استاد آمار دانشگاه جورجتاون؛ پژوهشگر و فعال حقوق بشر. Statistics Professor @Georgetown; HumanRights Researcher; BoardMember @hostageaid; Science posts @rabalia
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With or without you this will happen. You can choose to be on the right side of history.
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Professional soccer player Rashid Mazaheri defended Iran's goal for over a decade and is a source of pride to millions of Iranians.
In February, Rashid made a post calling Khamenei "a dark and passing chapter" in Iran's history. He is now in regime custody, under harsh conditions.
Rashid lent his voice to his people and is being punished for it.
Add your name to the petition below to demand his unconditional release.
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Jun 12
🧵Iranian authorities must immediately halt any plans to execute political dissidents Masoud Jamei, Alireza Mardasi, Farshad Etemadi Far, Reza Abdali and Hassan Maslavi, currently held in Sheiban prison in Ahvaz, and also halt all planned executions. 1/6
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Jun 11
My latest article with collaborators has been published in @PeerJSTM peerj.com/articles/21239 #AgriculturalScience #ClimateChangeBiology #SystemsBiology
Effects of temperature on the life-history traits of Myzus persicae and its efficiency in transmitting potato virus Y (PVY) in potato crops
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Jun 2
Amnesty International condemns the arbitrary executions of January 2026 protesters Mehrdad Mohammadinia & Ashkan Maleki on 1 June after a grossly unfair trial by a Revolutionary Court. We are horrified by the political executions of at least 41 people in Iran since 28 Feb. 1/4
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May 30
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May 30
Let's paste what you wrote here:
"Also in late January 2026, Iranian-Canadian legal academic and former prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), Payam Akhavan, spoke at the UN Human Rights Council and repeated Parasta’s initial estimate of 16,500 dead. Leveraging his work with the ICTY—specifically, his involvement in drafting the indictment for the genocide of Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica in July 1995—and armed with Parasta’s astronomical death count, Akhavan suggested that the Iranian government had effectively committed a genocide against its people for political reasons, a claim that the legal definition of genocide does not even remotely support. It was a shocking accusation coming from a former prosecutor at an international criminal tribunal, who should know how challenging it is to gather evidence in situations of widespread, mass atrocities, let alone evidence of serious international crimes."
Why would it matter if killing people for political reasons was something that the legal definition of genocide "does not even remotely support"... unless you were suggesting that Payam called this a genocide? The crime of extermination has no such bar.
This was either legally sloppy or an attempt to mislead the reader.
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The idea that you would just accidentally get added as a coauthor on a paper written with IRGC commander and current Speaker of Iran's parliament @mb_ghalibaf is fanciful. Oops, you also brought his son Eshaq to Australia to study at your institute, oops you were also a visitor to Ghalibaf Snr's research institute back in Iran too. All a coincidence, nothing to see here
@unimelb
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May 17
بهزاد فراهانی ولی نگفت که ارتشی با شرف در ۵۷ هم وطنش رو با تیر بار سلاخی نمیکرد.
مردک لمپن.
May 16
«فمینیستها» کجایند!؟
بهزاد فراهانی در یک حرکت انقلابی همه زنان ایرانی را از پروسه سرنگونی رژیم جمهوری اسلامی حذف کرد!
#پسماند_پنجاهوهفت
#لشکر_فرومایگان
#عقده_پهلوی
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Apr 30
Under the guise of "stabilizing" the forex and gold prices, the Iranian regime plans to pump gold bars into the market on Sunday.
Average Iranians can't afford gold bars.
Is someone making their assets easy to transport?
عرضه گسترده شمش طلا در روز یکشنبه
🔹مرکز مبادله: در حراج روز یکشنبه که سومین حراج سال جدید است، شمش طلا
بهصورت گسترده عرضه میشود.
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Apr 28
Two months on, 90 million people in Iran are still cut off from the internet amid an internet shutdown imposed by the authorities. Meanwhile, officials from the Islamic Republic keep using the internet freely. Access to the internet is a human right; it must be restored NOW!
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Apr 21
Amnesty International calls on states to stop predatory, anti-rights order from taking hold in pivotal moment for humanity amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2…
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Last night, Shamim Mafi, 44, of Woodland Hills, was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport for trafficking arms on behalf of the government of Iran. She is charged with a violation of 50 U.S.C. § 1705 for brokering the sale of drones, bombs, bomb fuses, and millions of rounds of ammunition manufactured by Iran and sold to Sudan.
If convicted, she faces a statutory maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison.
Mafi is an Iranian national who became a lawful permanent resident of the United States in 2016.
She is expected to make her initial appearance on Monday afternoon in U.S. District Court in downtown L.A. She is presumed innocent until proven guilty in court.
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Apr 16
Boy, 16, among three arrested over attempted arson on Persian language media group in Wembley
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Iranian authorities have sentenced to death four more people, including a woman, over last January's protests. cbsn.ws/4cpIVtx
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Apr 12
X poll, 2026 edition: should social media companies suspend the accounts of governments and officials who shut down or censor the internet?
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Yes. Suspend them
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No. Let them speak
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It’s complicated
12,753 votes • Final results
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Apr 12
No matter what your politics are, you should be outraged by this.
You should also ask yourself what is the Islamic Regime in Iran afraid of? Why is the exchange of information so threatening to the regime that it has implemented the longest internet shutdown on the record?
#DigitalBlackOutIran
Apr 12
⌛️ Network data show #Iran's internet blackout is now in its 44th day, continuing in its seventh week past the 1032 hour mark.
The human and economic impacts of the extended censorship measure continue to pile up, breaking global records for shutdowns in a connected society.
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Apr 11
Good move to weaken regime’s leverage at the negotiation table. May not be a long term resolution and I suspect there will be confrontation if negotiations fall through (which I believe it will).
Btw it’s the Persian Gulf. @brett_mcgurk
Apr 11
Confirmed—USS Frank E. Peterson (DDG 121) and USS Michael Murphy (DDG 112) transited the Strait of Hormuz and operated in the Arabian Gulf as part of a broader mission to ensure the strait is fully clear of sea mines previously laid by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.
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Apr 10
People in Iran have lived under digital darkness for 1000 hours. Authorities have cut off 90 million from the outside world since 28 February, preventing people from accessing essential information and contacting loved ones. Authorities must immediately restore internet access.
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Apr 9
Keep it simple: is the Strait completely open or not? As of this morning, it’s not.
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Apr 9
Those executed include four young protesters sentenced to death just weeks after their arrest in January 2026: Amirhossein Hatami, Mohammad Amin Biglari, Ali Fahim, and Shahin Vahedparast Kolo. Their co-defendant Abolfazl Salehi Siavashani remains at imminent risk of execution.
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