Shabnam Assadollahi

Iran: Davos Must Not Whitewash Mass Murder

One week after credible reports of mass killings in Iran, Børge Brende, President of the World Economic Forum, is welcoming Abbas Araghchi, the occupying terrorist regime’s foreign minister, to Davos.

This is not diplomacy. It is the normalization of state violence.

Mr. Børge Brende, you should be ashamed of yourself for inviting terrorist Abbas Araghchi to this summit. He is the foreign minister of a regime that massacred MORE than 20,000 of its own citizens in just two days early January—and then blacked out the entire country so the world could not see the continuation of genocide. Out of respect for the blood of the victims, this invitation must be withdrawn immediately.

Araghchi does not represent Iran. He represents a terrorist occupying Islamic regime and its execution arm, the IRGC—a system that governs through bullets, torture chambers, mass arrests, and fear. Inviting the regime ruling Iran is not engagement; it is endorsement and appeasement of genocide and crimes against humanity.

The World Economic Forum hides behind the word “neutrality,” but neutrality collapses the moment Davos hands its microphone to perpetrators while victims are still being buried. Platforming regime officials during an active or recent massacre is not dialogue—it is legitimization. When neutrality protects killers, neutrality becomes complicity.

This is a disgrace.

Thousands of Iranians have been slaughtered, yet their executioners are welcomed as respectable guests.

More than 90 million Iranians are watching. They know who ordered the killings—and they will remember who smiled, shook hands, and posed for photographs while Iranians were lowered into graves.

History will judge this moment without mercy. When the people of Iran were being massacred, the World Economic Forum chose appeasement over principle and offered a global stage to a genocidal regime.

Cancel the invitation. Davos has no moral authority while it whitewashes mass murder.

About the Author
Shabnam Assadollahi is a human rights advocate, freelance journalist and educator. As a teenager, she was imprisoned for eighteen months in Evin Prison for her activisim against the Islamic Republic. She later became a recognized voice on Canadian radio, hosting Radio Hamseda, Ottawa for eight years, where she amplified education, culture, and resistance to oppression. Her advocacy contributed directly to the closure of the Islamic Republic’s embassy in Canada in 2012—an important blow to the regime’s transnational repression network. She is the recipient of multiple human rights and women’s rights awards for her sustained efforts to expose abuses inside Iran and beyond its borders. Shabnam’s primary and heartfelt interest is to focus on the Iranian community and world events affecting women and minority communities.
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