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Velkommen til nye følgere! Jeg hedder Rasmus, har ph.d. i Iran-studier, er lektor i og uddannelsesleder for Mellemøstens Sprog og Samfund på Københavns Universitet. Jeg har boet, studeret og forsket i Iran - og taler persisk. Jeg har arbejdet som Iran-forsker i snart 20 år.
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I don’t care if this is just how Trump talks or if it’s a negotiation tactic. No leader should feel so comfortable talking about blowing up an entire nation of 90+ million people.
Have we become so desensitized that threats to commit war crimes are treated as normal rhetoric?!
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Crazy to think that in 2026 we've had:
• Anthropic's head of safeguards quit, warning "the world is in peril" (Feb)
• OpenAI dissolved its own mission alignment team (Feb)
• Unrestricted AI usage for the Pentagon (causing several researchers to quit)
• Several AI models escaping sandbox testing (Since ~Q2)
• 1,100+ frontier-lab employees signing a letter begging the government to pace AI development (Jul-Aug)
And today yet another top researcher saying this.
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Neda Dadehjani and Setayesh (Behnoosh) Sarabi, two Iranian women arrested during the January 2026 protests, were flogged 31 times on August 22 and then transferred to Sanandaj Prison to serve their prison sentences.
Dadehjani and Sarabi had been sentenced in two separate cases. Branch 102 of the Qorveh Criminal Court sentenced each woman to one year in prison, 31 lashes, and two years of exile to Nikshahr County on charges of “disrupting public order and tranquility.”
In a separate case, Branch 1 of the Qorveh Revolutionary Court sentenced each to two years in prison for “assembly and collusion to commit a crime against national security.”
Dadehjani is a theater activist who previously received an award at a regional theater festival for people with disabilities.
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In a letter from Rajai Shahr Prison, Kurdish political prisoner Anwar Khezri, who was executed in 2024 after spending more than 14 years on death row, described severe physical & psychological torture, denial of medical care, & threats against his family.
kurdistanhumanrights.org/en/…
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In a letter from Orumiyeh Central Prison, Yaghoub Karimpour, who was executed on April 30, said he had been subjected to severe physical and psychological torture for approximately two months to force him to make false confessions about “collaboration with Mossad agents.”
kurdistanhumanrights.org/en/…
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In a letter from Qarchak Prison in September 2025, 45 women political prisoners said their fellow inmate Somayeh Rashidi died after authorities repeatedly denied her necessary medical care despite knowing she suffered from epilepsy and severe seizures.
iranhumanrights.org/2025/09/…
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In a letter to Iran’s judiciary chief in June 2025, eight political prisoners at Evin Prison invoked existing legal provisions governing wartime conditions to call for the temporary release of prisoners, warning that the country’s prisons lacked adequate protections against Israeli attacks.
kennedyhumanrights.org/our-v…
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In a letter from Evin Prison in January 2023, Sepideh Qolian, a prominent female activist, described how authorities force confessions from prisoners.
bbc.com/news/world-middle-ea…
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In a letter from Evin Prison in December 2022, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi exposed the widespread sexual assault and abuse faced by female detainees and protesters and called on the international community to take action.
"I saw bruises and scars on her wrists and stomach. She was arrested not from among the street protesters, but while she was going from her home to somewhere else. Nevertheless, she was treated violently when she was arrested. She was handcuffed, and her hands and legs were tied to a hook above her head in the vehicle taking her to prison. While she was hanging like this, the officers molested her with their hands."
iranwire.com/en/politics/111…
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Anisa Fanaeian, a former political prisoner and Baha’i citizen, was re-arrested on May 11, 2026, to serve an 8-year prison sentence.
She wrote this letter to her children in 2025, before an earlier sentence was suspended and she was released on bail.
iranwire.com/en/bahais-of-ir…
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In a letter from Evin Prison in January 2025, Varisheh Moradi, a Kurdish political prisoner and aid worker, wrote about her death sentence, saying,
“For us, the imprisoned women fighters, this sentence is not just for me and my fellow inmates: it represents a verdict against an entire society.”
iranwire.com/en/women/138582…
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Every Tuesday for over two years, prisoners across Iran participating in the “No To Execution Tuesdays” weekly hunger strike campaign have issued statements opposing the death penalty and called on the international community to take urgent action against the Iranian government’s systematic use of executions.
iranhumanrights.org/2026/06/…
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In a letter written from Evin Prison during the 12-day war in June 2025, Mahvash (Sayeh) Seydal, a political prisoner and scholar of international law, called for immediate legal and humanitarian measures to protect the lives and safety of political prisoners trapped under Israeli bombardment in Iran.
iranhumanrights.org/2025/06/…
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In a letter from Yazd Prison, Zeinab Jalalian, a Kurdish women’s rights activist, Iran’s longest-held female political prisoner and the only female political prisoner serving a life sentence, recounted the torture and abuse she experienced and witnessed during her imprisonment while reaffirming her dedication to freedom, justice, equality, and resistance to oppression.
