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🚨 IRAN'S DISSIDENTS ARE BEING SILENCED. X MUST ACT. The Islamic Republic has spent nearly half a century imprisoning its critics, torturing its opponents, and terrorizing anyone who dares challenge its authority. Apparently, even that is insufficient. Now the struggle to silence Iranians is being fought through the reporting systems of social-media platforms. Iranian dissidents, particularly those supporting Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, are reporting coordinated campaigns designed to have their X accounts suspended. The pattern is disturbing. Accounts disappear, appeals are filed, and some are eventually restored after prolonged periods of silence. But reinstatement is no remedy for censorship that has already achieved its purpose. The audience has scattered. The testimony has been interrupted. The opportunity to expose an atrocity, challenge a regime narrative, or organize opposition may have vanished. For dissidents inside Iran, these are hardly trivial inconveniences. Some are risking imprisonment, torture, and death to communicate with the outside world. And now they must contend with allegations that organized networks are manipulating the very platform safeguards intended to protect them. The Islamic Republic's machinery of digital repression is documented. Its responsibility for these particular suspensions must now be investigated. I want @X and @Support to understand precisely what is at stake. If coordinated false reporting is being used to remove Iranian opposition accounts, then X's enforcement mechanisms are being turned into instruments of political suppression. Who is submitting these reports? Who is coordinating them? Why are accounts repeatedly suspended only to be reinstated? And what is being done to identify those deliberately abusing the system? These questions demand answers. The regime has already built prisons for Iranian bodies. Its critics must not be allowed to lose their voices through the exploitation of Western technology. Investigate the reporting networks. Expose coordinated abuse. Restore accounts wrongly suspended. Protect the dissidents whose lives may depend upon being heard. And remember this: every time a dissident is silenced, the regime gains another moment in which its version of reality goes unchallenged. The Islamic Republic has no moral authority to dictate what Iranians think, what they say, or what the world is permitted to hear. The Iranian people have been silenced for long enough. FREE IRAN. Catherine Perez-Shakdam The Western Front | Information Warfare & Digital Repression