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Iranian Israeli singer Rita shared a powerful message of solidarity in Farsi:
“Iran, I and all the people of Israel stand with you with hope for freedom.”
These words carry deep meaning from someone whose life bridges both cultures and histories. The people of Israel know what it means to survive persecution, to fight for self-determination, and to hold onto hope even in the darkest moments.
The Iranian people are not alone. Their struggle for freedom is seen, heard, and supported across borders.
Three years ago, Iranian-born UFC fighter Beneil Dariush used one of the biggest stages in sports to speak directly to his people.
“My people in Iran. I know you’re struggling for freedom… I love you.”
Long before the world paid attention, Iranians were resisting.
Voices like Beneil’s remind us that courage often comes at great personal cost, and that the fight for freedom does not fade with time.
This MLK Day holds echoes of the past.
In 1958, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood before the American Jewish Congress and spoke of a shared history between black Americans and the Jewish people, and espoused that the two people’s common struggle to overcome persecution, is rooted in the greater struggle of all peoples to overcome tyranny and oppression.
Today the people of Iran risk everything for freedom against a brutal regime. Theirs is a kindred struggle with the fight Jews and black people have faced throughout their histories.
Silence is complicity, but solidarity across communities and generations is how tyranny falls.
Freedom demands courage, don’t let the memory of MLK be tarnished by your silence.
Tens of thousands filled the streets of Vancouver, standing in powerful opposition to the brutal Iranian regime and in solidarity with the Iranian people fighting for their freedom.
This is what global unity looks like when a nation rises against tyranny. For 47 years, the regime has ruled through fear, executions, kidnappings, and censorship, yet Iranians and their allies around the world refuse to be silent.
The message is unmistakable: the world is watching, the people are united, and their demand is clear. Free Iran from tyranny NOW.
Iran is bleeding, and the world must not look away.
What we’re witnessing is a full-scale uprising met with massacres, executions, blackouts, and terror. Nationwide protests demanding freedom have been answered with mass arrests, internet shutdowns, and the deployment of the IRGC and foreign proxy militias against civilians. Families are being extorted to bury their dead. Funerals are restricted, meaning the regime is even waging war on mourning itself.
Young people, many of them under 30, are being killed, blinded, and disappeared under the cover of digital darkness. This is brutality, unspeakable atrocities unfolding in real time.
Despite the horrors the Iranian people are facing, campus protests in North America are few and far between.
The Iranian people are demanding freedom, begging the world to act.
Silence only empowers the regime.
Last night at approximately 9:30 PM Tehran time, the Islamic Republic’s state TV was hacked and the regime’s propaganda was replaced with a message the Iranian people have been waiting decades to hear.
A historic address from Iran’s opposition leader, Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, aired instead, calling directly on Iran’s military forces to remember the truth: they serve the Iranian people, not the regime.
This moment matters. The Iranian people are demanding freedom, dignity, and a future without fear, and his message to those in uniform was clear: stand with your nation, not its oppressors.
FREE IRAN NOW.
“All Canadian students must watch this.”
At Concordia University, students are doing what too many campuses refuse to do: standing up for the Iranian people and fighting for them inside student government.
While others stay silent or excuse tyranny, these students are confronting a brutal regime that has spent 47 years imprisoning, torturing, and murdering its own people for demanding freedom.
This is what student leadership moral courage on campus looks like. Students everywhere should take notes.
🎥: anastasiaa_zor
Iran’s regime has imposed complete digital isolation on its people. Almost all foreign media outlets are unable to report from within Iran amid the blackout. Yet, Al Jazeera continues to broadcast live from inside the country.
Al Jazeera is not independent media. It is a Qatar-controlled state outlet, and Qatar has deep political and strategic ties to the Iranian regime. No doubt it’s allowed to keep broadcasting, because it’s willing to disseminate pro-regime propaganda.
Dictatorships fear cameras in the hands of their people, but welcome cameras they can control.
The Iranian people deserve real visibility, not regime-approved narratives.
🎥: @coptic_yousif
