Shabnam Assadollahi

Islamic Republic Terror Regime in Iran: From Mass Graves to Asphalt

Iran’s occupying rulers are digging graves for memory itself.

Once again, the occupying Islamic Republic in Iran has revealed its barbarity.
“We turned Lot 41 into a parking lot for visitors to Lot 42,” Behesht-e Zahra cemetery chief Mohammad Javad Tajik told Shargh daily on August 16. Davoud Goudarzii, the deputy Islamic mayor of Tehran has shamelessly announced that the mass graves of the 1980s execution victims have been turned into a parking lot. This is not development — it is state-sanctioned desecration, an attempt to erase thousands upon thousands slaughtered by Khomeini’s death machine.
They may think pouring asphalt over bones buries history. But memory cannot be suffocated. Every grave, every stone, every drop of blood from 1979 to today testifies to their crimes.

The guilt does not rest on Tehran alone. Washington,London, Paris, Berlin, Brussels and Ottawa,… have fed these butchers — lifting sanctions, shaking hands with hangmen, granting visas to torturers, letting their agents roam freely. These so-called defenders of human rights have betrayed their own principles by appeasing clerical tyrants.

No tyranny can silence the truth. The day will come when justice tears Khomeini’s mausoleum from the hands of tyranny, turning it into a searing museum of the Islamic Republic’s crimes against humanity — from the flames of Cinema Rex in Abadan, the bloodshed at Djaleh Square, mass executions from 1979 onward, waves of rapes and targeted assassinations, to the horror of the October 7 genocide and beyond. Every wall will be alive with the faces of victims, every corridor will shout the truth, every stone will bear witness. History will remember. Tyranny will burn in infamy.

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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