Actor Nazanin Boniadi is urging the world to back the protests in her native Iran calling for women’s rights and political change, saying despots fear nothing “more than a free and politically active woman.”

Source: https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/actor-nazanin-boniadi-asks-world-back-iran-women-97708839

But it’s not just the despots and tyrants who keep me awake at night – it’s the engineers, executives and politicians a reality.

Source: https://www.techdigest.tv/2023/05/tech-digest-daily-roundup-should-scientists-have-ai-licences.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tech-digest-daily-roundup-should-scientists-have-ai-licences

It would have put an end to government by the people and delighted despots everywhere.

Source: https://www.irishcentral.com/opinion/niallodowd/should-trump-be-put-on-trial

We have a government that helps despots, launders money, and generally fails.

Source: https://www.citizen.co.za/news/opinion/sa-moral-high-ground-turned-mudslide/

Your authoritarian design broke their spirit, the spirit of a multitude of Jews who suffered from persecution and oppression, under the reign of terror by despots in foreign lands.

Source: https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2023/04/24/an-open-letter-to-prime-minister-netanyahu/