Iranian Oscar Winners Call for US Military Action: ‘A Moral Responsibility’ | Guest Column

What is happening in Iran right now cannot be reduced to headlines or statistics. It is a national tragedy unfolding under enforced silence.

Across the country, unarmed civilians have taken to the streets demanding dignity, freedom and survival. They are met with systematic, mass killings — live ammunition fired into crowds, people shot in public squares and bodies disappearing in the dark. Internet and phone lines are deliberately cut so families cannot reach one another and the world cannot witness the scale of the slaughter.