{"id":68559,"date":"2026-03-10T01:55:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T06:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/who-will-stand-up-for-the-iranian-people-as-death-rains-on-them-from-the-skies-nasrin-parvaz\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T01:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T06:55:15","slug":"who-will-stand-up-for-the-iranian-people-as-death-rains-on-them-from-the-skies-nasrin-parvaz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/who-will-stand-up-for-the-iranian-people-as-death-rains-on-them-from-the-skies-nasrin-parvaz\/","title":{"rendered":"Who will stand up for the Iranian people as death rains on them from the skies? | Nasrin Parvaz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calls for a popular uprising and empty promises of help are reckless in the extreme \u2013 and no answer to my country\u2019s plight<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Nasrin Parvaz is a women\u2019s rights activist and torture survivor from Iran<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have been watching the news from inside Iran, unable to hold in my sorrow. As an Iranian who was imprisoned and tortured by the regime, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/jan\/15\/iran-protests-survivors-regime-freedom\">I have been pleading<\/a> with the world\u2019s human rights organisations and media to keep a focus on the country\u2019s plight. But now I see US-Israeli bombs falling on Iran, and some Iranians celebrating this war while innocent people die. My heart is breaking for my country.<\/p>\n<p>Let us be clear: when Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu conspired to launch their war, it was not out of a desire to free the Iranian people from the tyranny of the regime. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/03\/trump-israel-iran-war\">Netanyahu said on the second day of the war<\/a>: \u201cThis coalition of forces allows us to do what I have yearned to do for 40 years.\u201d He has named this operation \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/28\/us-israel-strikes-iran-tehran-response-visual-guide\">Lion\u2019s Roar<\/a>\u201d. Meanwhile, Iranian monarchists celebrate the carnage, waving the shah\u2019s version of the country\u2019s flag with its crowned lion and sun.<\/p>\n<p>Nasrin Parvaz is a women\u2019s rights activist and torture survivor from Iran. Her books include A Prison Memoir: One Woman\u2019s Struggle in Iran, and the novel The Secret Letters from X to A<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/mar\/10\/us-israel-war-iranian-people\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calls for a popular uprising and empty promises of help are reckless in the extreme \u2013 and no answer to my country\u2019s plight Nasrin Parvaz is a women\u2019s rights activist and torture survivor from Iran I have been watching the news from inside Iran, unable to hold in my sorrow. As an Iranian who was &#8230; <a title=\"Who will stand up for the Iranian people as death rains on them from the skies? | Nasrin Parvaz\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/who-will-stand-up-for-the-iranian-people-as-death-rains-on-them-from-the-skies-nasrin-parvaz\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Who will stand up for the Iranian people as death rains on them from the skies? | Nasrin Parvaz\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}