Arnavaz Hajizadeh (@ArnavazHB) profile picture

General Surgery Resident | MD, PharmD @Northeastern @MayoClinic @RCSI_irl @NovantHealth #Marathoner

Boston, MA
Joined August 2013
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History will ask who spoke up as people in Iran were massacred for asking for freedom; and who chose comfort and silence instead. #VoiceofIran #IranMassacre #MLKDay2026
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به آمریکا التماس می‌کنند و هم‌زمان از جوانان، دانشجویان و کارآفرینانی چون #ساعدی‌نیا انتقام می‌گیرند. ظالم‌تر، حقیرتر و مفلوک‌تر از جمهوری اسلامی وجود ندارد.
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What you celebrate as a symbol of identity, many Iranian women have experienced as state authority over their bodies. Some have fought, and some have died, for the right to say no.
Hello @AOC, while you smiled in a hijab at a New York event, I was in Federal Court facing the 4th hitman hired by the Islamic Republic to assassinate me, for campaigning for Iranian women to have the same freedom you performed for a photo op. Will you come to court with me in August when I face the 5th hitman? Or does solidarity only work when it doesn't offend the Islamic regime? You wore hijab voluntarily in New York. Women are killed in Iran for taking it off. You are the very woman who, at every opportunity, protests against violence against women, decries gender segregation, and champions "inclusion." Yet here you stand, smiling and wearing a hijab, at an event in New York, in the heart of the West, where men and women are strictly separated. To me and millions of Iranian women, this does not look like a choice. It is no longer "My body, my choice," but rather "My body for votes." They who claim to fight for women's self-determination in the name of feminism voluntarily embrace an ideology that mandates our women cover their hair simply because they are women. They enjoy the prosperity, freedom, and privileges of the Western world, where they may live as autonomous individuals , yet they simultaneously accept that other women should not be afforded the same rights. #LetUsTalk
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چقدر زود رنگ باخت ادعای جماعتی که به نام «ایران» برای کاشی و آهو قلم‌فرسایی می‌کردند، اما اکنون در برابر جان جوانان ایران که یکی پس از دیگری بر فراز چوبه‌های دار می‌روند، سکوت مرگ گرفته‌اند.
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For some of us, this isn’t distant news. It’s a reminder of how easily a life of work, skill, and dignity can be taken for saying the wrong truth.
ایندیپندنت فارسی مطلع شده است که توحید رزمی، فوق‌تخصص جراحی عروق و شهروند معترض به جمهوری اسلامی در شیراز، از روز پنجشنبه ۲۷ فروردین‌ماه به دست ماموران اداره اطلاعات این شهر بازداشت شده است. با گذشت بیش از دو هفته از زمان بازداشت، اعضای خانواده او همچنان از عنوان اتهامی و وضعیت سلامتی این پزشک بی‌اطلاع‌اند. بر اساس اطلاعات دریافتی، توحید رزمی هم‌اکنون در زندان عادل‌آباد شیراز محبوس است. او فرزند یک نیروی ارتشی جان‌باخته در جنگ ایران و عراق است و به‌دلیل فعالیت‌های پژوهشی و دستاوردهای علمی، از جمله نخبگان پزشکی شیراز به شمار می‌رود.
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جمهوری اسلامی همین الان در آستانه‌ی سرنگونی است؛ هرگونه توافق با آن نه‌تنها یک خطای راهبردی، که خیانت به خون انسان‌های شجاعی است که جان خود را فدای آزادی ایران کردند. قیمت‌ها سر به فلک کشیده، بعضی اقلام ضروری و خوراکی ظرف چند ماه ۶۰۰٪ یا بیشتر گران شده؛ ادارات دولتی، موسسات و دانشگاه‌ها ناتوان از پرداخت حقوق کارکنان خود هستند؛ اینترنت برای ۹۹٪ مردم قطع است؛ کارخانه‌ها و شرکت‌ها در حال اخراج میلیون‌ها نفر هستند؛ مثلا دیجی‌کالا، بزرگ‌ترین شرکت فناوری ایران، در یک روز ۲۰۰۰ نفر را اخراج کرد؛ بعضی شرکت‌ها ۹۰ درصد کارکنان خود را اخراج کرده‌اند؛ و این شرایط برای تمام مردم ایران بسیار تلخ است. اما تلخ‌تر از آن، باقی‌ماندن جمهوری اسلامی است؛ رژیمی که زیر بمباران هم دست از سرکوب و اعدام بر نداشت؛ رژیمی که حاضر است مردم ایران توسط شبه‌نظامیان عراق و افغانستان سرکوب شوند؛ رژیمی که بین صلح و رفاه و توسعه‌ی ایران یا محو اسرائیل، قطعا دومی را انتخاب می‌کند و تمام سرمایه‌ها و منابع و زندگی مردم ایران را، درست مثل چند دهه‌ی گذشته، برای آن تباه می‌کند. جمهوری اسلامی باید نابود شود تا مردم ایران، امید به آینده را تجربه کنند.
