Maintaining the system by firing bullets/ Morteza Hamounian

Everyone had come. With every force they could muster to organize the suppression. In a structure where maintaining the system is an obligation, all their strength is expended to fulfill this obligation; even if this fulfillment comes at the cost of the blood of citizens. In January 1404, Iran witnessed a protest movement that began […]...

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Digital Isolation as a Power Strategy/Fereshte Goli

…and suddenly, total darkness and a heavy silence of ignorance about what had happened on the streets of Iran. Everything was a sign of a disaster. All communication and information channels had been cut off. News was passed around, with a multitude of worrying and frightening speculations broadcast from satellite news networks. On January 18, […]...

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The Wounded Memory of a Protest/Mina Jawani

The protests of January 1404 are remembered neither as a single image nor as a narrative that can be easily retold. What remains is more of a scattering: unfinished scenes, videos that were cut short, streets that emptied sooner than expected. They neither became a moment of triumph nor a complete defeat; they remain in […]...

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Violent subjugation: Why do the repressive forces shoot? / Hermine Hordad

A young man, caught in the crosshairs of a slave, sits cross-legged on the asphalt in the most defenseless human situation; in front of him stands the Islamic Republic’s suppression machine. A few meters away, a girl and a boy are shielding their chests from forces holding weapons. The statistics are horrifying. It is difficult […]...

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The Rouhani government collaborated with the oppressive apparatus/ Ali Kala’i’s conversation with Reza Khandan.

After eight years of Hassan Rouhani’s government, the time has come for the government’s record in the areas of citizen rights and human rights to be reviewed and scrutinized. It has been twenty-four years since the second of Khordad 76 and the beginning of the government that later became known as the Reformist government. Do […]...

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