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Shahab @shahabzargari.net · 23/08/2026

If the algorithm put this in your feed, this is your sign to: put your work out into the universe already!!!! 📸 by yours truly, booklet by Zach Yerrington, modeling by Michelle Cardin.

Photo of a woman holding a booklet with this text on the cover: Put it into the universe.

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Shahab @shahabzargari.net · 10/08/2026

A better Superman than Dean Cain

Cover art of comic book:
SUPERMAN SMASHES THE KLAN
- image shows Superman floating and two young Asian kids running for survival.

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Shahab @shahabzargari.net · 21/07/2026

My favorite comedy! Thanks for autographing my DVD copy! 🥹

A couple standing next to an autograph table where musician Weird Al is seated.

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Shahab @shahabzargari.net · 10/07/2026

“The people” can’t seem to agree on what would best represent them (even families at the dinner table can’t agree). But those who want regime change definitely do not align with the one you posted initially. Here’s a timeline of the Iranian flags!

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Shahab @shahabzargari.net · 18/06/2026

Yesterday I had no reception out here.

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Shahab @shahabzargari.net · 15/06/2026

I’m pleased to announce that my latest film has won Best Black & White film at the Staten Island Summer of Shorts International Film Festival!! 🤍🖤

AND THE WINNER IS...
Beyond the Pane
Director: Shahab Zargari
FOR:
BEST
BLACK & WHITE
STATEN ISLAND
Summor of Shorts
2026 STATEN ISLAND
SUMMER OF SHORTS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

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Shahab @shahabzargari.net · 25/04/2026

How does it feel to be Iranian in 2026? From last night’s RADAR performance art pop up where I performed an 8-bit cover of “Good Things” by The Menzingers. 📸 Lucas Andrews #iran #iranian

Iranian man with baseball cap and beard on his knees crying

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Shahab @shahabzargari.net · 02/04/2026

Took approximately 1,200 photos of my friend Alexa. 450 survived the chopping block. And this is one of my faves. #portraitphotography 📷 📸

A woman standing in front of street signs in a photo studio smiling into the camera.

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Shahab @shahabzargari.net · 10/03/2026

You in another decade (2000)

Two men and a woman acting silly in the liquor aisle of a grocery store.

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Shahab @shahabzargari.net · 07/03/2026

Not necessarily in this order. Mario Kart, Gris, Hades 2, Mad Max, Monument Valley, Have a Nice Death, Night Book, Feather, Shredder’s Revenge. my9games.com

Cover art for 9 video games: Mario Kart, Gris, Hades 2, Mad Max, Monument Valley, Have a Nice Death, Night Book, Feather, Shredder’s Revenge.

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Shahab @shahabzargari.net · 27/02/2026

6 years ago my friends Kevin and Mike filmed some takes at the park, and I cut it all together with this awesome hardcore track. If you dig it, share it! 🙏🏽 #martialarts 🥋

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Shahab @shahabzargari.net · 15/02/2026

Drop an album that was important to you when you were nineteen.

Album cover with band that look like Greasers and the words Teen Idols.

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Shahab @shahabzargari.net · 15/02/2026

I’m all for these marches for Iran. I’m NOT feeling these red “MIGA” hats though. Like, why you gotta parallel with the MAGA movement? I’m 100% not on the side of Trump loving Persian Americans. They can fuck all the way off forever.

Photo of woman and baby wearing red “Make Iran Great Again” hats

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Shahab @shahabzargari.net · 11/02/2026

Ok, wait, is “Its All Coming Back to Me” all about Céline Dion remembering the first time she enjoyed back door lovin’???????

It's All Coming Back to Me
•••
Céline Dion

There were things I'd never do again, but then, they'd always seemed right
There were nights of endless pleasure
It was more than any laws allow
Baby, baby, if I kiss you like this, and if you whisper like that
It was lost long ago, but it's all coming back to me

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Shahab @shahabzargari.net · 24/01/2026

My current mental gymnastics represented as two screenshots.

hollywoodjunkyard ® 23h
Our planet is an all inclusive resort for 3,000 billionaires and we are all just the staff.

basswaala 13h
The United States is exactly who they tried to convince you everyone else was.

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Shahab @shahabzargari.net · 22/12/2025

Hafez spoke to me tonight.

• 2 •
Chosen Yet Flawed
The heavens could not bear the burden of trust
So the lot fell to me the mad one

Ghazal
• 184*

This verse reflects the tension between divine fate and human fallibility, a theme central to Persian mysticism.
Hafez references the Qur'anic concept of amanat (divine trust), which the heavens, earth, and mountains all rejected but humanity accepted. In his self-deprecating, mystical style, Hafez calls himself "the mad one" (divanch), emphasizing the paradox of humanity being both flawed and entrusted with the sacred responsibility of free will and moral duty.

