Like millions of Iranians I listened to Prime minister @netanyahu 2nd address to the Iranian people. While many Iranians appreciate the encouraging words and the clear distinction between Khamenei’s Regime and the Iranian people, I think there are still major points that are lost in translation.
Here is a Thread 🧵 to unpack 10 of our major concerns
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Here is a Thread 🧵 to unpack 10 of our major concerns
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THE MONEY
PM @netanyahu speaks of “2.3 billion dollars of Iranian people’s money” that is stolen by the regime and spent on wars.
But It is not just the money of the IRANIAN people that is wasted on war and terror. It is also the money of foreign, especially WESTERN investors and conglomerates, that make the bulk of multi-billion-dollars that has kept the regime in power for 45 years and crushed the people of Iran, the entire Middle East, and threatened Europe and America.
Beginning in the early 1980s, #Europe and #America have treated the leaders of the terrorist regime like BUSINESS partners despite the attacks by its militias against Americans, French and other Western allies.
In June 2009 President @BarackObama opened a dialogue with the head of the regime and in 2014-2015 his administration signed the ominous deal that released $150,000,000 to the regime.
Just before October 7th the #Biden-Harris’s administration sent $6 billion dollars to #Qatari banks to be transferred to the #IRGCterrorists, which fueled the massacre of 1,200 innocent Israelis on October 7 by #Hamas.
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PM @netanyahu speaks of “2.3 billion dollars of Iranian people’s money” that is stolen by the regime and spent on wars.
But It is not just the money of the IRANIAN people that is wasted on war and terror. It is also the money of foreign, especially WESTERN investors and conglomerates, that make the bulk of multi-billion-dollars that has kept the regime in power for 45 years and crushed the people of Iran, the entire Middle East, and threatened Europe and America.
Beginning in the early 1980s, #Europe and #America have treated the leaders of the terrorist regime like BUSINESS partners despite the attacks by its militias against Americans, French and other Western allies.
In June 2009 President @BarackObama opened a dialogue with the head of the regime and in 2014-2015 his administration signed the ominous deal that released $150,000,000 to the regime.
Just before October 7th the #Biden-Harris’s administration sent $6 billion dollars to #Qatari banks to be transferred to the #IRGCterrorists, which fueled the massacre of 1,200 innocent Israelis on October 7 by #Hamas.
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THE CLOSED EYES
The people of Iran do not need to “close their eyes and imagine” how their life would be without the Islamic oppressive Regime.
The eyes of Iranians were wide open for 45 years, screaming this vision into the world . People like my father #JimmySharmahd had big visions for a free Iran. The regime blindfolded and kidnapped him, and closed his eyes for ever.
Thousands of Iranians took to the streets with this vision and the world watched how the regime shot out their eyes.
It is not the Iranian people that lack the vision of #freedom in Iran; it is the world that turns a collective blind eye and pressed the snooze button on the Khomeinist Jihadist threat.
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The people of Iran do not need to “close their eyes and imagine” how their life would be without the Islamic oppressive Regime.
The eyes of Iranians were wide open for 45 years, screaming this vision into the world . People like my father #JimmySharmahd had big visions for a free Iran. The regime blindfolded and kidnapped him, and closed his eyes for ever.
Thousands of Iranians took to the streets with this vision and the world watched how the regime shot out their eyes.
It is not the Iranian people that lack the vision of #freedom in Iran; it is the world that turns a collective blind eye and pressed the snooze button on the Khomeinist Jihadist threat.
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THE FORCES OF EVIL
There is not just “ONE single force that is putting the lives of Iranians in danger”. I wish it was just the Regime, the people of Iran would have kicked them out a long time ago. But it is not just the Islamic regime. We give them too much credit, they could not do it on their own.
It is the network of bankers and brokers that are right now as we speak trying to influence and penetrate the @realDonaldTrump Transition circles to "facilitate" new “deals” and “negotiations” to continue billion-dollar trades that will be used to crush Iranians, Israelis, and Middle Eastern communities, again and again.
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There is not just “ONE single force that is putting the lives of Iranians in danger”. I wish it was just the Regime, the people of Iran would have kicked them out a long time ago. But it is not just the Islamic regime. We give them too much credit, they could not do it on their own.
It is the network of bankers and brokers that are right now as we speak trying to influence and penetrate the @realDonaldTrump Transition circles to "facilitate" new “deals” and “negotiations” to continue billion-dollar trades that will be used to crush Iranians, Israelis, and Middle Eastern communities, again and again.
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THE ISLAMIST COUP
When we hear statements such as “Every day the regime gets weaker and every day Israel gets stronger” it reminds us of the 1970s, during the Cold War era.
