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7 Jun 2023 1 minute read 3 comments Melina Mehr
The videos received by Iran International show that young people in the Razmian city of Qazvin province set government banners with pictures of Khomeini and Khamenei (former and current leaders of the regime) on fire. Raha Anari, a 17-year-old pr...
5 Jun 2023 8 minute read 3 comments Rorschach's Journal
Once again, I have had the pleasure of reading the thoughts of my Iranian correspondent. Here's what he wrote tonight. (It gets pretty indignant and heated, in case you need a warning for emotive/inflammatory language.) As always, the words in quotes...
31 May 2023 2 minute read 1 comment Great White Snark
"How do you feel about helping stave off starvation for/in at least one individual in a country with a religiously oppressive government, no means of income and no access to outside aid?" That is the question I asked my sponsor a few days ago. Thus...
20 May 2023 1 minute read 1 comment Melina Mehr
They quote Harriet Tubman, saying "I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves." Only a person such as me who is living in a society that unthinkable is accepted but the same crowd that unthinkab...
17 May 2023 1 minute read 1 comment Melina Mehr
When the streets of my homeland, Iran were bleeding, covered in violence, screams, and bullets, and the revolution was raging passionately, many believed that the rule of the Islamic Republic of Iran was nearing its end. However, the dictatorship p...
29 Apr 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Melina Mehr
In the midst of unholiness, as people despair left and right, there is always a narrow ray of hope, shining through the smallest cracks of the earth. The embodiment of never-stopping yet unsatisfied humanity's endeavor for justice and salvation. If y...
20 Apr 2023 1 minute read 6 comments Melina Mehr
We have started a new chapter as a nation, something really exciting and terrifying indeed. Whenever we go, we recognize each other by shouting: woman! Life! Freedom! Cyclists riding the freeway showed me victory signs as I yelled our motto, no wo...
30 Mar 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Melina Mehr
Toomaj Salehi ... It’s been more than 5 months (152 days) of the Iranian rapper spending time in prison, in solitary confinement. This is Toomaj, A short introduction: Iran authorities have been creating a huge pile of so-called evidence again...
17 Mar 2023 1 minute read 4 comments Melina Mehr
We are approaching the New Year and spring is upon us. The season of growth. This year was a strange one indeed. A thrilling painful year full of uncertainty, regret, unity, and eventually hope. Its autumn started with an uncanny shock; the Unholy...
8 Mar 2023 1 minute read 2 comments Melina Mehr
When this amazing movement first started in Iran, it ignited a fire in all of us that we had tried to ignore for o many years. We always knew the way of our lives isn’t fair & we were forced to be obedient. But suddenly it all changed, with the d...
