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Following the footsteps of South Africa; Qatar, Oman, Malaysia have submitted statements in ICJ too.

Thank you South Africa for taking the first step.

[f1-birb]

even the alfa pit crew couldn't believe it

[queerism1969]

[luminalunii97]

I've seen non Iranians admiring the Islamic Republic national football team for not singing the national anthem. And then they were confused as to why iranians were happy that the team lost. Yes not singing the anthem might have consequences for them, but it won't change the fact that these people went to visit Raisi, the Islamic Republic president and bowed to him, posed happily for pictures while we were dealing with Kiam Pirfalak news, and said they don't care about politics and what's going on Iran in an interview, stating that they will focus on the game only. Not singing the anthem is nothing in comparison. And you might think they were under pressure. So were other athletes in Iran, let's see what they did:

Picture on the right is Elnaz Rekabi, an Iranian rock climber who was the first athlete to take off her hijab during Mahsa Amini protests to show her solidarity with people. She's currently under house arrest. she wasn't the first Iranian woman ever doing that. On the left, that's Shohreh Bayat, her story is so sad.

In many interviews I've seen of her, she always cries when she says her story. She was to referee the final of the Women's World Chess Championship a couple of years ago. While in another country she decided to wear her hijab loosely in an act of rebellion. She got warning from Islamic Republic twice and everytime she made it worse. She was asked to apologize but she refused, saying that she wouldn't apologize for what she believes in. At last, even though she wasn't ready to leave everything behind and start from scratch in a foreign country, she decided to ditch the compulsory hijab completely and never come back to Iran, because her life would be in danger if she did. Because of her choice she can't come back to visit her family anymore. her family supported her which made the authorities to force her father to resign (her father was the president of chess association in Gilan, Iran).

Then we had Iranian national beach soccer team. I think they were the first group who refused to sing Islamic republic national anthem. And after they got threatened to sing the anthem, they did something even more iconic. One of the players cut his imaginary hair after he scored.

Then we had these two scenes after scoring. They were recreating an inhuman thing Islamic republic did. The guy on the right is Khodanoor Lajei. He was murdered on bloody Friday in Zahedan. He was a Baloch guy. I'm going to post about Balochs and the thing that's been done to them by Islamic republic in details. For now know that this guy got killed in protests but this picture of him is for a couple of months back. He insulted a Basiji guy or something, Islamic republic police chained him to a pole in the middle of the city to make him an example for others, after beating him. When he asked for water they brought him a cup but they put it out of his reach in front of him and laughed at his thirst. (You see why we hate Islamic Republic, IRGC and Basij?!) The picture got out only after his death because Baloch people didn't think the rest of Iran would care about them enough to react. That broke my heart unspeakably much.

With so much bravery, our national girl's basketball team has been posting photos without mandatory hijab ever since the protests have begun.

Last but not least, Parmida Ghasemi, iranian archer ditching mandatory hijab inside of iran. She took it out for receiving the prize and while she was being photographed.

(Btw, non of these women "forgot" their hijab accidentally. If you're iranian you learn to never forget your hijab since you're 7, the age you start school. Without a formal head wearing you won't be allowed to attend school classes. When you grow up with it, you'll get used to it. You have no idea how weird it feels to not wear a veil in public, I'm still getting used to it.)

we've witnessed many iconic brave moves by our athletes but non of them said we don't give a shit about what's happening in Iran before the game. I'm not saying they won't be redeemed one day, I'm just saying they should work to win their respect back.

[caitlinjohns77]

[vyorei]

Live coverage of the 16th of January 2024 is now closed.

Here is a recap of today's major events.

It is 12am in Ireland now so I have to go to bed.

I'll be back to resume live updates in the afternoon.

For continuous updates while I'm gone, click the link below:

[cloudsspoke]

Meet the roommates <3

I guess Papu shared a room with Dybala and occupied either room #B203 or #B205

“He’s a beast on field, but in our room he’s whole another person, he's a teddy bear. When I fell asleep, he’d turn my Ipad off and tucked me in. It’s beautiful.”

My immediate response when I read the translation of what Rodri said about Ota:

not to mention the fact Rodri, Lea, and Dybala could manage to fit the three of them on a bed (that’s not even looked like a king-size one to me), like, maaaan, don’t torture me with such information without any photos included as a proof 😭😭😭 Tell me who slept in the middle? I need to know,did they snuggle to each other or what 😭 Did Daddy have a picture of this moment since he always records these boys 24/7 😭😭😭

and not me cracked up knowing Kun had to sneak into their hostel because he got no pass yet 😂😂

++ UPDATE

We can expect players enjoy their room’s new wallpaper in upcoming March when they gather again to play for the friendly matches.

