Shabnam Assadollahi

Iran Is Being Slaughtered—and Silence Is the West’s Choice

According to emerging reports, at least 12,000 peaceful protesters have been killed on the streets of Iran in recent days by the Islamic regime.

They were unarmed. They were demanding their stolen country back. They were shot in public, hunted down, and executed for refusing to submit. This was not crowd control. This was extermination.

Thousands more—many openly pro-Pahlavi—have been arrested. Many now face death sentences after trials so absurd they mock the concept of justice. These are not courts. They are execution lines with judges’ robes. Executions are no longer a threat. They are policy.

After rushed, secret proceedings, the Islamic regime has announced the imminent execution of protesters it calls “ringleaders of unrest.”

One of them is 26-year-old Erfan Soltani, sentenced to death just days after his arrest. His family was informed at the last moment and allowed only a brief, supervised visit. He had no lawyer. No fair trial. No right to appeal. His case is not an exception—it is the prototype for a coming wave of fast, quiet executions meant to break the nation’s spine.

This is not justice.
This is administrative murder.

To keep the killing hidden, Tehran has help. Communist China assisted the Islamic Shiite regime in jamming Starlink, cutting Iranians off from the outside world and sealing the country into digital darkness. Beijing didn’t just stay neutral—it helped lock the prison doors.

And the world?
It watches.
It issues statements.
It hides behind the word “concern.”

Even more grotesque is the hypocrisy of it all. This heinous Islamic regime is a member of the U.N. Human Rights Council. It sits at the table of the United Nations, a body meant to uphold human rights. And yet its representatives vote, speak, and sit in silence while their own people are gunned down in the streets. The global community issues statements of “concern” while endorsing, by their membership, a regime that executes children and adults alike, terrorizes cities, and relies on Hashd al-Shaabi and other foreign militias to crush dissent.

This is not diplomacy. This is the theater of moral cowardice.

The Muslim world is largely silent—not because it doesn’t know, but because Islamic ideology has trained it to excuse tyranny when it wears the right costume.

The occupying Islamic regime has also sold the West an Islamic pretext: that Iranians resisting the Islamic Republic are somehow attacking Islam itself. This Islamic narrative gives governments cover to do nothing while the occupying Islamic regime slaughters the nation.

Iran has now fully become North Korea, version 2.0. Total blackouts. Total control. Total isolation. A country turned into a sealed cell block.

We cannot reach our families.
We cannot reach our relatives.
We cannot reach our friends.
Entire cities are being erased in silence.

Reports leaking through brief Starlink connections describe places like Dezful under siege—foreign Shiite militias deployed, rooftops occupied by gunmen, civilians terrorized into staying indoors. No headlines. No breaking news. Smaller cities disappear first because no one is watching.

Executions continue.
Bullets replace any notion of legitimacy.
A civilization bleeds behind a blackout.

This is not diplomacy.
This is not restraint.
This is moral collapse.

Silence in the face of mass murder is not neutrality.
It is complicity.

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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