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This wasn’t just a funeral. It was a gathering of authoritarian allies and terrorist proxies celebrating one of the world’s most brutal dictators. Independent estimates place the cost at around $800 million, although the regime has never released an official accounting. My interview with @CBSNews , all you need to know about Khamenei’s funeral and what ordinary people of Iran feel about his death.

“You deserve to be blinded, you ugly puppet of America and Israel. Leave Germany. Go to America. Go to Israel.” These were the words shouted at Kosar Eftekhari in Berlin by people marching under the slogan of “Free Palestine” and violently attacked the victim of Islamic Republic regime. Kosar is an Iranian woman who was shot in the eye by the regime’s IRGC for peacefully protesting during the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising. She lost one eye, but never lost her courage. I know her personally. She is kind, peaceful, and incredibly brave. Her only “crime” in Germany is using her freedom of speech to say “Free Iran” and to speak out against terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah. But instead of solidarity, she was mocked for her blindness. People laughed at her face, insulted her appearance, and praised the very regime that maimed her, chanting for Ali Khamenei while bullying one wounded woman standing alone in the street. Imagine surviving the bullets of a dictatorship, escaping to Europe, and then being publicly humiliated for daring to speak against your oppressors. Thanks to the German police for protecting Kosar and defending their right to freedom of speech. I call on all activists, university, students, college campuses and defenders of democracy to stand with Kosar in peaceful protest, to shout “Free Iran,” expose the Islamic Republic’s terror, and condemn its proxies like Hamas and Hezbollah. No woman who survived the bullets of a dictatorship should be bullied into silence in the streets of Europe. We the women of Iran are wounded but unbowed to our oppressors. 💔✌️ @kosareftekharii