Iran Holocaust
Chapter 7 · A call to action

Refuse Silence.

Iranians do not need the international community to liberate them. They need it to stop subsidising their captors.

Governments — Europe

  1. Enforce the IRGC designation. Operationalise the January 2026 listing — asset freezes, travel bans, prosecution of front companies.
  2. Beneficial-ownership registries with teeth. Publish, and pursue, regime-linked ownership in London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna.
  3. Open the door to Iranians fleeing the regime — humanitarian visas, dedicated asylum tracks, academic-protection schemes.
  4. Sanction and seize Khamenei-linked assets. Match Russia-style enforcement tools against regime property.

Governments — US & allies

  1. Repeal the Iran travel ban as it applies to ordinary Iranians; the regime barely feels it.
  2. Don't trade silence on rights for nuclear restraint. Future agreements must preserve human-rights sanctions and the Fact-Finding Mission.
  3. Fund accountability. Multi-year funding for HRANA, IHR, CHRI, the Boroumand Center, Hengaw, IHRDC.

Media & platforms

  1. Name the regime, not “Iran.” Country and government are not synonyms.
  2. Cite the body counts in dispute. Quoting only 3,117 while ignoring HRANA's 7,007 and the leaked 36,500 is taking sides.
  3. Pre-position circumvention. Mirrors, Tor bridges, satellite links, Snowflake, Psiphon, Lantern — funded before blackouts, not after.

Civil society & you

  1. Read Iranians. Alinejad, Hakakian, Sadjadpour, Boniadi, Mohammadi, Salehi.
  2. Donate to documentation. HRANA, Iran Human Rights, CHRI, the Boroumand Center, Hengaw, IHRDC.
  3. Pressure your representatives in writing. Asking the question changes the answer.
  4. Refuse the false choice. Solidarity does not require alignment with any government. Two truths can live together.
Five-minute actions

Take action today.

Three tested templates. Pick one and do it now — silence is the regime’s most valuable export.

1. Email your representative

Pick a country, copy the template, send it to the lookup link.

2. Share — one-click templates

3. Sign a petition

The full record

Read the ebook.

Sixteen chapters, a bibliography, more than two hundred footnotes — all the citations linked, all the photographs credited.

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Bibliography

Where to read further.

Primary documents and the human-rights organisations doing the documentary work the regime is trying to erase.

Primary & UN

Human-rights organisations

News & reporting

Diaspora & opposition

From witness to action

Five things you can do this week.

Solidarity is a verb conjugated in calendars, not in captions. Each of the actions below takes under an hour, costs little or nothing, and is tied to a specific regime weakness already mapped by independent monitors. Do one this week. Do another next week. Do not stop.

  1. Write to your elected representative by name. Ask in one sentence for a specific vote: a full IRGC terrorist designation, the renewal of the UN Fact-Finding Mission, or sanctions on the judges who signed the protester death warrants. Generic letters get filed. Specific asks get answered.
  2. Adopt a prisoner of conscience. Pick one named detainee — Toomaj Salehi, Narges Mohammadi, Mahvash Sabet, Nasrin Sotoudeh, or a less-known name from Iran Human Rights' weekly bulletin — and post their photograph and case number every week until they are free or killed. Visibility has measurably saved lives.
  3. Move money where it matters. A monthly recurring donation, even at the cost of a coffee, to Iran Human Rights (IHR), the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center, HRANA, or Hengaw keeps verified documentation flowing. These are the people the regime fears, because they are the people who count its dead.
  4. Pressure your local institutions. Ask your city council, university or pension fund to publish and divest holdings in companies still trading with sanctioned Iranian entities. Toronto, Berlin and Stockholm have already done it. Yours can too.
  5. Translate and re-publish one testimony. Take a verified victim statement, a court document, or a family's letter from a Persian-language source and re-publish it in your own language with full attribution. The regime spends millions on disinformation in your language. Counter it for free, one testimony at a time.

None of this requires a passport, a microphone, or permission. It requires only that you decide the silence ends with you.