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8 Aug, 3 tweets, 2 min read
Mr Naderi, Before you degrade the opposition, take time to know the leading dissidents. Those criticizing #NYTimesPropaganda include the most principled voices. They’re devoted to truth and have suffered in prison to free Iran. @HosseinRonaghi @MajidTavakolii @SasanAghaei2
Before you categorically defend a journalist and NYT, take time to know criticisms about her reporting and about the paper. NYT Moscow correspondent Duranty was part of Stalin’s propaganda machine, even won a Pulitzer. Today journos like @bariweiss reveal woke censorship at NYT.
Right now these dissidents and others inside Iran are speaking about how the regime’s disinfo and propaganda are propelled in the FreeWorld by even the most respected institutions. Those who deny this have plenty opportunity to dialogue directly with them.
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In @AlArabiya_Eng I note failures of JCPOA & big leverage US now has. Biden admin should lift sanctions on Iran only in exchange for verified improvements in freedom, via Helsinki Accords model. I also offer more policies to foster democratic transition. english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/…
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24 Aug 20
Forgive this long thread. In case of interest, these are my thoughts on the US election--
I've been a strong, outspoken supporter of Trump Iran policy. As someone focused on achieving democracy for my homeland, I see it as more effective & morally just than any before. But...
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25 May 19
Parts of an email I wrote in 2013 to @tparsi, copying those in DC who have since realized we’ve been right all along:

#NAICLobbies4Mullahs —

“How shameful that you purport to represent the will of the Iranian-American people...
...you have] a morally perverse, dishonest propaganda campaign aiming to achieve the one and only mission your so called ‘association’ has ever had: the removal of sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran and a soft, appeasing American foreign policy...
...Rather than educate the Iranian-American community, you intentionally misinform them, preying on their good hearted concern for their loved ones. Criticizing elected officials is a cherished right in the US, but your tactics resemble those of Kayhan's Hossein Shariatmadari...
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8 Mar 19
While Iranian women are braving arrest & violent repression to defy draconian religious dress codes, gender apartheid,& day-to-day humiliations, college campuses have either looked the other way...
#InternationalWomensDay
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or asked us to admire those women who adhere to Islamist norms in defiance of “Westernization.” These ostentatious displays of cross-cultural intersectional tolerance are effectively silencing and denigrating the courageous uprising of women...
denied the most basic freedoms and opportunities, and at a time when American women have never been more free and more able to help less fortunate women in other parts of the world.
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