First, Narges Mohammadi, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, nearly suffers a heart attack in prison, denied proper medical care.
Now, Nasrin Sotoudeh, a lawyer and another human rights defender is arrested in Iran.
When a regime shows no mercy to those who speak the language of peace,
be certain, it will never understand the language of diplomacy.
I call on the international community, especially women leaders, to stand up against a regime that wages war on peaceful voices.
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I outgrew idealism long ago. I no longer expect utopias or historical justice. What I did not expect was this: that mass bombings and mass executions of civilians would become administrable events, processed through press releases, diplomatic language, and carefully calibrated statements of condemnation. In the best case.
The most frightening fact is not only that mass killing happens, but how little it now disrupts political routines, institutional language, or the functioning of power.
The violence did not change.
What changed is the threshold of acceptability. We have built political systems where condemnation substitutes for action, where moral language replaces responsibility, and where civilian death is absorbed as a manageable cost. This is the distance we have traveled.
And it is this distance that allowed the scale of violence to expand.