Remember Toomaj? The radical rapper from Iran, for example a year ago releasing a rap https://yewtu.be/watch?v=SBG27SseNgg against State-murder (death "penalty") and going straight from jail to releasing another rap https://yewtu.be/watch?v=PAR2Uo-vmgY promising to not stop protesting for freedom even if it means death, as well as before that this https://yewtu.be/watch?v=2-6OwTTfN2A excellent one in support of the Iran-wide teachers' strikes and protests in ~130 cities demanding livable wages and job security which was ongoing for about 2 years before the current revolution.
Well, Toomaj is now being prosecuted with a State-murder sentence requested as part of the crackdown against dissidents to crush the protests for freedom sparked by regime-forces murder Jîna/Mahsa Amini.
You know what's extra cute, is that the horns you hear honking ain't in displeasure as you might think elsewhere, but in support, as several people have already been shot through the head for driving to protests to honk in support of the protests and obstruction to the Iran-regime.
Have another freedom Shiraz tonight! Yes, I am trying to make puns on Shiraz (and Arak) being names of wine (and liquor). Anyway, Shiraz in south Iran demands freedom tonight.
Hah! These are not just any fireworks, these are fireworks of liberation from the State! Tonight the people of Bukan, Rojhelat/NW Iran celebrated that the State's forces fled the city, according to the Hengaw human rights organization.
Sometimes I feel like I must preface a news report with a disclaimer. I am NOT OK with attacking Mosques, or any religious buildings, in general. However... the Iran-regime is a theocracy. It is built on a foundation of (a disputable interpretation of) a religion, which makes its institutions the State and all States are oppressive.
Anyway, here's the seminary of Bojnord, northeast Iran, tonight:
I stand by what I said already on September 19, that the current antiauthoritarian feminist revolution, then "just" a sparse uprising, "[...] reminds me of the scenes at the beginning of the Rojava Revolution.", over at https://nitter.net/b9AcE/status/1571821250636283907 the birdsite.
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