This article is a painful reminder that four years after Mahsa Amini’s death the Iranian state’s violent machinery is largely unchanged, even if its tactics have become more high‑tech. That those who organised the brutal 2022 crackdown still control the security services is not just a moral outrage — it explains why protests, strikes and cultural resistance are met with the same patterns of arbitrary arrest, unfair trials and deadly force. The world cannot treat the formal “suspension” of a law as the end of the story when cafes, students and shopkeepers are still punished for ordinary freedoms. I applaud the Kurdish general strike and all Iranians who keep insisting on Woman, Life, Freedom despite the danger. Their courage has shifted public norms and exposed the regime’s fragility; we should listen to and amplify their demands for civil liberties, minority rights and democratic reform. The UN fact‑finding findings and Amnesty’s documentation are grave: allegations of killings, torture, sexual violence and enforced disappearances demand independent investigation and real accountability, not diplomatic platitudes. Western governments and institutions must move beyond symbolic statements. Targeted sanctions on officials responsible for repression, stronger asylum protections for dissidents, and support for independent human‑rights monitoring are minimum steps. Equally urgent is to curb the export of surveillance technology and facial‑recognition systems used to track and criminalise dissent — tech companies and their regulators cannot be neutral bystanders to repression. Finally, let’s not forget the individuals: the imprisoned, the exiled, the families still seeking justice. Solidarity means sustained pressure, funding for human‑rights groups and legal aid, and keeping these stories in the public eye until those responsible are held accountable and Iranians can freely decide how they live, dress and govern themselves.