#RandomThoughts

Mike Pouraryan
4 min readSep 16, 2020

It has been a very challenging few weeks on all fronts. Yesterday I had the pleasure to release the image of the courageous Alexy Navalny, the leading Russian Opposition Figure, who was poisoned and was allowed to go to Germany for treatment and is now talking. But, I was stunned as I saw how the Iranian Regime murdered (and yes I am prepared to say murdered) the Champion Wrestler Navid Afkari Saturday. I had joined the Twitter Campaign to help save his life but to no avail. But, as the Actress and Human Rights Campaigner Nazanin Boniadi noted, we cried — now we have to organize.

In light of Navid’s cold-blooded murder by the regime, I decided during this brief foray for my mid-month notation to share a few of the discourse I captured. The first below is from the Journalist Mehdi Mahmoudian — he released a tweet earlier on efforts he had undertaken to help save Navid Afkhari’s life — and in the Tweet below warns the Cyber Warriors of the Iranian Regime that if they think he and other campaigners will stop just because they’ve started some BS nonsense — they’re sadly mistaken — and this is as pro-regime newspaper tried to justify his murder by calling for revenge — Mr. Mahmoudian was part of a team trying to entice the family to forgive — and he’s been at the forefront of exposing the crimes of the regime since the Green Movement of 2009:

I captured this from the journalist and campaigner Masih Alinjead’s Instagram Account that called “Death to Khameini” and how Navid’s Death will be avenged — this is as just today another execution was affirmed by Iran’s…

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Mike Pouraryan

Teacher, Writer/Blogger, Consultant, Community Activist, Dad