"Free Toomaj Salehi" must be heard worldwide! Get the word out to celebrities, rap artists and fans, people with a platform ... and millions of others. Find English-language resources on this page to share on social media or with colleagues. Email art, graphics and links to FreeIransPoliticalPrisonersNow@gmail.com to share and post.

Recent updates from IEC

April 12: "Toomaj is severely injured and needs care outside of prison": Toomaj's uncle

April 10: Global Grassroots Groundswell Urgently Needed: Free Rebel Rapper Toomaj Salehi!

Videos with English Subtitles

@ToomajSalehi (YouTube) provides a wide variety of music videos, audio files, interviews and conversations. In order to make English-speaking audiences aware of this brilliant lyricist and fierce rebel already widely loved in Iran, IEC is featuring here our playlist "Free Toomaj Salehi, videos subtitled" with short descriptions; some are posted on @ToomajSalehi, some on other channels, and some are special to IEC. We've embedded only the first few of our playlist to reduce page load; click on links to the others.

This is Toomaj Salehi - short introduction to the Iranian rebel rapper, Dec 2022. Created by @ToomajInternationalPage, shared with permission

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Song by @ToomajSalehi and @justinaofficial7114 July 11, 2022; Video Dec 2022 by @ToomajInternationalPage Instagram, translation of lyrics to English by volunteers with International Emergency Campaign to Free Iran's Political Prisoners Now

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Fal, Oct 24 2022. Toomaj acts the part of a fortune teller who reads the future of the Islamic Republic. Spoiler alert: it doesn't look good for them.

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Posted in Farsi July 2021, this is the biting criticism of apologists for the regime which is said to be the "reason" for Toomaj's arrest in Sept 2021.

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"Unite", August 15, 2021, is a moving call "Unite Oh Afghanistan, Unite Oh Iran, Unite brave people".

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July 2022, Powerful collaboration between Toomaj and Justina

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Noose

Sept 2021, Toomaj with Belikab released this fearless, unrepentant video just as Toomaj was called to court on charges of propaganda for his music.

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"Normal"

June 2021, Toomaj bitingly compares what is "normal" for the rich and connected with the suffering which is normal for poor and working people of Iran.

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Turkmanchai

August 2021, here Toomaj rails against the regime's selling out Iran's interests to China and Russia.

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Battlefield

Posted shortly before his arrest in October 2022, this video stands powerfully and fearlessly with the people rising up in Iran, with footage from the streets.

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"You haven't seen"

Feb 2022: "You can't hear the drums of poverty at the Supreme Commander's house", Toomaj also speaks of the repression of poets, prisoners, and women.

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