#whats happening in iran

[heritageposts]

iran has the right to defend itself

[beansprean]

After they run away together, Marwa and the Djinn make like tourists through modern day Iran! I wish I had the energy to do a more detailed background bc every ref of Iranian street markets was so colorful and full of STUFF, extremely overwhelming, no wonder Marwa had to ask him to stop buying everything she looked at. SIMP.

(ID in alt and under cut)

ID: 1. Marwa and the Djinn in an outdoor street market somewhere in Iran. Marwa is wearing a loose green halter dress over a long sleeve yellow shirt with brown leaf patterns. She has a yellow belt at her waist and a dark puce hijab over her hair. She is leaning down to look through a telescope for sale, cooing with interest, "Ooh, this one is nice, as well!" Behind her, the Djinn, wearing his usual rumpled brown suit, jumps to attention and instinctively clicks his pen. A "sold" tag poofs into existence on the telescope.

2. Marwa turns to the Djinn with a confused smile, reminding him, "You don't have to conjure everything for me..." The Djinn grabs the wrist holding his pen with his other hand, shaking with effort as he tries to lower it forcibly. "Sorry," he grimaces, flushing red.

3. Later, the market now closing as night settles and the full moon rises in the sky, Marwa and the Djinn walk side by side. Marwa has a leather satchel strapped over her shoulder and is happily munching on a stick of Jigar, flowers floating around her head. The Djinn walks next to her, holding his own empty stick in one hand and a load of shopping bags in the other. His expression is vaguely dazed as he gazes past the viewer, flowers also floating around his head. Text pointing to him reads 'best day ever' /end ID

[theskeletonrests]

Everyone at work is either joking or confused about the situation with Iran, Isreal and Gaza and its like.... Are yall okay? You know that people are being killed explicitly and Iran is actually trying to show the world that this cannot continue and shouldn't be happening????

I genuinely dont understand how insane people are when it comes to people outside their own country.

Fuck

[deaddee-anime-brownfanlady]

[greencarnation]

There is no such thing as too much or too little you can do for Iran right now. Talk to your friends, tell your family - mainstream news is barely covering this, and people without social media are unlikely to know much. Sign and share petitions, create and promote content, do not stop talking. Write to your local parliament, and attend protests in your area. If you don't have any, see how you can get involved in organizing them. From what I understand US sanctions make it impossible to donate money, though.

This is overwhelming for everyone, but we owe it to the people of Iran to not close are eyes now. They don't have the luxury of ignorance. We must be their voices while they're being silenced. We can't let the world forget them.

If all you can do is share, do that! Do that! Don't underestimate how much the smallest things help, and remember that anything is better than silence.

[freedom-barricades-bighero16]

Shortlist of the issues I care about / support:

Movements that are part of the Milk Tea Alliance:

Free Hong Kong

Taiwan's struggle against Chinese encroachment

Thailand Protests

Myanmar anti-coup protests

Free Tibet

East Turkestan Independence

Black Lives Matter

Woman, Life, Freedom

Ukrainian resistance against Russia

Free Palestine

If you're asking me why I'm supporting Palestine, that's because I believe human rights should be for everyone in the world and not just for people who are like me. Whoever is under oppression and needs help, I will stand with them.

And my support for Palestine will not diminish my support for these other movements that I'm already getting behind.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

[menalez]

when will we stop the on and off separatism discourse and on and off “am i a radfem if i-” discourse and the goldstar discourse and the motherhood discourse and the children discourse and is transition mutilation discourse and instead start focusing on the real issues? you guys can discourse like your lives depend on it when it comes to things that’ll ultimately only matter to us and not 99.9999% of women worldwide but when it’s something that DOES affect most women, you give it less attention. when will that stop? can we not just agree to disagree after hashing out such topics to a ridiculous extent and start focusing on things that matter more instead?

[skitskatdacat63]

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[whyshedisappeared]

fun fact, my Jewish grandma who's a 7th generation in Israel, who's family escaped from like half of the Arab countries in the world, is also Palestinian. because that was the name of Israel before we got our independence in 1948 and the people who lived here were Palestinian. which is my way of telling you that just because there's something before 48 that says palestine, doesn't mean it's evidence that the Palestinians were here before the Jews because Jews who lived here were also, shocking, Palestinian.

[ovrgrwn]

The media blackout on what is happening is Iran Is utterly disgusting and I am mourning for every colonized country on earth that has integrated Islamophobia into their culture.

Tens of thousands of women and protesters will be executed and not one country is doing anything about it, let alone talking about it.

[heritageposts]

Podcast w/Rania Khalek and Nima Shirazi, link + transcript above ↑

[isitandwonder]

Hey, fellow Timothee Chalamet fans, remember this?

The Afghanistan charity hoodie he designed with Haider Ackerman.

The female face on it is the Iranian actress Gol Farahani. She now lives in France and is very supportive, outspoken and active on Instagram regarding the current revolution in Iran.

Follow her to learn and witness what's happening in Iran right now!

[meilas]

just heard my classical+news radio station refer to the genocide as “israel’s war against hamas” and then a minute later claimed that iran attacked israel.

[moonlayl]

Yeah, I’m not really understanding where this idea that every muslim-majority country has “morality” police, or mandates all women (even non-muslims) to wear hijab, is coming from???

No. The majority of countries with a large population of muslims don’t force women to wear the hijab. 

I’ve literally lived in and visited more than a dozen Arab countries, and it’s not uncommon to see non hijabis everywhere.

More Muslim women are punished for choosing to wear the hijab, actually. 

More countries (or at least regions of a country) have bans or restriction on hijab, then countries that mandate hijab. 

In fact, many muslim majority countries actively try (through media, tv shows, movies, etc...) to subtly (and often not too subtly) spread islamophobic messages, and most of the dictatorships in the Middle East have an islamophobic agenda. 

This is not me saying women who are forced, or live in the country where they have no choice shouldn’t be heard, or that it’s “not as important” because they’re the minority, I’m just saying stop spreading false information. 

I’m seeing way too many people be far too comfortable equating Iran and Saudi Arabia with every other Middle Eastern country, which makes no sense.

People are really out here acting like the word “Middle East” or “Muslim-majority country” is a synonym to Iran, when it’s not the case.

[insane-control-room]

if i see any posts that are supporting hamas, i am going to instantly report the blog to tumblr as glorifying terrorism. i dont expect anything to be done, but im sick of the one sidedness of the goyim of this website, and at least theyll be blocked from me.

i will not stand for anyone supporting a group that forcibly makes jews, hindus, druze, buddists, atheists, zoroastrians, sikhs, jains, and christians pay a jizyah, convert, or die.

thats what hamas is. go learn about arab colonialism.