We are one people and one nation and IRAN will always be our homeland!!
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U.S. President Donald Trump: "No one has given the Islamic Republic of Iran a greater opportunity to make a Deal than me. TRAGICALLY, for them, they have failed to take it. Therefore, today, I am announcing the MOST CRUSHING ECONOMIC OPERATION EVER TAKEN AGAINST ANY COUNTRY! This will be Economic Warfare and Isolation on an unprecedented scale. Their navy is gone, their air force is destroyed, their military factories are now rubble, their currency is worthless, and their country is hanging by a thread. Today, I am also announcing that ANY country that allows its financial institutions, businesses, airports, or government entities to provide any type of lifeline to Iran will itself face TREMENDOUS Economic Consequences. Oil smuggling, swap lines, cash transfers, exchange houses, ship registries, front companies — It all needs to stop NOW. You know who you are. This will be an ECONOMIC D-DAY, and we need all of our Allies to stand with the United States of America to isolate, and defeat, the Iran threat. These maniacs are on the ropes, and these HISTORIC MEASURES will cripple them and their ability to project terror worldwide. IRAN WILL NEVER HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER. President DONALD J. TRUMP".
From @ newshatb on Instagram. This was recorded on 15 August 2026 during the Persian Town Hall event in North Vancouver, BC.
Poilievre is (I think) currently the second most prominent figure in Canadian politics, so this is a big win for us
یادشون جاوید
(TL:DR – "Diaspora" is a loaded term that dismisses my ability to share the voice of my friends and family in Iran, and dismisses my connection to Iran.)
I think the word "Diaspora" has taken on a loaded meaning, and is being used to dismiss and marginalize the voices of Iranians who are only living abroad because they were fortunate enough to have been able to escape the regime.
Despite being "diaspora", I have Iranian citizenship. I have an Iranian passport and shenas nameh. I do military deferral paperwork whenever I visit Iran.
Despite being "diaspora", I have visited Iran several times, for months at a time. I have cherished memories across many years picnicking at night along the Zayandeh Rud in Isfahan, each time hearing my cousins complain about how it has become even dryer than the year before. I have a favorite pizza joint, a favorite shopping mall, and a favorite route I take home, with shir-moz in hand (or aab-haveej bastani if I'm feeling bougie).
Despite being "diaspora", I play Iranian music on the violin as a hobby, from classics like Jaane Maryam, to modern pieces like Sabok Baal. I listen to old-school Viguen, I dance to pop hits like Sasy, and I rock out to indie artists like Moody Moussavi and B-Band. My partner and I make jokes in Farsi, watch Iranian movies, and fight over who makes better gheymeh (I do).
Despite being "diaspora", my political opinions are the same as my friends and family living under the regime's occupation, who cannot speak for themselves. I go to protests – because they cannot. I share Pahlavi's Iranian Prosperity Project and Alinejad's UN speech at every opportunity – because they cannot. I remind my friends that Iranians are more scared of Sepah, Basij, and foreign mercenary forces stopping them on the street than they are of US and Israeli missiles – because they cannot.
I'm not just "Iranian Diaspora". I'm Iranian. I encourage all my fellow Iranians abroad to avoid the word "diaspora" which, while technically correct, has been used over and over again to dismiss our voices as illegitimate, as though they are unrepresentative of the Iranians in Iran.
"Iran MP Morteza Mahmoudi on Wednesday called out the Central Bank governor over remarks that Iran’s frozen funds would be released, saying not a single dollar has been unfrozen two months after the announcement.
“At the beginning of July, after the negotiating team returned from talks in Switzerland, it was said that the release of Iran’s frozen funds had been finalized. Even Hemmati made a promotional video explaining how the $12 billion would be spent. Now, two months later, Hemmati says that not even a single dollar of the frozen funds has been released,” he posted on X."
Good news for once?
>Kimmitt told Al Jazeera that the UAE’s trade embargo could indeed hurt Iran more than any US sanctions to date.
>He noted that Dubai has quietly become Tehran’s most important trading partner, surpassing China and Turkiye and supplying roughly one-third of Iran’s annual imports.
>“I don’t think that you can overstate or understate the importance of the trade, both financial and goods trade, between Dubai and Iran,” Kimmitt said.
>That reliance runs deeper than goods on ships, given Dubai’s standing as a global financial hub, which Kimmitt said has long given Iran a discreet way to move money around international sanctions, cutting off a route Tehran has long relied on for years.
Ukraine AFU https://www.zsu.gov.ua/en
Myanmar SCEF https://www.scefdu.org/
Freedom of Russia Legion https://legionliberty.army/
Belarus Kastus Kalinouski Regiment https://m.youtube.com/@BELARUSFREEDOMFIGHTERS/videos
AUF https://www.afghanistanunitedfront.org/
Edit: Also there is the Afghanistan National Resistance Front, & Afghan Freedom Front
Most are focused on political, civil, and military branches of their respective country. All will most likely overtime encompass all 3 parts too once their country is reclaimed by the people.
These are just a few that are going through what you all are going through. Also did not mention some more obvious ones: Japan, South Korea, EU, USA Military, Kurds, Balochistan, Armenia, Syria, etc. There are more around the world that I forgot off top my head.
I urge you all to make connections with them, with other EU groups/people, others in world, and with each other in diaspora. The whole cause needs to evolve into doing this.
No more waiting for Iran to be free. If you want that to happen then please learn from them and do. Build up allies including them. Help where you are willing to.
You all can do what those groups are doing to make an Iranian Equivalent, and also help Ukraine AFU form a new Iranian Regiment. Do both together it will highly beneficial.
But if you want a better free future everybody has to do that together. The more people that do that the quicker you all will get to it. Everyone make sure to have the cause focused on growing your collective capability, allies, and coordination together.
Iran/Persia will be free. Much love to all of you. Never give up. You all deserve better. Help each other, and grow united and anything is possible.
Disclaimer: This is just an informative post not trying to say anything specific
Apple doesn’t fall far from a tree 😂
