[5][6][1] As a blogger, Esmaeilion began his literary career by publishing two collections of short stories, Thyme is not Fair (2008, winner of the Houshang Golshiri Award) and The Canary Owner (2010).

[10] Esmaeilion is one of the founders and was also the president and spokesman of The Association of Families of Flight PS752 Victims until March 2023, which he said were trying to "take legal action for this crime" and "commemorate the memory of the dead".

In the aftermath, key Iranian opposition figures outside the country—Reza Pahlavi, Crown Prince of Iran, soccer player Ali Karimi, Esmaeilion, and women's rights activist Masih Alinejad—formed a coalition.

Protests happened in Sydney, Melbourne, London, Edinburgh, Stockholm, Brussels, Berlin, Rome, Los Angeles and Toronto.

[20] In March 2023, he resigned as the president and spokesman of The Association of Families of Flight PS752 Victims to focus more on his role in Iran's "Women, Life, Freedom" protests.