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URGENT: Yesterday Iranian volleyball player Mobina Rostami, bravely spoke out against the regime's attack on Israel.

"As an Iranian, I am truly ashamed of the regime's attack on Israel, but you need to know that the people in Iran love Israel and hate the Islamic Republic."

Not long after her home was raided, she was arrested and taken away to an undisclosed location, her social media accounts were shut down, and she has not been heard from since. 

The silence surrounding her whereabouts is concerning, and we can only imagine the horrors she may be enduring for standing up against a brutal regime. 

It's crucial to SHARE Mobina's story and refuse to let Iran silence voices advocating for tolerance and peace.

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To the people of Israel and Iran: I am sorry, stay safe, I stand with you, and I pray that you both soon have a government that cares more for your safety than its power.

To the Islamic Republic and Netanyahu regimes, and their Kremlin and MAGA allies, may justice catch up with you swiftly.

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By: Douglas Murray

Published: May 21, 2024

THE President of Iran died at the weekend in a helicopter accident – news that the BBC marked with the headline “President Ebrahim Raisi’s mixed legacy in Iran”.

“Mixed legacy” is an interesting way to sum up the life of someone better known as the “Butcher of Tehran”.

Raisi rose through the ranks of the revolutionary Islamic Government that overthrew the Shah in 1979.

And he made his name in the usual revolutionary Islamic way.

By killing his political opponents — including the leftists who the regime rounded up, imprisoned and murdered by the thousands in their jails.

Some of the obituaries have noted that Raisi helped speed up the backlog of trials in Iran.

That is true. He did it in the same way Stalin did — by killing his opponents fast.

The United Nations noted his passing in its own unique way.

At the Security Council, the member States were invited to stand and observe a minute’s silence for Raisi.

Those taking part shamefully included our own deputy ambassador to the UN, James Kariuki.

At the same time, Iranians were letting off fireworks and handing out sweets in their own streets.

There has been more mourning at the United Nations than there has been in Iran.

Perhaps that is because the Iranian people are the first ones who have had to suffer under the cruel rule of President Raisi.

It was on his watch that students and others who have protested against his regime have been abducted, tortured and killed.

It is Raisi’s regime which has overseen the harshest rule of Islamic law — which includes the hanging of women who have been raped.

That’s right. If you are a woman who has been raped in Iran, you are the culprit.

And you will be the one that is hanged.

Are the women who suffered that horror worth a minute’s silence at the UN? I would have said so.

Is their hangman? I’d have said not. Yet the UN and others continued with this gross spectacle.

Today, the organisation flew its flags at half-mast at its HQ in New York.

How morally sick can an organisation be?

We seem to have come to the stage where international bodies, as well as some sick people at home, will love anyone so long as that person hates us.

And Raisi and his foreign minister, who died with him, certainly did hate us.

Theirs is a regime which has, for 44 years, called for “Death to America” and “Death to the UK”.

It is a regime which has caused a numberless loss of lives inside Iran and in the wider region.

It is a regime which has been trying to expand its power in its own region and whose assassins have made it as far as New York and London.

Only last month, a member of the Iranian opposition was stabbed outside his house in London.

Almost certainly by assassins sent to the UK by the government in Iran.

All the time, Raisi and his friends have tried to make their regime invincible by gaining a nuclear weapon.

So far they have had that project delayed many times.

But they still seek the bomb and are one of the very few regimes on Earth that has said they would like to use it.

We should take them at their word.

It is the regime in Iran that has, for years, funded and trained terrorists across the region and indeed the world.

‘Mass slaughter’

In October last year, when Hamas terrorists broke into Israel and carried out the largest mass slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust, it was Iran which backed them.

It is Iran that has funded Hamas. It is Iran that has trained Hamas. And it is Iran that has armed Hamas.

Just as they have also trained, funded and armed their other terrorist groups.

Notably in Yemen. Where Iran’s Houthi friends have fired missiles and attacked British ships.

But also in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq, where Iran’s weapons have killed British and American soldiers.

And that is before even getting on to the 150,000 missiles Iran has helped Hezbollah store up in southern Lebanon.

Or the drones and other munitions it has been giving to Vladimir Putin’s Russia as he tries to overrun Ukraine.

All of his foul life, Raisi hoped to start and win a massive regional war.

Why should the man who oversaw all this and very much more be given any respect?

