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Nov 7, 2022 • 6 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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As the protests in Iran continue, there's a trend of clerical "turban throwing" #عمامه_پرانی‌

Iranians are uploading videos of themselves knocking off or stealing a cleric's turban and (usually) running away.

(Song is Toomaj Salehi’s "Rathole")
#MahsaAmini
The video of the Iranian woman knocking a turban off has a lot of fan art #MahsaAmini #عمامه_پرانی‌ ImageImage
This meme says:

"Each turban has 6-11 meters of fabric. If you bring them with you, from each turban comes at least 20 Molotov cocktails." #MahsaAmini #عمامه_پرانی‌ Image
There's now a Twitter spoof account for the "Iran (Turban) Throw Federation" @iatf_official

They have announced a contest with categories: Solo Dash... Formula 1 (Turban) Grab & Throw 😆

#عمامه_پرانی #MahsaAmini Image
The Iran (Turban) Throw Foundation’s “International (Turban) Throw 2022” categorized by city 🙈#عمامه_پرانی #MahsaAmini
Protect your turban from coming off with the “Turban helmet”… Sold at a mosque near you. #عمامه_پرانی #MahsaAmini Image

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May 20
🛑 BREAKING: The first image of President Ebrahim Raisi's helicopter
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State media interview with search and rescue mission head says they're two kilometers from the scene of the crash and that the "condition isn't good," referring to the helicopter
Video of Iranian Red Crescent driving to the scene of the crash
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Mar 1, 2023
Young women, members of Iranian Gen Z, led the protests in Iran.

Now they're being deliberately poisoned at schools across various cities in Iran (700+) to take revenge and prevent them from attending. At least one already died.

This is a hospital in Tehran today. #MahsaAmini
Parents chant outside a school in Iran (unclear where): "Death to the child-killing regime! Death to the dictator!"

One woman yells, "Enough is enough! We have to rise up... Or else they'll take us one by one to the hospital," referring to poisonings. #MahsaAmini
This is outside an elementary school in Narmak, a Tehran suburb. The students have been poisoned at this school and a high school nearby. Very worried parents have gathered to learn of their child's health.

Fight breaks out as parents chant, "Dishonorable!" #MahsaAmini
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Oct 15, 2022
Activist collective @1500tasvir is reporting that the notorious Evin Prison in Tehran is on fire.

This prison houses political prisoners and foreign/dual nationals.
#MahsaAmini
More photos of Evin Prison on fire via @Vahid
#MahsaAmini
Sounds of gunshots and chants of "death to the dictator" heard as Evin Prison burns.

The narrator says the prisoners are on the rooftop of the prison. #MahsaAmini via @Vahid
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Sep 25, 2022
I’ve been researching Iranian Generation Z (Gen Z) for almost a year now.

Known as the 1380s generation in the Iranian calendar, Iranian Zoomers are frustrated/angry with the status quo and aren't afraid to say it online and push outside the red lines of the IRI. 🧵
It’s no surprise that the nationwide protests prompted by #MahsaAmini’s murder are led by this generation.

Iranian Gen Z have grown up with satellite dishes and (heavily filtered) social media and Internet at their fingertips, which they use circumvention tools to bypass.
Iranian Zoomers, like Gen Z everywhere, are digital natives and are part of this truly globalized generation.

Thanks to information and communications technology, they're able to see how the rest of the world lives and naturally, have the same wants and needs.
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Sep 23, 2022
📱 Internet freedom activists and researchers—myself included—have been pushing the administrations of Donald Trump and Joe Biden for YEARS to update/issue a General License D-2 to help the Iranian people.

(I made a rec in my report in Jan) #Mahsa_Amini atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-resea…
What this says is that when the US government wants to get something done, it's possible. And from what I heard, they even pulled OFAC folks from holiday to make this exemption happen.

But Iran has had protests on and off since December 2017 - January 2018. So why now?
Perhaps because of the viral nature of the current protests which caught the world's attention. Everyone is laser-focused on what's happening in Iran from celebrities to ordinary Americans.

"Keyboard activism" can sometimes seem pointless, but it was successful in this case.
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Sep 8, 2020
The Trump administration's "maximum pressure" policy is a maximum failure thus far...

Here's why ⬇️
"Iran must end its proliferation of ballistic missiles and halt further launching or development of nuclear-capable missile systems."

Oh yeah?
aljazeera.com/news/2020/08/i…
"Iran must release all US citizens, as well as citizens of our partners and allies, each of them detained on spurious charges."

Hmm... bbc.co.uk/news/uk-540768…
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