An Iranian girl who went viral for recreating the ‘Trump’ dance on social media after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was assassinated revealed her cousin had died as she hit out at the regime.
On March 2, Moone Rahim, who describes herself on X as ‘Your favourite Iranian baddie’, shared a video of herself performing the famous Trump YMCA dance, which has garnered nearly 10 million views.
On Wednesday, she told her 92,000 followers that she had lost her ‘beloved cousin,’ last week, who ‘would be alive if there was no Islamic regime.’
In a lengthy post on X alongside a baby photo of her and her cousin she added: ‘This picture was probably the last time I was really happy in my life, before I realized where I was born and where I live.’
‘The Islamic regime took everything I could have had: my freedom, my rights, my happiness, my youth, and so much more.’
The influencer, who lives in the US and is a PHD student in engineering according to her X bio, continued by saying she thought she would be happy in America, but instead is watching her hometown ‘getting ruined’ and her ‘sisters and brothers getting murdered by the Islamic regime.’
‘Every night one of us dies, and the whole world ignores us,’ she added.
Rahim said that the world was turning a blind eye the plight of innocent Iranians, including children and pregnant women, who are ‘dying just so the IRGC ideology survives.’
Moone Rahim shared a video of herself performing the famous Trump YMCA dance, which has garnered nearly 10 million views
Moone Rahim posted a baby photo of her and her cousin on X
Viral social media videos show jubilant crowds dancing on the streets, as well as individuals recreating the fist pumping move at home with friends
‘They took our beautiful country, our lives, our families, and our freedom, and the whole world is just watching in silence,’ she wrote before finishing with, ‘Rest in peace, my brother.’
Rahim was one of many Iranians who to social media to share videos of them doing the famous ‘Trump dance’ in celebration after a joint US-Israel military operation killed Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei on February 28.
The videos showed jubilant crowds dancing on the streets, as well as individuals recreating the fist pumping move at home with friends.
Meanwhile, the Iranian regime has continued to crack down on its own people as the war rages on.
It was reported earlier this month that the brutal regime has begun rounding up civilians it claims are helping its enemies, while sending threatening texts to the population, warning those who take to the streets will face a ‘blow stronger than January 8’.
Civilians have also received a constant barrage of messages with false claims about US deaths and impending victory, according to the Financial Times.
One message addressed to the ‘people of Iran’ said: ‘The wicked enemy, desperate to achieve its goals in the battlefield, is once again seeking to instill fear and instigate street chaos’.
The text, sent by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) intelligence arm, added ‘Internal traitors to the homeland’ who take to the streets will face ‘a blow stronger than January 8’, the date the regime began its massacre on anti-regime protesters.
In a message on state TV, one regime figure said: ‘Once the dust from all this sedition settles, we’ll grab you by the collar, one by one,’ addressing ‘liberals, supporters of the west and those in love with Zionism and imperialism.’
‘We’ll make your mothers mourn for you,’ he added.
Last week it was reported that Iran had arrested 500 people accused of sharing information with enemies, according to regime police chief Ahmadreza Radan.
Half of those cases involved serious incidents ‘including people who provided information for hitting targets and individuals who took footage of strike locations and sent them,’ he said without going into detail on when the arrests took place.
In January, weeks before the US and Israel launched the current war against Iran, there were widespread anti-government protests in Iran that were repressed in the deadliest crackdown in the Islamic Republic’s history.
Authorities had blamed Israel and the US for fomenting what they said were ‘violent riots’ aimed at overthrowing the clerical establishment.
President Donald Trump, performs his ‘Trump Dance’ at a rally in 2025
Families and residents gather at the Kahrizak Coroner’s Office in January confronting rows of body bags as they search for relatives killed during the regime’s violent crackdown on protests
Tehran has acknowledged that more than 3,000 people died during the unrest and attributed the violence to ‘terrorist acts’.
The US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), however, has recorded more than 7,000 killings, while warning the toll could be far higher.
The brutal crackdown also saw the deaths of more than 220 children, the agency said.
Other human rights organisations have tallied many more, and medical professionals have estimated that 30,000 could have been killed.
Last week, the regime executed three people who were accused of killing two police officers after taking part in the anti-regime protests.
Champion wrestler Saleh Mohammadi, 19, was reportedly killed in a public hanging along with Mehdi Ghasemi and Saeed Davoudi in the city of Qom last Thursday.
