A young Iranian woman defiantly lighting a cigarette from a burning photo of Iran’s supreme Islamist leader Ali Khamenei gets captured on video and gets frozen in time to turn into a widely circulated resistance poster.

British writer JK Rowling uses that very poster to post on X: “If you claim to support human rights yet can’t bring yourself to show solidarity with those fighting for their liberty in Iran, you’ve revealed yourself. You don’t give a damn about people being oppressed and brutalised so long as it’s being done by the enemies of your enemies."

If you claim to support human rights yet can’t bring yourself to show solidarity with those fighting for their liberty in Iran, you’ve revealed yourself. You don’t give a damn about people being oppressed and brutalised so long as it’s being done by the enemies........

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