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This past week offered more examples of the Iranian regime’s criminal behavior. But they have not received the attention they deserved. Meanwhile much of the world’s media chooses to focus on Israel’s nonexistent crimes. More on this phenomenon can be found here: “Too Many in the West Still Look Away — Even as Iran Further Brutalizes Its Own People,” by Micha Danzig, Algemeiner, March 31, 2026:
Start with three facts from this past week.
Not rumors. Not slogans. Not social media noise.
Facts — reported in mainstream outlets, documented by international human rights bodies, and, in part, reflected in the regime’s own conduct and admissions.
First, a 19-year-old wrestler — Navid Afkari — was executed by the Iranian regime after a trial widely condemned by international observers. Hung. Killed. His crime: protesting.
Second, officials tied to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) advancing frameworks where children as young as 12 can be integrated into war-support roles — patrols, logistics, internal enforcement. Not speculation. Not anonymous leaks. Positions reflected in both external reporting and Iranian media.
Third, multiple independent investigations — and mainstream media reports — documenting the systematic use of rape and sexual violence by the IRGC and Basij against detainees, particularly protesters, as a tool of repression.
Stop there.
You don’t need embellishment. You don’t need a fourth example. You don’t need a roundtable parsing “context.” What you need is to understand what kind of regime produces all three of these facts consistently, predictably, and without apology.
Because in the Islamic Republic of Iran, these are not aberrations. They are not excesses at the margins of an otherwise functioning system. They are the system.
Authoritarian systems do not need to announce what they are. They demonstrate it. Not in their slogans — which are often framed, for many Western audiences, in the language of justice and resistance — but in what they do to people, particularly their own citizens.
For 47+ years under this Iranian regime, the pattern is direct and repeatable. That is not hyperbole or metaphor. It is a description of how the Iranian regime operates.
And yet — and this is where the second scandal should begin — this regime still receives the benefit of the doubt, if not outright support, in significant parts of Western discourse.
Watch almost any show on MSNBC or CNN and you can hear it happen in real time.
The language shifts. It hedges. Or it flips into outright advocacy.
Iran becomes “complicated.”
The regime becomes “reactive.”
We are asked to believe that the Islamic Republic is not itself aggressive, but is merely “reacting” to those who would harm it — the United States, Israel, and the Gulf Arab states that host American bases. It does not oppress its own people, but only “reacts” to street protests inside, or military attacks from outside, that would bring the regime down.
The willingness of large numbers of people in the West to accept the Iranian narrative, to ignore the Islamic republic’s crimes against its own people and its warmongering throughout the Middle East, to continue to see Israel as the threat to peace and stability in the Middle East, will someday be written about as we now write about those who during the 1930s made excuses for the Nazi regime and believed it best to throw Czechoslovakia to the wolves at Munich in order to obtain “peace in our time,” or about those who accepted Soviet propaganda about the building of a brave new communist world that would bring prosperity and economic equality, even as millions died in manmade famines such as the Holodomor in the Ukraine, and more millions were executed or condemned to slow deaths in the labor camps in Siberia.
In Iran, 36,500 people were killed, and hundreds of thousands wounded, by the authorities for the crime of participating in unarmed protests last January. Executions continue for anyone found to have taken part in protests or for having praised them online. Twelve-year-olds are now being encouraged to take on war-support roles, including logistics, patrols, and internal enforcement of the government’s rules. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Basij routinely use rape as a weapon of oppression, to terrify women and girls who take part in protests. But none of these atrocities have received the attention in the world’s media that they deserve. The media instead focuses on Israel’s strikes on what are routinely and wrongly described as “civilian buildings,” which turn out to be IRGC command-and-control centers, ballistic missile stores, missile factories, nuclear facilities, and Basij barracks.
Just one question about the misreporting and underreporting of events in Iran: why?
Trump clearly said that America and Israel were sending weapons to Iranians to rise up against Iran…
Iran can’t trust America… never could… for 70+ years America has been doing regime changes in Iran…
And the reports clearly show that Trump was hoping protesters would rise up… even by sending weapons to them…
Ugh…
And now JD Vance is saying this war was all bout “Decimating Iran’s Military”…
How many times has the narrative changed now?
The lies are abundant…
Actually it’s been 47 years, not 70, but who’s counting. Nice meltdown.
Gee sumsy wumsy cottontail, I’d much rather Iran be on it’s way to completing its bomb and putting it on one its missiles that can reach the U.S. within several years.
You do realize you are cutting and pasting the same angry posts everyday. From the look of it, no one cares. You are a loudmouth limpwrist with nothing to say.
Hey why don’t you talk about being the elect of god and your tribulation auntie christ fantasies.
Hey tomorrow’s tampon friday tantrum day. Have fun.
I agree that our country has been involved in regime change wrongly, many times. Such as in Brazil, Ukraine, Rhodesia and other South American countries. These were our CIA covertly spreading communist regimes. Obama was responsible for the election in Nigeria that brought in an Islamist who enables the slaughter of Christians. This is a different situation. The spread of Islam is an existential threat to the world and Iran in particular because of its Twelvers belief. They are close to having a bomb, and they would use it. Those other countries did nothing to us, Iran has committed numerous hostile actions which should have been considered acts of war and they would continue to. They have enabled a drug trade that has killed thousand of our citizens and produce IEDs that kill our soldiers. Their own citizens want them overthrown as they live in misery. Tehran used to be the Paris of the Middle East, and Iran was a modern nation with women enjoying many freedoms not given in many Islamic countries. Now they live under a threat of death if their ankles are exposed. Will what replaces it be better? Who knows, but at least their ability to produce a bomb is disabled for a long time..
Typical Logic of a Western pro-Iran Mindset:
1.) If Iran is good (innocent country attacked for no reason by America and Israel) then Trump and Netanyahu are bad.
2.) Therefore Iran is good.
In 2015 I came across a bunch of young Iranian guys staging a protest in Berlin, with what must have been 50 or so posters featuring young women who had been recently executed by the Iranian “courts.” They obviously were flirting with death by doing so. Another rather somber guy I spoke with in Albuquerque, in the 90s, said he had to be mindful of what he said, because he was being watched, and he still had family in Iran. Such a fun place.
“Meanwhile much of the world’s media chooses to focus on Israel’s nonexistent crimes.”
That quote exposes the foundational problem.
“Just one question about the misreporting and underreporting of events in Iran: why”?..
Answer……Satan’s minions ! (But you will probably reject this true response in favor of continuing to say ‘why’ because to agree, you have to admit their is a devil, and if there is a devil, then there surely is a GOD. And if there really is a GOD, it could maybe be JESUS ! 🙂
Rev. Roy…….<
I’ve seen a couple of references to 45,000 deaths in the Iranian protests, rather than 36,000. I guess any figure we use is subject to revision upward, though. I also saw a suggestion that weapons may have been dropped and grabbed by the Iranian Kurds, who do not want a Pahlavi administration, even a transitional one. This could mean that some sort of uprising is still to come, but that it would likely take a different form from what we’ve tended to expect. We could end up with a portion of Iran hived off to the Kurds and IRGC business as usual in the rest. The other thing that strikes me is that the Mojtaba Khamenei farce seems to me to be a cover for transfer from a clerically run theocracy to a military dictatorship. And I wonder whether all of his injuries were due to the strike that killed Khamenei senior, or whether, now that he is no longer under his father’s protection, he might have been given Sharia mandated flying lessons from the top of a tall building.