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Andrew Brook

@anbrook.bsky.social

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Senior programme manager at Power2 @power2org.bsky.social. Doctoral researcher @mmudecentwork.bsky.social, interested in the relationship between housing and job quality. Ex-teacher and current special school governor. Views mine alone.

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Andrew Brook @anbrook.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

I share the instinct that little good can come from a confused war led by bloodthirsty imbeciles. But it also provides a sliver of hope that the brutal Islamic Republic regime could end. My Iranian partner has translated these accounts from Iranians inside Iran.

I want to say that even in this war, in these terrible and unbearable circumstances, my everyday fear of being arrested by the Islamic Republic - or being harmed by them in any way - is greater than my fear of the war itself. This is what life has been.

In my mind, the continuation of the current government in Iran means our certain destruction. War and its consequences mean possible destruction. So I feel better than I did last week. But it would be foolish to expect that we should feel "good" right now. It is something that, from this point onwards, our misery is no longer guaranteed. But only that.

I don't want to go to the north, even though I'm from there. My whole family calls and tells me to come. But I say I'm staying in Tehran. I want to be here. I want to be here on that day to celebrate it. In the middle of the street, loudly, with laughter and tears, for the end of them and for the beautiful souls of my country who were killed and won't be there to see freedom. War is bitter. Destruction is terrible. But living alongside these corrupt men is far harder. So we stand firm for the freedom of Iran.

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Andrew Brook @anbrook.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

I share the instinct that little good can come from a confused war led by bloodthirsty imbeciles. But it also provides a sliver of hope that the brutal Islamic Republic regime could end. My Iranian partner has translated these accounts from Iranians inside Iran.

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