#Iranian Revolution

[shootfighting]

"Someone's crime was dancing with her hair in the wind. Someone's crime was that he or she was brave and criticized... 44 years of your government. It's the year of failure." Toomaj Salehi, "Faal"

Toomaj Salehi has been condemned to death for criticising the Iranian regime, please be his voice before it is too late! If you have twitter use the tags #FreeToomaj and #ToomajSalehi

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

[guerillas-of-history]

IRAN. Tehran. 1979. Iranian armed rebels during the Islamic revolution.

Photograph: Unknown

[animatejournal]

Persepolis Directors: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud France/Iran, 2007

[loneranger0369]

Hi....

This News came out at the end of November, but I couldn't share it with you guys (due to Laziness. I'm sorry)....

News

Farideh Moradkhani, the niece of Islamic Republic’s "Supreme" Leader, calls on international community to support Iranians. She compares her uncle to Hitler and Mussolini. She says Iranians will overthrow the Islamic Republic.

She was then arrested.

It checks out. She is indeed a Niece of Khamenei.

I have shared the (link to the youtube) Video here...

Edit- The Morality Police did not get disbanded. It was just Propaganda by the West, that s*cks Khamenei D*ck....

Shame on them.

Well. Shame on me.

Fool me once, shame on me......

Please share.

Please reblog.

Freedom for Iran.

Women. Life. Freedom

[belle-keys]

10 book recommendations for if you like Persian culture or Iranian history

Here's another book recommendations post! Please note that I myself am not Persian nor have I ever even been to Iran. These are just some books by Iranian or Iranian-American writers that I enjoyed.

The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali

- historical fiction, historical romance, based on the 1950s Mossadegh coup, broke my heart into a million pieces, beautiful story, love it

Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

- memoir, set between the 70s-90s in Tehran, examines the role of literature and art and censorship in revolution, very feminist work

Jasmine Zumideh Needs a Win by Susan Azim Boyer

- YA set in 1979, based around the Revolution and the American media's coverage of it, coming of age story with Iranian-American fmc

They Said They Wanted Revolution by Neda Toloui-Semnani

- memoir, set in the time way before and during the Revolution, about the memoirist's parents roles in the Revolution, super powerful book

An Emotion of Great Delight by Tahereh Mafi

- YA set after 9/11, Iranian-American fmc dealing with her faith and Islamophobia and family, coming of age story, sad and profound

Darius the Great Is Not Okay by Adim Khorram

- YA contemporary, persian mc goes to iran and discovers his roots, explores zoroastrianism in Iran, mental health emphasis, pretty funny ngl

The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

- graphic novel memoir, relative of the Shah recounts the Revolution as experienced by women and girls in a rapidly changing Iran

The Woman Who Read Too Much by Bahíyyih Nakhjavání

- set in 19th century Iran, about a mystical poetess who has the power of prophecy, themes of mysticism, very lyrical storytelling

The Essential Rumi by Rumi

- poetry, collection of Iran's greatest poet's works, lots of Sufi mysticism and beautiful poems about love and spirituality and the self

This Woven Kingdom by Tahereh Mafi

- YA fantasy, set in a fantasy world inspired by ancient Persia and is a retelling of the Shahnahmeh, there's romance and action

[deadpresidents]

Since these questions were sent at about the same time, I'm going to answer them together in the same post.

There's actually a great book that came out in 2020 about the geopolitical rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran that really heated up following the Islamic Revolution in Iran that overthrew the Shah in 1979 in favor of the theocracy of the Ayatollah Khomeini: Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East by Kim Ghattas (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO). It's one of the better books that I've read in the past few years and the ideal book to pick up if you're interested in the two most powerful Islamic nations of the Middle East.

Another good book that focuses on both countries is Andrew Scott Cooper's 2012 book The Oil Kings: How the U.S., Iran, and Saudi Arabia Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO).

