Trying to bring context and nuance to a complicated story. Founded in 2008; previously covered #Iran in partnership with @guardian @frontlinepbs
Jan 13 • 22 tweets • 3 min read
1/ Eyewitness accounts from Tehran, Shiraz, Mashhad, and cities along the way. What they describe is not protest but war-like conditions across multiple neighborhoods.
2/ Tehran and Mashhad are described as active battlefields. Firearms, military weapons, and sustained clashes are reported. Shiraz shows similar intensity, with neighborhood-by-neighborhood variations.
Nov 22, 2022 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
1/Sexual assaults on women in Iran are systematic. The methodology goes beyond those reported by @CNN (thank you for taking on the subject). These are crimes against humanity and must be documented THREAD #MahsaAmini
2/This account is from a solid source: On Nov 2 power went out in Chahar-Bagh-e Abbasssi—the whole neighborhood plunged into darkness. There were no protests in the neighborhood prior to the power outage but after the electricity came back on… #MahsaAmini
May 19, 2021 • 17 tweets • 3 min read
Improving Iran coverage: a few thoughts and takeaways from today’s Clubhouse event:
Reporters covering a foreign country should be held to the same standards as reporters covering a domestic beat
