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Recent ambiguous remarks from #Iran's Attorney-General have been widely reported as to mean the Morality Police have been shut down — but what did he really mean? https://t.co/WweAk7jATi #truth #mahsaamini #Hijab #IranianWomen #MoralityPolice #MoralityPoliceShutDown
President Ebrahim Raisi said the constitution, was “the most progressive law in the world”, and has “fixed the [Islamic Republic’s] unchangeable principles" https://t.co/iYNRt8t9L5 #truth #iran #IranRevoIution2022 #MahsaAmini
Four citizens, named Hossein Ordukhanzadeh, Shahin Imani Mahmudabad, Milad Ashrafi Atbatan and Manochehr Shahbandi Bejondi, were charged with "intelligence cooperation" with Israel and "kidnapping”. They were subsequently sentenced to death. https://t.co/JD39idriR7 #truth
EXCLUSIVE REPORT: we expose, for the first time, the role of #Russia and the Sports Ministry and sports federations in #Iran in the training of Iranian security forces in Systema Spetsnaz, a Russian style of hand-to-hand fighting. https://t.co/6OC5EYa3gf #truth #IranProtests2022
The Islamic Republic has repeatedly abducted bodies of those killed in the crackdown on recent protests: to take revenge on the families, to prevent protesters gathering at funerals, or pressure families to give a false account of the deaths. https://t.co/wv4vcqOqxr #Truth #Iran
Molavi Abdolhamid Ismaeelzahi, Iran’s Most Prominent Sunni Cleric https://t.co/yd6KTQ5fL3 #truth
Parisa Sohrabi recently had surgery to treat a brain tumour and requires continuous medical attention. #Bahai https://t.co/yC9NZZdqUM #persecutingreligiousminorities
Atena Daemi, a human rights activist, has reported the dire situation for female inmates in #Iran’s notorious Evin prison in a series of posts on Twitter. @AtenaDaemi https://t.co/YPnesEorQA #truth #Mahsa_Amini #IranianWomen #IranProtests
This is the story of a man who was supposed to be the head coach of a football team, but has degraded himself to the point of defending the ideologies and policies of the Islamic Republic and becoming one of the agents of the regime. https://t.co/4bRgA9jUvV #truth #IranProtests
How Argentina’s Junta Used 1978 World Cup To Whitewash Bloody Rule https://t.co/QJ9cPnOeK3 #truth #Iran #Argentina #WorldCup #WorldCup2022
Arshia Iman Gholizadeh Alamdari, a 16-year-old Iranian teenager, had told his friends that guards were giving pills to the inmates every night and were beating them with batons. https://t.co/IzyT8xzJEh #truth #IranProtests #IranRevoIution2022
There is an ongoing "military coup" in Iran to control Iranian sport – and football in particular. This raises questions about politics interfering in sport. https://t.co/phQZYUl4Vr #truth #WorldCup2022 #Qatar2022 #Iran
A young Iranian woman has been in detention for the past 46 days in #Iran for a single post on Twitter and has been deprived of life-saving medicine. https://t.co/yC9NZZv1Mk #truth #IranProtests2022 #IranRevoIution2022
Thirteen Intelligence Department agents raided the houses of Roha Imani and Firuzeh Sultan Mohammadi and, after searching the houses, arrested both of them and transferred them to an unknown location, sources told IranWire. https://t.co/g6hAEMRvtC #persecutingreligiousminorities
Family House Of Iranian Climber Rekabi "Destroyed" https://t.co/MyJ8KzzGOA #truth #IranProtests2022 #IranRevolution #Elnaz_Rekabi
The Office for Sunnis has published a statement announcing that it has identified the individuals who “infiltrated” Friday Prayers in Zahedan. #Iran https://t.co/FHogVmzm7N #truth
Payam Vali was taken to custody after police raided his home and workplace. He was severely beaten and during interrogations, Vali was pressured to give forced confessions. #Iran https://t.co/WlyWIoB2xq #persecutingreligiousminorities #bahai #IranRevoIution2022
The brutal crackdown by #Iran's security forces on nationwide protests has reportedly claimed the lives of more than 50 under-18s. https://t.co/B0XfmtSbto #truth #IranProtests #IranRevoIution2022
The team that had been a catalyst in unifying Iranians in past decades has been split in two for the people: the “Iranian national team” and the "Islamic Republic team". https://t.co/NtMeTP5fVA #truth #WorldcupQatar2022 #Khamenei #Iran
Four prisoners have been executed in #Iran on the charge of "collaboration with Israel". This comes amid reports of protesters facing heavy sentences as mass anti-government protests continue across the country. https://t.co/JD39idITIF #truth #IranRevoIution #IranRevolution2022
The ongoing repression in #Iran’s province of #Kurdistan is on a different scale from the oppression that has been imposed on Kurdish people living in western Iran since the founding of the Islamic Republic 43 years ago. https://t.co/Lr8PaVPTf4 #truth #IranRevoIution #Kurdistan
Flow Of Prisoners Brings More Hell To Iran’s Qarchak Prison https://t.co/KfFwNhuup1 #truth #IranRevoIution2022 #IranProtests2022
The heads of the Iranian legislative and executive branches of government have spoken against any change to the constitution, amid weeks of nationwide popular protests calling for more freedoms and women's rights. #IranProtests2022 https://t.co/iYNRt8tHAD #truth #MahsaAmini