I didn’t leave the Democratic Party— The Democratic Party left me.

The war between the US and the regime in Iran may be paused, but the war between the regime and the Iranian people continues.

@matthewnouriel.bsky.social thank you every last word as usual!! www.instagram.com/reel/DWzvVT9...

Dear radical left, You’re talking over people and calling it activism. People notice. Cubans. Iranians. Israelis. Venezuelans. And more… Keep going.

Trump says he’ll send Iran to the Stone Age. The regime in Iran beat him to it.

Hashd al-Shaabi —Iraqi militia funded by the regime— boasting that they’re in Tehran. They’ve been brought in to suppress and kill Iranians. Further proof: this regime is not of Iran. It is an imperialist force—an extension of the Arab Islamic conquest that overtook Iran in the 7th century.

Today the regime in Iran executed Amirhossein Hatami— he was just 18 years old. To every privileged Westerner chanting “hands off Iran” while waving the flag of his executioners: this is what you represent—dead Iranians.

www.instagram.com/reel/DWFCEic... How cute these dumb fucks he is addressing thinks they can just be discreet and hide their homosexuality in Iran and be ok Lord they are stupid beyond stupid

Stop calling it “the Iranian regime”. The regime in Iran does not represent anything Iranian. It is not for Iran, of Iran, or by Iran. It’s an occupying force which has hijacked the land, culture, and people of Iran. Please respect this one small ask.

As an Iranian Jew working in both Jewish and Iranian advocacy, I feel like a damn ping-pong ball — smashed back and forth between two crises for five straight years. No pause. No off-season. Just constant impact.

Everyone at this rally is chanting about Iran. The only Iranian there is standing alone. She actually lived under the regime they’re talking about.

Western “activists” insisting on progress within their own societies while at the same time insisting we support the most regressive ideologies in the Middle East is one of the most egregious forms of racism we are witnessing today.

You were silent when the regime was killing Iranians. Now you’re outraged? In America, criticizing your government is protected speech. In Iran, it can cost you your life. You debate procedure. Iranians survive tyranny. Stop speaking over us.

Appointing the Islamic Republic of Iran to help “uphold” the UN Charter is like handing a match to an arsonist and calling it fire prevention. The UN keeps legitimizing the regime, and we’re supposed to take them seriously? The UN is a dangerous joke.

If you don’t recognize the Islamic Republic in Iran as legitimate, you don’t adopt its language. Calling Prince Reza Pahlavi a “pretender to the throne” only makes sense inside the regime’s own framework for denying his legitimacy. This Language isn’t neutral, and Iranians see it very clearly.

"Imagine if the October 7 massacre lasted four weeks, with no end in sight. Imagine if Israel had no IDF to stop it. That is what Iranians are living through right now… Mass murder, slaughter, rape. Speak up for Iran." @matthewnouriel.bsky.social #FreeIran substack.com/@matthewnour...

"I am #Iranian, #Jewish, and #gay, and growing up at the intersection of those identities was not easy. At the same time, I was always acutely aware of the privilege I carried. My parents left Iran, which meant I was not raised under the Islamic Republic, and that fact alone likely saved my life."

The situation in Iran has exposed how much of today’s western “activism” is driven by aesthetics and tribal belonging rather than principle. Real activism costs social standing, it doesn’t elevate it—and that’s a lesson much of today’s trendy social justice culture still hasn’t learned.

Israelis and Iranians are fighting the same enemy—islamism. No amount of mental gymnastics or pseudo intellectual bullshit spewed by western “activists” will change that.

A full scale war is waging in Iran. One side has weapons, the other has nothing but courage— and 47 years of repression. Neutrality favors the side with weapons. Whose side are you on?

What the clout-chasing, Amazon-bought keffiyeh wearing, wannabe “activists” who went hard for Hamas don’t get is that real activism risks your social standing, it doesn’t elevate it. They’re silent about Iran because they’re more concerned about what their comrades think than actual human rights.

You all asking why isn’t Barack Obama speaking up about Iran? He already said it all in 2016 when he transferred $1.7 billion to the regime in cash.

Imagine if the October 7 massacre lasted four weeks, with no end in sight. Imagine if Israel had no IDF to stop it. That is what Iranians are living through right now… Mass murder, slaughter, rape. Speak up for Iran.

🧵 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 🎥🎙️⌨️ @matthewnouriel.bsky.social - We've been wondering why so many self-appointed social justice voices who were so loud about Gaza stayed silent about Iran. Now that a couple have spoken up, it's become quite clear their silence would be better.

