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Farnaz Fassihi

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Journalist @nytimes United Nations Bureau Chief Iran Mideast Diplomacy | Author | War correspondent Ellis Island Medal of Honor @Columbia & @Harvard alum

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1Jan 5, '20BREAKING; #Iraq parliament votes to expel US military from Iraq. PM Abdul Mahdi: “It’s time for American troops to leave.” Wow.29×029k9.8k152
2Sep 7, '21Kabul right now. Brave women protesting and chanting “freedom.”19.9×022k6.3k195
3Jan 13, '20Iran State TV's anchor resigns saying, "It was very hard for me to believe the killing of my countrymen. I apologize for lying to you on TV for 13 years." #IranProtests202012.5×010k5.3k119
4Jul 31, '24BREAKING NEWS: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyah has been assassinated and killed in Iran, a statement by the Revolutionary Guards said. He and an Iranian security guard were targeted at11.8×1.7M4.2k1.3k297
5Jun 13, '25Update: Ali Shamkhani has been killed. Iranian officials view this as Israel targeting and killing nuclear diplomacy with the US, they tell me.8.7×1.2M2k840258
6Feb 12, '19Numbers don't lie. El Paso Fire Department crowd estimates:: Trump: 6,500 Beto O'Rourke: 10,000 - 15,0008.7×08.8k2.7k25
7Apr 5, '25SCOOP: We obtained video footage showing Israel attacked the convoy of aid workers in Gaza with a barrage of bullets, a paramedic frantically says his prayers of death. The ambulan8.0×1.1M7.1k4.2k1.3k
8Jan 7, '20#BREAKING: #Iran IRGC statement: "We warn all allied countries of the US that if attacks are launched from bases in their countries on Iran, they will be a target of military retal7.5×04.4k3.4k81
9Jan 11, '20BREAKING: #IRAN admits shooting down the Ukrainian Airplane says human error, accidental, the plane turned toward an IRGC military base. #IranPlaneCrash7.3×05.2k3k54
10Sep 12, '20When singing solo is an act of defiance. Because singing is prohibited for Iranian women. #Iran6.9×08k1.9k197
11Sep 8, '20School in the age of pandemic in Iran.6.8×07k2.3k129
12Jan 9, '21History will judge Trump's enablers, normalizers and cheerleaders including Nikki Haley. I watched her do it at the UN every day.6.8×09.4k1.5k39
13Dec 30, '17Unreal foorage from #Qom: "We don't want Islamic Republic, we don't want it, we don't want it." #Iranprotests #Iran #اعتراض_سراسری5.9×04.7k2.9k1
14Jan 3, '20Iranian sources in Iran are warning that killing Gen. Qasem Sulaimani spells war. "Official reaction will begin with a strike," one says. #Iraq5.9×03.8k2.7k58
15Aug 17, '21Khadija Amin the new anchor on state TV last week. Taliban taking over her seat as of Monday. Ms. Amin told us her boss informed her Taliban have banned women from returning to wor5.8×04.3k2.8k129
16Feb 4, '18#Iranian woman on the wall in downtown #Tehran fighting forced hijab. #دختران_انقلاب5.7×05.2k2.4k0
18Jun 5, '20He's 75. The entire country is in an uproar about police brutality and they do this.5.6×07k1.6k53
19Aug 16, '21Tragic footage from Kabul airport. #Afghanistan5.2×03.9k1.7k370
20Jul 19, '19Nadia Murad & Trump exchange: Nadia: “They [ISIS] killed my mom, my six brothers” Trump: “Where are they now?” Nadia: “They killed them. They’re in a mass grave in Sinjar” Trum4.9×04.1k1.6k143
21Jan 11, '20#IranProtests What a spectacular turn of events, Islamic Republic. Crowds chant, "Our enemy is right here, they are lying that it's America." #UkranianPlaneCrash4.7×04.2k1.9k61
22Aug 25, '21A 345-seat chartered plane to evacuate Afghans leaves Kabul empty today because they couldn't get through Taliban checkpoints and US military gates at airport. Crushing. #Afghanist4.3×03.2k1.9k68