I CAN’T WAIT

[sprites4ever]

THE TRUTH ABOUT HAMAS

I need to spell it out again.

Hamas are not the Palestinian freedom fighters a lot of people want them to be.

The origin is the following.

Various peoples have laid exclusive claim to what they call the 'Holy Land' for millenia, and fought insane wars and committed genocides over it. Jews and Muslims are far from the first.

In recent centuries, Jews and Muslims used to live in peace in this place till WWI.

In WWI, the British Empire moved their armies over there and asked the Jews to let them pass through, so they could fight the Ottoman Empire. (The back-then powerful islamic empire that controlled modern-day Türkyie, Syria and the Balkans)

In exchange, the Jews would get the full right to live in the Holy Land after the British were done.

Problem is, the Brits promised the Muslims the same.

They both agreed, the Brits passed through and wrecked the Ottoman Empire.

After WWI, the Jews and Muslims rightfully asked whose land this was now, and the Brits, together with the French, devised the Two-State Solution, that half of the land would be the Jewish Israel and the other half would be the Muslim Palestine. It was agreed upon in principle, but both Jews and Muslims kept fighting and militarizing.

Modern-day Israel is NOT a European settler-colonial project, as Palestinians like to put it.

As explained above, the Jews and Muslims have both been there for a while.

However, modern-day Israel, founded in 1948, has become oppressive against Palestinians.

The justification for that was the Holocaust. European Jews, after WWII, said that they needed their own state in order to be safe from antisemitism, as over 6 million Jews had been murdered by the Nazis. (The Nazis had used the Jews as a scapegoat and portrayed them as a world conspiracy, in order to explain world politics to their supporters in a way that aligned with Hitler's insane ideology.)

Because of that, the Jews got incredibly defensive and any aggressive or oppressive idea from an Israeli leader was justified with "We need to protect our Jewish people!"

Whether or not it was actually justified didn't and doesn't matter to them.

Those aggressive and oppressive ideas include killing/expelling all the Palestinians, as motivated by the territorial conflict I explained earlier.

The other side of the current conflict and the reason Hamas exists and can inflict so much damage on Israel is the Islamic Republic of Iran.

In the 80s, Iran went through a religiously-led revolution against the military dictatorship. As a result, the so-called Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was established, and is under the command of religious leader and self-styled 'Supreme Leader' Ayatollah Khamenei. He's been ruling Iran with an iron fist for over 40 years.

The supposed republic and democracy of Iran is fake, as is typical for most dictatorships these days. Few dictatorships actually style themselves as such, they like to pretend that they're democratic. (Factually, the elections don't matter, the ballots are trashed anyways and the Parliament is a so-called 'Rubber Stamp Parliament', meaning a Parliament that only exists to give a faux-democratic justification for the dictator's orders by putting a rubber stamp on it.)

The IRGC is actually extremely unpopular in Iran, and most Iranians would prefer diplomatic relations with the West and the USA, over what they have now, which is diplomatic relations with russia and China. However, the IRGC's armed gangsters are so present and so ready to shoot a woman who's wearing her hijab (Islamic headscarf) improperly on the spot, that they can't do anything about it.

To justify his grip on power, Khamenei paints Israel as the archenemy of and constant threat to Iran, just like how Israeli hardliners, including the current guy, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, paint Palestine as the archenemy of and constant threat to Israel.

However, the IRGC can't afford fighting Israel by themselves, since that would mean less armed gangsters in Iranian cities, enforcing the Ayatollah's will.

This is why Iran, using their ties with russia and China, as well as their wealth of and wealth acquired via crude oil production, has funded and armed various miltias in every other Middle Eastern country where they could do it.

They are:

Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) and Kata'ib Hezbollah in Iraq

Hezbollah and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) in Lebanon

Hamas in Gaza (aka a Palestinian territory)

Ansar-Allah (aka Houthi rebels) in Yemen

These militias are under complete command of the Ayatollah and his disciples and exist to keep fighting Israel and their allies, especially the forces the US has stationed in Iraq and Syria during unrelated conflicts.

Iran has called this network the 'Axis of Resistance', which is a euphemism and an intentional attempt as gaslighting Jews.

The term 'Axis' comes from the alliance between Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan in WWII.

This name was chosen to bring back Jewish trauma and act like the Nazis were the ones resisting Jews back in the day, and to act like antisemitism is completely justified because Jews are supposedly always very evil.

