DEBATE: The more silence, the more executions

Uniforum 07.06.2023

By Tabassom Fanaian, lecturer and independent researcher

Iranian activists cry out 'silence is violence', and that is true. Silence is exactly the type of support that the Islamic Republic needs for its death-machine to function.

The movement 'Woman, Life, Freedom', is the hope for a better future in Iran. For 44 years, every single of these concepts has been under siege in this country. But now more than ever, Iranians are crying out, as the lives of the courageous pioneers of this revolution are in immense danger.

The laws of the Islamic Republic are tangled and safeguarded with death. Under the rule of the Islamic Republic, not only dance, music and festivity as tangible reflections of life are demeaned, but also any variance from the Islamic Republic's definition of Islam. Any other version of religiosity, any other ideology or any different way of living a life is considered disrespectful and consequently doomed or punishable by death.

So many lives have been taken by the Islamic Republic during the last 44 years, but after Mahsa Jina Amini's demise,

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