When Silence Finally Breaks
Revolutions don’t happen out of the blue, and we Iranians are not naïve or uneducated enough to believe this is the best form of power transition. Iranians have tried many times, at different stages of their history, to reform the system. When there is orchestrated fraud in the so-called voting system and people peacefully protest, whether about that fraud, their basic human rights such as the right to choose what they wear in public, or the country’s disastrous economic situation, which is a direct result of mismanagement, they are brutally suppressed, killed, and slaughtered under religious orders. What other choice does a nation have? Those in power are armed, while the people are defenseless. The most devastating part is that dictators have hired many PR firms, lobby groups, and media…
