Nima (Doctor Yak) 🇪🇺🇬🇧
@doctoryak.bsky.social
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Roger Waters really hurt - he went from supporting the Iranian people during #WomanLifeFreedom to standing against them now in a massacre which makes that one pale in comparison
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January 17, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Roger Waters really hurt - he went from supporting the Iranian people during #WomanLifeFreedom to standing against them now in a massacre which makes that one pale in comparison
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These "Welcome to London" tube adverts are particularly cynical, given that even in the early Xfm podcasts with Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington, Ricky Gervais was saying that he never takes the tube (or any form of public transport), and just takes taxis around London...
January 17, 2026 at 6:01 PM
These "Welcome to London" tube adverts are particularly cynical, given that even in the early Xfm podcasts with Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington, Ricky Gervais was saying that he never takes the tube (or any form of public transport), and just takes taxis around London...
Beautiful and bittersweet clip of a lady emotionally sharing her voice with a busker early on in the protests crackdown in Iran.
Still getting goosebumps wondering what happens after that whistle, when the clip stops😢
BTW the song is "Khodahafez" (Goodbye) by folk-pop singer Erfan Tahmasbi.
#Iran
Still getting goosebumps wondering what happens after that whistle, when the clip stops😢
BTW the song is "Khodahafez" (Goodbye) by folk-pop singer Erfan Tahmasbi.
#Iran
January 16, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Beautiful and bittersweet clip of a lady emotionally sharing her voice with a busker early on in the protests crackdown in Iran.
Still getting goosebumps wondering what happens after that whistle, when the clip stops😢
BTW the song is "Khodahafez" (Goodbye) by folk-pop singer Erfan Tahmasbi.
#Iran
Still getting goosebumps wondering what happens after that whistle, when the clip stops😢
BTW the song is "Khodahafez" (Goodbye) by folk-pop singer Erfan Tahmasbi.
#Iran
January 15, 2026 at 10:26 PM
Behrouz Vossoughi is an Iranian cinema legend from the sixties and seventies.
Have added subtitles 🔽. I wish even a fraction of the poetry of his use of Persian could be conveyed into English, but just not possible.
"Hoping for the freedom of my homeland"
#DigitalBlackoutIran #IranRevolution2026
Have added subtitles 🔽. I wish even a fraction of the poetry of his use of Persian could be conveyed into English, but just not possible.
"Hoping for the freedom of my homeland"
#DigitalBlackoutIran #IranRevolution2026
January 14, 2026 at 11:29 PM
Behrouz Vossoughi is an Iranian cinema legend from the sixties and seventies.
Have added subtitles 🔽. I wish even a fraction of the poetry of his use of Persian could be conveyed into English, but just not possible.
"Hoping for the freedom of my homeland"
#DigitalBlackoutIran #IranRevolution2026
Have added subtitles 🔽. I wish even a fraction of the poetry of his use of Persian could be conveyed into English, but just not possible.
"Hoping for the freedom of my homeland"
#DigitalBlackoutIran #IranRevolution2026
In these tense hours it's good to have a bit of light entertainment.
Piers Morgan dropping Goldie Ghamari on and unsuspecting Mohammad Marandi...
All three of these would drive me crazy, but especially that smug regime Goebbels, "Professor" Marandi.
Piers Morgan dropping Goldie Ghamari on and unsuspecting Mohammad Marandi...
All three of these would drive me crazy, but especially that smug regime Goebbels, "Professor" Marandi.
January 14, 2026 at 11:17 PM
In these tense hours it's good to have a bit of light entertainment.
Piers Morgan dropping Goldie Ghamari on and unsuspecting Mohammad Marandi...
All three of these would drive me crazy, but especially that smug regime Goebbels, "Professor" Marandi.
Piers Morgan dropping Goldie Ghamari on and unsuspecting Mohammad Marandi...
All three of these would drive me crazy, but especially that smug regime Goebbels, "Professor" Marandi.
"They are killing everyone"
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January 14, 2026 at 6:25 PM
"They are killing everyone"
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Thoughts with colleagues in my father's city of Isfahan who are being abducted from hospital for treating civilians injured by regime forces.
Healthcare workers just doing their job treating the friendly people of this beautiful city
#Iran
Healthcare workers just doing their job treating the friendly people of this beautiful city
#Iran
January 14, 2026 at 5:42 PM
Thoughts with colleagues in my father's city of Isfahan who are being abducted from hospital for treating civilians injured by regime forces.