The link below also includes letters from four other female political prisoners: Narges Mohammadi, Sepideh Gholian, Niloufar Bayani, and Golrokh Iraee.
thedial.world/articles/news/…
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In a letter from Greater Tehran Prison, prominent Iranian political prisoners Abolfazl Qadyani and Mehdi Mahmoudian provide a firsthand account of the devastation caused by Israel’s unlawful June 2025 strikes on Evin Prison and expose the Iranian government’s deliberate endangerment and brutal treatment of inmates during and after the attack.
iranhumanrights.org/2025/07/…
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In a letter written from Evin Prison in June 2025, four women political prisoners—Reyhaneh Ansari, Sakineh Parvaneh, Varisheh Moradi, and Golrokh Iraee—condemned Israel’s attack on Iran and argued that the liberation of the Iranian people from dictatorship can only be achieved through mass struggle and social forces, not by relying on foreign powers.
xitter.cf/golrokhiraee/status/19…
چهار زندانی سیاسی زن از اوین: رهایی ما مردم ایران از دیکتاتوری حاکم بر کشور به همت مبارزهی تودهها و با توسل به نیروهای اجتماعی میسر است
با کشتار و جنایت موجودیت یافت و با اشغالگری صاحبِخانه شد و در طول حیاتش، با تجاوز و نسلکشی، خاورمیانه را به میدان جنگهای بیپایان بدل کرد.
اسرائیل بهعنوان پادگان آمریکا در خاورمیانه، بهعنوان نمایندهی ابرقدرتهای جهان پس از جنگ جهانی دوم در منطقه سر برآورد و از همان آغاز در فلسطین، عراق، افغانستان، سوریه، یمن و اخیرا با نسلکشی در غزه توحش خود را به دنیا نشان داد.
در هیچکدام از این کشورها نه بمب اتمی یافت شد و نه تدارکی برای غنیسازی در میان بود.
نسلکشی به دلیلی منطقی نیاز ندارد اما دموکراسیِ غربی برای توجیه توحشِ مدامش در جهان و برای حفظ وجههی دموکرات مَنشی که مدعی آن است همواره در پی بهانهایست.
هویت آمریکا و «رژیم فاشیستی اسرائیل» با «تجاوزگری» و «کودککشی» شکل گرفته است و به هر کشوری که نظر کردند جز جنگ و ویرانی به بار نیاوردند.
حمله به ایران و کشتار غیرنظامیان و نابودی زیرساختهای کشور توسط «رژیم صهیونیستی» و حامیان آمریکاییشان محکوم است. همچون دیگر جنایاتشان در دنیا، در خاورمیانه؛ و متعاقب آن حمایت از اسرائیل و اتکا به قدرتِ ویرانگرش توسط هر فرد، گروه یا جریان سیاسی، با هر رویا و تصوری نیز محکوم و نشان از دنائت و رذالتِ حامیانش دارد.
رهایی ما مردم ایران از دیکتاتوری حاکم بر کشور به همت مبارزهی تودهها و با توسل به نیروهای اجتماعی میسر است. نه با دل بستن به قدرتهای خارجی یا چشم امید داشتن به آنان. قدرتهایی که همواره با استثمار و استعمار، با جنگافروزی و کشتار در پی کسب منافع بیشتر، ویرانی را نصیب کشورهای منطقه کردهاند برای ما رهآوردی جز ویرانی و استثمار نوین نخواهند داشت.
نابود کردن زیرساختهای سوریه پس از سرنگونی اسد و تکرار همان شیوه در ایران نشان از شهوتِ اسرائیل به خاورمیانهای ضعیف و تحت سلطه دارد. و این گویای این امر است که در طراحی نوین خاورمیانه، نظامی میتواند دوام بیاورد که اقتدار «اسرائیل» بر منطقه را بیقید و شرط پذیرا باشد.
خائنان به ایران
و خائنان به خلقهای خاورمیانه
و خائنان به سالها مبارزات آزادیخواهانهی مردم علیه ستم بدانند خیانت و دنائتشان در حافظهی مردم ایران و در تاریخ ثبت خواهد شد.
آیندگان از آنان که بر جنازههای مردم بیدفاع به پایکوبی ایستادهاند به ننگ یاد خواهند کرد.
ریحانه انصاری، سکینه پروانه، وریشه مرادی، گلرخ ایرایی
خرداد ۱۴۰۴
زندان اوین
#ایران #اسرائیل #نه_به_حنگ
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In a letter from Evin Prison written in August 2026, Ghazal Marzban, a transgender woman political prisoner, recounts being raped at a Ministry of Intelligence detention facility following her arrest in May 2023 and subsequently threatened into silence.
en-hrana.org/letter-from-pri…
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In a letter written during a brief medical leave from Naqadeh Central Prison, Issa Ebrahimzadeh, a Kurdish farmer and labor rights activist, describes the cruelty and repression he and his family have endured for their peaceful labor activism.
iranhumanrights.org/2025/05/…
