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

Apr 15, 2018, 21 tweets

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.

The work of @ManaNeyestani.
For more explanation, see thread.

For those not familiar with #Iran's regime

Ahmad Jannati, head of the ultraconservative Guardian Council:
"Some people ask what's wrong with a few strands of a woman's hair being visible? A woman's hair being unveiled leads to divorce (!)"

donya-e-eqtesad.com/%D8%A8%D8%AE%D…

For those unfamiliar with the utterly reactionary & filthy mentality of the mullahs' ruling #Iran:

"Colleges & universities can be gender segregated. Mornings for boys, afternoons for girls. What's wrong with that?"

More reason why #IranProtests are seeking #RegimeChange.

For those unfamiliar with the utterly reactionary & filthy mentality of the mullahs' ruling #Iran:

"My sister, perfume the water by wearing a chador when swimming in a pool"

These are the exact words of a poster in Iran...
More reason for #IranProtests to realize #RegimeChange.

For those unfamiliar with the filthy mentality of the mullahs' ruling #Iran

I kid you not but Iranian regime media censors the bare skin of this member of the Turkmenistan women's futsal team. (L)

(The two right images I found on the web from the same match)

For those unfamiliar with the utterly ridiculous nature of #Iran's regime:

Members of IRGC Basij paramilitary holding a sign reading:
"We will destroy Israel with a can of water"

(I thought I had seen the climax of idiocy. This proved me wrong.)

For those unfamiliar with the utterly ridiculous nature of #Iran's regime:

Young men are lashed for just two alcoholic drinks...

Did you know that even whipping donkeys is considered a crime in some civilized countries?
#WeAreHostages

For those unfamiliar with the utterly ridiculous nature of #Iran's regime:

When a country is ruled by mullahs & the IRGC, they paint US & Israeli flags at the entrance of Mashhad's Azad University
#WeRespectUSFlag
#WeAreHostages

For those unfamiliar with the nature of #Iran's regime:

This is how this reactionary regime views school girls' hair being unveiled...

Telling cartoon by @ManaNeyestani

#WeAreHostages

For those unfamiliar with the nature of #Iran's regime:

This so-called reporter of the state-run IRIB network literally threatens the people he is interviewing.

US admin should #BanIRIB with heavy sanctions.
#WeAreHostages

For those unfamiliar with #Iran's regime:

Nader Qazipour, an "MP"

"Iran can manufacture airplanes & go through the trial & error process so many times, with the planes falling so many times, until it is exportable. If it crashes, so what!"
tabnak.ir/fa/news/804016…
#WeAreHostages

For those unfamiliar with #Iran's regime:

Officials ban a deaf girls’ sign language song, saying it resembles dancing

This proves the reactionary mentality of the mullahs' ruling this country.

#WeAreHostages, yet the answer lies in #IranRegimeChange.

For those unfamiliar with #Iran's regime:

Youcef Nadarkhani, an Iranian Christian pastor, and three other Iranian Christians have been sentenced to ten years behind bars "for being Christian."
iranianuk.com/20180531213304…

Be their voice.
#WeAreHostages
Solution: #IranRegimeChange

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