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When survivors walk into Iran’s courts, they don’t find justice. They find a replay button.
By: Haphazard H. Humanist, Senior Emotional Damage Correspondent
Co-byline: April “Tears per Paragraph” Quirk, Trauma Translator-in-Chief
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The Court of Repetition — Where Victims Become Witnesses, and Witnesses Become Wreckage
Niloufar Hamedi — the journalist who already spent time in Iran’s jails for covering Mahsa Amini’s death — returned from prison not with vengeance, but with truth grenades.
Her new exposé in Shargh, titled They Rape You Once; You Die a Thousand Times, rips open the raw wound of Iran’s “justice” system — a place where trauma goes not to heal, but to rehearse.
One survivor told Hamedi:
“Rape happens once, but its shrapnel pierces your heart again and again.”
Imagine that — a system that mistakes endurance for evidence.
For three years, this woman traveled 900 kilometers to Tehran to face a wall of judges, clerks, and scribes who collectively behaved like her pain was a scheduling inconvenience.
Every retelling of her ordeal was a new round of the same assault — except now the hands were bureaucratic, and the cruelty came stamped with a state seal.
The Paradox of Piety — Where Sin is Male and Shame is Female
Iran’s rape law reads like it was written by a theologian with zero empathy and a PhD in gaslighting.
In a system where sex outside marriage is punishable by death, rape accusations themselves risk backfiring — survivors must prove non-consent or risk being labeled adulterers.
In other words: You were violated? Show your evidence — or die trying.
Meanwhile, in the male-dominated judiciary, “modesty” is not a value — it’s a weapon.
Every question feels like an accusation:
It’s like an interrogation written by Kafka and choreographed by the morality police.
The court becomes a moral maze — where survivors walk in as victims and walk out as suspects.
Death or Nothing: Iran’s Binary Justice
Here’s the kicker: under Iran’s penal code, the only punishment for rape is execution.
That might sound “tough on crime,” but it’s actually tough on justice.
Many survivors don’t even want their attackers hanged.
They want acknowledgment.
They want safety.
They want closure that doesn’t come with a corpse count.
One woman told Shargh:
“I didn’t want him dead. I just wanted my life back.”
But the law has no button for mercy.
It only offers a guillotine — which ironically silences everyone, including the victim.
The Sociological Side Effect: Shame as Public Policy
Sociologist Mahsa Asadollahnejad told Shargh something chillingly simple:
“Humiliation is the deepest wound — and indifference lets it spread.”
Translation: society itself becomes the second rapist.
The survivor’s body might heal, but her name — that doesn’t recover.
In Iran, a woman who reports rape becomes a whisper, a warning, a reputation hazard.
Her story is retold not to bring justice, but to entertain the patriarchy.
Even family members often urge silence:
“Don’t bring shame upon us.”
It’s a moral circus — where the victim is forced to juggle grief, guilt, and gossip while her rapist watches from the stands, free, forgiven, or even promoted.
Law and Disorder — When Justice Has No Gender
Iran’s judges operate within a framework designed to protect honor, not humans.
Rape trials are not about what happened — they’re about whether the woman deserved it.
Proof depends not on evidence but on witnesses — usually male — who must testify to her innocence.
You can’t make this up: a crime that happens in secret requires witnesses to prove it.
And if the woman can’t find those witnesses?
Then by law, the event “did not happen.”
The moral logic is circular.
The legal system is labyrinthine.
And the result is always the same: silence wins.
Niloufar Hamedi’s Quiet Rebellion
Hamedi’s reporting isn’t loud. It doesn’t scream. It whispers — and that’s what makes it lethal.
In a country where truth-tellers are imprisoned, her journalism is a form of civil disobedience wrapped in grace.
She doesn’t name the judges.
She doesn’t even attack the law directly.
She just lets the women speak — and that’s more explosive than any manifesto.
The women’s words turn into mirrors that reflect the hypocrisy of a system obsessed with morality but allergic to compassion.
The Hypocrisy Olympics
Iran’s government never misses a chance to lecture the world on “ethics.”
It boasts about modesty, family values, and divine justice — all while hiding a reality so cruel it could make the angels file for asylum.
It’s a country where morality is mandatory and empathy is contraband.
Where men call themselves “protectors of virtue” — as long as the victims stay quiet.
TRUMP COMMENTS (Because Why Not?)
TRUMP: “Look, I’m all for women — tremendous women, some of my best friends are women — but Iran? Total disaster. They’ve got judges who think the 12th century was a golden age! Maybe I’ll sell them some World Liberty Tokens for justice reform — two for one deal!”
Reporter: “Sir, that’s not how justice works.”
TRUMP: “Sure it is! You pay me, you get freedom. It’s called capitalism!”
TOP COMMENT PICKS
@PersianFury:
“Iranian justice is like Windows 95 — outdated, unstable, and crashes when women speak.”
@AyatollahOfIrony:
“Death penalty for rapists? How about death penalty for the system that made them?”
@NiloLover2025:
“Niloufar Hamedi should win a Pulitzer — or at least not another prison sentence.”
FINAL THOUGHT
Justice without compassion is just revenge in legal robes.
Iran’s women aren’t just fighting for rights — they’re fighting for language, for dignity, for a world where truth doesn’t require martyrdom.
When a woman says “They raped me,” and the system replies “Prove it,” — that’s not a court. That’s a second crime scene.
NEXT WEEK ON THE WTF GLOBAL TIMES
“Hijab 2.0: When Iran’s Morality Police Launch an App (and Forget to Install the Morals)”
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