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My TEDxTalk on Iranian Gen Z finally dropped... 💫
NOTE: Dissident rapper Toomaj Salehi’s death sentence has been overturned, but he still languishes in prison.
Holly Dagres
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Holly Dagres
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Iranian-American (هالی دگرس) • @WashInstitute Senior Fellow • 15 years in MENA, Iran raised • TEDx Speaker • Newsletter: theiranist.com • فارسی/English
- Iranian guy found a Jamaican tourist visiting Iran during the Israeli strikes: "Hey bro, you scared?.. It's normal, enjoy your holiday!" 🤣
00:00 - What happens when your news anchor is Iranian... 💗 (Shally Zomorodi is Fox 5 San Diego’s morning news anchor.)
- I deleted the video of Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters showing solidarity with Iran. I had no idea he was an apologist for other authoritarian governments until friends brought it to my attention. 👎🏼
- Two-time Oscar-winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, speaking from Iran, invites "all artists, filmmakers, intellectuals, civil rights activists from all over the world" to stand in solidarity with the people of Iran by recording videos and writing. #MahsaAmini
00:00 - Iranian teenagers remove their headscarves and chant, "Death to Khamenei" as they walk past cars honking in solidarity on Tehran's Keshavarz Boulevard. #MahsaAmini
00:00 - Iranian soccer star Ali Karimi is one of the most prominent figures supporting the protests from inside Iran via his Instagram account with 11.6 million followers. Now IRGC-affiliated Fars News is calling for his arrest. #MahsaAmini telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
- These Iranian women are dancing without their headscarves in front of security forces in Saveh, central Markazi province. They are fearless. #Mahsa_Amini
00:00 - I love that this Iranian woman is sitting without a headscarf right by security forces without an ounce of fear #Mahsa_Amini
- Iranians cheer and yell, "Death to the dictator," as two men tear down the posters of the founder of the Islamic Republic Ayatollah Khomeini and Supreme Leader Khamenei on a municipality building in Sari, the capital of northern Mazandaran province. #Mahsa_Amini
00:00 - As the protests in Iran continue, there's a trend of clerical "turban throwing" #عمامه_پرانی Iranians are uploading videos of themselves knocking off or stealing a cleric's turban and (usually) running away. (Song is Toomaj Salehi’s "Rathole") #MahsaAmini
00:00 - This compilation of 16-year-old Sarina Esmailzadeh’s vlogs is so beautifully done but also equally heartbreaking. 💔 Sarina was killed by security forces on 9/23 and now authorities are trying to make it look like she committed suicide. #MahsaAmini #SarinaEsmailzadeh
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