Association des Chercheurs Iraniens

While the full terms of the ceasefire remain unclear, we must raise a red flag: any unconditional sanctions relief – especially relating to Iran’s nuclear programme – without enforceable commitments to human rights reforms poses a grave moral and strategic hazard.

It will directly finance and embolden the very security apparatus – the IRGC and Basij – responsible for systematic rights violations. The structural weaknesses exposed since the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising risk being erased in the name of geopolitical reconciliation and appeasement.

Displacement and imprisonment are two faces of the same brutal regime. We stand in solidarity with all those forced from their homes, and with all those behind bars for daring to speak, resist, or simply survive with dignity.

The Association des Chercheurs Iraniens (ACI) urgently calls on the international community to take immediate steps to hold the Islamic Republic of Iran accountable for its escalating use of internet shutdowns and digital censorship. In the context of intensifying military conflict and rising civilian casualties, recent blanket restrictions on internet access appear designed not merely for “security” purposes, but to conceal widespread repression, arrests, and grave human rights violations

The war between Iran and Israel is not a war for democracy. It is not a war for justice. It is a war that serves the strategic interests of foreign powers—Israel and the United States on one side, and the Islamic Republic’s regime on the other, which clings to survival by endangering its own people. The Iranian public, already battered by decades of repression, now finds itself alone, exposed, and unprotected.