Every day the Soviet Union was getting weaker, and Western Nations got stronger, including the biggest Middle-Eastern ally of the West, the government of #Iran.
But what happened?
The Western powers, the US, UK, France, and Germany, sold Iran to the jihadists. They flew in #Khomeini on an Air France plane, accepted the Ayatollah’s establishment of an Islamic Regime in Iran, and let them not only suppress and destroy our nation but build a proxy network that has costing the lives of all middle eastern people and transnational repression around the globe.
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When we hear statements such as “Every day the regime gets weaker and every day Israel gets stronger” it reminds us of the 1970s, during the Cold War era.
Every day the Soviet Union was getting weaker, and Western Nations got stronger, including the biggest Middle-Eastern ally of the West, the government of #Iran.
But what happened?
The Western powers, the US, UK, France, and Germany, sold Iran to the jihadists. They flew in #Khomeini on an Air France plane, accepted the Ayatollah’s establishment of an Islamic Regime in Iran, and let them not only suppress and destroy our nation but build a proxy network that has costing the lives of all middle eastern people and transnational repression around the globe.
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THE FEAR
The PM is correct when he says to the Iranians “The regime fears you”. We agree and have said for decades that the regime fears no one, not #Europe, not #America, not even #Israel. They are only terrified of the people of Iran.
How do we know that?
We have witnessed how the bankers and brokers of the billion-dollar Western deals with the Ayatollahs will use their lobby groups (#IranExpertsInitiative) in the West to pressure and constrain Israel as they have tried since October 7th.
They will use their infiltrated think tanks to distract Western nations with #nuclear threats just to buy their way back to appeasement policies, lift sanctions, and prop up the regime.
Do you know who cannot be bought? The people of Iran. They have proven with their blood for 45 years that they rather stand up empty-handed to the guns and bullets of the regime and risk death rather than live under their brutal oppression.
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The PM is correct when he says to the Iranians “The regime fears you”. We agree and have said for decades that the regime fears no one, not #Europe, not #America, not even #Israel. They are only terrified of the people of Iran.
How do we know that?
We have witnessed how the bankers and brokers of the billion-dollar Western deals with the Ayatollahs will use their lobby groups (#IranExpertsInitiative) in the West to pressure and constrain Israel as they have tried since October 7th.
They will use their infiltrated think tanks to distract Western nations with #nuclear threats just to buy their way back to appeasement policies, lift sanctions, and prop up the regime.
Do you know who cannot be bought? The people of Iran. They have proven with their blood for 45 years that they rather stand up empty-handed to the guns and bullets of the regime and risk death rather than live under their brutal oppression.
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THE COST OF DREAMS
The regime has not only “crushed our hopes or curbed our dreams” it has spilled our blood and murdered our courageous freedom fighters.
When the people of Iran hear “Don’t let your dreams die” they would beg you pardon, it’s not our dreams that die, it’s the most courageous and dearest to our hearts that are assassinated in cold blood every single day.
My dad #JamshidSharmahd, was just reportedly executed on October 28th in retaliation for his decade-long advocacy for freedom movements in Iran and as a public response of the regime following the Israeli counter-strikes. My dad’s dreams are the dreams of millions of Iranians. They can’t kill our dreams. But they are killing us, one by one, while we keep on fighting alone. So far, no one in this world has the courage to protect us.
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The regime has not only “crushed our hopes or curbed our dreams” it has spilled our blood and murdered our courageous freedom fighters.
When the people of Iran hear “Don’t let your dreams die” they would beg you pardon, it’s not our dreams that die, it’s the most courageous and dearest to our hearts that are assassinated in cold blood every single day.
My dad #JamshidSharmahd, was just reportedly executed on October 28th in retaliation for his decade-long advocacy for freedom movements in Iran and as a public response of the regime following the Israeli counter-strikes. My dad’s dreams are the dreams of millions of Iranians. They can’t kill our dreams. But they are killing us, one by one, while we keep on fighting alone. So far, no one in this world has the courage to protect us.
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THE NOISE
We have never “whispered Woman Life Freedom”, we have screamed it into the world. But when jihadists launch noise, decoys and destruction, our screams are perceived as whispers.
When we screamed #CutTheRope there is an execution wave as over 1000 Iranian dissidents were massacred and hanged since last year, where was the outrage and protection of the Western world?
Why did no one save the 178 brave Iranians who were just lynched by the regime and hung from cranes this October?
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We have never “whispered Woman Life Freedom”, we have screamed it into the world. But when jihadists launch noise, decoys and destruction, our screams are perceived as whispers.
