No To Executions: The cry of the Will to live Against the Machinery of State Murder in Iran – Abbas Mansouran

“Each night, they drag a star down to the earth, and yet
this sorrow-stricken sky remains immersed in stars.”*

Iranian society today, in the starkest chapter of closure and devastation, stands before a tyrannical rule, anxious yet hopeful. It stands against the most executioner-like ideological dictatorship, which, from the first day of its seizure of political and economic power, chose “death” as the sole instrument of governance against the will of a society to live.

This disordered and collapsing structure, of which only criminal remnants now remain, imagines the expanse of Iran as an arena for “divine crimes” and, with an apocalyptic logic, seeks its survival in the reproduction of crises, criminality, and terror. Yet we have now passed beyond the shattered body of a power that made “nonexistence” the precondition of rule; for today our question goes beyond protest against plunder and extortion. It is the affirmation of the right to free life and the magnificent reconstruction of the social foundations that, beneath the boots of ideological Asiatic despotism, yearn for rebirth.

In this global imperialist crisis, while states trade the precious lives of society on the iron scales of profit and loss, and institutions claiming to defend human rights content themselves with issuing lifeless statements, the machinery of crime feeds on this “hypocritical silence.” It must be declared ever more loudly and openly: appealing to the humanity of criminals is nothing but an illusion. The only restraining force is the organized will of society.

We place no hope in paper condemnations that are neither preventive nor effective; for we believe that real power lies in the social solidarity of the “third force”—that is, the makers of society—and in the unity of those who see no distance between being and annihilation except resistance and relentless struggle.

To shatter the chariots of death on the one hand, and to realize “human life” on the other, we must move with firm resolve from scattered reactions toward “active resistance.” Every political prisoner imprisoned for freedom and human dignity must hear the resounding echo of their own voice from beyond the walls of the cell and know that they remain in the embrace of society’s collective memory; for every name is an unconquerable trench, and a shot fired toward the enemy’s stronghold.

By exposing the precise details of “biological torture,” the “medicalization of repression,” and the naked terrorism of the state, we must raise the cost of eliminating our children for the security gangs to a deterrent level. On this path, every sentence of state murder, execution must be met with immediate protest, militant action, and social movement. It is our historical duty to transform “mourning” and digital protest into “organized protest,” so that the awe and fuel of the regime’s machine of repression and fear burn in the flames of conscious rage.

At the same time, the international identification and exposure of the interrogators, judges of death, and all commanders and perpetrators involved in pharmaceutical, “white,” physical, and psychological torture, killings, and repression is a social and human necessity for liberation from death and oppression. No official, in any position, must feel secure from the consequences of “crimes against humanity.”

The defense of life is a nationwide project to dismantle mafia structures of power. It is realized through linking the chain of justice-seeking families to the rightful demands of workers, women, retirees, and oppressed nationalities. The end of state killings depends only on ending the rule of executioners.

We submit neither to the fascism in power nor allow another fascism, cloaked in a different form but armed with the same logic of elimination and repression, to replace it. Through courageous activism, we will bring world public opinion to our side, turning every arena abroad into a platform for condemning the criminal remnants of the Islamic regime and into a loud, worldwide cry against execution, torture, and prison.

Before another dawn is stained with the pure blood of a human being, we rise; for our will to live is boundless and more powerful than their trembling logic of death.

* From Siavash Kasraei, “The Defense of the Worker Shot by Firing Squad,” 1971, Houshang Torgol of the Arman-e Khalq socialist group.

Abbas Mansouran
In solidarity with the campaigns of the Organization of Free Women of East Kurdistan (KJAR) against execution, state violence, and gender oppression
May 7, 2026

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