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There are speeches and there are speeches, but King Abdullah II 🇯🇴 certainly spoke up about the situation on the West Bank in 🇺🇳 today.
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🚨🗣 Egypt's Coach Hossam Hassan couldn't control himself after full-time:
"I will say what's on my mind regardless of the consequence, this was clearly a rigged match and the whole world saw it"
"And I want to say one more thing, if they want them [Argentina] to win so bad, why call everyone to come and participate?"
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Zlatan Ibrahimović on the VAR decision that denied Iran a last-minute winner against Egypt:
🗣️ “This is exactly why people are losing faith in VAR. We're told it's here to eliminate clear mistakes, yet somehow it keeps creating even bigger controversies on football's biggest stage. That's simply unacceptable.”
“I've watched the replay again and again, and I still don't understand how anyone can call that offside. If you're going to cancel a goal that could decide a nation's World Cup, you better be 100% certain not guessing behind a screen.”
“Millions of Iranians celebrated what they believed was a historic moment, only for a group of officials to erase it within seconds. You didn't just disallow a goal you stole a nation's dream.”
“The referee and VAR officials should be held accountable for decisions like this. You cannot hide behind technology when the technology is being used incorrectly. That's not justice, that's incompetence.”
“A World Cup is played once every four years. Players sacrifice everything to get here, supporters travel across the world, and then one shocking decision destroys months of hard work. That is unforgivable.”
“If this is the standard of officiating at the biggest tournament in football, then something is seriously broken. Football deserves better, the players deserve better, and above all, the fans deserve far better than this.”
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Zlatan Ibrahimović did not make these statements. There is no record of him commenting on the Iran-Egypt VAR decision. The offside call that disallowed Iran's late goal in their 1-1 draw has been controversial.
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These grifters will tell you people went to boo the team. I’ve never seen a stadium this loud in support of Team Melli outside Iran.
Such losers trying to turn everything into an agenda.
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När vi gör mål, lagar exotisk mat, underhåller, etc, är det okej. Så länge vi är den sortens muslimer som är tillräckligt exotiska för att visa upp, men tillräckligt integrerade för att inte skapa dålig stämning, som att protestera mot ett troligt folkmord eller be, är vi halal.
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Reza Pahlavi’s supporters are marching in Germany wearing the symbol of SAVAK, his father’s notorious secret police, known for repression, torture and executions, to condemn executions by the regime in Iran and call for the return of SAVAK!!
#No2ShahNo2Mullahs
#ExposePahlavi
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Offenbar dient die islamische Ideologie in erster Linie als wirksames Instrument zur Unterdrückung der Massen und zur Selbstbereicherung einer privilegierten religiös-politischen Elite. Während die einfachen Gläubigen strengen moralischen und rechtlichen Regeln unterworfen sind, gönnt sich diese Elite genau jene Luxusgüter, Freiheiten und Ausschweifungen, die sie ihren Anhängern strikt verbietet.
Im Westen wird dieselbe Ideologie von Politik, Medien und großen Teilen der Wissenschaft als harmlose „Friedensreligion“ vermarktet. Die einheimische Bevölkerung soll mit ihren Steuergeldern nicht nur Ramadan-Beleuchtungen und andere religiöse Inszenierungen finanzieren, sondern den Hidschab – ein traditionelles Instrument weiblicher Unterdrückung – als emanzipatorisches Symbol von Selbstbestimmung feiern. Gleichzeitig wird von ihr erwartet, Praktiken wie Kinderehe und Polygamie stillschweigend zu dulden, alles im Namen von Inklusion, Toleranz und Diversity.
The security forces in Iran threw acid on Marziyeh for not covering her hijab “properly”.
And this one? The grandniece of Qasem Soleimani the slain IRGC commander, in a luxury life in America, without hijab.
Yes for us ordinary women in Iran: show our hair, lose our face, beaten by morality police, arrested, blacklisted, and even get killed like Mahsa, Jina Amini.
Outside Iran: be connected to the regime, enjoy your freedom.
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Ali Fahim, another protester that was arrested during the January protests, was executed today.
This is the fourteenth political prisoner to be executed since the start of the war.
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Avrättningarna i Iran fortsätter. Var är Europas stöd?
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Where is @PahlaviReza the leader of “MIGA” as his country’s universities and bridges are being hit? Does he care? Would he condemn?
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🇮🇷 'We have ntothing left to lose but the chains around our wrists'
@SaharZand, an Iranian-British investigative journalist based in London, reads messages she's received from inside Iran
Listen to the full interview on Iran: The Latest here 👇
linktr.ee/iranthelatest
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A letter from a former IRGC Ground Forces captain who defected from the regime.
“I joined the IRGC twelve years ago because I loved my country. Every day we were told that we were the true defenders of Iran, the shield protecting our borders from foreign enemies and terrorists. For a long time I believed it. I wore that uniform with pride.
But eventually it became impossible to ignore the reality of what we were actually protecting. We were not defending the people of Iran. We were defending the bank accounts of our commanders and the survival of a handful of men at the top of power.
