The rising death toll in Iran cannot be understood without confronting the history that produced today’s repression. This crackdown did not begin with recent protests. Its roots lie in the 1953 CIA–MI6 coup that overthrew Iran’s democratically elected government to secure Western control over Iranian oil. That act shattered Iran’s democracy and installed the Shah, whose reign depended on terror, censorship, and the SAVAK secret police.
Decades of torture, imprisonment, and the brutal silencing of dissent poisoned Iranian society and paved the way for a reactionary theocracy. The current regime inherited the machinery of repression and refined it, cloaking state violence in religious language while crushing its own people.
The cruelty inflicted on Iranian women exposes the moral bankruptcy of this system. Does God truly care what a woman wears on her head, while men face no such laws? If faith is reduced to policing women’s bodies, it ceases to be faith and becomes control. The core of Islam—like all moral traditions—is alignment with God through kindness, compassion, justice, and service to humanity.
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