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Arnavaz Hajizadeh retweeted
Yes @MyronGainesX Pipe down You are no match for Iranian women
Replying to @DrNeilStone
We grew up under the regime. We owe no one silence, least of all men who answer our lived experience with slurs. #DigitalBlackOutIran‌ #IranMassacre‌
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Arnavaz Hajizadeh retweeted
Replying to @jimmy_dore
Ranting about censorship while amplifying propaganda during an actual blackout is vile. #DigitalBlackOutIran‌ #IranMassacre‌ #IranWar‌
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Arnavaz Hajizadeh retweeted
Replying to @OunkaOnX
Calling regime propaganda propaganda is not “Goebbels.” Defending the regime while Iranians are silenced is the real obscenity!! #DigitalBlackOutIran‌ #IranMassacre‌
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Arnavaz Hajizadeh retweeted
You speak about repression as if it is abstract, as if it belongs to headlines, statements, and policy language. It does not. It enters a home and rearranges the air; it makes fear out of ordinary love. A mother who is the first call and the last call of your day suddenly unreachable. A sister who cannot talk, but at least you could see her face, and now you cannot even do that. A father beaten for peacefully protesting. I know others have lost more. I know that. But do not insult this pain by calling it nothing. Silence can be violent too. Long before the world counts the dead, it has already begun breaking the living. #DigitalBlackOutIran‌ #IranMassacre‌ #IranWar‌
29 days now of no Internet and messages like these being sent to 90 million Iranians and never arriving 😢
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You speak about repression as if it is abstract, as if it belongs to headlines, statements, and policy language. It does not. It enters a home and rearranges the air; it makes fear out of ordinary love. A mother who is the first call and the last call of your day suddenly unreachable. A sister who cannot talk, but at least you could see her face, and now you cannot even do that. A father beaten for peacefully protesting. I know others have lost more. I know that. But do not insult this pain by calling it nothing. Silence can be violent too. Long before the world counts the dead, it has already begun breaking the living. #DigitalBlackOutIran‌ #IranMassacre‌ #IranWar‌
29 days now of no Internet and messages like these being sent to 90 million Iranians and never arriving 😢
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Hey world, one month. If this were happening in the West, it would be treated like a full-blown international crisis. Governments would panic, media would obsess, and nobody would dare call it normal. Iranians deserve that same outrage. #DigitalBlackOutIran‌ #IranWar‌ #IranMassacre‌
🗓️ Exactly one month ago on Saturday morning, 28 February, #Iran was plunged into digital darkness as authorities cut off access to the global internet. After four full weeks, 672 hours, the blackout remains in effect, violating Iranians' right to communicate and stay informed.
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Hey world, day 28. If a Western country lost internet for 28 days, it would be treated like a full-blown international crisis. Iran is living that reality, and too many people barely react!! #DigitalBlackOutIran‌ #IranMassacre‌ #IranWar‌
⚠️ Update: The internet blackout in #Iran is now in its 28th day after 648 hours, with Iranians having spent more than half the year to date cut off from international networks. Authorities continue to refine a two-tiered system where only regime apparatchiks are allowed online.
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Hey world, day 27! This is what authoritarianism looks like online, one country, one silence, one approved narrative. #DigitalBlackOutIran‌ #IranMassacre‌ #IranWar‌
⚠️ Update: #Iran's digital blackout has entered its 27th day after 624 hours of isolation from the global internet with connectivity levels at ~1%. Rights monitors, independent media and the public are sidelined as access is granted only to those on a state-approved whitelist.
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Hey world, Day 26 of Iran’s blackout. The people are isolated, the regime is not!! Read that again. #DigitalBlackOutIran‌ #IranMassacre‌ #Iran
⚠️ Update: The internet blackout in #Iran has now entered its 26th day after passing the 600 hour mark. The measure leaves civilians cut off from international networks, violating their right to access information in times of war.
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Hey world, day 25. The regime silenced a nation, then kept a private line for its own lies. Read that slowly. #IranMassacre‌ #DigitalBlackOutIran‌ #IranWar‌
⚠️ Update: #Iran's internet blackout has entered its 25th day after 576 hours, leaving the public isolated from the world as whitelisted accounts seek to take control of the narrative. The measure leaves civilians without vital updates and without a voice on the global stage.
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Hey world, day 24 of forced silence! The blackout is the message, the regime is terrified of an unfiltered Iran! #DigitalBlackOutIran‌ #IranMassacre‌ #IranWar #Iran
⚠️ Update: It's now day 24 of #Iran's internet blackout, with the measure passing 552 hours among the most severe registered in any country. International connectivity remains unavailable to the general public while authorities maintain a selective whitelist for global access.
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Iran is full of witnesses, survivors, prisoners, mothers, and mourners, and you went looking for insight in the ruler’s family?!? That tells us everything! #DigitalBlackOutIran‌ #Iran #IranMassacre
Dear @nytimes I don't think the regime President's son is reliable and representative of the average Iranian's experience of the war Please spare us the propaganda 😖😖😖
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Hey world, day 23. Iran is still being held in digital darkness. The regime is not just hiding the truth; it is trying to own reality itself. Let that tell you everything. #DigitalBlackOutIran‌ #IranWar‌ #IranMassacre‌
⚠️ Update: After 528 hours, #Iran is entering a 23rd day isolated from the world as the regime-imposed internet blackout continues in its fourth week. The measure adds to the wartime distress of millions of civilians who lack independent sources of information and alerts.
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Hey world, hour 504. Three weeks of engineered silence, and still the regime is chasing every last route to truth, witness, and contact. #DigitalBlackOutIran‌ #IranWar #IranMassacre‌
⚠️ Update: Three full weeks have passed since #Iran's internet blackout came into effect, with users forced onto the National Information Network. At hour 504, few circumvention tools work as authorities crack down on satellite and VPN users outside the state-approved whitelist.
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