In Iran, the Blood Isn’t Just in the Streets

While the world watches protests in the streets, many Iranians risk their lives resisting the regime in private, where arrests, disappearances, and terror unfold beyond cameras.

If history is any guide, this coming week promises to be a brutal one for Iranians who are fighting in the streets to end the Islamic regime.

While the regime has been viciously assaulting — and even murdering —Iranians in the streets, they still have not used even 1% of the force they are capable of.

I have little doubt they will ratchet up the violence this week.

But I wanted to remind everyone that while there are courageous Iranians in the streets taking more risks than many of us ever will, please do not forget the Iranians who are at home and still putting their freedom and lives on the line.

They’re organizing their compatriots online, sharing videos of the savagery their countrymen are facing in the streets, organizing Telegram groups, and hosting audio streams.

And they’re not all young.

There are Iranians like a 72-year-old grandfather whom I’ve communicated with in the past.

He is retired, and three years ago, during the Women, Life, Freedom uprisings, he asked his grandson to set up an Instagram account for him.

All he does all day is share Instagram posts and Reels to his stories about the regime’s repression and corruption — he often hits the maximum number of stories that Instagram allows people to post.

He has fewer than 1,000 followers, but every time he clicks the share button on a post, he is risking his future.

You likely won’t see any of these people who aren’t in the streets face the brutality of the regime, because they will be snatched in the dark of the night and disappeared.

And that’s why I ask that you not forget that while so many horrific things are happening on video, so much of the regime’s treachery unfolds in silence — where there are no cameras, no witnesses, and no viral clips to force the world to pay attention.

LONG LIVE THE BRAVE PEOPLE OF IRAN.

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