Safety
Short rules, each with its reason. Read the part that is yours.
If you are inside Iran
There is very little here for you to do, and that is on purpose. I would rather you were safe than useful to me.
Read without an account.
Every page opens with no account, no name and no email. Nothing here needs you to sign in to read it.
If you make an account, put nothing of yours in it.
An account keeps the email and the name you typed. I never check either one, so neither has to be real.
Never say where you are.
A city and one small detail are often enough to find a person. I never ask, and you should not offer.
No gathering. Not with me, and not through me.
I cannot know who would be in the room, and neither can you. So every mission that means seeing someone is marked outside Iran only and taken off the Missions page once you say you are inside, and no page of mine will ever send you to one.
No report, no proof, no XP.
A report is a public post. Nothing public should point at you, so I never ask for one and there is nothing to earn.
Watching is enough.
The show is on YouTube every day. You never have to write in its chat. If you do, use an account with no name, no photo and no number of yours.
A video is the one risky thing I accept from inside. Read its page first.
People inside Iran filmed most of what the show puts on screen. That page says how a video reaches me, and what I leave out to keep the person who filmed it out of it.
What still matters from inside: knowing you are not the only one, and knowing who in the West is with you. Making noise is the job of the people outside.
If you are outside Iran
Freedom House found in 2021 that the Islamic Republic had gone after Iranians abroad in at least nine countries in Europe, the Middle East and North America. Source: Freedom House, 'Iran: Transnational Repression Origin Country Case Study' (special report, 2021)
The head of Britain's MI5 said in October 2024 that since January 2022 the country had dealt with twenty plots backed by the Islamic Republic that could have killed people living there. Source: MI5, 'Director General Ken McCallum gives latest threat update', speech of 8 October 2024
Family in Iran? Decide once how public you are, then keep to it.
Anything public is public to the Islamic Republic too. A face, a full name or a city, once posted, cannot be taken back.
Freedom House: family members inside Iran are threatened or detained in order to silence Iranians abroad. Source: Freedom House, 'Iran: Transnational Repression Origin Country Case Study' (2021)
Use a name you chose for this.
Here, on Discord and in the live chat, a name is only a name. Nothing checks it.
Never post someone else.
Their face, their name and their city are theirs to give. Ask first, every time, and take no for an answer.
Lock your accounts.
Turn on two-step verification on your email, your chat apps and your social accounts. Do not open links or files from people you do not know.
The UK government gives this advice to people who may be targeted by a foreign state. Source: UK Home Office, 'What to do if you think you are the victim of transnational repression'
An invitation to travel is a warning sign.
If anyone presses you to come to a country near Iran, even a relative, stop and ask who is really asking.
Iranians living in the West have been seized while travelling through other countries and taken to Iran. One of them was executed. Source: Freedom House, 'Iran: Transnational Repression Origin Country Case Study' (2021)
If you are threatened, report it where you live.
A threat against you, or against your family in Iran because of you, is a crime where you live. You do not have to be a citizen to report it.
In the United States: tips.fbi.gov or 1-800-225-5324, whatever your citizenship. In immediate danger, 911. Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation, 'Transnational Repression'
In Britain: 999 in an emergency, 101 otherwise. Source: UK Home Office, 'What to do if you think you are the victim of transnational repression'
In Canada: the RCMP tip line, 1-800-420-5805. In immediate danger, 911. Source: Public Safety Canada, 'Understanding foreign interference' (reporting details on its page 'Protect yourself against foreign interference')
At a dorehami
A dorehami is a few people who already trust each other, something to eat, and a talk about Iran. Outside Iran only.
Only people you knew before this site. Someone who says they are a member here is still a stranger.
A dorehami works because nobody in the room has to be careful. One stranger changes that for everyone, and so does one person nobody can vouch for.
In October 2025 two men were each sentenced to 25 years in a United States court for a plot, paid for by the Revolutionary Guard, to murder an Iranian journalist in New York. The men were hired criminals, not officials anyone would have recognised. Source: US Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York, press release of 30 October 2025
I keep no list of dorehamis, I match no strangers, and I never send an invitation or a file. If someone says I sent them, I did not.
A list of small gatherings of Iranians is a list somebody else would like to have, and an invitation from a stranger is a known trick. So I keep no list and send no invitation.
Hackers working for the Islamic Republic have sent activists abroad fake invitations, including to a human rights event that did not exist, to get them to install spying software. Source: Freedom House, 'Iran: Transnational Repression Origin Country Case Study' (2021)
Pictures show the table, the flag, hands. A person is shown only if they said yes to this site and the shows too, not just to your own post.
A table and a flag say everything a report needs. A face says who was there.
Nobody whose family is in Iran is shown or named, unless they chose it themselves.
The price of a picture may be paid by someone who was never in it.
No address, no house number and no car plate, on this site or in any picture.
I never see where a dorehami is, and nobody reading a report should be able to work it out.
UK government guidance for people at risk: do not put your home address online or in print. Source: UK Home Office, 'What to do if you think you are the victim of transnational repression'
Nothing is posted during it, and nobody says where it was, before or after.
A post from the evening tells people where a group is while it is still there. Saying where it was tells them where to wait next time.
A dorehami belongs to its host. I give a guide and XP. I run nothing, pay for nothing and decide nothing.
The people in the room know each other and I know none of them. It is yours to run.
Adults only. No children in any picture.
A child cannot decide whether to be part of this.
At a rally
Only a rally its organisers already announced in public. Never one you heard of in a private chat.
A rally announced in public was planned to be seen. A meeting passed around a private chat was not, and you cannot tell who started it.
A rally belongs to the people who called it. I run none, pay for none and speak for none.
I am a website. I cannot keep anyone safe on a street, so I do not pretend to organise one.
Decide about your face before you leave.
Everyone at a rally has a camera, and you control none of them.
Pictures show the table, the flag, hands. A person is shown only if they said yes to this site and the shows too, not just to your own post.
A crowd is full of people who never agreed to be in your post.
Nobody whose family is in Iran is shown or named, unless they chose it themselves.
The price of a picture may be paid by someone who was never in it.
Nothing is posted during it, and nobody says where it was, before or after.
A post from the street tells people where you are while you are still there.
What I do, and what I never do
I hold no files.
A report is words, or a link to a post you made yourself. You can take your own post down in one tap. A file on my side, you could not.
I take no money and move none.
No mission costs anything, and nothing here passes money to a gathering, a group or a rally.
No XP for voting, and never a word about who to choose.
XP is given for doing a mission, never for the act of voting or of signing up to vote. Points are not money, and I keep them off the vote anyway.
United States law makes it a crime to pay, or offer to pay, for registering or for voting in a federal election. Source: 52 U.S.C. 10307(c), as shown by Cornell Legal Information Institute
A rule that is missing? Tell me in the discussion of the Missions page.