Mick Hartley

Iranians are worried because people didn’t choose war.
But listen closely… that’s not silence, that’s laughter.
Laughter at the faces of IRGC commanders who once ruled by fear, now reduced to billboards.

I’ve received thousands of messages from inside Iran showing young women… pic.twitter.com/TrMuoWde6k

— Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) June 14, 2025

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I’ve received thousands of messages from inside Iran showing young women dancing in the streets, or families cheering in their kitchens. They remember these commanders as the ones who gave the orders to shoot protesters in the eyes, jail teenage girls, and lie to the world while building bombs in secret.

One mother in Tehran who was imprisoned for protesting the 2019 murder of her child wrote to me that “waking up to the news of Salami’s death, I started to scream out of joy that I’m seeing justice.” She told me that “soon you’ll be back to Iran and we’ll dance on the graves of these killers.”