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“I am a witness” … a hashtag with which thousands of Iranian tweeters interacted on Twitter, to remind the opposition of the crimes of the regime against the country’s government against the opposition, and in what appears to be a tornado of tweets. And persecution against ethnic and religious minorities.
The hashtag touched on the history of the Iranian regime with the abuse of its political opponents, beginning with the 1979 revolution that ended with Khomeini and clerics controlling the reins of power, and then establishing revolutionary and military tribunals for opponents in order to undo from them.
The activists considered that the Khomeinist regime executed its opponents and confiscated their properties, between the years 1979 to 1988, before they legalized to suppress all forms of peaceful protest for the next 40 years.
An account on behalf of “Amina” revealed that her father and friends were among the Iranian dissidents who were massacred in prisons 31 years ago due to their affiliation with the PMOI organization that opposes the Tehran regime.
Another account tweeted under a pseudonym that the current judicial official, Ghulam Husayn Ijei, ordered the confiscation of all his father’s money in the 1980s, because he (his father) belonged to the opposition that rejected the guardianship system.
A story called “Hafez Fazili” said that the Revolutionary Guard militia killed his cousin and handed over his body to his family, since it deceived them that anti-regime elements were the ones who killed his son.
Iranian tweeters did not leave the opportunity to recount their bitter memories with violence and cruelty by the security forces, either in the recent popular protests calling for political and economic reforms or during the mass demonstrations that broke out in protest against the results of the presidential elections of 2009.
The activists poured their anger on the Iranian authorities, who accused them of killing teenagers during protests that broke out in different parts of the country in the last 3 years, such as Boya Bakhtiari, Nikita Esfandani and Nawid Afkari.
Accounts from Iranian users described the downing of the Ukrainian plane by Revolutionary Guard missiles earlier this year and the murder of all its passengers with the crime of innocent people, as well as the imprisonment of those who opposed the incident.
Users provided the names of jailed human rights activists such as Nasreen Sotoudeh, Narges Mohammadi, Atna Daami, Yasmine Aryani and Sabida Qulian as an indication of the extent of the oppression of women within Iran due to their rejection of socially imposed restrictions on they.
Ibrahim, a former political prisoner, wrote that Janabadi Sufis who opposed the Tehran regime were massacred by security forces while demonstrating on Golestan Street in the Iranian capital two years ago.
The tweeters protested through the hashtag “I give testimony” to the security forces directed against the workers who were on strike due to their poor living conditions, and the porters who transported goods across the border under the pretext of violating the laws .
An account called “Jawad” that posted a photo of one of the child porters: “I testify that when they found the body of the porter Farhad Khosravi, at the age of sixteen, he was frozen from the cold in the mountains,” according to ” Al-Ain News “.
