🔶 Statement by More Than 100 Iranian Activists: No to War, No to Repression

🔶 Statement by More Than 100 Iranian Activists: No to War, No to Repression

More than 100 former political prisoners, human-rights activists, writers, journalists, academics, and civil activists in Iran and abroad have, through a joint statement, expressed support for an open letter about the situation of political prisoners in Iran that was published on August 20, 2026 in The Guardian.

The signatories, announcing their support for the letter “To the Political Prisoners of Iran, Trapped Between the Two Blades of One Scissors,” stated: «The people of Iran should not be forced to choose, as a matter of necessity, between foreign military-economic invasion and state repression.»

On August 20, 2026, The Guardian published an open letter titled “To the Political Prisoners of Iran, Trapped Between the Two Blades of One Scissors.” In this letter, a number of writers, academics, and activists, while referring to the situation of political prisoners in Iran, identified two factors in the intensification of pressure on them: on the one hand, repression, imprisonment, and execution by the Islamic Republic; and on the other hand, military attacks by the United States and Israel on the Islamic Republic of Iran.