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S. Rouzbeh reflects on how Iranians abroad can make their presence and message more visible to the world, proposing shared symbols, clear multilingual slogans and coordinated moments of remembrance and protest.
Those killed are remembered as living hopes rather than statistics, leaving a debt of remembrance and a path towards freedom.
The sight of a heavy machine gun in Iranian streets signals the transfer of battlefield logic into the city. The author argues that this reflects a government’s fear, not strength, and calls for solidarity, documentation and organised resistance to repression.
The absence of a will, confusion among the Assembly of Experts, the role of the IRGC and the unanswered question of Mojtaba Khamenei.
S. Rouzbeh questions the public opposition to an agreement after President Masoud Pezeshkian said almost all members of the Supreme National Security Council had agreed to it. The article examines the council as a concentrated expression of power and asks who is accountable for its decisions.
A poem about parental love, grief and the failure of violence to erase memory.
Iran’s people are not asking for food aid in place of freedom. They want their national wealth returned to them, an end to repression and the right to determine their own future. Any agreement that leaves the Islamic Republic in power must also answer for the bloodshed of past protests.
The author asks why images, testimonies and evidence of killings and repression have not yet been brought together in an accessible legal case file, and reviews past efforts to document abuses.
A grieving mother finds her daughter’s name alive in the streets and in the memory of others.
A daughter’s questions and a mother’s grief open into remembrance of a father whose name endures.
A direct address to rulers who mistake coercion for the power to determine a people’s future.
Scattered rays become powerful when brought together: a poem about remembrance, solidarity and the gathering of light.
S. Rouzbeh examines a football goal celebration that resembled a hand-held gun gesture, asking what it means when directed at Iranian spectators and considering its visual, political and historical context.
The names of those who gave their lives endure through remembrance and through the steps of those who remain.
Comparing Eddie Adams’s iconic photograph from Saigon with images of those killed during protests in Iran, S. Rouzbeh asks whether the difference lay not in the truth itself, but in whether it was allowed to be seen.
S. Rouzbeh asks whether peace can be made with a government whose greatest victim is its own people. Drawing on the lesson of Munich and the Islamic Republic’s record, he argues that an agreement made without the Iranian people would offer the regime time to rebuild and continue its repression.
In a time of war, insecurity and loss, what does hope mean? S. Rouzbeh reflects on hope as a force that acknowledges suffering while helping people and nations shape a better future.
Why has national identity returned to the streets? S. Rouzbeh explores the growing prominence of “Iran” in protests and social media, and what slogans about reclaiming Iran and the Pahlavi era reveal about belonging, identity and the country’s future.