While Western activists play moral dress-up, freedom-loving Iranians are getting shot in real streets, at real risk, for real principles. And our media yawns. Our campuses chant elsewhere. Our “bravest voices” suddenly find nuance.
That’s not confusion.
That’s cowardice.
History doesn’t remember who had the largest signs . It remembers who stood with clarity when it mattered—and who looked away because clarity demanded commitment instead of commentary.
Right now, courage is happening quietly, under gunfire. And the people pretending to be revolutionaries can’t even be bothered to look.
Zan, Zendegi, Azadi , my Iranian friends.Javid Shah. I see you.