Healthcare workers just doing their job treating the friendly people of this beautiful city
#Iran
Healthcare workers just doing their job treating the friendly people of this beautiful city
#Iran
They're massacring young kids for sport and the world is looking away or engaged in whataboutery.
#IranMassacre #DigitalBlackoutIran
#IranMassacre #DigitalBlackoutIran
January 14, 2026 at 3:05 PM
They're massacring young kids for sport and the world is looking away or engaged in whataboutery.
#IranMassacre #DigitalBlackoutIran
#IranMassacre #DigitalBlackoutIran
When your fellow left-leaning progressive speaks up about what's happening in Iran... ⬇️
And doesn't consider fighting against authoritarianism & oppression, and supporting human rights, to be an issue of taking sides.
When they ignore narrative hijacking and just listen 🙏🏻🫂
And doesn't consider fighting against authoritarianism & oppression, and supporting human rights, to be an issue of taking sides.
When they ignore narrative hijacking and just listen 🙏🏻🫂
January 13, 2026 at 11:56 PM
When your fellow left-leaning progressive speaks up about what's happening in Iran... ⬇️
And doesn't consider fighting against authoritarianism & oppression, and supporting human rights, to be an issue of taking sides.
When they ignore narrative hijacking and just listen 🙏🏻🫂
And doesn't consider fighting against authoritarianism & oppression, and supporting human rights, to be an issue of taking sides.
When they ignore narrative hijacking and just listen 🙏🏻🫂
Finally being picked up by the media:
We saw this awful practice of targeting civilians' eyes in the #WomanLifeFreedom protests
Eye centres like Farabi are unable to cope:
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
#EyesOnIran:
medium.com/doctoryak/ey...
#DigitalBlackoutIran #IranianRevolution2026
We saw this awful practice of targeting civilians' eyes in the #WomanLifeFreedom protests
Eye centres like Farabi are unable to cope:
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
#EyesOnIran:
medium.com/doctoryak/ey...
#DigitalBlackoutIran #IranianRevolution2026
January 13, 2026 at 9:24 PM
Finally being picked up by the media:
We saw this awful practice of targeting civilians' eyes in the #WomanLifeFreedom protests
Eye centres like Farabi are unable to cope:
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
#EyesOnIran:
medium.com/doctoryak/ey...
#DigitalBlackoutIran #IranianRevolution2026
We saw this awful practice of targeting civilians' eyes in the #WomanLifeFreedom protests
Eye centres like Farabi are unable to cope:
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
#EyesOnIran:
medium.com/doctoryak/ey...
#DigitalBlackoutIran #IranianRevolution2026
Fellow progressive,
Liberals and leftists...
Sure, or unsure, what to think about what's happening in Iran
Please watch this video ⬇️
(From a left-leaning progressive of Iranian ancestry)
Please don't delegitimise us
#DigitalBlackoutIran #IranianRevolution2026 #FreeIran
Liberals and leftists...
Sure, or unsure, what to think about what's happening in Iran
Please watch this video ⬇️
(From a left-leaning progressive of Iranian ancestry)
Please don't delegitimise us
#DigitalBlackoutIran #IranianRevolution2026 #FreeIran
January 13, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Fellow progressive,
Liberals and leftists...
Sure, or unsure, what to think about what's happening in Iran
Please watch this video ⬇️
(From a left-leaning progressive of Iranian ancestry)
Please don't delegitimise us
#DigitalBlackoutIran #IranianRevolution2026 #FreeIran
Liberals and leftists...
Sure, or unsure, what to think about what's happening in Iran
Please watch this video ⬇️
(From a left-leaning progressive of Iranian ancestry)
Please don't delegitimise us
#DigitalBlackoutIran #IranianRevolution2026 #FreeIran
Erfan Soltani could be you or I
For exercising his right to protest last Thursday, he is now sentenced to be executed tomorrow
He will have 10 minutes to see his family before he dies...
Someone please do something. Please
metro.co.uk/2026/01/13/i...
@hrw.org @amnesty.org @amnestyuk.bsky.social
For exercising his right to protest last Thursday, he is now sentenced to be executed tomorrow
He will have 10 minutes to see his family before he dies...
Someone please do something. Please
metro.co.uk/2026/01/13/i...
@hrw.org @amnesty.org @amnestyuk.bsky.social
January 13, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Erfan Soltani could be you or I
For exercising his right to protest last Thursday, he is now sentenced to be executed tomorrow
He will have 10 minutes to see his family before he dies...
