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Covering #Iran & #MidEast, especially what MSM won't Have a passion for exposing Tehran apologists/lobbyists

Mar 9, 2018, 27 tweets

For those unfamiliar with the mullahs' thugs in #Iran
Image shows the wall of a kindergarten (literally) spray painted to cover the faces of young girls without #hijab.

The graffiti reads:
"Death to improper veiling"
...

You be the judge... More reason for #IranProtests.

For those unfamiliar with the mullahs' regime:
This mentally disabled mother, & her two children who suffer from down syndrome, saw their house destroyed by municipality authorities in Urmia, NW #Iran.
There is literally no shame in this regime.
More reason for #IranUprising.

For those unfamiliar with the mullahs
Makarem Shirazi, a senior figure in #Iran's regime:
"Purchasing & selling firecrackers/fireworks for the end of the (Iranian calendar) festivities is a sin."
This actually shows how terrified they are of #IranProtests.

For those unfamiliar with #Iran's mullahs
Activists saying authorities literally arrested & interrogated an 8 year old girl for a 5-minute folkloric dance in Tehran's's Milad Tower.
Some say this is unprecedented in the history of dictatorships.
More reason for #IranProtests.

For those unfamiliar with #Iran‌'s regime:
Tehran mayor Mohammad Ali Najafi handed over his resignation following the "controversy" of 8 year old girls dancing in the capital's Milad Tower & reactionary, misogynist officials becoming furious.
More reason for #IranProtests.

For those unfamiliar with #Iran‌'s regime:
Activists reporting authorities of a village cut a 300 year old tree in half, saying its branches were slightly damaging the roof of a mosque.
All this on the country's Tree Day!!!
More reason for #IranProtests.

For those unfamiliar with #Iran‌'s regime:
Activists reporting authorities cutting off electricity to this old man's home in preparation to bulldoze the area in order to expand a religious site.
More reason for #IranProtests & #RegimeChange.

For those unfamiliar with the mullahs' regime:
Mashhad, NE #Iran‌
Imam Hossein Square - Safa Street
Activist says authorities have brought full head-to-toe veiled women to harass those women whom they consider "improperly veiled."
More reason for #IranProtests & #RegimeChange.

For those unfamiliar with the mullahs' regime:
Golpayegen, central #Iran‌
The city's Friday prayer imam, known as the representative of Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei, has ordered all music institutions closed in Golpayegan.
More reason for #IranProtests & #RegimeChange.

For those unfamiliar with the mullahs' regime:
This sign reads:

For the first time in #Iran‌
Coming soon
Gas station specifically for women
(More good news coming) !!!

...
Even gas stations are gender segregated by this regime.
More reason for #IranProtests & #RegimeChange.

For those unfamiliar with the #Iran‌'s regime:
Top image is of Tehran's "Africa Cinema"
Bottom image is of Mashhad's "Africa Cinema," where the actress' hair is literally censored in the film poster...
You be the judge...
More reason for #IranProtests & #RegimeChange.

For those unfamiliar with the mullahs' regime:
Gonbad, NE #Iran
The municipality orders the house of a renowned doctor to be literally "blocked" for not paying his bills.
His wife & children are still inside.
Authorities flee the scene after being filmed.
#ThursdayThoughts

For those unfamiliar with the mullahs' regime:
L - How Japan launches satellites
R - How #Iran launches satellites (state police rounding up satellite dishes)
...
More reason for #IranProtests & #RegimeChange.

For those unfamiliar with #Iran's regime:
"All music instruments are forbidden,” this mullah says.
More reason for #IranProtests & #RegimeChange.

For those unfamiliar with this regime:
"Insanity, blindness & sudden death are the results of listening to music,” says the Friday prayer imam of Borazjan, S #Iran.
"Funeral music, military music, drums & chimes are only permitted."
More reason for #IranProtests & #RegimeChange.

For those unfamiliar with #Iran's regime:
This receipt, dated 15 March 2017, indicates a mullah received $13,000 for leading prayer sessions.
This is how the regime plunders 80 million Iranians.
More reason for #IranProtests & #RegimeChange.

For those unfamiliar with #Iran's regime:
Top is a lavish mullahs' school.
Bottom is a "school" showing how the population is so utterly deprived.
This is where this country's billions are wasted, depriving the country's future...
More reason for #IranProtests & #RegimeChange.

For those unfamiliar with the mullahs' regime:
This religious site is being built in Sari, N #Iran, outside a mosque! All the while millions of people are deprived & searching the trash for something to eat or sell.
More reason for #IranProtests & #RegimeChange.

For those unfamiliar with #Iran's regime:
This reactionary mullah literally says two strangers phoning each other, sending messages on apps & even emails are "haram," or considered a sin.
More reason for #IranProtests & #RegimeChange.

For those unfamiliar with #Iran's regime, the sign reads:
"Shovel - Fighters used shovels to divert Malyutka and TOW wire-guided anti-tank guided missiles."

This is a "memorial site" of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War & Tehran's propaganda machine at work.

You be the judge...

For those unfamiliar with #Iran's regime, this mullah says:
"If our football/soccer is not the first in the world, it means we haven't taught & promoted religion good enough."
...
The Iranian people are ruled by such individuals...

For those unfamiliar with #Iran's regime, this is Mr. Ahaki, a member of Tehran's City Council, seen throwing an object at a reporter doing his/her job.

For those unfamiliar with #Iran’s regime:
Authorities order stores to cover the legs of mannequins with newspaper.
#ThursdayThoughts

For those unfamiliar with #Iran's regime
Keyhan, 13 December 1979
Lahuti, father of a husband to one of Rafsanjani's daughters: "The cinema in Qom (central Iran) was bombed on orders from Seyed Ahmad Khomeini."
(Son of Iranian regime founder Ruhollah Khomeini)
#SaturdayMorning

For those unfamiliar with #Iran's regime
The sign reads:
"Hijab means: Not everyone is fit to see my beauty."

(This is so utterly disgusting & unbelievable that activists are asking others to take another photo to confirm.)

For those unfamiliar with #Iran's regime:

I didn't believe it at first, but female emojis in Iran's "Soroush" messaging app (said to be under intense government surveillance) are all with hijab (veils).

The far left one is holding a sign reading, "Death to America."

For those unfamiliar with #Iran's regime:
Organizers at Iran's Fajr Film Festival are seen fixing the hijab (veil) of a foreigner.

This image sheds more light into the reactionary mentality of those ruling this culture-rich country.
Iran's people, however, despise such measures.

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