Arash Azizi آرش عزیزی

What do Iranians want – and how can they achieve it? | The National Despite discontent with Islamic Republic rule, Iranians see few clear alternatives

Many see #Iran’s clerical leadership as glorifying a 47-year-old Islamic revolution that does not reflect their needs or desires. “People don't like the structures, the policies, they don't like the results of the policies,” @arashtehran.bsky.social told me www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/20...

“Those were alarms, you just didn’t want to listen,” is very good.

Interesting read on what's happening in #Iran:

#IranRevolution

In der aktuellen @jungle.world ist ein sehr informatives Interview über die Lage im #Iran mit @arashtehran.bsky.social erschienen 👇

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Tehran morgue videos show the brutality of Iran's crackdown on protesters Distressing footage reveals nearly 200 bodies with one victim identified as young as 16.

We've analysed new videos published by @vahid.online that show rows of body bags at the Kahrizak mortuary in Tehran on 10 January.

We've counted at least 186 bodies in one clip and at least 178 bodies in another, although the true figure is likely much higher.

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The Islamic Republic Will Not Last But the opposition has to start working together if something better is to follow.

I wrote about the Iranian protests, the challenges they face to bring about democratization and why I think the writing is on the wall for the Islamic Republic.

Let me know what you think!

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A good discussion from yesterday

The Islamic Republic Will Not Last But the opposition has to start working together if something better is to follow.

"... the regime won’t be able to kill its way out of this crisis. The core policies of the 1979 revolution—puritanical sociocultural repression at home and anti-Western and anti-Israeli activity abroad—will have to be discarded." by @arashtehran.bsky.social
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I wrote a chapter about it in my recent book! Yes, basically Iran first and non-interventionism. Similar to Americans not wanting their country in Vietnam

Is the Iranian Regime About to Collapse? Five conditions determine whether revolutions succeed. For the first time since 1979, Iran meets nearly all of them.

Question for @arashtehran.bsky.social: how do you interpret this protest slogan? Iran First?

"No to Gaza; no to Lebanon; my life only for Iran.”

From:
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Thank you so much for promoting them! Love David’s book also

A couple of BOOK EVENTS:

Tomorrow night @arashtehran.bsky.social is doing an online event with Backstory. backstory.london/products/wha...

Then on the 27th @shippersunbound.bsky.social is talking to David McCloskey in Dulwich about his latest book:
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Change May Be Coming to Iran Trump’s ouster of Venezuela’s president has the Islamic Republic on edge and the opposition energized.

I spoke with Arash Azizi about what is different between US policy on Venezuela and Iran.

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Entre les Mollahs, Israël et Trump : l’Iran pris au piège | Le Média Opposant au régime iranien, Arash Azizi alerte : entre la répression des mollahs, les menaces militaires de Trump et les calculs d’Israël, le peuple iranien est pris en étau.

ENTRE LES MOLLAHS, ISRAËL ET TRUMP : L’IRAN PRIS AU PIÈGE

@aminesnoussi.bsky.social reçoit @arashtehran.bsky.social dans ce nouvel Entretien d'Actu
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One of the most powerful images of the Iranian protests is that of an Iranian young woman burning Khamenei’s portrait, and lighting her cigarette with it.

Photographer unknown.

Change May Be Coming to Iran Trump’s ouster of Venezuela’s president has the Islamic Republic on edge and the opposition energized.

Change May Be Coming to Iran

Trump’s ouster of Venezuela’s president has the Islamic Republic on edge and the opposition energized.
@arashtehran.bsky.social

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Entre les Mollahs, Israël et Trump : l’Iran pris au piège | Le Média Opposant au régime iranien, Arash Azizi alerte : entre la répression des mollahs, les menaces militaires de Trump et les calculs d’Israël, le peuple iranien est pris en étau.

ENTRE LES MOLLAHS, ISRAËL ET TRUMP : L’IRAN PRIS AU PIÈGE

@aminesnoussi.bsky.social reçoit @arashtehran.bsky.social dans ce nouvel Entretien d'Actu

www.lemediatv.fr/emissions/20...

A man stands on a ladder in front of shelves, his face crossed out. Text reads TGS PRESENTS: The Hater’s Library

Listeners have been asking for a shoppable TGS bookshelf since we launched the show, so we’ve kindly obliged with the help of Bookshop!

You’ll be able to find books by our authors as well as the ones they’ve recommended on the pod, all while supporting indie bookstores! It’s really a win-win.

I really feel like the Tate Modern might be turning a corner. After years of incredibly tedious and annoying captions alongside very poorly conceived exhibitions, both Nigerian Modernism and the Emily Kam Kngwarray (closes on 11 January) are a massive return to form.

Iraq, Afghanistan, and Venezuela across the United States

CNN just pointed it out, but since no one has posted it yet, I'll be that guy. Here's today's round of Kill Your Inner Mercator: Iraq, Afghanistan, and Venezuela in a way your brain can handle

Trump on María Corina Machado: "I think it'd be very tough for her to be the leader. She doesn't have the support or the respect within the country. She's a very nice woman but she doesn't have the respect."

i think that people really underestimate reality that

1) administration has no doctrine, it is really about a single, mercurial, and half-awake man

2) the administration is a constantly churning system with factions that rise and fall contextually

3) might not have happened if trump tower caracas

FOX & FRIENDS: What do you think is next for the Venezuelan people now that you have removed Maduro so he can face American justice?

TRUMP: Well, we're making that decision now. We can't take a chance on letting somebody else run it, just take over where he left off. So we're making that decision

Iranians Have Had Enough Fed up with their country’s economic decline, Iranians have taken to the streets.

Can the protesters prevail against the Islamic Republic? Arash Azizi looks at the Iranian movement's challenges and prospects:

Lee: As a Black woman, there’s no way I don’t have hope. I’ve seen a lot in my life, and we have these moments of backward steps. But we have hope. I see hope. I see our young people—they have hope. I see them fighting hard for our democracy and for a better life.

i'm really having a hard time getting past the "surely we can all agree that Somalis are worse than trash" thing. this feels new and very bad

so who on here is talking about what’s going on in Iran?

The best history podcast there is

Here is the editor of Tablet agreeably reposting someone calling nonwhite NYC immigrants "worthless biotrash." It's astonishing how quickly this stuff has escaped containment