I think what’s so difficult for us as Iranians, what stings and cuts us to the core is when westerners fail to heed our warning about the Islamic regime and voluntarily travel to Iran despite code red “do not travel” warnings issued from their governments, they are essentially sticking up a middle finger to Iranians and saying: “we don’t believe you.” Western leftists have a special relationship with the Islamic regime and that’s why I don’t despite anybody more than them. Nobody on earth is more complicit in propagating the regime’s propaganda and facilitating murder by insisting that the regime is being “demonized” and “falsely accused” of “atrocity propaganda” that is “manufactured by the U.S. and Israel” to “manufacture consent to go to war with Iran” (and some pseudo-intellectual Noam Chomski’s musings while understanding nothing of which they speak). They repeat the regime’s propaganda line by line and consider themselves “woke” for having discovered it. When westerners travel to Iran over our cries and and urgent warnings that this regime is extremely dangerous and irrational, they are saying: We don’t believe Mahsa Jhina Amini We don’t believe Nika Shakarami We don’t believe Sarina Esmailzadeh We don’t believe Mohsen Shakeri We don’t believe Majidreza Rahnavard We don’t believe Navid Afkari We don’t believe Mohammad Ghobadlou We don’t believe Kianoush Sanjari We don’t believe the women being flogged We don’t believe the innocents being lynched We don’t believe the protesters being blinded We don’t believe the dissidents being tortured. Do you know how much that hurts? On top of that, most of the time they have to be exchanged for a regime terrorist that was detained in their home country, which steals justice from the Iranians that were killed by the terrorists and puts the terrorist back in the world and once again a threat to us all. I will of course staunchly advocate for the release of Cecilia Sala because regardless of her views or what she believed in her ignorance, this does not make someone deserving of the horrific experience she is now forced to endure that nobody should have to suffer. She is innocent and deserves immediate freedom. But I do want to express, on behalf of Iranians, how much it hurts us when westerners travel to Iran and tell us, in no uncertain terms: “we don’t believe you.” https://bird.makeup/@hamasatrocities/1873830519622033794
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