@PrivacyMattersJun 22

Sahar Delijani, Iranian author

I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves.
Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone.
That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins.
If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after.

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@Privacymatters wonderful words
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@PrivacyMattersJun 22

Sahar Delijani, Iranian author

I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves.
Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone.
That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins.
If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after.

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From a Channel 4 news interview https://www.channel4.com/news/wars-dont-bring-democracy-they-dont-bring-freedom-iranian-author
‘Wars don’t bring democracy, they don’t bring freedom’ – Iranian author

We spoke to Iranian author Sahar Delijani. Her book 'Children of the Jacaranda Tree' is based on her family's experience as political dissidents.

Channel 4 News
Show threadthierry thomasJun 22
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Show threadRoj 🏳️‍🌈Jun 22
@Privacymatters @thierry1thomas Thierry Iranian school girls (or women in general) in Iran don’t look like this at all. Wretched and not knowing what to do. This drawing is a bit insulting to us tbh.
Show threadthierry thomasJun 24
@mathcolorstrees @Privacymatters sorry if it is misunderstood: i wanted to point out the western vision of Iran, precisely, that believe we are going to free poor girls...
Show threadFrançois @PragueJun 22

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Russia "liberates" in a very similar fashion. Israel is no better than Russia.

Show threadDifferentEarth2060Jun 22
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Really? How many ethnic Russians from the Donbass did you ask before you got so sure of this conclusion?
Show threadSibrosanJun 23

@zir4n @FrancoisPrague @Privacymatters

You mean ethnic Russians from the Donbass who actually favor being in Russia, and who #Putin uses as an excuse for the "liberation" of #Ukraine 🤔

Show threadDifferentEarth2060Jun 23

@sibrosan @Privacymatters
Yep, those exact ones. Sure they're a lower-tier concern used as an excuse to prosecute a much higher-stakes war, which today can easily be expected in every case to be a war over resources between the different power centers of imperialist capitalism, each one trying to grow infinitely which is impossible on a finite planet.

But it's still a valid concern, at least if you subscribe to the doctrine that trying to erase an internal minority's language and culture should be called "cultural genocide", which a lot of Kiev supporters seem more than happy to do when it comes to Uyghurs in China. Just need to make up your mind in order not to be a hypocrite: is it "cultural genocide" and should it be condemned internationally when perpetrated against Ukraine's Russians as well as China's Uyghurs, or does that term apply to neither?

Show threadFrançois @PragueJun 23

@zir4n @Privacymatters

"ethnic Russian"? I thought you RuZZia fanboys used to say Ukraine and Russia are one people? Hoe then can there be ethnic differences huh? LOL
Ruzzian propaganda is for brainwashed only.

Show threadArvinJun 22
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Show threadArchaeoIainJun 22
@Privacymatters wonderful words
Show threadiveylineJun 23
@Privacymatters Agree 100%
Show threadEdeJun 23
@Privacymatters Violence always creates violence, never liberation