Silence,
Interests,
and Betrayal.
How the world failed Iranians under the Islamic Republic.
Dedicated to the more than forty thousand Iranians killed in two nights — and to every woman, man, and child who has been killed, before and since, for asking to live free.1979 — 2026
Why this record exists.
For forty-seven years the world has watched a theocratic state kill its own people, and international politics has consistently treated the Islamic Republic as a problem to be managed rather than a regime to be held to account. The evidence sits across hundreds of news reports, fact-finding missions, leaked records, and human rights archives — but it sits scattered.
This site walks chronologically from the first executions on the rooftop of Refah School in February 1979 to the documented massacres of 2025–26 and the war that followed. It names victims and names perpetrators. It points to photographs, primary documents, and to the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center, the Center for Human Rights in Iran, HRANA, Iran International, the BBC, Reuters, the Associated Press, and the New York Times.
It also asks an uncomfortable question: why have global responses been so chronically asymmetric? Why do European chancelleries condemn one Mahsa Amini and not the next 5,000? Why do parts of the Western left fall silent when Iranian women are shot in their eyes for unveiling? Why does Washington sanction the morality police while banning the very Iranians who suffered under it?
Eight chapters, one record.
Each chapter is its own page. Follow the chronology, or jump to the section you most want to read.
The Uprising.
From the rooftop of Refah School in February 1979 to the streets of Rasht in February 2026.
The Two Nights.
What witnesses, doctors, leaked records, and morgue logs say happened in two nights.
Faces of the Dead.
Photographs of those killed, hanged, and buried in unmarked rows. Each face a small refusal of statistics.
Diaspora & Protests Abroad.
Tehrangeles, Toronto, London, Berlin, Paris, Stockholm, Sydney — the rallies and exile media.
Pahlavi & Opposition Currents.
The Mahsa Charter, Reza Pahlavi, Alinejad, Esmaeilion, Boniadi, Karimi — and what is excluded.
The World's Hypocrisy.
Sanction the symbols, license the barrels — and call the result “restraint.”
Refuse Silence.
What governments, media, and ordinary people can do — and the full ebook to download.
Read the ebook.
Sixteen chapters, a bibliography, more than two hundred footnotes — every citation linked.