PERSIAN STUFF

My heart is bleeding for the people of Turkey and Syria… I can’t believe how small the reaction has been from the outside world. When Notre-Dame was on fire, people including celebrities rushed from all over the world to donate to save this historic, religous and monumental building. However, when it comes to the lives of middle easterners, that kind heart hardens into stone.

Around 40,000-50,000 people have died due to the massive earthquakes in Syria and Turkey. Both countries need our help.

The Red Crescent is the same thing as the Red Cross. You can help by donating money if you are able to do so, by spreading the word, or even by talking to people in your community such as in universities, the church and the mosque to collect clothes/gloves/diapers/blankets to be give to the people in Turkey and Syria who are now standing without a home during these cold months.

Take care of each other!

gorskivijenac:

Persian Jewish family from Orumiyeh, Iran, late 19th century. Sevryugin Anton Vasilievich, in private collection of Monika Feliksovna

religion-is-a-mental-illness:

Iran jails couple in viral dancing video: Activists

PARIS: An Iranian court has handed jail sentences of over 10 years each to a young couple who danced in front of one of Tehran’s main landma

Arab News

Published: Jan 31, 2023

PARIS: An Iranian court has handed jail sentences of over 10 years each to a young couple who danced in front of one of Tehran’s main landmarks in a video seen as a symbol of defiance against the regime, activists said on Tuesday.

Astiyazh Haghighi and her fiance Amir Mohammad Ahmadi, both in their early 20s, had been arrested in early November after a video went viral of them dancing romantically in front of the Azadi Tower in Tehran.

Haghighi did not wear a headscarf in defiance of the Islamic republic’s strict rules for women, while women are also not allowed to dance in public in Iran, let alone with a man.

A revolutionary court in Tehran sentenced them each to 10 years and six months in prison, as well as bans on using the Internet and leaving Iran, the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) said.

The couple, who already had a following in Tehran as popular Instagram bloggers, were convicted of “encouraging corruption and public prostitution” as well as “gathering with the intention of disrupting national security,” it added.

HRANA cited sources close to their families as saying they had been deprived of lawyers during the court proceedings while attempts to secure their release on bail have been rejected.

It said Haghighi is now in the notorious Qarchak prison for women outside Tehran, whose conditions are regularly condemned by activists.

Iranian authorities have clamped down severely on all forms of dissent since the death in September of Mahsa Amini, who had been arrested for allegedly violating the headscarf rules, sparked protests that have turned into a movement against the regime.

At least 14,000 people have been arrested, according to the United Nations, ranging from prominent celebrities, journalists and lawyers to ordinary people who took to the streets.

The couple’s video had been hailed as a symbol of the freedoms demanded by the protest movement, with Ahmadi at one moment lifting his partner in the air as her long hair flowed behind.

One of the main icons of the Iranian capital, the gigantic and futuristic Azadi (Freedom) Tower is a place of huge sensitivity.

It opened under the rule of the last shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in the early 1970s when it was known as the Shahyad (In Memory of the Shah) Tower.

It was renamed after the shah was ousted in 1979 with the creation of the Islamic republic. Its architect, a member of the Bahai faith which is not recognized in today’s Iran, now lives in exile.

(Source: twitter.com)

queerism1969:

nazarjoon:

arthurmoregun-deactivated202306:

There is going to be big protest on November 15th they will probably cut of our internet…don’t forget us…

theivorybilledwoodpecker:

Iran authorities threaten to ‘deal with’ beach footballers over hair-cutting protest gesture

Iran authorities threaten to ‘deal with’ beach footballers over hair-cutting protest gesture

MSN

Families, fans and media were prevented from meeting the team after the players arrived back in Tehran from a competition in Dubai. Media outlets outside Iran reported that the players had been arrested by security forces.

There was no immediate comment from the Iranian government, but Iran’s Football Federation announced on Monday that it would take action against players that contravened Fifa rules against “political behaviour”.

The national team won the Emirates International Beach Soccer Tournament 2-1 against Brazil on Sunday. However, Iranian players were filmed remaining silent when their national anthem was played during their semi-final.

After Iranian player Saeed Piramoon scored the winning goal, he mimicked cutting his hair - which has become a defining gesture of Iranians protesting against the death of Mahsa Amini in the custody of morality police in September.

metalheadsforblacklivesmatter:

Update on Iran. The Iranian parliament says protestors will now be sentenced to death.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRxAC8ju/

@staff still not putting Iran under things we care about.

-fae

radicalgraff:

“Keep your laws away from my body”

Seen in Iran during the ongoing protests sparked by the police murder of Jina Mahsa Amini in September.