You might say it makes political sense to keep doors open — as most of our Foreign Office seems to think.

But it is quite another thing to mourn, or lament, the passing of this man.

The BBC, Foreign Office and United Nations may not know what a tyrant is. But the Iranian people do.

If only we could show that we are on their side.

We could start by showing that we are also on our own.

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Good fucking riddance. The Earth is a better place with him as a splatter stain upon it.

The absolute moral confusion that has infected our institutions is truly dire.

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A letter from Iran, to American university students:

(This is from the letter) …The Quran's lesson for us Muslims and all of humanity, is to stand up for that which is right: "So be steadfast as you have been commanded" (11:112).

Note: I noticed maybe 3 or 4 mistakes in the reading of the letter, and one of them is the word “ungovernable”, which must be replaced by “unforgivable“.

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Forty-five years of the illegal regime of the Islamic Republic in a single video

This is the face of Iran, the one puppeteering numerous Islamic terror organizations, among which are Hamas and Hezbollah.

The same crowd cheering as Iran and its proxies launched over 300 drones, ICBM missiles and Cruise missiles on Israel is the one calling for a ceasefire and condemning Israel for its actions. The hypocrisy is not lost on the rest of us.

Iranians deserve so much better than pasty westerners supporting the persecution they've endured & survived for decades.

Video by officialrezapahlavi.

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The Iranian people, including inside of Iran, have been the people who offered me the most condolences, I mean, they're active on social media speaking out against Hamas, in favor of Israel and Israel's right to self-defence, because they understand. They understand the reality of what Hamas actually is. Of what Islamic Jihad in Gaza actually is.

So, the reality on the ground in Iran is that they're very, very pro-Israel, they look to Israel as an example and they want Israel to help them as well. So, any attack on Israel they take very personally.

I've spent the better part of the last year traveling quite a bit to different locations for lectures and for meetings, but more importantly, to meet with members of different Iranian diaspora communities, connect them with the Jewish communities, since we have the same goals and the same interests, and also, honestly, a shared history that a lot of people aren't aware of. The Iranian people are definitely not enemies of Israelis.

Iran was actually one of the first countries, one of the first Muslim countries actually, to recognize the state of Israel. So, the friendship of Iran and Israel is much longer than, you know, being enemies. That's something new that only came with the regime in 1979.

So, in the last year I have been meeting with different lawmakers about how to hold the Islamic Republic accountable, whether it be designation of IRGC or sanction enforcement. And then at the grassroots level, I've been an activist within Iran, in the Persian community, organizing protests of solidarity on the ground in Israel. And the point of this is to motivate the people of Iran and to show them, and to show the world, that we stand with them in their pursuit for freedom, and that regardless of Israel and the conflict with the Iranian government, the people of Israel stand united with the people of Iran.

And I think what's interesting about what's happening right now with the operation in Gaza and the war that we're facing from Hamas terrorists - who of course, incidentally are supported, funded and trained by the Islamic Regime in Iran - so, it's been really, really moving to see how much the Iranian community, even inside of Iran is supporting Israel.

In fact, before I even saw a Jewish community's posting about rallies that they were going to host in solidarity with what's happening in Israel against terrorism, I saw that the Iranians had organized flyers and promotional materials for holding a rally of support for the state of Israel. So, it's just been incredible to see that these people who have been told that they're our enemies are in fact not at all. They're our greatest defenders and they're our greatest allies and I have nothing but love for the people of Iran and I think I can speak for the majority, if not all, of Israeli citizens as well.

I think that the only option in Iran is regime change. Unfortunately, we've had a lot of people who spoke up against Iran and some of them tried to work within the system in the last few decades. None of them have been successful because, frankly, the Iranian Regime is very intelligent. They do know what they're doing. They use unbelievably complex psychological warfare even on their own people, and that's part of the reason that they've been able to maintain control with such an iron grip for so long.

So yes, I think the reality is we're not going to see a change in Israel-Iran, as a state, relations until there is a regime change. But when there is a regime change, there will be peace the next day. Iranians and Israelis will be the best of friends, publicly and openly once again.

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So many of the people who supported the Iranian people against the Regime with #WomanLifeFreedom, suddenly developed amnesia in supporting the Hamas terrorist regime.

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“This is the mission that Iran has adopted, it’s a pillar of the Islamic Revolution in 1979, which is the support for the Palestinians. And Iran has been steadfast in its resolve and unrelenting in its support for the Palestinians. And so this will not change, I guarantee you that.”

