Shabnam Assadollahi

Stop the Islamic Republic—Its Terror Machine Is Back

The Return of Islamic Republic 1980s–1990s Terror

The Islamic Republic occupying Iran is back—weak at home, ruthless abroad. Terror is its governing language. Its playbook is unchanged: assassinations, proxy violence, mass murder, and operations disguised as diplomacy. This is not history. This is happening now.

For decades, its embassies and so-called cultural missions served as operational terror hubs. Diplomats acted as intelligence handlers. Proxy networks hunted dissidents across Europe and North America. Bombings struck Jewish, Israeli, and opposition-linked targets. Courts later confirmed Tehran’s central role.

And now, that machinery is being reactivated—openly, shamelessly.
Shoot-to-Kill Orders, Mercenaries, and Delegated Violence
Orders have been issued against Iranians inside. Proxy networks operate with autonomy. Foreign mercenaries—from Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and even Mexico—are mobilized, paid, and promised bonuses. Obey, kill, disappear. Violence is outsourced so Tehran can claim distance while blood is spilled on command.

At the center: the IRGC—the regime’s spine of terror. Diplomats, “cultural” attachés, and senior staff function inside an intelligence-terror ecosystem. They surveil. Recruit. Finance. Plan. Enable attacks.

The doctrine is unmistakable: fragmented, asymmetric terror designed to silence dissidents, intimidate host countries, and test how much blood the world will tolerate.

History is unambiguous: indulgence increases killings; disruption slows them.

Canada Knows

Prior to the closure of the regime’s embassy in Ottawa, former cultural attaché Hamid Mohammadi and others were linked to credible plots targeting the Rideau Canal and Parliament. These were not fantasies—they were real threats, downplayed, delayed, and dangerously ignored.

Inside Iran: Mass Murder Industrialized

Inside Iran, reality is far worse. Citizens are not merely executed—they are murdered in a systematic campaign of mass killing. Men, women, children, protesters, minorities—slaughtered by design.

I know this personally. I was a teenage political prisoner in the 1980s, held 18 months in Evin and Ghezelhesar prisons. I witnessed the IRGC’s brutality firsthand. What is happening today is not new—it is refined, scaled, industrialized.

The regime now uses foreign proxies inside Iran to suppress and mass-murder protesters, layering deniability over lethal efficiency. This is not crowd control. This is extermination.

Foreign Collaboration Fuels Repression

The Islamic Republic does not act alone. The Chinese Communist Party actively enables this repression—providing surveillance systems, digital tracking, data analysis, and population-control technology. With Beijing’s technical support, the regime identifies dissidents using Starlink, VPNs, and encrypted communications.
Identification leads to arrest. Arrest leads to torture, disappearance, or execution.

This is not neutral technology transfer—it is collaboration in crimes against humanity. Blood spilled through this digital manhunt stains Tehran—and Beijing.

Outside Iran, Civilians Remain Targets

Public spaces—cafés, churches, synagogues, transit, civic squares—remain targets. Fear is amplified wherever civilians gather. Jewish and Israeli targets remain central, because antisemitism is ideological, not incidental.

When the regime targets communities selectively, global institutions and media often obscure its role. Meanwhile, ordinary Iranians are slaughtered daily. Selective outrage and bureaucratic theater have become accomplices to mass murder.

Dialogue and Delay Kill

Belief that dialogue, patience, or engagement will moderate the Islamic Republic is lethal. Every day of delay produces more corpses, more recruits, more targets. Every embassy left open is an open door to bloodshed. Silence equals complicity.

Immediate, Uncompromising Action Is Required

Shut down ALL embassies and consulates of the Islamic Republic occupying Iran.

Expel ALL diplomatic and consular staff and return them to Tehran.

Withdraw foreign diplomatic personnel from Iran.

Freeze ALL non-essential diplomatic engagement.

Identify, expose, disrupt, and dismantle IRGC proxy networks and foreign mercenaries operating under civilian, criminal, or diplomatic cover.

History will not ask who issued statements. It will ask who acted—and who chose silence while genocide advanced.

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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