When we screamed #CutTheRope there is an execution wave as over 1000 Iranian dissidents were massacred and hanged since last year, where was the outrage and protection of the Western world?
Why did no one save the 178 brave Iranians who were just lynched by the regime and hung from cranes this October?
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THE ANCIENT BOND
We know the people of #Israel stand with the people of Iran, and the people of #Iran stand with the people of Israel. The bond between our two peoples is as old as time, and it takes more than jihadist caliphates to break that. But we need more than encouragement. We need protection.
Where are the world leaders that can vow to help us build the new Middle East, starting from the heart of #Iran to #Lebanon, #Syria, #Iraq, #Afghanistan, #Yemen, and beyond? Will we, once again, settle for temporary peace and stability? Until the next massacre?
There will never be a real “future of prosperity and peace” if we don’t achieve FREEDOM from jihadist onslaught in the Middle East. Freedom means to understand that the leaders of the Islamic Regime are not the “rulers OF Tehran” they are oppressors IN Tehran.
They are as foreign and hostile to the Iranian people as #Hezbollah is to Lebanon and #Hamas is to the land of Canaan.
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We know the people of #Israel stand with the people of Iran, and the people of #Iran stand with the people of Israel. The bond between our two peoples is as old as time, and it takes more than jihadist caliphates to break that. But we need more than encouragement. We need protection.
Where are the world leaders that can vow to help us build the new Middle East, starting from the heart of #Iran to #Lebanon, #Syria, #Iraq, #Afghanistan, #Yemen, and beyond? Will we, once again, settle for temporary peace and stability? Until the next massacre?
There will never be a real “future of prosperity and peace” if we don’t achieve FREEDOM from jihadist onslaught in the Middle East. Freedom means to understand that the leaders of the Islamic Regime are not the “rulers OF Tehran” they are oppressors IN Tehran.
They are as foreign and hostile to the Iranian people as #Hezbollah is to Lebanon and #Hamas is to the land of Canaan.
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THE REVOLUTION
To any leaders of democratic nations that stand for freedom, peace, and prosperity, the Iranian people appreciate your public calls, but would strongly suggest to consider recommendations produced by the co-president of our platform #EducateAmerica Dr @WalidPhares to assemble the largest regional and international coalitions to further the following goals:
1. We are asking the leaders of democratic nations to lead an international coalition to isolate the Islamic Regime in Iran, modeled after the US led #WarsawCoalition of 2019, which was successful under ambassador #BrianHook in gathering more than 60 countries at the time to set the legal, political and economic processes of isolation, as one way to pressure the regime to stop its oppression of the people of Iran and to cut the transfer of money to the regime.
2. We suggest to launch the international task force on hostages to combine the leverage of all countries, whose citizens have been kidnapped, killed, or held hostage by the Islamic regime or its proxies, to join forces in a global #HostageTaskForce to facilitate combined pressures on the regime and its proxies.
3. To reinforce the alliance of the Iranian, Israeli and middle eastern peoples via setting up a Coalition of Diaspora based partnership including lawmakers, NGOs and community leaders, similar to the #TransatlanticCoalitions that united European and American members of legislative assemblies, all focusing on containing the expansion of the Khomeinist regime and its allies.
Any nation that leads these actions is acting in the interest of the Iranian people and our allies through the Middle East and the world.
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To any leaders of democratic nations that stand for freedom, peace, and prosperity, the Iranian people appreciate your public calls, but would strongly suggest to consider recommendations produced by the co-president of our platform #EducateAmerica Dr @WalidPhares to assemble the largest regional and international coalitions to further the following goals:
1. We are asking the leaders of democratic nations to lead an international coalition to isolate the Islamic Regime in Iran, modeled after the US led #WarsawCoalition of 2019, which was successful under ambassador #BrianHook in gathering more than 60 countries at the time to set the legal, political and economic processes of isolation, as one way to pressure the regime to stop its oppression of the people of Iran and to cut the transfer of money to the regime.
2. We suggest to launch the international task force on hostages to combine the leverage of all countries, whose citizens have been kidnapped, killed, or held hostage by the Islamic regime or its proxies, to join forces in a global #HostageTaskForce to facilitate combined pressures on the regime and its proxies.
3. To reinforce the alliance of the Iranian, Israeli and middle eastern peoples via setting up a Coalition of Diaspora based partnership including lawmakers, NGOs and community leaders, similar to the #TransatlanticCoalitions that united European and American members of legislative assemblies, all focusing on containing the expansion of the Khomeinist regime and its allies.
Any nation that leads these actions is acting in the interest of the Iranian people and our allies through the Middle East and the world.
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