‘US war on Iran not about the Iranian people: Europe can put the issue of human rights on the table’

Nadia Massih is pleased to welcome Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, President of Iran Human Rights and Professor of Neuroscience at University of Oslo. He offers a stark assessment of the Iranian regime’s response to recent unrest and wartime conditions. Speaking from Oslo after the partial lifting of a prolonged internet blackout, Professor Amiry-Moghaddam argues that the authorities have exploited international attention on regional conflict to intensify domestic repression. Civilians are effectively “risking their lives” so that “the world [can] know what is happening in Iran,” underscoring both the scale of repression and the resilience of civil society under authoritarian pressure.