“No foreign intervention in Iran” is wrong. The Islamic Republic itself is the foreign intervention. Iranians are asking for help. People should listen to them.

#FreeIran 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 🎥🎙️⌨️ @matthewnouriel.bsky.social They're not outraged by the slaughter of Iranians. They're outraged by Israel.

"If I have any role beyond speaking out, I hope it is to help nurture that connection and to insist that Jewish and Iranian futures do not need to be imagined in opposition to one another." - Matthew Nouriel @matthewnouriel.bsky.social #FreeIran

If Donald trumps repeated promises to help the Iranian people who are being slaughtered by the thousands are all a bluff, he will go down in history as a bigger traitor to the Iranians than Carter. President trump— SEND HELP NOW.

I left the left. I didn’t change my values… The left abandoned them.

In protests across Iran, one of the chants you hear is “Iran.” It’s a declaration that the people and the regime are not the same thing. Iran ≠ the regime.

Iran just went dark. The regime shut down the internet during mass protests. Visibility is protection. SPEAK UP FOR IRAN

It’s impressive af how every western wannabe socialist tankie is suddenly an oil expert.

When ideology matters more than people, it stops being justice. Solidarity listens. Performance speaks over.

🕯️ ⌨️ @matthewnouriel.bsky.social Guy Karmiel, at the age of 20, was killed in the war in Gaza a year ago. He left behind a loving family: his mother, father, and three younger sisters. All of us—family and friends—miss him deeply, and this past year has been incredibly difficult.

In Iran, people risk their lives tearing down the regime’s terrorist flags. In the West, cos playing revolutionaries wave those same flags for clout. Resistance vs performance. Don’t confuse the two.

This brave Arab-Israeli trans-woman speaks true resistance, with clear, calm defiance. This is what real trans activism looks like, not fighting for those who wish to murder you.

Authoritarians panic when they lose control of the narrative… Even over a rainbow flag.

⌨️🎥 @matthewnouriel.bsky.social Not enough non-Iranians know her name, and that's exactly what the regime wants. Bita Shafiei is 19 years old. She was abducted for posting a video supporting Prince Reza Pahlavi, and calling for freedom. 🧵

It’s Time to Enact an Official System of Excommunication for Anti-Zionist Jews. It Is a Matter of Survival. My latest on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/matthewn...

We’ve already watched this playbook rewrite Ashkenazi identity, and now it’s being aimed at Mizrahi communities. Nearly a million Jews from the Middle East and North Africa were expelled or fled persecution. That’s a well documented history.

👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 ⌨️ @matthewnouriel.bsky.social - "Jews with functioning brains recognize that Mamdani is not a friend to us." 🧵

So basically Mamdani and Trump are the same.

🎥🎙️⌨️ @matthewnouriel.bsky.social 🧵 Jews who fled Iran recognize what Mamdani is doing. Jews who fled Soviet Communism recognize it. Jews who fled Ethiopia, Yemen, Libya, Egypt... the list goes on and on.

The strategy: rewrite Jewish history, deny Jewish agency, sever Jews from their Indigenous land, and replace Jewish self-definition with narratives engineered to erase us. We cannot afford to let this pattern repeat. by @matthewnouriel.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/matthewn...

She uses Wikipedia and anti Zionists memoirs as sources. Honestly these propagandists make it too easy.

There’s something almost poetic about how the supposed “anti-genocide” crowd in the west ignores the actual genocide in Sudan, but accidentally use the Sudanese flag in their “Free Palestine” posts.

The youth of Iran doing what so many of us take for granted—playing music, dancing, enjoying life. It came with a cost. Reports now indicate that arrests have been made. Want to know what real resistance looks like? Take a look at these Iranian kids. SPEAK UP FOR IRAN.

Max Blumenthal created an Islamic republic scripted propaganda “documentary” about the remaining Jews in Iran by exploiting their inability to do anything but comply with the regime which holds them hostage. This is exploitation of a marginalized minority, and it’s vile.

Jihadist Jamila goes on an antisemitic homophobic violent tirade but somehow she’s the victim? I haven’t been fighting homophobia my entire life just to let it slide for the sake of political correctness.

Jews are the only Indigenous people to win back our land. Instead of celebrating, the world attacks us for it. Imagine how that feels to every other displaced nation still longing for sovereignty to see that.