Important THREAD⬇️
1-Imagine, you wake up one day to find out that there're posters, a Twitter storm, & threats by officials of Islamic Republic of Iran calling for your kidnapping. How would you feel? I’ll show how this regime uses assassination& hostage diplomacy to silence us
1-Imagine, you wake up one day to find out that there're posters, a Twitter storm, & threats by officials of Islamic Republic of Iran calling for your kidnapping. How would you feel? I’ll show how this regime uses assassination& hostage diplomacy to silence us
2-Do you know why these intimidation campaign started against me? Last Saturday, Islamic Republic said they'd kidnapped an Iranian-American dissident Jamshid Sharmahd, while he was in Tajikistan & showed his pictures in blindfolds. This act provoked them to attack me.
3-Not only the Twitter Storm of Iranian cyber army, but also posters made by official newspapers of the Iranian National Television wrote: “Masih be ready! You’re the next to be kidnapped”
4) Last October, journalist Ruhollah Zam, founder of dissident Telegram channel Amad News was lured to Iraq and kidnapped to Tehran. Last month after a brief show trial, he was sentenced to death. Right after Zam’s arrest, regime allies warned, I’d was the next on their list.
5-Rouhollah Zam & Jamshid Sharmahd were physically in a 3rd country close to Iran. Also, Masoud Molavi, another dissident, was killed in Turkey in 2019. According to a Reuters, 2 intelligence officers at Iran’s consulate in Turkey instigated the killing.
reuters.com/article/us-tur…
reuters.com/article/us-tur…
6-Listen to my innocent brother, Alireza Alinejad, about how the Iranian regime was trying to manipulate my mum & dad to get me kidnapped. If it hadn’t been for Alireza, I'd have been kidnapped or killed in Turkey. 8 years of jail is the price for Alireza for exposing everything
7-In 2018, Denmark accused Islamic Republic of plotting to assassinate opposition activists on its soil. The Dutch government has also accused Tehran of ordering killings of dissidents there.
bbc.com/news/world-eur…
bbc.com/news/world-eur…
8-Some Islamic Republic apologists including some journalists abroad say these murders/kidnappings are part of hardliner’s plot to undermine the "moderate government of Rouhani". But, they conveniently omit to say that Rouhani’s own minister of intelligence admitted to these acts
9-It’s not just me. The regime has declared war on all Iranians who disagree with its rule. It punishes families multiple times – first it kills a family member, and then threatens relatives to be silent or face jail.
10-Remember #Pouya_Bakhtiari who was shot in the head during the November 2019's #IranProtests?. His father Manouchehr Bakhtiari was arrested and jailed again last month for the crime of wanting justice for his son
11-Shahnaz Akmali's son Mostafa Karim-Beigi was shot and killed in #IranProtests. She spent years asking for justice. But the regime threw her in jail too for the sole act of seeking justice for her son's murder.
