PhD, Iranian Studies | Assoc. Fellow, @MiddleEastInst | @ColumbiaSIPA alum | Commentary on Iranian FP, regional dynamics, & civil society | Farsi/English/French
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“Hostage of Iran.”
That’s how hardline Tehran daily Farhikhtehgan celebrated the Democratic House and Senate sweep against the GOP and Trump last night.
It also pictured Trump as a hostage in a poignant reminder that exactly 47 years ago today, radical revolutionary students stormed the US embassy in Tehran and took over 50 US diplomats hostage for 444 days.
The paper went on to brag, “47 years after the historic triumph of seizing the “Den of Espionage” and determiningthe course of American domestic policy in Iran, the fate of the U.S. elections is once again being decided in Tehran.”
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🧵WATCH THIS FIRST
@NazeeMoinian on @marthamaccallum / The Story. Iranian-born. Fled Tehran at the start of the 1979 revolution. She is not guessing.
youtube.com/watch?v=fmBuaH0C…
Nazee Moinian told Martha MacCallum the truth most of Washington still will not say out loud.
She was born and raised in Tehran. She left when the Islamic regime seized power in 1979. She watched the videos of the regime opening fire on its own people — women, men, children — and said she was not surprised. Then she asked the only question that matters:
If they slaughter their own citizens for demanding freedom, imagine what they will do to everyone else.
She called it an international threat. Not a “regional issue.” Not a gas-price story. A defining moment.
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@NazeeMoinian, Associate Fellow at MEI, on reports that Russia is secretly helping Iran develop supersonic cruise missiles:
"It's alarming and uncomfortable to think that a rogue regime like Iran could gain possession of this technology and be able to share it with its proxies and other rogue actors."
foxnews.com/video/6404507299…
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President Trump is demonstrating to the Iranians that he is not deterred by them despite Tehran perceiving he is. The synchronization of U.S. military strikes, the U.S. naval blockade, and stepped-up sanctions from Operation Economic Outcast is an unprecedented dynamic in American pressure against #Iran's regime.
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“We don’t have a partner for PEACE in Iran.”
Nazee Moinian says those in power are committed to preserving the regime.
“They don’t share Western values — and any agreement they sign isn’t worth anything.”
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The 1953 coup still haunts Iran policy. But today’s debate is driven by two flawed assumptions: lingering guilt over 1953 and faith that the regime can reform.
@NazeeMoinian joins @mdubowitz to explain why reform isn’t just unlikely, it’s a myth.
🎧: youtube.com/live/3DTX9mGNAuY…
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.@NazeeMoinian explaining exactly how I and my entire family responded to hearing the news that President @realDonaldTrump has attacked the nuclear sites in Iran as well as actions by taken by Israel.
It is bitter sweet. No one wants their motherland to be attacked by foreigners however, Iran was taken hostage by foreign rooted Islamists 46 years ago and the Iranian people are hopeful that it is possible for Iran to once again be great again.
MAKE PERSIA GREAT AGAIN
MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN
#Iran
#IranIsraelConflict
@marthamaccallum
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The Iranian Regime
History, Khamenei’s Power, Control, & The Future
Some Future Day Show Ep. 62 feat. Middle East Expert Nazee Moinian (@NazeeMoinian).
Now On: YouTube, Spotify, & Apple
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Footage of #Iran's regime's president's helicopter before the "hard landing." You can see Mohammed Ali Ale-Hashem, Khamenei's representative in East Azerbaijan Province and IRI's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on board.
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Iran’s Food & Drug Administration has ordered pharmacies to force their female staff to wear black veils at workplace. Iranian men are mocking this order and supporting their female colleagues by wearing hijab.
Compulsory hijab is the main pillar of a religious relationship. Together we will bring this wall down.
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So far, @IsraeliPM is the only world leader who has reacted to the execution of #MohammadMehdiKarami & #MohammadHosseini in Iran.
Where is the always worried west? Where are the rest of the leaders?
#MahsaAmini
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Watch for increasing arson at #IR bases, seminaries, mosques and other symbolic structures.
Physically/emotionally exhausted, #Iranianprotesters will launch attacks with lower risk and higher payoff.
The regime that has ruled by fear will die in fire. iranintl.com/en/202212108668
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Her name is #GhazalRanjkesh, from Bandar Abbas in #Iran; she lost her right eye to pellet bullets during the protests. "The last image my right eye recorded was the person's smile when he shot,” she says. #MahsaAmini #مهسا_امینی #IranRevoIution2022
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BREAKING: The Parliament of Canada 🇨🇦 is first in world to adopt motion calling to remove the Islamic regime of Iran from the UN Women's Rights Commission “given the brutal death of Mahsa Amini at the hands of the IRGC, the subsequent crackdown in Iran on women's rights...” /1
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Women are getting killed in Iran for not wearing hijab but see how the top Revolutionary Guards general & current transport minister, Rostam Qasemi enjoys freedom with his unveiled girlfriend in Malaysia.
The hypocrite regime is killing teenagers for #WalkingUnveiled.
#MahsaAmini
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Heading for a Revolution in Iran? | Join @AlinejadMasih & @NazeeMoinian as they discuss current protests in #Iran - and what they spell for the future of the regime.
10/6, at 2:30pm ET. Register below. mei.edu/events/heading-revol…
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The women of Iran, the people of Iran, have their Rev. Martin Luther King. Electrifying speech:
I got goosebumps from the energy of the huge rally in LA in solidarity with #MahsaAmini. I told them that we will export women’s revolution from Iran to the Middle East. Together we will end religious dictatorship. We will and political Islam.
#مهسا_امینی
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Calling on YOU to join us & take part in the Global Day of Action for Iran, Saturday, Oct 1st. There is a mass uprising underway in Iran, sparked by the death of #MahsaAmini. Please stay informed, share & keep this movement alive.
Music: @shervinine
#IranProtests
#مهسا_امینی
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Outside help for the Iranian protestors standing courageously against the brutal regime will not delegitimize their struggle. It will help them; it will increase the likelihood of success; it may also keep them alive.
#IranRevolution #IranProtests2022 #Mahsa_Amini