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Full solidarity with #Iranians. It is their right to protest and they must decide where and against whom.

Protesters in Tehran have chanted calls for the resignation of officials, after Iran admitted it accidentally shot down a Ukrainian passenger plane.
bbc.com/news/av/world-…
Relatives and friends of those who died held a vigil near the Amirkabir University of Technology on Saturday.

Videos uploaded to social media show a crowd gathered, with some chanting for their country's leaders to resign and calling officials "liars". #Iran
Condolences to all who lost loved ones in the downed plane.

And the Trump regime - especially that zealot Pompeo - should shut the fuck up.

This is about #Iranians exercising their right to protest. The US administration doesn’t give a flying fuck about them.
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Mona Eltahawy
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Brittany Smith goes on trial in Alabama on Tuesday, facing life in prison, for killing the man who raped her. How far can abuses women go to protect themselves?
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In Nov. 2019, I asked “How many rapists must we kill before men to stop raping us?” on an episode of an #Australian TV show. That episode has been banned because imagined violence against men is consideee worse than actual violence against women.

“Fighting back against rapists and abusers is a valid legal defense. But women with persuasive self-defense claims continue to be charged with murder.”

That is especially worse for Black women in the US and other women of colour.
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Mona Eltahawy
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Their dismissal of me, as they demand to know why I’m not fighting FGM in Egypt & their use of a gif of a white suffragist being force fed as a stand-in for Egyptian women as a way to appeal to my fight, while ignoring suffragists’ racist exclusion of women of colour! Amazing!
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Mona Eltahawy
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If you’re wondering why “A surprisingly mainstream movement of feminists known as TERFs oppose transgender rights as a symptom of “female erasure,” in Britain, read this:

How British Feminism Became Anti-Trans nytimes.com/2019/02/07/opi…
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Heshmat Alavi
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Jan 12 - Tehran, #Iran
Beheshti University
Students chanting:
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Iranians want change & something new!
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Let's see if the @nytimes, @washingtonpost, @CNN or @MSNBC have the courage to report/broadcast just this one video.
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Elijah J. Magnier
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His trips were known for many. The assassination will not at all affect Iran military and operationally because no one is indispensable.
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#Iran Protests courtesy of the #CIA
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#Iran,
For the second day upper-middle class in Tehran are protesting and asking everyone to close their shops and businesses.
This development will make the regime weaker than before as some parts of the middle class were the supporter of a faction within the establishment.
Protests are spreading and security forces can’t stop them. We may see the end of Islamic Republic of Iran soon if Trump refuses to negotiate with Tehran.
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#RegimechangeinIran
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Thomas van Linge
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