SAUDI ARABIA (I've read A LOT of books about Saudi Arabia over the past few years, so I could go on-and-on, but I'll try to limit myself to just a few recommendations!) •The Kingdom: Arabia and the House of Sa'ud by Robert Lacey (BOOK | AUDIO) •Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists, and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia by Robert Lacey (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •Ibn Saud: The Desert Warrior Who Created the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by Barbara Bray and Michael Darlow (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •The Siege of Mecca: The 1979 Uprising at Islam's Holiest Shrine by Yaroslav Trofimov (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •Saudi Arabia in the Nineteenth Century by R. Bayly Winder •King Faisal of Saudi Arabia: Personality, Faith and Times by Alexei Vassiliev (BOOK | KINDLE) •Kings and Presidents: Saudi Arabia and the United States Since FDR by Bruce Riedel (BOOK | KINDLE)

IRAN •The Fall of Heaven: The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran by Andrew Scott Cooper (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present by John Ghazvinian (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •The Iran-Iraq War by Pierre Razoux (BOOK | KINDLE) •A History of Iran: Empire of the Mind by Michael Axworthy (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •Iran: A Modern History by Abbas Amanat (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror by Stephen Kinzer (BOOK | KINDLE) •Guests of the Ayatollah: The Iran Hostage Crisis: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam by Mark Bowden (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran by David Crist (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

I'll stop there for now. I could list scores of books because I'm fascinated by the history of both countries, their place in the world, and their relations with one another and with the United States. I probably read a lot more about Saudi Arabia and Iran -- and their leaders -- than most people would expect. So I have even more suggestions if you need them...but hopefully this is a good start!

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Ellen Ioanes at Vox:

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi died Sunday in a helicopter crash, a shocking turn of events that immediately raised questions about the Islamic Republic’s future.  In the short term, Raisi’s passing is unlikely to alter the direction of Iran’s politics. But it does remove one possible successor to 85-year-old Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

In the long term, Raisi’s unexpected death may prove more consequential. The question of Khamenei’s succession is increasingly urgent because of his advanced age. Though Iran’s president can be influential in setting policy, the Supreme Leader is the real seat of power, controlling the judiciary, foreign policy, and elections. Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian’s helicopter made a hard landing sometime on Sunday in Iran’s mountainous northwest, where weather conditions made travel difficult and dangerous. Iranian state media announced the deaths of the two politicians and six others onboard, including three crew members, on Monday after rescue teams finally reached the crash site. The deaths of both Raisi and Amirabdollahian come at a time of internal and external challenges for the Iranian regime. A harsh crackdown after the widespread protests of 2022 and significant economic problems domestically have eroded the regime’s credibility with the Iranian people. Internationally, Iran is embroiled in a bitter regional conflict with Israel as well as a protracted fight with the US over its nuclear program.

In the near term, the first vice president, Mohammad Mokhber, will be the acting president as the country prepares to hold elections within the next 50 days as dictated by its constitution. (The Iranian government includes vice presidencies overseeing different government agencies, similar to US Cabinet-level secretaries; the first vice president is roughly equivalent to the US vice president.) Raisi was considered a potential successor to Khamenei, having already been vetted by the ruling clerics during his 2021 presidential run and having been committed to the regime’s conservative policies. With his death, amid one of the regime’s most challenging periods, Iran’s long-term future is a little less certain.

Within Iran, succession is the biggest question 

A hardline conservative cleric, Raisi always wore a black turban symbolizing his descent from the prophet Muhammad. His close relationship with the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) fueled speculation that he could succeed Khamenei. The paramilitary force exerts significant sway over internal politics and also wields influence throughout the broader region through aligned groups and proxy forces in Iraq and Syria, as well as Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, and Hamas in Gaza.  Raisi was initially elected in 2021 with 62 percent of the vote, though turnout was only 49 percent — the lowest ever in the history of the Islamic Republic, evidence of the crisis of legitimacy in which the government increasingly finds itself. “People don’t want to legitimate the government by participating in what they consider either fraudulent or just non-representative political outcomes,” Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, Walter H. Annenberg professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania, told Vox. 

Throughout his judicial career, Raisi is alleged to be responsible for or implicated in some of the government’s most brutal repression and human rights abuses since the 1979 revolution, including serving on the so-called Death Committee, which was tasked with carrying out thousands of extrajudicial executions of political prisoners in the 1980s. During and after the Iran-Iraq war, there were a number of groups opposed to the regime, as well as supporters of the Iraqi position and even an attempt to attack Iran from Iraq. In order to preserve the Islamic Republic’s legitimacy, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ordered a sweeping purge of the opposition; many of the dissidents who were arrested were chosen for execution arbitrarily.

