Mana Mostatabi (@mostlymana) / X

Mana Mostatabi

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Mana Mostatabi

@mostlymana

doing things daily 🪴 | some policy, some comms 👩🏻‍💻 | learned stuff @georgetownmsfs + @ucsb_ccs 📖 | big fan of non-proliferation and moo deng 🦛

San Francisco, CA

Joined January 2009

Mana Mostatabi
@mostlymana
May 14, 2025
Today my apartment management called and told me I have to take down the #Palestine flag I’ve had hanging on my balcony for the past two months. Someone complained. 🧵
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Mana Mostatabi
@mostlymana
May 14, 2025
Replying to @mostlymana
I checked my lease and I can hang it in my window — so that’s what I’ll do. But let’s not pretend this was neutral. This was silencing. This was erasure, folded into property management language. Palestine is not going anywhere. And neither are those of who stand against genocide
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Mana Mostatabi
@mostlymana
May 14, 2025
Replying to @mostlymana
Let’s be clear: this wasn’t about policy. This was about someone not liking the visibility of Palestine. Not liking the discomfort of being reminded. Not liking that I dared to hang a flag that says, “I see what’s happening. And I will not look away.”
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Mana Mostatabi
@mostlymana
May 14, 2025
Replying to @mostlymana
When I asked if they were also requiring the neighbor with a Warriors flag to take theirs down, the response was: “Yeah, well… what if someone doesn’t like the #Warriors?” And I haven’t stopped thinking about that. Because no one is knocking on doors about Steph Curry.
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Mana Mostatabi
@mostlymana
May 14, 2025
Replying to @mostlymana
No one is saying a sports flag “might hurt our ability to rent units.” No one feels politically threatened by team colors. Sports teams don’t challenge power. The Palestinian flag does.
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Mana Mostatabi
@mostlymana
Jul 27, 2018
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United Sates of America. And for which it stands, one giant typo, and OMFG get me off this planet.
Mana Mostatabi
@mostlymana
Jun 16, 2025
My family in Tehran has piled into a car and evacuated. This is war, unfolding in real time. Other relatives are meeting them halfway because gas is being rationed. As my sister said, it’s taking a literal village to get them to places that may only be slightly less dangerous.
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Mana Mostatabi
@mostlymana
Apr 20, 2020
This is the hard hitting, nuanced journalism I've been waiting all of 2020 for.
Mana Mostatabi
@mostlymana
Jun 13, 2025
Iran is subject to some of the most intensive IAEA inspections and monitoring in the world. Israel has a clandestine nuclear weapons program with zero oversight. Now it’s escalating again. Aggressors gonna aggress. #NoWarWithIran
Reuters
@Reuters
Jun 13, 2025
BREAKING: Israel said that it struck Iran, and Iranian media said explosions were heard in Tehran as tensions mounted over US efforts to win Iran's agreement to halt production of material for an atomic bomb reut.rs/4jReGNQ
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Mana Mostatabi
@mostlymana
Jun 10, 2025
I hear people say “Netanyahu isn’t Israel,” and yes, there are Israelis protesting the violence in Gaza. But comments like these, and polls like this, make it clear: removing Bibi isn’t enough. The rot is systemic. You can’t return to what Israel was, because what it’s been has
Assal Rad
@AssalRad
Jun 10, 2025
When you’re not at all a genocidal society.
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Mana Mostatabi
@mostlymana
Jun 13, 2025
I feel overstimulated and furious, by both the attack itself and the media’s portrayal of it as a “preemptive strike.” They hit residential buildings. They killed children. Western media isn’t just biased, it’s complicit. Israel provokes its neighbors, slaughters civilians,
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Mana Mostatabi
@mostlymana
Aug 10, 2025
Running list of Israel’s violations of intl law: • War crimes • Genocide • Killing journalists • Collective punishment • Starvation • Attacks on hospitals/schools • Destroying water systems • White phosphorus use • Illegal settlements • Forced displacement • Apartheid
Assal Rad
@AssalRad
Aug 10, 2025
You’re a genocidal military repeatedly caught lying to cover up your war crimes. No one believes you. You murder journalists when you have something to hide.
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Mana Mostatabi
@mostlymana
Jan 16, 2020
A big thanks to @VICE for giving me the chance to share my story about being Iranian American and how the recent escalations between the two countries I love have impacted me. #NoWarWithIran
What It's Like When Your Two Home Countries Are on the Brink of War
From vice.com
Mana Mostatabi
@mostlymana
Jun 22, 2025
The US just bombed three Iranian nuclear sites. My first thought: JFC. My second: maybe it’s a one-off. Not because they value life, but because they’ve done the sacrificial math about how many American deaths they’re willing to accept if Iran retaliates. This country won’t
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