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"Muchos de ustedes son auténticos monstruos y piensan que son los héroes. Perdónenme por no creer que alguno de ustedes realmente se preocupe por los palestinos, mientras están en sus manifestaciones pro-Hamas con banderas de la esvástica, gritando "¡gaseen a los judíos!" y arrancando carteles de rehenes secuestrados. Ustedes glorifican a Hamas, la organización terrorista que usa y abusa de los palestinos, que les dispara si intentan evacuar de zonas que Israel ha advertido que atacará.

Han estado callados durante décadas mientras Líbano y Jordania mantienen a su población palestina en campos de refugiados. Han estado callados cuando ningún otro país vecino ha dado a los palestinos la ciudadanía que les permitiría vivir una vida cómoda y normal. Estuvieron callados cuando los cohetes de la Yihad Islámica Palestina y de Hamas fallaban y mataban a palestinos inocentes. Estuvieron callados cuando Hamas robaba la ayuda destinada a los civiles. Estuvieron callados cuando Hamas desenterraba las tuberías de agua del suelo para fabricar más cohetes.

Si estuvieron callados entonces, están utilizando a los palestinos como máscara para su odio hacia los judíos. Si quieren realmente abogar por los palestinos, mantengan la misma energía para cada país, no solo para el único estado judío, y traten de educarse sobre lo que los israelíes han estado haciendo para ayudar a los palestinos, porque les prometo que es mucho más de lo que ustedes han hecho en su vida."

So many of you are genuinely monsters and you think you're the heroes. Forgive me for not believing that any of you ever actually gave a shit about Palestinians, as you sit here in your pro-hamas rallies with swastika flags while you chant "gas the jews!" and tear down posters of kidnapped hostages. You glorify Hamas, the terrorist organization that uses and abuses Palestinians, that shoots them if they try to evacuate from zones that Israel has warned they're going to strike.

You have been silent for decades while Lebanon and Jordan keep their Palestinian population in refugee camps. You have been silent when no other neighboring country has given Palestinians citizenship status that would enable them to live a comfortable, normal life. You were silent when Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas rockets misfire and kill innocent Palestinians. You were silent when Hamas steals aid meant for civilians. You were silent when Hamas dug up water pipes from the ground so that they could make more rockets.

If you were silent then, you're using Palestinians as a mask for your Jew-hatred. If you want to really advocate for Palestinians, keep the same energy for every country, not just the only Jewish state, and try to educate yourself on what Israelis have been doing to try to help Palestinians, because I promise you it's way more than you've ever done in your life.

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The Islamic Republic of Terror: Hezbollah & Hamas | Naftali Bennett | EP 487

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson sits down with the 13th Prime Minister of Israel, Naftali Bennett. They discuss the internal divisions of Israel, how October 7th refocused the nation, the means by which the Islamic Republic of Iran operates its industry of terror, the victim/victimizer narrative, and what victory might actually look like. Naftali Bennett is an Israeli politician who entered politics in 2006 as the Chief of Staff for Benjamin Netanyahu. From 2018 to 2022 he served as the leader of the New Right party. Then from June 2021 to June 2022, he served as the 13th prime minister of Israel. He retired after one term, becoming the 3rd alternate Prime Minister. He then resigned from this position and re-entered the private sphere as a board member of the Israeli tech company Quantum Source.

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Today is the last day in the month that Arvin Ghahremani (Hebrew name: Arvin Netanel ben Siona) was given in his postponement.

Please keep spreading his name, both on here, and on any other social medias that you might use.

Even if the worst thing happens tomorrow (or if, god forbid, it has already happened), we must continue his name, and ensure that he, and all other victims of the Islamic Republic, are not forgotten.

There is also a petition that was started by the ACLJ which I’ll be putting here too. Not an organization I’m particularly fond of, but this, at least, is one cause that I’m very grateful that they’re fighting for.

Please sign your name:

So, I recently learned about the “say their names to save their lives” campaign on social media that has helped Iranians sentenced to die by the regime in the past.

I am now asking you guys for help with that again.

There is an Iranian Jew named Arvin Netanel ben Siona, whose execution date is set for this Saturday. The Iranian Jewish community have tried endlessly to pursue his release, but to no avail.

Please spread his name.