Following the disputed 2009 election — which birthed the Green Movement, the most significant threat to the regime in decades — Raisi, then a high-level member of the judiciary, called for the punishment and even execution of people involved in the movement. And as president, he helped oversee the violent backlash to the Woman, Life, Freedom movement that erupted following the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman arrested by the morality police for allegedly wearing her hijab improperly. Raisi’s unpopularity due to his repressive past and worsening living standards for ordinary Iranians had helped further erode the government’s legitimacy, which may affect the upcoming presidential contest.

With the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi via a plane crash, it could have long-term effects, as Ayatollah Ali Khameini could be nearing the doorstep of death and succession plans to succeed him have been thrown into chaos.

[azural83]

The way the news about the morality police being shut down was simply the government's way of distracting people to make them stop paying attention but some people just believed it without doing any sort of research💀-

I thought we already got over the "don't believe everything you read on the Internet"

Especially not something related to human rights violations

[workersolidarity]

🇮🇷 U.S.-MADE IRANIAN F-14 TOMCAT REFUELING IN MID-AIR

(In case any viewers are unfamiliar with this history, when Iran had its revolution in 1978-1979, a full force of American-made fighter jets, armored vehicles and other military assets were inhereted by the new government and the planes incorporated into its air force.)

@WorkerSolidarityNews

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Of its many failures, social media is let down by the speed of its news cycle, and the fickleness of its followers.

We’ve all seen it happen…

A flash-in-the-pan story blows up overnight, catches fire, and captures the eyes and ears of the online world.

A groundswell arrives, ‘this is it’ you hear, whispered, and then as fast as it arrived… it’s gone. Nothing changes.

All that knee-taking, and placard waving.

All that chest beating, and fist shaking.

All those buckets of icy water dumped on heads, and black squares slapped onto Instagram feeds.

The endless clapping, and clattering of pans on doorsteps.

After all of it; the performative grandstanding and slack-tivism… and nothing.

So we look around, blinkered, confused and deflated, shuffling home like a washed-out trip head, coming down from last night’s high.

The words we yelled are a rapidly fading dream, to be wound up, stored away and cringed over, in years to come.

The party is packed down, but don’t worry, the next ‘this is it’ moment is right around the corner.

Two years ago, we saw scenes of historic bravery and sacrifice in Iran, we saw strength, unity and heartbreaking loss.

We saw the familiar response from social media, and heard the same promises made, as they always are.

And again, nothing.

But Iran never stopped, and the revolution rolls on, quieter now, and away from the watchful eyes of the world.

The ‘women-lead revolution’ and the colossal sacrifice it’s built upon, falls on the deaf ears of fair-weather activism, too busy indulging in its next great battle.

But we cannot afford for Iran, and the thousands killed, to be consigned to the history books, or forgotten about, as tomorrow’s chip paper.

Because the violence continues none the less, and the deaths stack up.

So why is nobody talking about Iran?

And does it need our help now, more than ever?

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Annual Report: https://iranhr.net/media/files/Iran_Human_Rights-Annual_Report_2023.pdf

Iran: https://www.iranintl.com/en/202405032382

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I've often thought about Iran and the - qualified, frequently rejecting the notion it has anything to do with Islam - Western support for the protesters in their fight against the regime, especially in comparison to the present-day Western support for the regime and their Hamas agents in Gaza.

But inevitably come away feeling guilty I couldn't find out much of what's going on. I suppose I imagined it died out, just as the coverage did. It's impressive that they've kept going but distressing that the barbarism of the regime is actively being ignored by the Western news cycle, given how calculated and malevolent the executions are.

[haykhighland]

My father’s last photo of his bedroom in Tehran, prior to fleeing after the revolution.

remnants pt 1

[intensepokerface]

The world is seriously so fucked up that every time I even attempt to write something about Iran, I feel embarrassed. Like I wanna write about how Iranians are protesting when just kilometers away, in Afghanistan, girls aren’t allowed to go to school. When they’re getting raped and murdered by ISIS. I wanna write but then I remeber that Afghans are literally dying of hunger, when I remember that Syria is under fire, when I remember that Russia is still attacking Ukraine, when I remember that Palestinians are dying everyday and no one gives a shit.

But you know what? You know what’s really fucking interesting? The fact that all these events have something in common. And no it’s not the US (not saying they’re not involved or anything) and no it’s not Britain; it’s the fucking IRI.

The Islamic government of Iran has, for decades, been fucking things up in the middle east. And sure they have help from the US and Russia because what they’re doing benefits everybody at the top. They fuck up and all those big guys get a piece of the pie.

