💚🤍❤️ A Nation Held Hostage While the World Looks Away!

Iranian women and protesters demanding freedom during nationwide protests in Iran under the slogan Zan, Zendegi, Azadi.

Iran is not collapsing — it is being crushed, while the world watches in silence and calls it diplomacy.

The past weeks have been emotionally exhausting.

As someone with an excess of empathy — a blessing and a curse — I have struggled to find the right words. But silence feels like betrayal, so here they are.

What we are witnessing in Iran right now is not just tragic — it is grotesque.

Systematic violence, executions, corruption, and open crimes against civilians are no longer hidden. They are happening in plain sight. A regime built on fear is ruling through brutality, while global leaders watch, calculate, and look away. Indifference, at this scale, is not neutrality. It is complicity.

Let me be very clear.

Iranians are not helpless victims waiting to be saved.

They are one of the most resilient, emotionally intelligent, creative, and proud nations on this planet. A people shaped by centuries of culture, poetry, resistance, and survival. We know exactly what we want — and we do not need foreign governments to decide our future for us.

For nearly five decades, the wellbeing of the Iranian people has been irrelevant to the world’s powerful. Protests came and went. Blood was spilled. Voices were silenced. Nothing changed — not because Iranians lacked courage, but because global leaders chose economic interests over human lives.

Now, suddenly, all eyes are on Iran — led by a so-called world leader who is, first and foremost, a businessman. His language is deals, leverage, and profit. If humanity were truly his concern, he would start by treating his own people with dignity. Instead, his country is more divided than it has been in generations.

And speaking of division — yes, Iranians themselves are divided right now.

There are those who benefit from the current regime and want no change.

There are those who support a return to monarchy under Reza Pahlavi.

And there are those who want a democratic republic.

But here is what outsiders consistently fail to understand:

Despite political differences, the core demand is the same.

Basic human rights.

Freedom.

A normal life.

Zan, Zendegi, Azadi.

Mard, Mihan, Abadi.

Woman. Life. Freedom.

Man. Homeland. Prosperity.

Iranians do not want foreign intervention disguised as salvation. History has taught us better. Iraq. Syria. Afghanistan. Libya. Decades later, these countries are still paying the price for “liberation” that primarily served foreign interests, weapons industries, and geopolitical games.

We refuse to become the next experiment.

The best possible future for Iran is painfully simple — and that alone says everything about how low the bar has been set.

A country that does not execute its own people for dissent.

A country where torture is not policy.

A country where sanctions do not starve civilians while elites thrive.

A country where citizens are not treated as criminals for existing.

A country where Iranians can travel freely without being humiliated for their passport, name, or religion.

These are not luxuries. These are basic human rights.

Such a future requires leadership that is patriotic, unifying, and future-oriented — leadership that understands the trauma of the past 47 years and helps a stolen generation reclaim what was taken from them. Iran has the potential to become a modern, dignified nation again — rooted in its ancient identity without being imprisoned by it. A place where parents and grandparents can finally breathe, perhaps for the first time in their lives.

The worst-case scenario is far darker.

Foreign powers — the United States, Israel, Turkey, and others — intervening militarily without Iranian unity or legitimate Iranian leadership. History would repeat itself. After World War II, Germany was “liberated” from a brutal regime — and then divided by global powers who claimed moral authority while pursuing dominance. After World War II ended, the United States and the Soviet Union took control over different parts of Germany, turning the country into a geopolitical chessboard. What followed was the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, a brutal symbol of division that stood for 28 years, separating families, friends, and an entire nation until its fall in 1989.

This is the scenario I fear for Iran.

Not because it sounds dramatic — but because it fits the pattern.

These leaders do not suddenly care about Iranian lives. They never have. For decades, Iran was ignored, while Iranians abroad were stereotyped, discriminated against, and subjected to racism because of their nationality or assumed beliefs. That is not opinion — it is lived reality for millions.

This is why Iranians across the world are now in the streets — from Sydney to Los Angeles, from London to Berlin, Paris, Toronto, Hamburg, and Munich — chanting the name Pahlavi. And this, conveniently, is what mainstream media largely refuses to show.

And yet, amid this unfolding catastrophe, there is an equally disturbing absence of global media focus. In recent days, major news networks around the world have repeatedly dissected a single violent incident in Minnesota, showing every angle of the tragedy, analyzing the brutality frame by frame and centering it in continuous coverage. Meanwhile, Iran’s bloody crackdown — with estimates from independent sources suggesting tens of thousands of deaths and mass killings across dozens of cities — barely registers on the front pages. 

The world’s media apparatus seems far more willing to magnify one tragic killing in the United States than to comprehend the systematic slaughter of protestors in Iran, despite figures ranging up to around 30,000 victims according to health officials and activist networks — a toll that dwarfs almost every contemporary crisis yet receives only fragmented attention outside specialized outlets. 

This omission becomes even more disturbing when placed next to how global media chooses its priorities.

My fear goes further.

I fear Iran is becoming a testing ground — not for democracy, but for weapons. 

History remembers what happened in 1945, when the world decided that one nation would serve as a demonstration of power. Like America has done it back in 1945 with Japan — when the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were hit with atomic bombs. In a matter of seconds, over 200,000 civilians were killed, entire cities were erased, generations were poisoned by radiation, and survivors suffered lifelong physical and psychological damage. The nuclear fallout did not end with the explosion — it haunted Japan for decades and remains one of the darkest examples of humanity sacrificing civilians for geopolitical dominance.

Today, military bases are being built around Iran. Young soldiers are being deployed. Billions are being poured into weapons systems. Iran risks becoming a geopolitical guinea pig — reduced from a civilization to a battlefield.

And once the damage is done?

The country could be divided, exploited, drained — and eventually abandoned, just like others before it.

That would not only mark the spiritual death of Iran.

It would signal something even worse: that humanity has learned absolute nothing at all and that evil is stronger than humanity.