O, seeker of the Faal, heed this call:
Reflect on the sacred responsibility that comes with being human. Free will inevitably brings challenges and difficult choices. Hafez reminds you that struggles and mistakes do not lessen your value. Instead, they affirm your unique role in the vast design of existence. Embrace your imperfections with grace, and strive to honor this trust with courage, humility, and sincerity.

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Shahab @shahabzargari.net · 21/11/2025

24 months, no interest. Happy birthday to me!

Text message from Best Buy: Best Buy >
Thanks for shopping with us!

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Shahab @shahabzargari.net · 05/11/2025

“That awkward silence in a slow moving elevator, am I right?” #cosplay #daredevilcosplay #spidermancosplay 🦸‍♂️ 🦸

Photo of Spider-Man and Daredevil cosplayers in a red elevator.

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Shahab @shahabzargari.net · 25/10/2025

This photo is from 2012 when beardless, baby Shahab met one of his heroes @realgdt.bsky.social at San Diego Comic Con. A truly brilliant mind and inspiration. I cannot wait to see his upcoming creature feature!!!! 🧟‍♂️

Guillermo del Toro and Shahab Zargari smiling

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Shahab @shahabzargari.net · 17/10/2025

Never heard of any of them. 🤨

Screenshot of clearsky.app with these words:

Shahab
@shahabzargari.net 7/23/2023
User #362,438

Blocked by 20

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Shahab @shahabzargari.net · 13/10/2025

If you see this, qrp with a game released the year you were born

Video game release poster with alien symbols and the words: Space Invaders

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Shahab @shahabzargari.net · 28/09/2025

Margaret The Brave on the big screen, and the world premiere of our short: Seasonal Work! Let’s go!!

Holding up a film program and badge for s film festival

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Shahab @shahabzargari.net · 27/09/2025

A huge thanks to Nuwu Gallery and everyone who came out to the world premiere of our Unseen Territories documentary, directed by Sydney Galindo! Appreciate you!

A group of artists, men and women, smiling into the camera.

Man with hat and glasses with woman in red dress and glasses posing with a movie poster.

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Shahab @shahabzargari.net · 25/09/2025

Just deleted my TikTok account. Buh bye!

TikTok deletion page:
Delete shahabzargari?

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Shahab @shahabzargari.net · 25/09/2025

Desperately waiting for Hades 2 to populate on the Switch.

Hades II
You cannot play this software yet.
Would you like to view more detailed information on Nintendo eShop?

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Shahab @shahabzargari.net · 20/09/2025

I’m not adding ALT text because I refuse to retype this racist bullshit.

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Shahab @shahabzargari.net · 20/09/2025

“What movie do you consider perfect?” 📽️

Movie poster for “oh the guilt” featuring a converse shoe box and film photo prints

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Shahab @shahabzargari.net · 17/09/2025

I became a lifelong fan after seeing this film. Her music stays in rotation always. Jenny Lewis in The Wizard (1989).

Red hair young lady in an elegant hotel room with baby blue furniture. She has an old rotary phone receiver on her shoulder pinned down by her jaw as she jots down notes into a book.

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Shahab @shahabzargari.net · 29/08/2025

Brooke Herndon wrote the score to two of my films. She’s a musical genius. I shot this portrait of her recently. Hope you dig it as much as I do. 📸

Woman obscured by a tree like shadow pattern

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Shahab @shahabzargari.net · 25/08/2025

lol well, thank you all the same!

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Shahab @shahabzargari.net · 24/08/2025

Argh!!!!!!! What is happening even. Youtube tutorials fly past this step in leas than a second.

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Shahab @shahabzargari.net · 24/08/2025

Ok. So step 45 you should be able to connect this diagonal piece without it bothering other pieces and by being flush with the side without seeing the pink and blue blocks. But when I click it into place the square window looking thing pops off and the piece is not flush.

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Shahab @shahabzargari.net · 17/08/2025

These are not the speed trap cops on highway 95 who pulled me over this weekend. But it is a reenactment played by classic cars.

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Shahab @shahabzargari.net · 16/08/2025

Just chillin on the stoop.

Photo of a front stoop. Lots of vegetation and flowers everywhere. A wicker chair can also be seen.

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Shahab @shahabzargari.net · 08/08/2025

I’m enjoying it all so very much. 🤩🤩🤩 I’m humbled by the amount of amazing freebies! 😍😍😍

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