Shabnam Assadollahi

The Western Democratic World Must Hold the Islamic Republic Occupied Iran Accountable

The regime ruling Iran is a global threat, executing its own citizens, exporting terror, and occupying the nation it claims to govern. The West must act decisively to defend Iranians and the integrity of their homeland.

The story of the Islamic Republic began in fire and blood. From the ashes of the Cinema Rex massacre in Abadan in 1978, where hundreds of innocent Iranians were burned alive, emerged one of the darkest chapters in our nation’s history. That tragedy, manipulated by Rouhollah Khomeini’s agents, set the stage for the hijacking of Iran’s 2,500-year-old civilization by zealots who turned a revolution for freedom into a theocracy of terror.

From its inception, the Islamic Republic cemented its rule through systematic massacres. The 1980s prison executions, when thousands of political prisoners—students, workers, monarchists, Marxist Leninist leftists, and Islamic cult militant group Mojahedin/MEK/MKO/NCRI who were part of the inception of the Islamic coup “revolution”— were slaughtered after sham trials, marked only the beginning. Its constitution legalized tyranny: silencing liberals, feminists, ethnic communities, and every free voice that dared to breathe.

This occupation has exported violence far beyond Iran’s borders. For over four decades, the regime has been the engine of global terrorism, funding Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the Houthis, and orchestrating attacks from Buenos Aires to Berlin. Its fingerprints are on every major act of Islamist terror, including the atrocities of October 7, 2023, when Hamas terrorists—trained, armed, and financed by Tehran—slaughtered Israeli civilians.

The Islamic Republic’s reach does not stop there. It trained Taliban forces inside Iran long before the Biden administration handed Afghanistan to the Taliban. It has assassinated dissidents abroad, from Bonn, Vienna, and Paris to Istanbul and Toronto. The brutal killing of Fereydoun Farrokhzad in Bonn, Germany, in 1992 — which German authorities failed to investigate thoroughly — remains a stark reminder of the regime’s global reach. Today, its intelligence agents and proxies continue to intimidate, defame, and silence patriotic Iranians in exile, especially those who expose its crimes.

Inside Iran, the machinery of death grinds on. Under “President” Masoud Pezeshkian, executions have surged to one Iranian every six hours, totaling over 1,300 since August 2024 alone. Torture, public hangings, and televised confessions extracted under duress continue under the same Islamic constitution that sanctifies barbarity.

Charges like “moharebeh”—enmity against God—are used to execute human rights activists, teachers, poets, and students. Ethnic communities, including Ahwazi Arab Iranians, Kurds, and Baluch Sunnis, are systematically targeted. Children, poets, and teachers are tortured or executed. Courts act as rubber stamps for the regime’s murderous will.

Even with UN-mandated snap-back sanctions re-imposed in 2025 and enforced by Canada, the EU, and other democracies, the regime operates freely. Oil flows through front companies, proxy militias remain funded, and executions continue. Pezeshkian dismisses sanctions as “unjust” while tightening repression at home.

We must speak plainly: the Islamic Republic’s existence is incompatible with humanity, justice, or peace. Western governments cannot claim to defend democracy while maintaining relations with architects of mass murder. The Islamic Republic occupies Iran — it does not represent her.

And to the West and Arab powers who dream of dividing Iran: hear this clearly — Iran is not your toy.We, Iranians, will never allow our homeland — the cradle of Cyrus, Darius, Ferdowsi, and Avicenna — to be carved by foreign designs or sectarian plots. Our land’s integrity is sacred, shaped by millennia of civilization, wisdom, and courage. Iran is one — ancient, unique, and indivisible. And one day soon, we, Iranians, will reclaim her from this dark occupation — restoring our rightful place among free nations.

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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