Special unit
On the Origin of Evil and Obedience/Amin Judiciary
The atrocities of World War II and the participation and complicity of the German people with the Nazi regime, in the guise of a soldier or government agent, in the murder of millions of people in the death camps, posed a fundamental question to sociologists: How could an ordinary German citizen be so obedient and […]...
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Created By:
Amin Ghazaie
February 20, 2026
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 a duty, all their strength is expended to fulfill this duty; 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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Created By:
Morteza Hamounian February 20, 2026
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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Created By:
Hermineh Hourdad February 20, 2026
Corruption, a motivation for more suppression/ Abbas Dehghani
Khosrow. Budget. State. Sure. Bar. Shower. Nation. Members of the Islamic Consultative Assembly agreed in an open session on Monday, 8 Aban 1401, after a month of suppression and severe crackdown by the government on Iranian protesters, to increase the salaries of law enforcement and armed forces personnel by twenty percent through the amendment of […]...
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Created By:
Abbas Dehghani November 22, 2022
Special Police Unit; from the alleys of Mashhad’s seminary to the gardens of Mahshahr/ Maryam Dehkordi
The first time that Iranian citizens heard the name of the special unit may go back to the early 1970s; when one of the first street protests after the revolution took place in Mashhad, one of the most religious cities in Iran, in Bahman 1357. In 1970, the government of Iran merged the city police, […]...
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Created By:
Maryam Dehkordi September 23, 2022
