There is a deafening silence on the Left about Iran. Now, in the third week of a popular uprising against tyranny, not a peep of support has been heard from the likes of Greta Thunberg, Zohran Mamdani, the Columbia faculty lounge, or the Harvard student body.

Why is this? The protesters’ reasonable claim for support is overwhelmingly clear. Iran’s 92 million people are sick, literally to death, of repression by a regime that has murdered, arrested, beaten, and imprisoned them for 47 years. The bravest have taken to their city streets, mostly unarmed, to demand freedom.