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For those unfamiliar with the #Iranian regime
Noori-Hamedani, a senior cleric in #Iran:
"Those women & girls who place their headscarves on a stick, protesting compulsory #hijab are trash."
This is the mullahs' misogynist mentality.
@Gill_Leighton @PoliticalShort @SKYRIDER4538
And if you're looking for a link to his filthy remarks:
asriran.com/fa/news/593894…
For those unfamiliar with #Iran's mullahs
Authorities in this regime forced the #SouthKorea women's taekwondo team to wear #hijab.
Shame on the South Korean government that has given in to such pressures in order to gain business contracts with Tehran.
For those unfamiliar with the mullahs' regime:
Yazd, central #Iran
This sign literally shows the mullahs' discrimination, encouraging landlords to not provide housing to #Afghans or #Baluchistan residents.
For those unfamiliar with #Iran's mullahs...
Kazemi Sedighi, Friday prayer imam:
"Those who disrupt the society's security must either be executed or have their hands and feet amputated."
More reason for #IranianProtests.
For those unfamiliar with #Iran's mullahs...
These are the type of idiots ruling this country. The sign says it all...
More reason #IranProtests will continue.
Najaf Abad, central #Iran
The Nabi Akram clinic only allows women wearing head-to-toe "chadors" enter the facility, even if you have an urgent patient in need of emergency aid.
This is Iran under the misogynist mullahs' rule.
More reason for #IranProtests & #RegimeChange.
A woman trying to enter Tehran's Azadi Stadium during yesterday's match quotes a plainclothes agent that arrested her:
"If you promise to give birth to a pretty baby like yourself in a year, to remain busy & not come around here, I'll let you go."
This is #Iran's mullah regime...
For those unfamiliar with the mullahs' regime
March 2 - Alamalhoda, Friday prayer imam of Mashhad, NE #Iran
"Iran is the only country on earth where people can make decisions for themselves."
You be the judge.
More reason why #IranProtests will continue for #RegimeChange
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.

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Oct 9, 2018
#BREAKING
U.S. President Donald Trump has accepted the resignation of Nikki Haley as UN Ambassador.

My gut tells me an even bigger story will develop.

Rest assured #Iran's regime is terrified about who Trump/Pompeo will appoint as their new envoy.
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Add this to the long list linking #Iran's regime with international terrorism.

This time, the al Qaeda-affiliated al Shabaab militant group of Somalia.

More reason why a firm policy is needed against Tehran.
#WalkAway
uk.reuters.com/article/somali…
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#IranStrikes

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This goes alongside the truckers' nationwide strike that has spread to over 310 cities now.
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#Iran
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#BreakingNews
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Sources say "hardliners" are voicing threats about the signing of this bill.

(File Photo)
2)
#BreakingNews
"Regarding the FATF, should we commit suicide today by signing this bill because we're going to die in the future?" says Behrouz Nemati, a member of #Iran's Majlis (parliament).

Read more about Iran & the FATF here:
fatf-gafi.org/countries/#Iran
3)
"Hardliners in Iran’s parliament have opposed passing legislation toward compliance with FATF standards, arguing it could hamper Iranian financial support for allies such as Lebanon’s Hezbollah, which the US has classified as a terrorist organization."
reuters.com/article/us-ira…
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Oct 6, 2018
Short Thread:

1)
#Iran's #FakeNews machine at work:

"It did not say where Zahedifar was arrested. In a video carried by state broadcaster IRIB, a blindfolded man who identified himself as Zahedifar denied he had fled Iran."
uk.reuters.com/article/uk-ira…
2)
Here's the video.

#Iran
#FakeNews
3)
What a coincidence (!), all of this developing just "a week after Tehran sentenced three people to death in a drive against economic crimes."

#Iran
#FakeNews
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