The Syrian government forces (under control of military dictator Bashar Al-Assad) are also on Iran's side on account of being at war with Israel since 1948, but they factually can't do much since their forces are weak and engaged in a civil war with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a miltia funded by the US. The only reason Al-Assad is still alive is because of russian mercenaries who are protecting him.

Not all Islamic countries are on the side of Iran.

Lebanon is factually a republic and has a government, however, it is powerless and the country is de facto ran by Hezbollah, who control more businesses, media and soldiers than the Lebanese government.

Yemen is also technically neutral, and the ones attacking cargo ships in Palestine's name are not the Republic and government of Yemen, but the Iranian-funded Houthis, who control 1/4 of the country. It's been in a civil war for years, and neither the Yemeni government nor Houthis have achieved a breakthrough.

Jordan is a constitutional monarchy and generally neutral, only interested in its own security. They collaborate with Israeli and American forces wherever necessary.

Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrian, Kuwait and Oman are officially neutral and officially communicate a lot of soldiarity with Palestine, but are factually opposed to Iran and collaborate a lot with the US.

Hamas aren't the only Palestinian group trying to control the disputed territories of the Gaza Strip, West Bank and Golan Heights.

(The latter two definetly being occupied by Iraelis who have no right to be there)

The other group is the Palestinian Authority (PA), which is internationally regarded by many as the legitimate authority of Palestinian people.

They despise Israel similarly to Hamas, but unlike Hamas, are willing to attempt diplomatic solutions. (As long as the Israelis are, too.)

However, the PA is stupidly corrupt and has little in the way of armed forces.

Hamas are a radical Jihadist group who desire total control of all Israeli and Palestinian territories, and who arguably want to see Israel lose more than they want to see Palestine win.

Hamas were elected the government of Gaza in 2008.

Netanyahu actually supported them, precisely because he knew they were radicals, unlike the PA, who would give him a casus belli (reason for war) sooner or later.

Just like Khamenei, Netanyahu keeps war going to stay in power.

Hamas have developed urban and guerilla warfare tactics that serve as a perfect counter to the Israel Defense Force (IDF)'s modern military tactics, as they can inflict serious damage with what little old Soviet weaponry they get from Iran, without having to take Israeli troops, tanks and fighter jets head-on.

Yes, the Israeli war crimes are real.

However, Hamas actively positions their staff and military assets among their own civilians, because they know the IDF doesn't care about the civilians if they get to take out a Hamas commander or material storage in the process.

Hamas does this precisely to get Israel condemned further and to keep up the hatred for Israelis among Palestinians.

Like I said, they would rather see Israel lose than see Palestine win, and they care as little about the Palestinians as the IDF.

To Israel, Hamas is a casus belli.

To Hamas, Palestinians are fuel for the fire of war.

Behind this conflict are two old, power-hungry men in Tel Aviv and Tehran.

There is no good side to this.

[workersolidarity]

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HOSTAGE EXCHANGE TALKS END, EGYPTIANS BLAME ISRAELI OCCUPATION FOR FAILURE

The talks for a hostage exchange deal and a ceasefire between the Israeli entity and the Hamas resistance movement have collapsed, according to an Egyptian sources speaking with Al-Mayadeen News.

According to the Hebrew and Arab media, talks related to the genocide in the Gaza Strip have ceased without achieving its goals, which the news agency says is due to Egypt's insistence on a complete withdrawal from the Rafah crossing area, an axis know as the Philadelphia corridor.

Egyptian sources also told Reuters news agency that negotiations for a hostage exchange deal had "been frozen" until "Israel shows its seriousness."

Meanwhile, occupation Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, gave a speech in which he responded to criticisms for the attempted assassination of a supposed Hamas member, Muhammad Daf, in an airstrike that targeted a displacement camp in the town of Al-Mawasi, northeast of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, that killed 90 civilians and wounded some 300 others.

In his speech, the Prime Minister claimed to see "cracks" and "weakness" in Hamas, while he also seemingly reveals that the pain being inflicted on the civilian population is purposeful, stating that "The population in Gaza understands more and more the magnitude of the disaster that Hamas brings upon them," adding that "We will continue to strike at terrorists at an unprecedented level."

Netanyahu stated that he isn't "moving a millimeter from the outline that Biden blessed."

"I'm not adding conditions or subtracting," he argued. He went on to claim, without providing evidence, that "Hamas asked for 29 changes," without elucidating.

