Dr. Kazem Moussavi, March 2021
The ruling theocracy cannot be reformed in Iran through negotiations or deals as the Western powers could not deal with the German Nazis in the late 1930s. The ayatollahs perceive themselves as instruments of God in an apocalyptic war between good and evil. They anticipate the return of Mahdi, the hidden 12th Shiite Imam, who according to the regime’s constitution is the actual head of state, in which the current leaders occupy his seat until his imminent arrival.

Business consultant Dawood Nazirizadeh, a board member of “Islamic community of Shiites in Germany” (IGS), an organization controlled by the Iranian regime has filed a defamation lawsuit against Iranian dissident Kazem Mousavi to intimidate and silence him. Nazirizadeh’s attorney is notorious Michael Hubertus von Sprenger, a past attorney for Turkish dictator Erdogan and a long list of right-wing extremists and Holocaust deniers.

Tabriz, January 5 pic.twitter.com/ySHiyJ06MF

— Hassan Dai (@IranianForum) January 5, 2018

City of Dezful, Jan/3/18#IranProtests pic.twitter.com/JYjl5uioEd

— Green Party of Iran (@iran_e_sabz) January 3, 2018

Too often the discourse that emerges from media coverage of Iran co-opts the struggle of ordinary people in order to reinforce a specific narrative. But to really understand what is happening in Iran, you only need to listen directly to the voices of the Iranian people.

Joughabad, a small town near Isfahan, January 3 #IranProtests pic.twitter.com/lh9ZMdg0dO

— Hassan Dai (@IranianForum) January 3, 2018

Majid Mollanoroozi, Director of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art and Visual Arts Director at the Iranian “Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance” gave out the awards to the winners. The German Foreign Minister Frank Walter Steinmeier chose Mollanoroozi to be a partner of a cultural project of the German government,

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