'Whenever they saw fit, they exploited me. I wasn’t important to them. None of us mattered to them, we were tools.'
“Let me start with a greeting, a farewell or condolences,” Alizadeh wrote on Instagram. “I am one of the millions of oppressed women in Iran who they have been playing with for years.”
“They took me wherever they wanted. I wore whatever they said. Every sentence they ordered me to say, I repeated. Whenever they saw fit, they exploited me,” her post continued. “I wasn’t important to them. None of us mattered to them, we were tools.” In her post, Alizadeh said she “didn’t want to sit at the table of hypocrisy, lies, injustice and flattery,” according to CNN, calling out the Iranian regime for “corruption and lies.” It’s
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