The Prime Minister also commented on Rafah following a question from a reporter, going on to explain that "I told my friend, Biden, there is no choice, I will enter Rafah. If not, we will not release the Hostages and we will not defeat Hamas."

The Prime Minister fails to explain why, then, if this was required to obtain the hostages, he has still failed to free them following his army's near complete destruction of Rafah City.

"They entered Rafah, we occupied the Philadelphia axis. And suddenly things start to move," Netanyahu says of the area of the Rafah border crossings, without explaining why his forces also had to burn the facilities to the ground. The resulting destruction and the closure of the crossings continues to prevent desperately needed humanitarian aid from reaching Palestinians in southern Gaza.

Netanyahu went on to say that "If there is any progress and a change in the situation, it is due to the military pressure on Hamas, that I am preventing the negotiations."

"The military pressure was not strong enough," the Prime Minister added.

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[zingaplanet]

If you've just joined, Joe Lycett broke the internet today by promising to shred £10.000 of his own money if David Beckham promotes the World Cup in Qatar.

Delivered in the only way he knew how (fabulously hilarious and wittingly unforgiving), Lycett, British comedian and national treasure, trailblazes accountability and criticisms against footballers who took money from Qatar, where homosexuality is still punishable by death and human rights crimes are prominent.

For every 1 million David Beckham reportedly receive from Qatar (from a total of 10 million), Lycett promises to donate 1k in support of LGBTQ+ charities. But should Beckham decide to go through with his endorsements, he will shred this money LIVE on the website he set up (benderslikebeckham.com), shredding public figures' hypocritical reputations with them.

We stan for true icon behaviour 💅🌈

[queerism1969]

[luminalunii97]

The islamic republic: dOn'T MiX fOotbaLL wiTH POliTiCs!

Also the islamic republic:

*sends their journalists and employees as "fans" to Qatar to do their biddings*

*hires Bangladeshi workers in Qatar to come and pose as islamic republic supporters and fans*

*makes sure Qatar security guards confiscate any protest sign like woman life freedom prints or Iran's original flag*

*Their assigned "fans" interview with western journalists and tell wild lies, like "we have complete gender equality in iran!" Funny enough, that woman who was lying like that couldn't leave Iran without her husband's permission and couldn't go to stadiums inside of iran*

*Sending non-hijabi "fans" to Qatar so that they can claim even the women we arrest, whip and kill are on our side. This one is a wild concept, we know she has received money and she's regime related, but the regime wants to pretend she supports them from heart. Well I can't think of any reason why someone like her would support a regime that not only hurts her but calls her a prostitute for not wearing hijab, other than Stockholm syndrome! Is the regime trying to say Iranian non-hijabis have Stockholm syndrome??*

*They used the win against Wales as an excuse to dance on our fallen graves. The security forces were dancing in the streets after the win. Their hands are red with our blood and they mock us with false happiness. Just so you know, any festivities in the streets that contains dance and music is banned in Iran. Previous world cup when real regular people came to the streets to celebrate, they were treated with police suppression. But apparently for regime goons it's ok to dance in the streets*

At this point it doesn't even matter if our national football team is supporting us or not, if the team members were bought or threatened. The regime made football a war tool, let's fight then.

After loosing to USA people came to streets to celebrate. We celebrated because it's a lose forthe islamic republic and they're going to lose more than just a football match soon. We celebrated because our happiness makes our enemies mad. We celebrated because they danced on our loved ones graves, we'll dance on their graves one day. We celebrated because they want us depressed and compliance, but we won't sit until we see their downfall. We celebrated because it's banned in iran and we no longer play by the Islamic republic rules. We celebrated because we're practicing to celebrate the regime change soon.

Before the game we were telling each other no matter what the result we're going to the streets to make noise. They can kill our bodies but they won't kill our spirits.

The regime as they always do, opened fire on people. Broke windows and broke skins. This man was murdered last night in a northern city in iran for honking a happy rhythm. He was shot in the head for honking. His name was Mehran Samak. His last Instagram story said: no matter what, we're going to the streets tonight.

And let's hear one last tragic story. Mehran Samak was Saeed Ezatolahi, one of the national football player's childhood playmate. When one was crying in Qatar over loss, the other was cheering the Islamic Republic loss in his city. This is all on the regime. No one wins as long as this regime is on.

ps, celebrating for us means dancing while chanting death to the dictator. It's not a happy occasion, it's a fighting strategy.

Ps2, after the match with USA the security guards opened blind fire on people. One of Iranian actors, Mohammed Naderi, shared a picture of his pierced car window and wrote about his experience with the security guards:

[caitlinjohns77]