23Feb 9, '18#Iranian #woman dancing in street of #Tehran. Dancing is banned for women, who are leading the way for change. #دختران_خیابان_انقلاب4.1×03.8k1.7k1
24Mar 5, '20Another great video of Iranian medical staff treating coronavirus, strained & intimidated, dance to keep spirits up. #كرونا3.8×04.3k88992
26Jan 11, '20#IranPlaneCrash #IranProtests Protestors screaming for Khamenei to resign. Chants, "All these years of crimes, Death to the Supreme Leader."3.6×03.2k1.5k62
27Jan 8, '20#IranAttacks Sources in Iran say if US doesn't retaliate then Iran will also de-escalate. But if it does, then it's war. IRGC statements reflect same. #Iran #Iraq #Alasad3.6×03k1.6k43
28Jan 1, '18A first & game changing shift in #IranProtests: reports of security forces refusing to battle the crowds. #Iran #تظاهرات_سراسرى_3.6×03.3k1.6k0
29Jan 7, '20#BREAKING: Iran Revolutionary Guards begin "fierce revenge" on US. Iranian ballistic missiles hit Al Assad military base in #Iraq, largest US base. And It Begins. #Soleimani3.6×02k1.8k38
30Aug 29, '21NEW: Hundreds of Afghan students & alumni of American University in Kabul told evacuations are canceled after 7 hours waiting in buses today to get to the airport. They are in 3.4×02.3k1.6k131
31Jul 31, '24Iranian officials are in utter shock over assassination of Haniyah, sources say, because it also delivers a huge blow to Iran's security reputation at a time it wants to project po3.3×468k2k414110
32Jan 3, '20Rare personal video of Gen. Suleimani reciting poetry shared by a source in #Iran. About friends departing & him being left behind. #قاسم_سليماني3.3×01k26794
33Jan 3, '20Iranian diplomat sources say: Any prospect of negotiations with the US are finished. Talk is of revenge. #Iran #Iraq #Sulaimani3.3×01.9k1.5k37
34Mar 24, '25NEWS: The U.N. tells all its staff members in NY in an email to carry UN ID cards & copies of their passports showing their visas at all times in case ICE agents stop them. Fir3.0×425k11k3.3k596
35Aug 31, '21On the night the war ended remembering my two journalist friends killed in Afghanistan. RIP David Gilkey and Anja Niedrighaus.2.9×04.6k42421
36Aug 26, '21Read my story on Mikey to restore your faith in humanity: He was the lead Afghan interpreter for the Special Forces. Trapped & in hiding in Kabul, the soldiers lead a global ca2.9×03k858279
37Nov 20, '23IDF arrested Gaza's most prominent poet Mosab Abu Toha. He wrote this haunting essay about the war for the New Yorker. PEN America has called for his immediate release.2.9×406k3.5k2.1k525
39Mar 3, '22“They will die in uniforms because of decisions made by men in suits,” said Ukraine's President Zelensky. This quote stands for every war.2.7×03.4k74158
40Jan 3, '20In death, if not life, Gen. Sulaimani has unified Iran's rivaling political factions, from hardliner to reformist, who are all rallying behind the regime & see this as an act o2.6×02.4k97631
41Aug 19, '21Zaki Anwari, 17, fell off the U.S. military plane & died. He was a member of Afghanistan's national youth soccer team. He saw the arrival of the Taliban as "the end of his drea2.5×02.3k92273
42Jan 14, '20Iran arrests the man who recorded the video showing missiles brought down Ukrainian Airlines plane. That video was first verified by @nytimes & was first public proof of the tr2.5×01.3k1.4k48
43Dec 1, '19Our exclusive story on the mass killing in Mahshar. Revolutionary Guards forces surrounded, shot and killed 40 to 100 demonstrators — mostly unarmed young men — in a sugar cane fie2.4×01.5k1.3k54
44Dec 30, '17A first in #IranianProtests #Rasht crowds chant: "Death to Revolutionary Guards." #Iran #IRGC #تظاهرات2.4×01.6k1.3k1
