wrote this 4 @thewalrus, roundtable of experts on war w #Iran on April 6. Despite so-called #ceasefire, strategic asymmetry remains unchanged
“For the Iranian regime, pressure is read as existential threat; concession is only possible if it extends regime survival.”
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"We need humanitarian intervention, we need policy intervention & we need to understand the agency of Iranian people. War negates all of that." @maralkay.bsky.social via Wendy Kaur @yahoocanada.bsky.social
Media, contact Karimi @ tinyurl.com/3stwujwy #IranWar
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Opinion: I wrote a book about resistance movements in Iran. This is what Canada needs to do now, writes @maralkay.bsky.social
My contribution to @thewalrus.ca
on what the coverage of #IranWar is missing:
External war does not automatically produce democratic transition. It can strengthen the very security institutions that suppressed the #WomanLifeFreedom movement.
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From fears of a wider war to Canada’s stance under international law, what comes next after the U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran? @jeyantvo.bsky.social asks @maralkay.bsky.social (@torontomet.bsky.social) and Jon Allen (@utoronto.ca), former Canadian ambassador to Israel.
“I’m not comfortable with Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu deciding who the good guys and bad guys are in the world.” — former Canadian ambassador Jon Allen (@utoronto.ca) on the attack on Iran, with @maralkay.bsky.social (@torontomet.bsky.social) & @jeyantvo.bsky.social | Producer: Preeti Bhuyan
was quoted in @LeDevoir on rising U.S.–Iran tensions: U.S. intervention would likely begin w limited targeted strikes on nuclear sites not #regimechange, warning Iranian lives risk being instrumentalized amid escalating rhetoric & internal repression
#IranProtests
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I sat down with Jayan Jeganathan @JeyanTVO of @TVO for an in depth conversation on #IranProtests, Trump's plans for Iran and the opposition.
Watch full video tonight on TVO or later on YouTube (I shall post).
Special thanks goes to @PreetiBhuyan for producing.
"Iran is going to be an extremely tough pill to swallow for [Trump]... he doesn't have an endgame in Iran," @maralkay.bsky.social (@torontomet.bsky.social) tells @jeyantvo.bsky.social, tonight on The Rundown at 8pm | Producer: Preeti Bhuyan
I’ll be speaking live on CBC Radio across multiple regional programs discussing #IranProtests
Starting 2:30 pm local time, airing coast to coast to coast, including Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa, Halifax, Calgary…
You can listen on CBC radio live, by tuning into regional station
#DigitalBlackoutIran
4-In other words, they have accepted, a century ago, that resistance and emancipation are long term projects that need to be developed from bottom up.
#بژی_کوردستان
#IranProtests2026
3-The political maturity of the Kurdish region never ceases to amaze, but it is not accidental. It is the cumulative outcome of decades of resistance, collective organization, and the deliberate cultivation of grassroots political consciousness.
#بژی_کوردستان
#IranProtests2026
2-The route to emancipation in Iran passes through #Kurdistan & does not include a singular authoritarian figure, crowned or turbaned, at the helm. Iran will not progress an inch unless it addresses its gender apartheid and its ethnic minoritization.
#بژی_کوردستان
#IranProtests2026
In solidarity with protests across Iran, Kurdish regions have gone on strike. As the images show, shops are closed, no foot traffic, and even street vendors have complied.
#بژی_کوردستان
#IranProtests2026
Elon is a fascist
My latest op-ed on #Iran-Israel war in the @thestar.com
"Western coverage often casts Iranians as a single, uniform bloc, either villains or oppressed. On the ground, however, reality shows a far more intricate, textured landscape."
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Reporter: "How imminent is #Israeli strike on #Iran"
#Trump: "I don't want to say imminent but it looks like something that could very well happen...#Iran can't have nuclear weapons"
Downtown #Toronto right now!
#Palestine
#Gaza
بیایید هر روز با خود تکرار کنیم: #تجاوز جنسی بیش از آنکه ناشی از نیاز جنسی باشد، تلاشیست برای سلطه بر بدن «دیگری». دیگریی، بدنی، که در طی فرآیندی تاریخی از انسانیت تهی شده است.
تجاوز نتیجه مناسبات قدرت و سلطهاست و نیاز جنسی نقش ثانوی داره.
Presenting my research @ the Canadian Communication Association @ 3:30PM today. Hope to see you there.
Here is the title:
"Reframing Narratives of Conflict: Media Representations of Bashar al-Assad’s Fall and the Moderation of #AbuMohamadal-Jolani"
#Congress2025
@CCA_ACdC
جناب مستطاب فوتبالیست مملکت رسما اعلان کردن همه مردها میتوانند متجاوز باشند (نهادینگی فرهنگ تجاوز) و برخلاف زمانی که زنها درباره آزارهای جنسی مینویسند، هجوم «البته نه همه مردها» را نمیبینیم (جنسیتزدگی و دفاع از ساختار مسلط مردسالار)
#کره_جنوبی
I'm glad the uneducated members of the Right have learned to hide behind the word 'activism'.
A term that represents the very ideals they fear: equity, fairness and anything that just may level the playing field for the marginalized.
امیدوارم. واقعا امیدوارم
بعید میدونم، تعداد زیادی از امضا کنندهها در فضای مجازی حضور دائم دارند و بعیده از ماجرا بیخبر باشند. برخی هم که بیشتر رسما کنار آزارگران دیگر ایستادهاند. متن بیانه هم که فبها!
#نرگس_محمدی زن مقاومیست. متاسفانه تجربه مکرارا کارکرد فرسایشی جوایز و نشانهای بینالمللی را نشان داده.
برنده پس از مدتی تبدیل میشود به دستگاه صدور بیانه و مصاحبههای بیسر و ته. مثل این بیانیه زیر که فهرستی بلندبالاست از اصلاحطلبان حکومتی، تا آزارگر جنسی و مهرههای امنیتی.
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My thoughts exactly!
Should we tell him that no political gift is ever free?
#AirForceOne
"Everyday in #Palestine children are being slaughtered, maimed, and starved to death....
What is happening in #Gaza is not a matter of opinion. It is not complex in the way morality is made complex in order to excuse paralysis"
In light of #Trump's outright falsehoods, PM @mark-carney.bsky.social demonstrating insane amount of restraint not calling him out in his face!
