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I began last Monday by starting a memoir called "Unveiled". The book has been so engrossing that this week will go down in my personal history as the @YasMohammedxx week!

There was not a single page that didn't deliver a blow or let the tension rest.
To think that so many people worked so hard at breaking her is devastating. To see that they all failed is entirely uplifting. As long as there are fierce women like Yasmine in the world, there's hope for all of us. Here's to her dream of #FreeFromHijab and ...
here's to her courageous book, which everyone wondering about the next chapter of global #Feminism must read: amazon.com/Unveiled-Weste…
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1-This is an exclusive video from @AlinejadMasih’s brother, just before he was arrested. In it, he reveals that the Islamic Republic of Iran authorities had officially offered 70 million Tomans to his family, if only they would bring Masih to Turkey to visit with them.
2-When Masih’s mother hears the offer, she recognizes that the figure, being so steep, must be “blood money” and the family realizes that it was a trap to kidnap and take her to Iran.
3-It was a bait like the one offered to Rouhollah Zam, the editor in chief of Amad News. Zam traveled to Iraq last year. The offer brought him out of the safety of France, and into Iraq from where he was kidnapped and brought back to Iran. He’s now awaiting his execution.
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1) I’m a proud signatory of #theLetter published in #Harpers, calling for justice and open debate.

Some have dismissed it as a statement by a “privileged” few. The term privileged does, indeed, apply to me, though I’m not white, nor Christian, nor a man.
2) In the spirit of “what doesn’t break me, makes me stronger”, here are my privileges: I was a Jew & a woman under the #Antisemitic & misogynistic regime in my beloved #Iran. I've the privilege of coming of age in the revolutionary era, witnessing the rise of #Authoritarianism.
3) As the statues were pulled off their pedestals by euphoric crowds, and the streets were renamed, women lost their rights, all in the name of assuring their “well-being.”

Every act of dissent was repressed in the name of the nation’s “safety”.
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Senator Tom Cotton's op-ed for the @NYTimes was explosive and caused a senior editor, James Bennet, to resign for running a “non-factual” piece. But, other politicians, such as Iran’s Foreign Minister, have never had their non-factual pieces so severely scrutinized.

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1-On June 3, Senator Tom Cotton wrote an op-ed in which he said the military should have the authority to quell “rioters and looters”. Whether readers agree or disagree with Cotton, they all understand that they’re merely reading an opinion.
2-But, a senior editor, James Bennet, was forced to resign for running a “non-factual” piece. If facts have always been a standard for NYTimes op-eds, I wonder why Iran’s Foreign Minister, Javad Zarif, has been allowed to publish non-factual opinions.
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