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3 May, 4 tweets, 2 min read
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 To @SecBlinken
I was saddened to note that on World Press Freedom day, you refrained from condemning the Islamic Republic of Iran's egregious violations of press freedom and instead focused on Turkey, China, Egypt & Russia as jailers of journalists. This is unacceptable
2-Last year, the Islamic republic kidnapped Ruhollah Zam from Iraq to Iran where he was executed. Zam's crime was to expose corruption in Iran as part of his work as a journalist. He was innocent
3-According to World Press Freedom Index of @RSF_inter,IRI has one of the most repressive environments for journalists ranking 174 out of 180 countries. Journalists are routinely arrested, forced to make false confessions, are exposed to physical abuse & forced to live in exile.
4-As an Iranian-American journalist myself, I have received death threats from Islamic Republic officials. The regime even planned to lure me to Turkey to abduct me to Iran and finally they took my brother hostage. Your silence is not acceptable.
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Does this child look like a mobster?
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1-Look at these human faces. They're #Baluchi
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They're part and parcel of what you call ordinary Iranians. They were shot while trying to feed their families Image
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1-I urgently call on @ukhomeoffice, @Pritipatel to investigate @MohajeraniSayed, a former official of the Islamic Republic who not only supports the fatwa against Salman Rushdie, but has also hailed an assassin as “a hero” attempting to kill an Iranian dissident in France
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خطاب به سمیرا زرگری:
چقدر این خواسته‌ی شما از حکومت شرم‌آور است.
مگر چه فرقی بین شما و زنان عادی سرزمین‌مان وجود دارد که شما نیز همانند ابتکار و مولاوردی خود را تافته‌ی جدا بافته می‌دانید و مثل آنها فقط خواستار تغییر قانون ممنوع‌الخروحی مربوط به هم‌صنف‌های خودت میشوی؟
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خانم سمیرا زرگری! وقتی شما ممنوع الخروج شدی، زنان معمولی برایت جنگیدند، حالا چگونه میتوانی فقط برای حق خودت بجنگی و به قانون‌گذار واپسگرای کشور بگویی حداقل قانون مربوط به ممنوع‌الخروجی ورزشکاران را اصلاح کن؟
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