OPINION
Global Silence Deafening Over Iran's War Against Its Own People
By Mark L. Cohen
Monday, 26 January 2026 04:00 PM EST
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When Iran kills its own people, the absence of popular anger on the streets and campuses of the West is itself a form of noise — a silence speaking loudly.
This does not mean, at the governmental level, there has not been determined and unambiguous condemnation of Iran.
Donald Trump's recent decision not to launch immediate military action against Iran is not restraint, hesitation, or retreat, but a tactical delay — taking into consideration the deployment of U.S. military resources and perhaps an opportunity for Iran convincingly changing its political and military posture — in the same way that earlier pauses preceded the B-2 bomber strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities.
Yet what remains missing is widespread popular outrage.
Iran's war against its own people has produced hesitation and indifference among large segments of public opinion — including in many of the same academic and cultural environments which recently mobilized intensely during the Gaza war.
Young Iranians are beaten, imprisoned, and killed for demanding freedom. They are not confronting a foreign enemy.
They are confronting their own government.
Yet while their courage appears in parts of the western media, it has not generated widespread grassroots outrage.
During the Gaza war, public emotion influenced politics, media, and institutions. Whatever one thinks of that conflict, one fact is clear: public outrage mattered.
In Iran, there is no comparable mobilization.
This absence reflects not only moral confusion, but a troubling absence of moral judgment.
Some attempt to compare Israel in Gaza with Iran suppressing its own people.
But the situations are fundamentally different.
Gaza was a battlefield shaped in large part by Iran's proxy strategy — financing, arming, and directing groups that deliberately targeted civilians.
Iran helped create a form of warfare in which civilians had nowhere to escape.
In Iran itself, there is no battlefield. There is repression.
The regime fires into unarmed crowds.
It arrests teenagers.
It executes dissent.
The victim and the executioner share the same nationality.
Moreover, Iran has inflicted, by some estimates, more than 10,000 civilian deaths in less than a month — a rate of killing so extreme that even the most aggressive messaging and casualty framing used by Hamas-aligned outlets during the Israel-Gaza war did not claim anything comparable in a single month.
Public outrage helps shape media priorities, diplomatic language, and institutional behavior. Silence is never neutral.
Iran is not a peripheral actor in Middle Eastern violence.
It's one of its central organizers — exporting instability, financing armed groups, and repeatedly using civilian suffering as a strategic tool.
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