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As authorities hit citizens with more violence, the social network is proving key to documenting abuses. If it breaks, a human rights lifeline may disappear.

Even by the loathsome standards of appeasement, it’s appalling. But it's the image the Biden administration is projecting to the world.

Tasnim’s foray into Hebrew is part of an escalating propaganda war between Israel and Iran

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, Photo: Ali Ebrahimzadehs twitter page There is a billboard right outside the headquarters of The New York Times, and the message it carries shows the placement is no accident. “Do not listen t...

Iranian dissidents billboard in Manhattan, April 30, 2021. Members of the Iranian opposition commissioned a billboard in Midtown Manhattan, opposite the offices of The New York Times last Friday, calling on Americans to ignore the media warning Americans not to trust their media which serve as apologists for the Iranian regime and endorse a return to the nuclear agreement with Iran, a.k.a. Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). “Don’t trust the Mullah’s apologists in the U.S...

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei has fallen foul of Twitter’s guidelines and become the latest prominent figure to be booted off the social media platform.  On Friday, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei posted a picture to his Farsi Twitter account of a man on a golf course, which bore a striking resemblance to former US president Donald Trump, as the shadow of what appears to be a stealth bomber flew overhead.  “Revenge must be taken on Soleimani’s killer and the person who ordered the...

Iran's Supreme Leader has posted online an apparent call for an attack on Donald Trump in revenge for last year's killing of its top military commander.

The incoming Biden administration is inheriting from President Donald Trump an Iran-focused social media campaign that dramatically boosted U.S. engagement with Iranians by sharply criticizing their Islamist rulers, a strategy that President-elect Joe Biden appears set to change.  The incoming Biden administration is inheriting from President Donald Trump an Iran-focused social media campaign that dramatically boosted U.S. engagement with Iranians by sharply criticizing their Islamist rulers,...

English By Michael Lipin Share on Facebook WASHINGTON - The incoming Biden administration is inheriting from President Donald Trump an Iran-focused social media campaign that dramatically boosted U.S. engagement with Iranians by sharply criticizing their Islamist rulers, a strategy that President-elect Joe Biden appears set to change.   Trump and his State Department used a variety of social media channels, messaging techniques and languages to e...

The message posted alongside the photo said: “You can threaten, destroy, or arrest, [but] what are you going to do about Navid’s name and memory [living on] in people’s hearts?” Iranian state news agency IRNA published a Friday article confirming that authorities demolished the walls at Afkari’s gravesite. The U.S. State Department’s Farsi Twitter account denounced Irans action in a Twitter post. رژیم سعی کرد با اعدام نوید افکاری صدای او را خام...