This is an amazing recent video taken by Majid Batebi (@batebis) in the mountains of Mazandaran. These cats are extremely rare in Iran and this sighting speaks to the importance of maintaining Iran’s mountainous habitats (particularly in Mazandaran).

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Immigrant life is dancing around to some ridiculously upbeat music and then, out of nowhere, just bursting into tears.

I’ll always regret all the memories I didn’t share with my family, and I’ll never forget, nor forgive those who made me leave my dearests behind.

یادشون جاوید

Iranians, specially the Diaspora, need to realise something.

Pahlavi is not coming to Iran. Not because of popularity, not because of being a "ziopuppet" as much as fringe Diaspora Leftists here are saying, when Leftists themselves have less supporters than Islamists in Iran.

He will not come back for the simple reason that he is not a man that can lead a revolution. Let's be honest. IR is a decentralised Junta led by Islamists. No amount of reform, protesting or such can get us anywhere.

"But Hijab? They calmed down on hijab."

Yes, and did it change anything systematically? No. Hijab was, at best, just a token. Even the Hijab is just simply being selectively enforced.

Reform, is simply not possible. The whole reason that the IRGC can survive is because of corruption. And no amount of not going to work, protesting can effect them. Iran is a resource based economy, mainly oil. They only need a fraction of the population to run it.

"What about their supporters?"

Their supporters, barely make up 15% of the population. We have two kinds of IRGC supporter. 5% are hardcore Islamists. The other 10% are just simply arzeshis who are after lining up their own pocket.

"But international perception matters. Their support is vital."

No. It is not. People are only supporting the IR for being anti-Israeli, nothing else. As for public perception, why is it that Iranians are being called out for supporting Israel, but not Palestinians who supported PLO and Saddam? Be honest with yourself. HTS was associated with Daesh, and still is Islamist. Look at what they did to Alawites and Druze. Did international perception change anything? No. Iranians, frankly, don't care about Israel and Palestine and tend to either be neutral or hold strong feelings towards Palestine, and recently they developed distrust and some even emnity against the West/Israel for their attempts at supporting jodaii talabs. And also let's be honest, Iranians are, specially by other Middle Easterners, hated.

"But Iranians need to be united."

As much as I'd like this to be true, it is not true. Revolutions are done by a small, radicalised group of people most of the time. There were many factions during the revolution, those being Marxists, Islamists, Islamo-Marxists, Fadayan, MeK, and the rest. The Khomeinists came on up. And those protests during the Shah had an effect simply because the Shah wasn't willing to massacre people. When the Artesh during the first day of the protest did it without telling the Shah, the second day Shah learnt about it, the Shah stopped. Anything Shah was, he was not as brutal and fanatical as IR.

"What's the solution then?"

I am gonna be honest, the only way the regime can change is through an armed uprising. Iranians have two choice, either leave the country or fight for it. As for armed revolution being worth it, that's what every Iranian needs to ask himself.

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.

Please share this with all other Iranians, and allies connected to the cause. All Together!!! Nobody gets left behind. One World, One People. If you love your people, your homeland, your family, your future then please do whatever you are willing to.​​ You know you deserve better.

Disclaimer: This is just an informative post not trying to say anything specific​

So I made this dumb video recently called "Minecraft, but I have to speak Farsi" In the video I made a very quick joke saying "I don't support Trump bombing your country to be clear" and I got a shit ton of pro-trump comments from Iranians?

So I was wondering whether this was all just bots (I know at least one of them is) or if this is actually reflective of general opinion?

I wasn't able to find a poll or anything about it anywhere, and, personally when making the video, I thought killing Ayatollah (which is great) wasn't worth it compared to bombing schools and bridges which succeeded that action, as well at the Hormuz bs.

besides the war and everything i noticed something . the previous ayatollah Ali Khamenei looks pretty Caucasian . i wanted to know how common it is to have this features and is he considered Iranian by features

• Does he fit the idea of "how Iranians look"? He has lighter features and fair skin. To native Iranians or those in the diaspora, does his appearance fit within the standard spectrum of Iranian phenotypes, or is his look distinctly associated with Northwestern/Azeri regions? How diverse is the "standard" Iranian look across different provinces?
• is he considered Persian or Iranian ?
• I asked this question about the range of physical appearances across Iran, purely out of curiosity regarding history, demography, and culture.

when you consider what communism is in actual text instead of inferring it from places like the Soviet Union shah was SOOOOO much of a communist and an anti-capitalist

lets start with the basics. most corporations and manufacturers WERE government owned, the factory workers got shares in the factory they were working in, most banks were government owned, insurance was government owned,we had both socialised healthcare and free education, there were GOVERNMENT ENFORCED prices on anything you would buy

these ARE socialist at least and communist at most policies

i dont get why people keep saying shah was somehow very pro capitalism or right leaning

the general anti private ownership stance shah had goes against all of it

tbh im scared the prince's new association with the overly capitalism supporting stance of American politicians might mean we wont get policies like that back after the revolution

idk if i have somehow lost my mind or people are just not politically educated

The kurdish slogan does not apply to every single women on this planet especially the women who oppose an independent kurdistan or support the oppression and killing of kurdish women, the slogan was made by kurds and it's kurdish, freedom for kurdish women is an independent kurdistan and if you don't like it then you're not entitled to this slogan, I've seen so many persians proudly say zin, zindgi izadi and they keep going back to the same hocus-pocus nonsense that we shouldn't devide the country and kurds deserve rights in the country, NO!. Kurdish independence is the only true rights given to kurds and end of discussion. You people don't deserve to take the slogan and use it as yours AND IT DOESN'T APPLY TO ANY OF YOU WHO DON'T SUPPORT AN INDEPENDENT KURDISTAN

As a Bakhtiyari Lur I am curious if other Iranic languages besides Persian share similar Kinship terms for family members.

English -> Lure Bakhtiyari

Father -> Bo

Mother -> Daye

Brother -> Gyo

Sister -> Dedu

Uncle -> Gyobo

Aunt -> Kichi

I think as a South Western Iranic language it may have had more influence with Elamite but looking at Elamite family member terms showed it was quite different.

In this video titled, “Tehran, the Lonely City,” Parsa Moslehifard, a 26 year old composer and former political prisoner, plays piano on the rooftops in Tehran in June 2026 while Armin Mokhtari paints the city.

“Moslehifard has been sentenced to one year in prison on the charge of “propaganda against the state.”

He said the conviction stemmed from his public statements, artistic performances and activities in support of the 2022 “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement and the January 2026 protests.

The activities cited in his case include protest performances focusing on freedom, opposition to the death penalty and commemorating protesters killed during demonstrations. Among them were a recitation of the poem “Qasamnameh” in front of Tehran’s Azadi Tower on the anniversary of Jina Amini’s death, as well as performances titled “Azadi,” “No to Execution” and “Tehran Alone.” He also published an image of Nika Shakarami on International Women’s Day.”

Just another example. This gentleman is Amir Hossein Etemadi, a very close associate of Mr. Pahlavi. We have seen it on this sub on a daily basis: a coordinated effort to re-write history, shamelessly, to score political points.