Someone please do something. Please
metro.co.uk/2026/01/13/i...
@hrw.org @amnesty.org @amnestyuk.bsky.social
For exercising his right to protest last Thursday, he is now sentenced to be executed tomorrow
He will have 10 minutes to see his family before he dies...
Someone please do something. Please
metro.co.uk/2026/01/13/i...
@hrw.org @amnesty.org @amnestyuk.bsky.social
Jafar Panahi picks out just one film from the Criterion Collection - Bicycle Thieves (1948), and you can see the impact the Italian film had on him
Annoyed he didn't win at least one Golden Globe so we could hear him speak in the context of Iran & his emotional personal experience over the years
Annoyed he didn't win at least one Golden Globe so we could hear him speak in the context of Iran & his emotional personal experience over the years
January 13, 2026 at 11:11 AM
Jafar Panahi picks out just one film from the Criterion Collection - Bicycle Thieves (1948), and you can see the impact the Italian film had on him
Annoyed he didn't win at least one Golden Globe so we could hear him speak in the context of Iran & his emotional personal experience over the years
Annoyed he didn't win at least one Golden Globe so we could hear him speak in the context of Iran & his emotional personal experience over the years
Rich kids of IRGC...
That tattoo 🤢
That tattoo 🤢
January 12, 2026 at 10:49 PM
Rich kids of IRGC...
That tattoo 🤢
That tattoo 🤢
Artwork from Legofish (Pendar)
January 12, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Artwork from Legofish (Pendar)
Trump just now: "I'd love to make a deal with them"
Trump again is consistently talking about "making a deal" with the islamic republic leaders.
Iranians seem to be pinning their hopes on him being interested in supporting the revolution more actively...
Trump again is consistently talking about "making a deal" with the islamic republic leaders.
Iranians seem to be pinning their hopes on him being interested in supporting the revolution more actively...
January 12, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Trump just now: "I'd love to make a deal with them"
Trump again is consistently talking about "making a deal" with the islamic republic leaders.
Iranians seem to be pinning their hopes on him being interested in supporting the revolution more actively...
Trump again is consistently talking about "making a deal" with the islamic republic leaders.
Iranians seem to be pinning their hopes on him being interested in supporting the revolution more actively...
Nadhim Zahawi defects to Reform UK
January 12, 2026 at 12:20 PM
Nadhim Zahawi defects to Reform UK
If Jafar Panahi doesn't win a Golden Globe or four tonight then there's not much to be said. Generational film.
I just want to see his speech and try not to shed a tear after everything he's been through, and what's happening right now...
#GoldenGlobes #ItWasJustAnAccident
I just want to see his speech and try not to shed a tear after everything he's been through, and what's happening right now...
#GoldenGlobes #ItWasJustAnAccident
January 11, 2026 at 11:50 PM
If Jafar Panahi doesn't win a Golden Globe or four tonight then there's not much to be said. Generational film.
I just want to see his speech and try not to shed a tear after everything he's been through, and what's happening right now...
#GoldenGlobes #ItWasJustAnAccident
I just want to see his speech and try not to shed a tear after everything he's been through, and what's happening right now...
#GoldenGlobes #ItWasJustAnAccident
The deliberate targeting of civilians' eyes in Iran by the regime fores.
Over 500 patients admitted with ocular trauma in Farabi Eye Hospital over 8-9th December 2025 alone:
medium.com/doctoryak/ey...
Over 500 patients admitted with ocular trauma in Farabi Eye Hospital over 8-9th December 2025 alone:
medium.com/doctoryak/ey...
Eyes on Iran
Blinding as a Method of Suppression
medium.com
January 11, 2026 at 11:08 PM
The deliberate targeting of civilians' eyes in Iran by the regime fores.
Over 500 patients admitted with ocular trauma in Farabi Eye Hospital over 8-9th December 2025 alone:
medium.com/doctoryak/ey...
Over 500 patients admitted with ocular trauma in Farabi Eye Hospital over 8-9th December 2025 alone:
medium.com/doctoryak/ey...
Yet another time when this person, for whom being "Persian"/"Iranian" has been very lucrative indeed, has said absolutely zilch.
Nothing for #WomanLifeFreedom
Nothing now
If that culture means enough for you to monetize it so effectively, at least say something, anything 🤷🏻♂️ on any platform...
Nothing for #WomanLifeFreedom
Nothing now
If that culture means enough for you to monetize it so effectively, at least say something, anything 🤷🏻♂️ on any platform...
