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David Cunio’s words are almost impossible to hear and impossible to forget.
In a heartbreaking interview with Israel’s N12 News, David describes how his entire family survived Hamas captivity, including his young daughter Emma, who was just a toddler when they were kidnapped into Gaza. Terrorists took Emma away from her parents, and when she was finally returned, she did not immediately recognize them. It was only when her mother, Sharon, began to sing to her that Emma realized who they were.
This is the human cost of terrorism. Families were destroyed, childhoods stolen, and trauma was caused that release can’t erase. The Cunio family’s survival is a miracle, but their story is a reminder of why the world must confront Hamas for what it is, and why the suffering of innocent families at the hands of terror organizations can never be ignored.
🎥: @n12news
The Israeli flag and the Iranian liberation flag 🦁☀️ flying side by side in Los Angeles tell a powerful truth: the fight for freedom is shared.
The Iranian people have endured decades of brutality under a regime that is murdering thousands of its own citizens every day. Their struggle is a fundamental fight for basic human dignity, democracy, and life itself.
When Israelis and Iranians stand together, it sends a clear message to the world: the tyranny of the Iranian regime will not succeed and freedom will prevail. The return of democracy to Iran is not only possible, it is necessary RIGHT NOW.
🎥: @shlitzzy12
Israeli singer @nofar_batat shared a powerful moment of connection when she welcomed an Iranian fan from Dubai who traveled all the way to Israel specifically to see her perform.
In a region too often divided by regimes and propaganda, this moment shows the truth: people want culture, music, and human connection, not hatred.
The future of the Middle East belongs to those who choose life, creativity, and freedom over fear. Moments like this are what real coexistence looks like.
🎥: @nofar_batat
“Maybe in another life.”
No. In this life.
This edit shows Iran before the revolution with all its freedom, color, and possibility alongside the courage of Iranian girls and young people today who are risking everything to reclaim it.
They refuse to accept a future stolen by fear. They refuse to wait for history to change on its own. Through defiance, creativity, and extraordinary bravery, they are pushing back against a regime built on control and silence.
This is not nostalgia, but a demand.
The world owes these young Iranians more than sympathy. They deserve solidarity, visibility, and real support right now.
Freedom isn’t a dream deferred.
It’s a fight happening in real time.
🎥: @shawdi.rasoulzadeh
Gen Z rappers in Iran are risking everything to make their voices heard.
In defiance of a regime that legally mandates hijab and enforces “modesty” through intimidation, arrest, and violence, these young artists are performing without fear. They’re singing, rapping, and showing up as themselves. Their art is resistance, and visibility their courage.
This is what bravery looks like under tyranny: choosing expression over silence, freedom over fear. The world should be paying attention and standing with them as they challenge a system built to erase individuality and control lives.
Their voices are louder than repression, and they’re helping shape a free future for Iran.
🎥: @telegraph
This is Iran in the 1970s before fear was written into law.
People chose how to dress, how to live, and how to express themselves without terror hanging over their heads. Then an oppressive regime seized power.
For 47 years, the Iranian people have lived under tyranny: morality police, kidnappings, torture, and murder for refusing to comply with extremist laws. Freedom was criminalized. Joy was punished. Identity was controlled.
This history didn’t disappear, it was stolen.
Today, Iranians are rising up to reclaim their country, their culture, and their future from a regime built on fear.
The world is watching, and the Iranian people are reminding us what Iran can be again.
A powerful moment of solidarity.
Hundreds of Israelis gathered around to watch people tear away pieces of the old, oppressive regime flag and replace it with the Lion and Sun, the original flag of Persia, and a symbol of culture, dignity, and freedom.
From Israel to Iran, this is what hope looks like. Two ancient peoples standing together against oppression. Two nations dreaming of a future without fear.
Israelis are sending love from Tel Aviv to Tehran. They can’t wait to dance together in Tehran and in Tel Aviv.
🎥: @letsdsomething
Thousands filled the streets of Toronto in a powerful show of solidarity with the people of Iran.
Iranians and allies marched side by side to demand freedom for civilians who have lived under a brutal, violent, and oppressive regime for 47 years, a regime that controls daily life through fear, imprisonment, and force.
March is like this represent the entire world standing with the people who are risking everything to reclaim their dignity, voices, and future.
The message from Toronto was clear: the world is watching, the people of Iran are not alone, and the Ayatollah and his regime will not last.
