There are no flotillas sailing to save Iran.
No Soros-funded “democracy” outfits flooding Western capitals with outrage.
No astroturfed movements demanding boycotts or sanctions.
And when left-wing college students return from winter break, they won’t see a single encampment in support of the Iranian people, who are risking their lives to overthrow one of the most brutal regimes on the planet. Funny how that works.
The closer a population gets to actual freedom, the more uncomfortable the international bureaucracy seems to become. The United Nations appears distressed, not inspired. Media outlets like the BBC, which eagerly amplified every fictional claim of “genocide” and “famine” spoon-fed to them by Hamas propagandists, could barely be bothered to spare a segment for mass protests in Iran.
Last year, celebrities like Mark Ruffalo, Billie Eilish, Guy Pearce, and plenty of other moral geniuses proudly wore red-and-orange pins referencing a Ramallah lynching — a gruesome 2000 incident where two Israeli reservists were literally torn apart by a mob, with blood-soaked hands triumphantly displayed to cheering crowds.
This year’s Golden Globes? Not a single celebrity championed the Iranian people. Not one.
The silence is revealing — but not because it’s hypocrisy. It isn’t. It’s consistency.
The progressive left and the woke right are firmly on the side of the mullahs.
Calling this hypocrisy misses the larger point, much like mocking groups such as “Queers for Palestine.” The red-green alliance between Western leftists and political Islamists is nothing new. They share the same enemies: Western liberalism, Israel, capitalism, and the idea that individuals have rights independent of ideology.
As Tahmineh Dehbozorgi recently noted, Western media largely ignore the Iranian uprising because explaining it would force an admission they desperately want to avoid: the Iranian people are rebelling against Islam itself. That fact completely shatters the moral framework through which these institutions view the world.
Instead, progressives in the media treat Islam with either self-destructive moral equivalence or outright reverence. The same voices that frame domestic immigration enforcement as a prelude to the Fourth Reich somehow manage to handle a regime that executes women for religious crimes with kid gloves.
This whitewashing of political Islam is disturbingly reminiscent of how parts of the left covered up Stalin’s terror in the 1930s — all in service of protecting a broader ideological project.
Like the Soviet Union, modern Iran is a full-blown totalitarian system. It doesn’t just enforce illiberal ideas; it controls nearly every aspect of life — spiritual, political, and economic. Worse still, Iran is the world’s leading exporter of this brutal ideology and is responsible for at least 1,000 American deaths over the years.
In Washington, there’s the so-called “Ben Rhodes faction” — intellectuals who seem unbothered by the regime’s brutality and would happily see the mullahs acquire nuclear weapons as a counterweight to Israel. On the other side, there’s the Tucker Carlson faction, more offended by “neocons” and AIPAC than by the theological fascism of political Islam.
A successful revolution against Iran’s Shia radicals would almost certainly benefit the entire region. The clerics’ obsession with Israel isn’t rational geopolitics; it’s theological fixation, conveniently used to distract from catastrophic domestic failures.
Of course, no one knows whether this uprising will succeed. This isn’t the first time Iranians have rebelled. Thousands have likely already been murdered, and tens of thousands sit in prison. Given the nature of the clerical regime, it’s hard to imagine real change without a coup or external pressure.
The Twelver Shi’ite rulers are not like secular dictators worried about legacy or comfort. They would rather see the country burn than surrender power — just look at the reckless danger they’ve imposed on their own people in pursuit of nuclear weapons.
Still, the courage of the Iranian people matters. Their resistance exposes the moral bankruptcy of those who stay silent and reminds the world that the fight for freedom doesn’t need celebrity approval to be righteous. And history shows that even the most ruthless regimes eventually face the truth: people who want liberty don’t stay silent forever.
