🛑 BREAKING: The first image of President Ebrahim Raisi's helicopter

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

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

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

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

https://twitter.com/1500tasvir/status/1581346212783194112

More photos of Evin Prison on fire via @Vahid
#MahsaAmini

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.

📱 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?

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?
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