45Nov 19, '19#IranProtests takeaway: I've covered Iran for 25+ years. Never seen protests this brazen, this angry, this widespread. This is serious. That's why there is a total Internet blackou2.3×02.3k93815
47Aug 19, '21Last month Kimia Yousefi carried Afghanistan's flag in Tokyo's Olympic games. Today she is a refugee in Iran.2.3×02.4k84746
48Jan 6, '20#Iran State Funeral for Gen. Sulaimani begins in Tehran. Millions are out. Sea of endless people by 6 am. In 25 years covering Iran, have never seen anything like this. #SoleimaniF2.1×02k77225
49Jan 1, '18Wow! Special Forces to cowd: I didn't join military to go to war w/ you. Crowd cheers: He is with us, with us.#IranProtests #تظاهرات_سراری2.0×01.7k9670
50Jul 15, '20In rare unity, Iranians demand halt to executions. Seeking new ways to get heard, nearly 5 million tweets. Celebrities, soccer stars, politicians & ordinary folks join campaign2.0×02k8058
51Dec 8, '17In 2 years of covering @UN, never seen all 14 members of #UNSC unanimously condemn the actions/decisions of another member as they are doing w/#US #Jerusalem today.2.0×01.4k1k0
53Mar 1, '22Ukrainian soldier reciting Persian poetry in the battle field. The poem, addressed to a lover, asks who will tell you the news of my death? "به چه می‌اندیشی، چه کسی باور کرد، جنگل 1.9×01.9k558140
54Sep 10, '21Beautiful Iran.1.8×03k17416
55Nov 16, '19Wondering why many of us journalists are not on the ground for #IranProtests: In 2009 uprising I was in Tehran & govt. foreign press office warned me that snipers had been orde1.8×01.7k64216
56Jan 8, '20When US invaded #Iraq on false claims, did it ever imagine 20 years later it's bases would come under missile fire from #Iran? And Iraq would tell US to get out? Reminder that nati1.7×02k54715
57Jun 10, '19#Iranian woman dancing in Tehran metro without forced hijab. Fight on, sisters.1.7×02k53116
58Jan 3, '20#Iran update: Iran's National Security Council holds emergency meeting to discuss response to Soleimani killing. IRGC says funeral plans underway. Hezbollah & regional pro-Iran1.7×01.3k84925
59Dec 1, '19My neighborhood newsstand guy, a Pakistani American, asked me to record a message for his 7th grade daughter. Her dream is to be a journalist, he said. What should I say, I asked. 1.7×02.8k1514
60Sep 12, '20Iran executes champion wrestler Navid Afkari. Ingoring international and domestic outcry and threat to be ousted from world sport community. No words. #نوید_افکاری1.6×01.4k59932
61May 15, '19I ran the Journal's Baghdad bureau for four years when mortars, car bombs & stray bullets targeted the Green Zone & US embassy several times a day. State Dept. didn't evacu1.5×01.5k60414
62Jun 21, '19It's wild that Washington pundits & US officials are surprised that Trump's #Iran policy has backfired. Iran watchers, UN & European diplomats have been warning of this day1.5×01.6k5264
63Mar 26, '18Fearless girl, #Iran style. Dancing with street musicians in Tehran. #HappyNowruz1.5×01.5k5272
64Jan 2, '18#IranProtests Day 5 Wrap: 1.It's an uprising. Clashes turn deadly. 2.#Rouhani tried but failed to address anger. 3.#Iranians fed up w/the entire system. 4.Nation-wide strikes calle1.5×01.1k8470
65Aug 19, '21Beyond tragic. Afghanistan's Sports Federation announced a member of the National Youth Soccer Team was one of the people who fell off the US military plane & died. A child. Za1.4×01.3k56833
66Jan 12, '20#IranProtests2020 Iran is a tinderbox. In November it was gas prices. In January it's downing of plane. People are fed up. Tehran chants, "We don't want missiles, we don't want bom1.4×01.5k50416