My breaking point did not come on a battlefield. It came in the streets of our own cities. When the order came to treat our own brothers and sisters, students, hardworking fathers, and young women who only wanted basic human dignity, as enemies of God and to fire live ammunition into crowds, the illusion collapsed. You cannot look into the eyes of an unarmed twenty year old lying on the asphalt in a pool of blood and still convince yourself that you are on the right side.
I know there are thousands still inside the ranks of the IRGC who feel the same disgust I once felt. They stay because they fear for their families, because of economic pressure, or because the intelligence apparatus watches everyone. But to my former brothers who still wear that uniform, the regime is using you as a wall between its stolen wealth and the anger of the nation. When that wall finally collapses, and it will, they will flee in private jets to places like Caracas or Moscow. You will be the ones left to answer to the people of Iran.
I left everything behind because I could no longer be a jailer in my own home. Now my only hope is that the world hears the voice of the people inside Iran, and that those who still hold weapons lower them from the chests of our youth and finally stand with the people.”
Mehdi, former captain in the IRGC Ground Forces
«من دوازده سال پیش به سپاه پیوستم چون عاشق کشورم بودم. هر روز به ما میگفتند که ما مدافعان اصلی ایران هستیم، سپری که از مرزهایمان در برابر دشمنان خارجی و تروریستها محافظت میکند. مدتها این را باور داشتم. آن لباس را با افتخار میپوشیدم.
اما دیگر نمیشد واقعیتی را که در اصل از آن محافظت میکردیم نادیده گرفت. ما از مردم ایران دفاع نمیکردیم؛ ما داشتیم از حسابهای بانکی فرماندهان و بقای چند نفر در رأس قدرت دفاع میکردیم.
نقطه پایان من در میدان جنگ نبود. در خیابانهای شهرهای خودمان بود. وقتی دستور رسید که با برادران و خواهران خودمان، دانشجویان، پدران زحمتکش و زنان جوانی که فقط کرامت انسانی میخواستند، مثل «محارب» رفتار کنیم و با گلوله جنگی به سمت جمعیت شلیک کنیم، آن توهم فرو ریخت. نمیتوانی در چشمان یک جوان بیستساله بیسلاح که روی آسفالت غرق خون است نگاه کنی و باز هم خودت را قانع کنی که تو بر حق هستی.
میدانم هزاران نفر هنوز در بدنه سپاه هستند که دقیقاً همان حس انزجاری را دارند که من داشتم. آنها به خاطر ترس از جان خانوادههایشان، از روی ناچاری اقتصادی یا به این دلیل که حفاظت اطلاعات همه را زیر نظر دارد ماندهاند. اما خطاب به برادران سابقم که هنوز آن لباس را بر تن دارند: رژیم دارد از شما به عنوان دیواری بین ثروتهای دزدیدهشدهاش و خشم ملت استفاده میکند. وقتی این دیوار بالاخره فرو بریزد، که حتماً میریزد، آنها در جتهای شخصی به سمت کاراکاس یا مسکو میروند و این شما هستید که باید به مردم ایران جواب پس بدهید.
من همه چیز را رها کردم چون دیگر نمیتوانستم در خانه خودم یک زندانبان باشم. حالا تنها امیدم این است که دنیا صدای مردم داخل ایران را بشنود، و کسانی که هنوز اسلحه در دست دارند، آنها را از روی جوانان ما بردارند و بالاخره در کنار مردم بایستند.»
— مهدی، سروان سابق نیروی زمینی سپاه
#IranRevolution2026
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I don’t care what “side” you’re on, every single Iranian should condemn the U.S. strike on the school in Minab, & mourn those innocent schoolchildren.
Anything short of that is inhumane & shows you’re only pushing a specific narrative or agenda.
It was a war crime. Full stop.
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Azizam 🥹❤️
He says: “Even the dog is happy! Even the dog is happy!”
Received video with the note: “People’s celebrations in #Hashtgerd, #Iran, after hearing reports of #Khamenei’s death.”
Under the Islamic Republic authorities impose ongoing restrictions targeting pet dogs in public spaces.
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The streets of Iran are ecstatic with the news of Khamenei’s death.
Anyone trying to spin this moment as a negative is lying.
We don’t know what comes next for Iran. We just know for a brief moment people feel relief after 47 years.
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She was stripped naked on camera, denied urgent medical care, and now she has permanently lost sight in one eye.
Sara (Houra) Asgari, a young woman from Yasuj, was violently arrested on January 9, 2026 when IRGC Intelligence forces raided her home. She was held in solitary confinement for days, completely cut off from her family.
Inside detention, she was twice forced to undergo degrading body searches while filmed. Her cell’s extreme under-floor heating caused suffocating heat and physical distress. Under intense psychological pressure, her right eye began to fail. Within four days, she lost vision in it completely.
Doctors later confirmed severe fluid buildup behind the retina caused by extreme trauma and stress.
Even after prison medical staff formally approved an urgent hospital referral, the interrogating prosecutor refused, mockingly claiming her eye was “healthier than mine.” Critical treatment was delayed. By the time she was released on February 9, her condition had severely worsened. Attempts to restore vision failed due to life-threatening complications.
Sara’s blindness is not an accident. It is the result of torture, humiliation, and deliberate medical neglect.
