Non-Iranian Popular Figures
Noam Chomsky, the American linguist and philosopher, condemned the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini by publishing a video message. Chomsky stated that: “One Crime, Too Many.” Slavoj Zizek, the Slovenian philosopher, also sent a video message of solidarity to the Iranians protesting Mahsa Amini’s death. He also wrote on his Instagram account that: “we don’t need female figureheads or Woman Kings; we need women who mobilize us all for ‘woman, life, freedom’ and against hate, violence, and fundamentalism.” Canadian poet and writer Margaret Atwood (best known for The Handmaid’s Tale) also stated that “Mahsa Amini’s brutal death may be moment of reckoning for Iran.”
Dozens of philosophers and intellectuals in France, including Alain Badiou, Etienne Balibar and Thomas Piketty, also supported the current protests in Iran and their central slogan “Woman, Life, Freedom” by publishing a message in the Liberation magazine. They wrote: “The current situation in Iran following the killing of Mahsa Amini by the Morality Police requires the widest international support for protesters and the condemnation of the Islamic regime of Iran.”
Elif Shafak (Turkish novelist), J. K. Rowling (British author and creator of the popular Harry Potter series), Serkay Tutuncu (Turkish actor), Murat Boz (Turkish singer -songwriter), Damla Sonmez (Turkish actress), Nurgul Yesilcay (Turkish actress), Burak Ozdemir –aka CZN Burak- (popular Turkish chef), Mustafa Sandel (Turkish singer -songwriter), Ebru Gundes (Turkish singer), Gokhan Alkan (Turkish actor), Sezen Aksu (Turkish singer-songwriter), Ibrahim Tatlises (Turkish singer), Kate Beckinsale (English actress), Hailey Bieber (American model), Claudio Marchisio (Italian former football player), Jada Pinkett Smith, (American actress), Irina Shayk (Russian model), Bella Hadid (American model), Halsey (American singer-songwriter), Sharon Stone (American actress), Omar Momani (Jordanian cartoonist), Sonya Amoroso (Australian film producer), Daniella Semaan (Lebanese model), Reece James (English football player), Khaby Lame (Senegalese influencer), Nathaniel Buzolic (Australian actor), Charlize Theron (American actress), Aryana Sayeed (Afghan singer), Roger Waters (English musician), Mahsun Kirmizigul (Turkish singer), Sarah Wayne Callies (American actress), Eric Cantona (French actor, producer, and former professional footballer), Alexander Rybak (Belarusian singer), Justin Bieber (Canadian singer), Roberto Mancini (Manager of the Italian football national team), Eva Mendes (American actress), Jessica Chastain (American actress), Gregory Masouras (popular Greek photographer), Valentina Giacinti (Italian footballer), Lola Astanova (American pianist), Bernice King (American lawyer and Martin Luther King’s daughter), Elie Wiesel (American writer), Marcus Kowal (MMA fighter), Deepak Chopra (Indian-American author) Brian Denis Cox (Scottish actor), Melek Mosso (Turkish musician), Daniel Day-Lewis (English actor), Marcell Jacobs (Italian runner), Kim Kardashian (American influencer), Pinar Deniz (Turkish actress), Abdullah Al-Junaid (Bahraini writer), Walter Zenga (Italian association football manager), Kylie Moore-Gilbert (Australian-British academic), Samantha Kerr (Australian footballer) Dragan Skocic (football manager), Iker Casillas (Spanish footballer), Jake Paul (American boxer), Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting (Cameroonian footballer), Fernando Pimenta (Portuguese sprint canoeist), Shpejtim Arifi (German footballer), Paolo Maldini (Italian footballer), Jessica Silva (Portuguese footballer), Gianluigi Buffon (Italian footballer), Davide Calabria (Italian footballer), Isabella Barker (reporter), Jules Koundé (French footballer), Juan Sebastian Veron (Argentina former football player), Aline Rotter-Focken (German wrestler), Ibrahim Ba (French footballer), Lee Kiefer (American fencer), Torrie Wilson (American wrestler), Pierluigi Casiraghi (Italian football coach), Clarence Seedorf (Dutch association football manager), Kosovare Asllani (Swedish footballer), Selin Toy (Turkish volleyball player), Annika Wendle (German wrestler), Lewis Hamilton (British racing driver- Formula One), Jordan Burroughs (American wrestler), Helen Maroulis (American wrestler), Frank Chamizo (Cuban-Italian wrestler), Jennifer Aniston (American actress), Ricky Martin (Puerto Rican singer-songwriter), Penelope Cruz, (Spanish actress), Fusun Demirel (Turkish actress), Liraz Charhi (Israeli actress), Angelina Jolie (American actress), Jason Momoa (American actor), Rasha Hilwi (Palestinian writer), Juliette Binoche (French actress), Gerardo Seoane (Swedish coach), Gable Steveson (American wrestler), Luciano Spalletti (Italian football manager), Murad Osmann (Russian photographer), Januario (Brazilian footballer), Kylie Jenner (American influencer), Emily Schrader (Israeli activist), Misha Collins (American actor), Riccardo Simonetti (German Influencer), Patrick Bet-David (American Entrepreneur), Ursula Corbero (Spanish actress), Sophie Turner (British actress), Alex Jolig (German singer and actor), Nur Surer (Turkish actress), Ariana Grande (American singer), Farhad Darya (Afghan singer), Bebe Rexha (American singer-songwriter), Chris de Burgh (British-Irish singer-songwriter), Dua Lipa (British singer), Halsey (American singer-songwriter), Yungblud (English singer), Adnan Karim (Iraqi-Kurdish singer), Xero Abbas (Syrian singer), Shanaz Zahir (Iraqi Kurdish singer), Garry Kasparov (Russian chess grandmaster), Swedish House Mafia (Swedish singers), Arian Moayed (American actor), Nick Cave, (Australian singer-songwriter), Lara Alcazar (leader of Femen Spain), Annie Ernaux (French writer), Elijah Wood (American actor), George Takei (American actor), Oprah Winfrey (American talk show host), Orlando Bloom (Hollywood actor), Kim de l’Horizon (Swiss writer(, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex (former American actor and model), Hugh Hudson (English film director), Susannah Harker (British actress), Maryam d’Abo (British actress), Barry Navidi (Iranian-American film producer), Isabelle Adjani (French actress), Roberto Baggio (Italian footballer), Jurgen Locadia (Dutch football player), Yasmin Levy (Israeli singer-songwriter), Sila Gencoglu (Turkish singer), and a group of political Kurdish female inmates in Ward B 6 of Bakırköy Women’s Prison in Istanbul, Turkey, are among the countless non-Iranian figures who reacted to the events in Iran.







