The United Nations, prominent NGOs, liberal politicians, and left-leaning activist networks seemingly love to frame themselves as some kind of elevated moral conscience for the international system. They speak the language of “justice,” “dignity,” and “universal human rights,” and insist — sometimes with threats and violence — that silence in the face of oppression is “complicity.”
When it comes to Iran, however, where ordinary, unarmed people demanding freedom are being beaten, tortured, imprisoned, and gunned down in the streets by their own leaders, this high-minded moral chorus has all but disappeared.
IRAN: Where are the student protests at Columbia? Harvard? Yale? Thousands of students are being killed daily by the regime in Iran and yet silence from the left. Why? pic.twitter.com/gtzJFCSfAS
— @amuse (@amuse) January 16, 2026
