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| Mahsa Amini was beaten to death by morality police in Iran. |
Mass protests erupted in Iran, the Iranian regime periodically shutdown the internet and carried out massacres, and executions against demonstrators over the past three years. The world has not forgotten, and songs continue to be sung by artists in remembrance of Mahsa Amini.
The folly of replacing short wave radio transmissions of uncensored news with online broadcasts was made evident once more, as it was in Egypt during the Arab Spring.
The previous time this happened in Iran was in 2019, when the Mullahs killed 1,500 people, and I didn't know about it.
This time the suppression was successful, but the Iranian diaspora ensured that the repression was not repeated without worldwide attention and condemnation.
On the third anniversary of Mahsa Amini's untimely death global rallies are planned to ensure that the barbarity of the Islamic regime in Iran is not forgotten.
Global rallies are being organized to mark the 3rd anniversary of Jina #MahsaAmini’s death at the hands of the regime and to support the ongoing Woman, Life, Freedom revolutionary movement, the Iranian people’s fight for freedom, democracy, and human rights. Find a rally in your… pic.twitter.com/5sETrgVrqT
— Nazanin Afshin-Jam MacKay (@NazaninAJ) August 30, 2025
Please visit the Global Network for Woman, Life, Freedom and keep up to date as new locations are added around the world.
Dear friends of freedom reading this blog entry, please amplify these Iranian voices, let your elected representatives know that you are watching, and that this is unacceptable.
This has been going on for far too long in Iran, and the terror tactics have been copied elsewhere with Iranian help.
The Basij, formed in 1979 in Iran, murdered nonviolent demonstrators like Neda Agha Soltan in 2009 during the Green Revolution.
Hugo Chavez copied the Basij and formed Colectivos in Venezuela. Both are pro-government militias with long track records of repression and murder. The Colectivos in 2014 did the same thing in Venezuela murdering nonviolent protesters like Génesis Carmona during mass anti-government protests.
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| Neda Agha-Soltan and Génesis Carmona shot in the head. |
Note to Western policy makers: the regime's in Iran, Cuba, and Venezuela are not your friends.
Cuba and Iran have regime's with different ideological formations. Cuba has a communist dictatorship run by the Castros since 1959 and Iran has a Islamist regime run by the mullahs since 1979.
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| Iranian President Hassan Rouhani meets with General Raul Castro (2016) |
However they have three things in common: a profound anti-Americanism that portrays the U.S. as the great Satan, a fossilized revolutionary tradition based in terrorism that systematically denies human rights to their respective peoples, and a desire to destroy the state of Israel.
Robin Wright referred to Cuba and Iran as "melancholy twins" in The New Yorker in 2015. They are both state sponsors of terrorism, and Iran has been linked to a mass killing of Jewish people in Argentina.
Venezuela is an off shoot of the Cuban revolution and shares both its anti-Americanism and warm relations with Tehran.
They do not hide their intentions, even if they lie about it afterwards.
The late Fidel Castro visited Iran
on May 10, 2001, four months before the September 11, 2001 attacks,
where he was quoted by the Agence France Presse at the University of
Tehran stating that "Iran and Cuba, in cooperation with
each other, can bring America to its knees." ... "The U.S. regime is
very weak, and we are witnessing this weakness from close up."
Eleven years later on January 12, 2012 in Havana, Cuba the controversial president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, declared "Our positions, versions, interpretations are alike, very close. We have been good friends, we are and will be, and we will be together forever."
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| Iran's Ahmadinejad with Fidel Castro and Klansman David Duke |
Even closer to home, the relationship between the Iranian regime and white supremacists such as David Duke and anti-Semites such as Louis Farrakhan should not be forgotten.
We must remember the brutal attack against Salman Rushdie here in the United States on August 12, 2022. He suffered stab wounds to the stomach, chest, eye, hand and thigh.
Iran sought out asymmetric means to achieve maximum damage against Israel through their proxies Hamas and Hezbollah killing over 1,200 in Israel on October 7, 2023, sparking a terrible war that continues today. Tehran's decades long alliance with Cuba cannot and must not be ignored at such a time of ongoing peril.
Martin Luther King Jr. was right: Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
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