

Jacob wrote: "We see it everywhere, the information flow being blocked and only the chosen few being allowed to report, the tame ones.
I thought I had seen it all with the Russian bots celebrating the war on Ukr..."


Exactly what you described is true. The regime is demanding enormous sums of money from victims’ families in exchange for returning the bodies of their loved ones (essentially charging them for the bullets used to kill them). In the current economic collapse, many families simply cannot afford these amounts.

On top of that, families are pressured or forced into televised confessions, where they are made to say their loved ones — who were killed by the Islamic Republic — were Basij or IRGC members and were “martyred” by people portrayed as foreign-backed agents.

Another serious issue is that in many of the videos circulating, the visible bodies are overwhelmingly male. That raises a disturbing question: what happened to the women? There are widespread reports of sexual violence, and concerns that evidence is being concealed to prevent proof of rape or pregnancy resulting from it. These allegations are not random rumors they come from testimonies and consistent patterns reported by multiple sources.

During the weeks when the regime completely shut down the internet and communication channels, it was not just about “security.” There are credible claims that evidence was being erased documents destroyed, and street and hospital camera footage wiped.

Ordinary people, unarmed and economically crushed, are facing a systematic crackdown. Many are already struggling to survive day to day. Expecting civilians to resist a militarized state under these conditions ignores the reality on the ground.

Exactly the last part is my biggest worry, the IRGC will probably keep their loyalty, but would the ordinary army turn and come to the assistance of a new revolution. Some of them will, but will it be enough.
And about all the evidence - apart from the amount being destroyed by the regime, people are very conscious of keeping their phones clean, not to be caught red-handed carrying evidence.
Even our Telegram chats are set to auto delete for security and what I share around me is rewritten for the same reasons.

I just received response to one of my postings:
دست از طلب ندارم تا کام من برآید
یا تن رسد به جانان یا جان ز تن برآید.