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Cake day: August 16th, 2024

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  • “The mass killings by Iranian security forces since January 8 are unprecedented in the country and a stark reminder that rulers who massacre their own people will keep committing atrocities until they are held to account,” said Lama Fakih, program director at Human Rights Watch.

    I must admit that I had ignorantly assumed Iran’s government already had a history of mass killing of protesters, with the unconscious thought, “How else could they be living under such an oppressive dictatorship?”

    A lesson to be learned now by my fellow Americans and me, and everyone else living in a society marching to the right.