67Jul 13, '19This looks like the conditions of Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq when we toured it circa 2004. @jdawsey11.4×01.3k6249
68Jan 11, '20BREAKING: Public mourning gatherings turn into protests in #Iran. Angry crowds chanting, "Death to the liars." #IranPlaneCrash #UkrainePlaneCrash1.4×01.2k55722
69Jan 20, '21Rouhani says it will be quid pro quo with Biden: If US signs, so will Iran. If US issues order, so will Iran. If US returns to commitments, so will Iran. "Trump's political life en1.3×01.3k40124
70Aug 26, '21A friend from Kabul left me a goodbye voice message. He said he is supposed to go to airport tomorrow to be evacuated but in case there is an explosion and he dies, he is saying hi1.3×02k24415
71Dec 31, '17#IranianProtests have not quieted down, we are getting videos w/delay due to interne & app disruption. #Tehran: #تطاهرات_سراسری1.3×09477040
72Oct 2, '19This never gets old. President of America, the beacon of the free press, calling media "enemy of the people." @Acosta1.3×01.4k3254
73Sep 4, '21The brave women of Afghanistan. Kabul today.1.3×01.8k2804
74Feb 23, '20Iran coronavirus: Director of Qom’s state medical university is infected with virus. Yesterday he sounded alarm bells. Day before yesterday he said nothing to worry about. #Iran #C1.3×01k57922
75Jan 31, '18Elderly #Iranian grandma ties her scarf to her cane & waves it in support of fighting forced hijab. #respect #Iran #زنان_خیابان_انقلاب1.3×01.2k4930
76Nov 15, '19#IranProtests gaining size & spreading to more than a dozen cities. Crowds in Ahwaz chant, "Don't be afraid, we are together." Riot police out spraying protestors. #Iran1.2×092958310
77Feb 24, '22Tonight's Security Council meeting on Ukraine was the most dramatic one I have covered. In real time, history in the making. As diplomats pleaded for peace and diplomacy news came 1.2×01.3k37142
78Mar 4, '20Loving the videos of heroic Iranian medical staff battling coronavirus & dancing through it all to lift spirit of patients! Because we dance:)1.2×01.4k33121
79Aug 19, '21Ahmad Masoud, the son of legendary Ahmad Shah Masoud, declares the start of an armed resistance against the Taliban forming in the Panjshir Valley. He penned this op-ed: #Afghanist1.1×01k39169
80Aug 29, '20Virtual Ashura in an Iranian video game!1.1×01k221103
81Jan 13, '20#IranProtests2020 Taraneh Alidoosti, Iran's most famous actress, writes on her Instagram page w/ 6 million followers: "We are not citizens. We are hostages, millions of hostages."1.0×01k39216
82Jan 29, '18Not all bad news from #Iran. Morning exercise in the park turns into group dance party in the #snow. #Tehran #برف_تهران1.0×01k3704
83Dec 30, '17I ask @realDonaldTrump again: If you differntiate between #Iran regime & people, then why do you ban #Iranians from entering the US? #Iran #IranianProtests #TravelBan1.0×09603750
84Jan 12, '20#IranPlaneCrash What I hear from every #Iranian I talk to: "Our lives have no value to them. Look at how Canada is mourning our immigrants. Our own country kills us." #IranProtests1.0×01k3676
85Aug 6, '21I am grateful for the stellar support of @nytimes leadership voiced in this statement as I've faced months of harassment, slander, death & rape threat from some Iran opposition0.9×096615759
86Jan 16, '20#IranProtests2020 Pooneh & Arash, genius graduates of Sharif University, got married a few days before they boarded Ukrainian Airlines. Today was their funeral in Tehran. RIP.0.8×01.1k1598
87Sep 3, '21When a scam falls apart, it collapses fast. Afghanistan was a Ponzi scheme sold to the American people. A house of cards.0.8×097015891

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