They have been funding ISIS and Taliban and at the same time sending troops to Syria and Palestine “to help end terrorism”.

They are killing their own people, supporting Putin and Russia and meddling in the politics of every country in the Middle East.

IRI isn’t just a problem for Iranians. Countries and their politics affect eachother. There is no fucked up nation that is not also ruining the lives of people in other countries. IRI is a problem for the entire world and with their demise so many other problems will also probably die down or become a lot less severe.

The big powers in the world don’t want Iran to be rid of this regime, it’s not good for them. Financially or in any other way. News will get warped, there will be no reports, there will be no help, they will keep on selling them weapons and ammo.

If you’re wondering about the Middle East and why there’s always something bad going on there, if you’re so used to hearing about Middle Easterns dying or being at war, it’s because it’s good for so many people that this be the way things are there. It’s not the natural order of things. No it’s beneficial. It helps the economy of so many other countries and politicians, even those in the fucking Middle East.

No government is going to put an end to this. To anything that’s going on there. It would be stupid of them. It’s only people who can help.

Only people. Normal people who can see clearly that what is happening is not right. People who genuinely have empathy and care. And it’s by people being informed and knowing about things that are happening and demanding action from their governments and the UN, that things will change. And they will.

Things will change, and they will get better. We just all have to take part. Nothing happens if people don’t care.

[loneranger0369]

There is not much News coming out of Iran.

@bellamonde @aftabkaran are not active. @edentheactivist 's Tumblr got deactivated. Previously, they used to post regular Updates regarding the situation and developments in Iran.

Probably Internet is completely shut down.

I hope all are alive and well.

Again, I will share the Names of people who were announced to be sentenced to Death, but were not at that time.

I request you to Reblog.

Mohammad Ejma

Mohammad Pasandian

Sajjadimannejad

Mehdisannefarshi

Hazharhamidi

Alirezakafaei

Miladarmoun

Elahe Mohammadi

Niloofar Hamedi

Shoaib Mir Baloch Zehi Rigi

Mohammad Ghobadloo

Mohammad Qobadloo

Ebrahim Naroui

Toomaj Salehi

Farnoush Esmi

Benjamin Gaffari

Mohammad Boroughani

Ayoub Jamal

Mohammad Soltani

Mojgan Valian Zadeh

Jalil Azizpour

Alan Veysi

Bahaledin Veysi

Javad Rouhi

Elham Modaressi

Ava Jahangiri

Paria Faramarzi

Shahin Samadpour

Hamid Gharehasanlou

Farzaneh Gharehasanlou

Manouchehr Mehman-Navaz

Akbar Ghafari

Ebrahim Rigi

Mohsen Rezazadeh Qaraqualou

Saman Yasin

Seyed Mohammad Hosseini

Parmida Mehdipour

Farhad Tahazadeh

Farzad Tahazadeh

Sahand Noor Mohammadzadeh

Mehdi Keshvari

Hossein Hajlou

Abol Fazl Mehri

Hossein Mohammadi

Raha Ajoudani

Arin Farzania

Armin Mehdi Shokrollahi

Amir Mehdi Jaffari

Mahan Sadrat

Saeed Shirazi

Hajar Hamidi

Reza Eslamdoost

Karvan Shahiparvaneh

Shahram Marouf-Moula

Saeed Yaghoubi

Saleh Mir Hashemi

Amir Nasr Azadani

Mohsen Sohrabi

Makan Davari

Majid Kazemi

Hassan Firouzi

Farnaz Alizadeh

Niloufar Shakeri

Soheila Hijab

Hasti Ofogh

Samaneh Fathi

Shaker Behrouz

Parham Parvari

Saman Sayeedi

Elham Shoukdar

Zahara Hamedani

Navab Ebrahimi

Keyvan Mohtadi

Ehsanpirbarnash

Poryajavaheri

Ebrahim Naroui

Mehdi Mohammadi Fard

Mansour Dahmardeh

Kambiz Khorvat

Arshia Takdastan

Vajihe Pari Zanganeh

Amirsartipi

Zahra Nabizadeh

Hossein Ekhtarian

Mohammad Ekhtarian

Amir Mohammad Jafari

Maryam Haqgou

Shahla Abdi

Women. Life. Freedom

Freedom for Iran

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[jloisse]

Des cérémonies ont eu lieu partout en Iran pour commémorer le 45e anniversaire de la Révolution islamique