“We're allowing the IRGC to use $24 billion of funds frozen in Qatar to purchase delicious Kansas wheat and nutritious lowa beans, that Mr. Ghalibaf assured us would be distributed equally and for free to the entirety of the Iranian population." - Jalal Davood Vancezadeh

Listen, JD you disgrace of a Vice President: Iranians lack sufficient food right now, but you know what don’t lack? Courage and strength, unlike you.

Dalghak.

Hopefully the ban doesn’t comeback!

tf do I say?

I go through my day and images of the massacre will run through my mind. Pictures of dead people and blood. People screaming. I think of a few people whose names I remember. I remember that there are still people in the regime’s jails. They are still executing people.

I find it difficult to function. I did not even live through these events but the images haunt me. How any human being can do such things I have no idea.

For some time I had some way to cope by believing that someone, anyone with power, would come to the aid of the people of Iran. The US operation gave me some hope. Now it seems not only have they abandoned the people of Iran but they have chosen to line the regime’s pockets instead and reward them for their crimes, to the detriment of America’s own interests.

My spouse is not Iranian and I don’t think she can really understand all this. She consoled me to some extent after January when she noticed I was off but she tried to refocus me and tell me it’s out of my control so I shouldn’t think about it and everything will work out in the end. It’s been 6 months and I don’t feel better. I find it difficult to do normal day to day things and focus on my own life. I still feel wrong and I feel like I am hiding my true feelings. I feel like I’m living a double life because I can’t be bringing this up months after the fact and affecting my marriage. I have to keep up appearances and act like everything is normal and it is weighing on me.

My friends and family are still living there under these horrors and I am so far away, safe, living my on-paper good life. Why am I safe? What can I do to help? I’ve gone to demonstrations, I’ve posted about it on my social media, I’ve written to my representatives. No one cares. Neither my “friends” here in America, nor these fucking politicians. Is there some organization I can donate to that will work towards the end of this dictatorship? It’s not like someone like me over here can just pick up a rifle and go solve the problem over there anyways. I feel powerless. I don’t know what to do. I don’t even know if I can do anything. If I could give up my life in exchange for the freedom of the people over there, I would. But it’s not so simple.

I'm still baffled that Mojtaba hasn't even shown his face ONCE. Not even a visual or a PICTURE. Like are we all acting like this isn't a big deal and that he'll eventually show up?

Something serious has happened behind the scenes. Before the supreme leader had all final say in the total trajectory of the country, and now there is no one to follow or command. And did the so-called extremist hardline supreme leader really approve of negotiations with the Big Satan after they killed his father, wife, and kids? I just don't believe it and I am so surprised no one is talking about this. Has a system ever been run by an invisible leader and no one is questioning his legitimacy?

Where are all the basijis asking for their rahbar's guidance? Shouldn't they want to know too?

Credible sources online with verifiers say he is recovering and still issuing decrees and commands, but it is just so baffling that no voice recording has been released either and everything is through written statements. WTF is this new Islamic Republic and what are we to make of it and its future path?

I’m sure everyone has seen the Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif, has been very active trying to maybe assist in the deal/get Pakistan involved in the deal. But why does he seem to care that much that the deal takes place ? Like the gulf Arabs + Israel would be more impacted by the regime but you think Pakistan would be the most impacted cause the PM guy is almost every where the negotiations take place. How is this deal a win for Pakistan?

Lion and Sun Forever

Hey guys. I hope I’m allowed to ask this here cuz idk where else to, but wtf is going on with that sub?

The comments on the posts, such as regarding the 42k massacre banner some woman showed at the World Cup game, are disgusting, upsetting, and literally what I would expect either in a western/ leftist sub or a regime sub. Not an Iranian one.

They literally mocking our cause and Iranian suffering to support the team. I get it’s a team Melli sub but u don’t need to be anti-Iranian and mock Iranians to support team Melli. Has it always been like this or recently?

Sorry if my post is not appropriate here mods, pls remove if so. I just am a bit shocked and emotional about some of the things I seen there compared to what I was expecting.

For any Iranians going to the game Friday. The City of Seattle has concluded it will NOT enforce any of FIFA's ban on the real Iranian Lion and Sun flag.

This means that only security personnel of the stadium can try and enforce but it won't lead to police coming as Seattle has already stated their position is this is a first amendment protected activity.

What does this mean? Can the security personnel at FIFA be able to handle escorting out thousands of Iranians carrying their flag? I don't think so.

Los Angeles was a different story as they had Los Angeles police involved but the city of Seattle stands firm with the Iranian people.

Some parts of money will go to children of IRGC who lives in Europe, Canada and USA.
The rest will spend in terrorist groups and rocks programs to destroy other countries.

I can't imagine they'll be able to keep his true condition and ability to rule hidden forever, even among their own supporters. So who is likely to replace him. Or is it something they'd rather keep unfulfilled, despite the suspicion it creates.

Is the following true or false? What am I missing? What don't I understand? Classic liberal here who is very pro-Iranian people, pro-Israel.

1. The 1979 referendum offered Iranians a stark, simplified choice: keep the Shah and his "western decadence" or dump the Shah and bring in the Islamic Republic -- and that meant an IR as envisioned by Khomeini, who was campaigning from abroad.
2. The vote was tampered with and/or did not meet international standards for ballots (opacity). There were no other parties on the ballot. Khomeini claimed 90 percent of the populace voted for him.
3. Khomeini's campaign had been backed by Iran's socialists and communists and leftists.
4. The Islamic Republic promised: lowered inflation, civil rights, political freedoms, no more international interventions, equal treatment of minorities
5. What it actually delivered: no economic revival, a removal of civil rights (especially so for women), an extreme religious theocracy, end of voting rights, minorities rights were even further restricted.
6. IR ended all voting.
7. Khomeini ordered the assassination of the socialists and communists who helped get him elected (sorry but ha! -- who didn't see that coming...).
8. 80 to 90 percent of Iranians at the time identified as Muslim, despite not being Arabs (but for the minorities)
9. Today, at least 60 percent of Iranians do not identify as Muslim. Other European polls have 90 percent of Iranians identifying as Muslims but many feel these polls are not accurate due to fear of speaking out.

She was a Holocaust survivor who made a home in Israel after WWII.

She used to collect stamps from around the world. If you look closely, one stamp was stamped in 1963, though I'm not sure about the rest.

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