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Eurielle @eurielle.bsky.social · Aug 4

I might be a bit late but here goes nothing...
The Apple trend with two of my characters that I'm writing about🧙🏻🧛🏽

From left to right: The great wizard Silas and his vampire companion, Ludwig.

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Eurielle @eurielle.bsky.social · Jun 23

How can we take a government down who kills their own people without a hesitation on a daily basis?

Eurielle @eurielle.bsky.social · Jun 23

and government corruption.
Results?
They shot at us. Again.

There have been so many protests and uprisings in Iran that I can't list all of them. We fight but they kill us, their own people!
So here's my question:

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Eurielle @eurielle.bsky.social · Jun 23

hijab laws and other forms of discrimination and oppression against women in Iran. People were taken to the streets all across Iran, outraged over the slew of social ills symbolized in her death—the subjugation of women, the repression of minorities, religious chauvinism, police brutality,

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Eurielle @eurielle.bsky.social · Jun 23

large numbers of riot police, arrested at least 67 protesters, and repressed the protests.
In September 2022, after the death of a young Iranian woman who was arrested by the morality police for "not wearing her hijab properly.", protest movement launched and demands the end of compulsory

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Eurielle @eurielle.bsky.social · Jun 23

but we were quickly met with police violence and brutality. Again with bullet shots right at us.
November 2021, crowds of 2,000-3,000 Iranians in Isfahan gathered to hold demonstrations against water shortages, which increasingly grew violent over time. On November 27, the Islamic Republic employed

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Eurielle @eurielle.bsky.social · Jun 23

2019–2020 Iranian protests and an end to poverty. The police did nothing but fire at us with buckshots and bullets.
Funny part?
They charged the victim's family for every single bullet they used to kill their kids and relatives!
In July 2021, protests erupted against the water shortages and crisis,

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Eurielle @eurielle.bsky.social · Jun 23

whole thing under the rug.
Why?
Because they are assholes who don't value their own people's lives!
In February 2021,
nationwide protests protest against an insufficient pension for retirees, fueled by inflation rates reaching 45%, to demand justice over the deaths of 1500 during the

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Eurielle @eurielle.bsky.social · Jun 23

by the Iranian Government.
Resulting in the death of 140 people who were mostly university students, newlyweds and kids.
Why?
Because they thought they were at war and mistook(!) an airline flight(!)with a jet!
The government didn't hold anyone responsible for this and they put the

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Eurielle @eurielle.bsky.social · Jun 23

this day, we still don't know where they took them. Or are they still alive or not...
They completely shut down internet connections for 2 full days, preventing us from getting the news from out world.
In January 2020, the Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 (PS752) was shot with a missile

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Eurielle @eurielle.bsky.social · Jun 23

us the persian people in the streets "dusts and shavings"), opposition to the Islamic Republic, opposition to Iranian involvement in regional conflicts, opposition to anti-Americanism in Iran and more.
Results?
they killed more than 1500 people. And more people were arrested and held hostage to

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Eurielle @eurielle.bsky.social · Jun 23

protests), escalation of the 2018–2019 Iranian general strikes and protests occurring as part of the democracy movement, government corruption, poverty, Human rights abuses (Mandatory hijab, forced confessions etc.), opposition to president Rouhani and SupremeLeader Khamenei (who dared to called

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Eurielle @eurielle.bsky.social · Jun 23

Payments. The government responded with Tear gas and prison sentences.
During 2019-2020 Protest, known as bloody November (bloody Aban), protesters were out in the streets because of 200% increase in fuel prices, crackdowns of previous waves of the Iranian democracy movement(2017–2018 Iranian

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Eurielle @eurielle.bsky.social · Jun 23

Trump asks why we persians don't get the power out of the IR regime hands; it's simple
we've been trying for 47 freaking years.
But imagine this situation:
In January 2018, we came out in the streets to protest against economic hardships, government corporations, failures of wages and delayed

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