Combine ‘maximum pressure’ on Iran with maximum support for the Iranian people

How Iran’s government has weaponized sexual violence against women who dare to resist

Demonstrators protest in September 2024 in New York outside United Nations headquarters against the Iranian government behind placards featuring the faces of women who have been executed by in Iran. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah) by Mina Fakhravar, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa In Iran’s 2022–2023 “Woman, Life, Freedom” uprising, women’s bodies quite literally became battlefields. The protest movement … Continued

The scene would be fun in a Monty Python comedy, but we see it in the documentary Iranians against the regime. Football enthusiasts in that country learn to disguise themselves as men, painting a beard with makeup, dressing up to disguise their shapes, with the aim of entering the stadiums, mocking the laws of an oppressive theocracy that lasts four decades. We see some girls enjoy a lot when they are in the stall, like a prank. But we immediate…

Combine ‘maximum pressure’ on Iran with maximum support for the Iranian people

Standing by the Iranian people is not just a moral imperative. It is in the national security interests of the United States to do so.

Op-Ed: Combine ‘Maximum Pressure’ on Iran with Maximum Support for the Iranian People

This article was originally published on The Hill. April 24, 2025 By Michael Eisner, the general counsel of the Center for Human Rights in Iran, and Saeid Dehghan, a prominent Iranian human rights lawyer and director of the Parsi Law Collective.  As the United States conducts critical negotiations on a nuclear deal with Iran, the Iranian authorities will continue to stall, bluster, negotiate and renegotiate. In short, they will seek to run out t…