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Borzou Daragahi 🖊🗒 Profile picture
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Nov 21, 2022 • 9 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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Breaking: Iran national football club stand mournfully and refuse to sing national anthem of clerical regime during first match against England at World Cup 2022 in act of protest against Khamenei henchmen’s violence
Better video from @NatalieAmiri shows more clearly the refusal of Iran #TeamMelli to sing national anthem of Islamic regime
Huge risk for these guys. Regime has issued arrest warrants for football legends who have spoken out against it, and has arrested famous actresses just for appearing without hijab in public. How will they be treated when they return to Tehran to a heroes welcome at the airport?
Huge, nasty campaign against these guys by opposition trolls and Saudi-funded media, depicting them as traders even before they had a chance to speak. With this one elegant gesture, these guys made a stand for the integrity of sport and for the ongoing Iranian uprising
*traitors not traders
Iranians booed the country’s national anthem at World Cup match against England, as protesters opposing Iran’s hardline clerical regime demanded “freedom” for women. The players on Iran’s team also refused to sing the national anthem independent.co.uk/news/world/mid…
Final score

England: 6
Iran: 2
Iranian people: ∞
Here’s a screenshot that captures the idea
Watch the video before Fifa deletes it again

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Dec 4, 2022
Iran’s attorney general has made some ambiguous statements that could possibly be construed as an end to the morality police, but may also suggest that judiciary wants to disassociate itself from the institution. Statements cited in press do not equal a change in policy.
Here’s extract from Isna. He is saying the judiciary has nothing to do with the morality police, and its operations were shut down by the same organ that established it. No declaration that it’s been abolished. No real confirmation even operations stopped shorturl.at/cPU68
So amazing how many news outlets are going with the "Iran abolishes morality police" line based on a convoluted quote from one official. In reality morality police have been inactive since protests started, but there is no substantive news on their future.
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Nov 20, 2022
15 dead as Turkey strikes Kurdish rebel groups in Syria and Iraq independent.co.uk/news/world/mid…
Update: Now reporting 31 dead in Turkey strikes on Syria, according to @syriahr
Syrian Kurds fire back at Turkey after air strikes
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Nov 20, 2022
'The regime has set no boundaries for itself in violently fending off an uprising. No act of violence is too extreme, no lie too egregious. The murders are meant to terrify people into staying off the streets. Yet each death prompts more protests.' independent.co.uk/independentpre…
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It’s worth looking at the faces and conduct of these regime agents as they attack university students in Iran’s capital Tehran. Just a bunch of bitter incels twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Nov 8, 2022
Iranian drone used by Russia:

* Made in February 2022
* 76 of parts sourced to US, from 14 American companies

Via @ABC
Just to be clear, even if parts are sourced to US, doesn’t mean US companies sold them. Iran regime is master of sanctions evasion and parts were likely purchased via third parties, shell companies, black market or scrapyards
According to the Ukraine defense ministry, the captured Mohajer-6 drone also included components manufactured in Austria and Japan facebook.com/DefenceIntelli…
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Nov 7, 2022
How did Khamenei rise to power and the Revolutionary Guard win power in Iran? What are the roots of the protest movement now engulfing Iran? Are the regime and its opponents on a collision course? Hear me discuss in @hated_and_dead podcast
Over the years I have tried several times to capture the essence of Khamenei, who is arguably the most influential and least scrutinized leader in the Middle East. He has been in power for 33 years, but not a single real book has been written about him independent.co.uk/news/world/mid…
What's clear is that he had many opportunities to loosen the strict social and political controls that have prompted the uprising that has swept Iran. In each instance he sided with reactionaries. He can pretend he's above the fray, but he's not buzzfeednews.com/article/borzou…
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Nov 6, 2022
Most of Iran's mullahs deserve to have their turbans knocked off their heads or even worse. But humiliating them now is not a good look, and risks hurting an uprising that needs to bolster its ranks by drawing in conservatives. My piece independent.co.uk/independentpre…
Cracks within Iran's elite: Summary of recent critical commentary by regime insiders, mostly moderates, against hardliners who have dragged the country into a crisis without an obvious off-ramp iranintl.com/en/202211078932
These video clips of youth knocking turbans off the heads of clerics have gone viral. They are hilarious, and I keep watching them. But do they help or hurt Iran’s uprising? My piece independent.co.uk/independentpre… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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