I don't get it
If you're "proud of your Iranian heritage" and Persian/Iranian food has given you so much success, then why not say just something about what is happening in the country of your ancestors...?
Why the complete silence during the #WomanLifeFreedom movement, and now...
If you're "proud of your Iranian heritage" and Persian/Iranian food has given you so much success, then why not say just something about what is happening in the country of your ancestors...?
Why the complete silence during the #WomanLifeFreedom movement, and now...
January 11, 2026 at 9:13 PM
Yet another time when this person, for whom being "Persian"/"Iranian" has been very lucrative indeed, has said absolutely zilch.
Nothing for #WomanLifeFreedom
Nothing now
If that culture means enough for you to monetize it so effectively, at least say something, anything 🤷🏻♂️ on any platform...
Nothing for #WomanLifeFreedom
Nothing now
If that culture means enough for you to monetize it so effectively, at least say something, anything 🤷🏻♂️ on any platform...
British "conservatives" following Trump's gang and starting the paid posts in support of the MEK
Surreal given how their fusion of "Marxist-Islamism" is the polar opposite to what these "conservatives" stand for. But pay is pay, I guess.
Bob Blackman and Liz Truss will be next to post, guarantee.
Surreal given how their fusion of "Marxist-Islamism" is the polar opposite to what these "conservatives" stand for. But pay is pay, I guess.
Bob Blackman and Liz Truss will be next to post, guarantee.
January 11, 2026 at 5:32 PM
British "conservatives" following Trump's gang and starting the paid posts in support of the MEK
Surreal given how their fusion of "Marxist-Islamism" is the polar opposite to what these "conservatives" stand for. But pay is pay, I guess.
Bob Blackman and Liz Truss will be next to post, guarantee.
Surreal given how their fusion of "Marxist-Islamism" is the polar opposite to what these "conservatives" stand for. But pay is pay, I guess.
Bob Blackman and Liz Truss will be next to post, guarantee.
My grandmother, may she rest in peace, was the sweetest soul.
She was very proud. She loved her children, her grandchildren. She loved Britain.
But she was so proud of being Iranian and would often say how the Iranian passport was amongst the worlds most respected before 1979
She was very proud. She loved her children, her grandchildren. She loved Britain.
But she was so proud of being Iranian and would often say how the Iranian passport was amongst the worlds most respected before 1979
January 11, 2026 at 4:15 PM
My grandmother, may she rest in peace, was the sweetest soul.
She was very proud. She loved her children, her grandchildren. She loved Britain.
But she was so proud of being Iranian and would often say how the Iranian passport was amongst the worlds most respected before 1979
She was very proud. She loved her children, her grandchildren. She loved Britain.
But she was so proud of being Iranian and would often say how the Iranian passport was amongst the worlds most respected before 1979
Thank you to the Palestinians who are supporting the Iranian people 🙏🏻🫂
Seeing far too many fellow progressives and left-leaning folk quiet on this because of xyz people or nations...
Fighting against oppression and authoritarianism shouldn't be selective.
#IranRevolution
Seeing far too many fellow progressives and left-leaning folk quiet on this because of xyz people or nations...
Fighting against oppression and authoritarianism shouldn't be selective.
#IranRevolution
January 11, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Thank you to the Palestinians who are supporting the Iranian people 🙏🏻🫂
Seeing far too many fellow progressives and left-leaning folk quiet on this because of xyz people or nations...
Fighting against oppression and authoritarianism shouldn't be selective.
#IranRevolution
Seeing far too many fellow progressives and left-leaning folk quiet on this because of xyz people or nations...
Fighting against oppression and authoritarianism shouldn't be selective.
#IranRevolution
A free, secular, democratic Iran once again opens up a country with millennia of history, contributions to civilisation, and profound cultural heritage.
There are so many sites of world heritage..
52 of them here ⬇️
medium.com/doctoryak/52...
There are so many sites of world heritage..
52 of them here ⬇️
medium.com/doctoryak/52...
52 Sites of Iranian Culture and World Heritage
Iran, formerly known as Persia, is a land steeped in thousands of years of rich history and vibrant cultural traditions. As one of the…
medium.com
January 11, 2026 at 12:57 PM
A free, secular, democratic Iran once again opens up a country with millennia of history, contributions to civilisation, and profound cultural heritage.
There are so many sites of world heritage..
52 of them here ⬇️
medium.com/doctoryak/52...
There are so many sites of world heritage..
52 of them here ⬇️
medium.com/doctoryak/52...