«Hey, Iranian here. They keep asking the same question:
Why is the left – why are the loudest pro-Gaza voices - completely silent when it comes to Iran?
The answer is simple: because the truth exposes the lie. Because acknowledging Iran would shatter the ideological fantasy they’ve built.
Let’s be clear: The Islamic Republic of Iran is not a victim of Western imperialism. It is a theocratic, authoritarian regime that survives by exporting violence, funding Islamists, and crushing its own people. And yes – it funds Hamas, it funds Hezbollah, it funds all the little proxies across the region and the world – with the Iranian people’s money. Not state money, not regime money – stolen money. Money stolen from the worker who can’t even afford bread in Iran right now. From families crushed by inflation. Taken from women who are beaten, imprisoned, tortured, and raped because they refuse religious obedience.
And that’s exactly why the left is silent: because Hamas fits their narrative, but the Iranian people do not. Because Islamist violence against Israelis can be reframed as resistance, but Islamist violence against Iranians reveals the truth.
Right now, as you read this, Iran, a country of over 92 million people - is being erased in real time. Near-total blackout for more than 24 hours: no internet, no calling services, no connection at all. And yet – silence. No emergency protests on Western campuses, no hashtags, no solidarity statements, no megaphones, no tears. Because Iranian suffering doesn’t fit their agenda.
Because today’s left-wing movements are not driven by human rights, they are driven by selective outrage and ideological loyalty. They scream about censorship when it’s not carried out by an Islamist regime. They condemn state violence when it’s not wrapped in religious language. They shout «Free Palestine», but they will never say «Free Iran», because that would force them to admit something unforgivable: that political Islam is not liberation - it is domination.
And by the way, this is exactly what’s happening in the West too: The Islamic Republic is not anti-imperialist, it is imperialist toward its own people. Hamas is not an isolated resistance group, it is part of a larger Islamist ecosystem that is funded, trained, and sustained by regimes like the Islamic Republic of Iran.
And here’s the part they don’t want to hear: You cannot claim moral superiority while excusing a regime that kills women for refusing to wear the hijab, executes protesters, shuts an entire country of 92 million people off from the internet, and uses foreign proxies as a distraction from its internal collapse.
You cannot pretend to care about Palestinians while ignoring that Iranians are being shot, tortured, and killed by the Islamic Republic of Iran.
This is not solidarity - it is ideological blindness.
Iranians are not silent. They are being silenced.
And the silence from the Western left? That is a choice. A choice to protect an ideology, a choice to excuse Islamism, a choice to look away when millions of people suffer because their suffering – the suffering of the Iranian people - complicates a slogan.
History will remember this moment. It will remember who spoke for universal freedom, and who decided that some lives mattered less than preserving a narrative. Translated from Siris' blog
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