In 1979, Khomeini seized power by using cassette tapes to foment a revolution with fiery sermons. In 2022, Iran’s TikTok generation defeat the tyranny of the mullahs by winning the gif wars.
🧶with gifs that show the revolution has penetrated into mainstream consciousness.
This is @AlinejadMasih. The government of Iran wants to kill her but she is immortalized here in just one example of her beautiful, righteous rage.
The government of Iran would like to erase the memory of #Mahsa_Amini but she too is immortalized in death as a symbol of innocence extinguished, her image carried now by others who are her voice on earth.
Search “hijab” in gifs and you get messages like: “Hijab is empowering.” Search “hijab and Iran” and you get videos from protests like this that show how the hijab, which means “separation” in the Quran, not headscarf, is a construct of the regime to be defeated.
Search “Iranian women” in gifs and you get this fierce, joyous girl. This is a symbol of resistance, not defeat. These gifs are modern-day war posters, like the kind used in WWII to defeat Nazism. Do share them. Why? THIS is soft power. @MichelleObama @pahlavi_noor @IranianFJHR
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