On Monday, June 9, 2025, a woman in one of the villages of Kelardasht County in
Mazandaran Province was killed by her husband using a cold weapon. Despite the
horrific nature of the incident, the news agencies Tasnim and the police news outlet
reported it within a vague and securitized framework without mentioning the name of
the victim or the perpetrator. In these reports, not only was the woman’s human identity
erased, but the repeated and misleading phrase “family dispute” was again used in an
attempt to obscure the reality of gender-based and systemic violence against women.
The repeated use of this reductive label not only conceals the nature of femicide, but
also shields the state from accountability for failing to provide legal and psychological
protection to women at risk. When a woman is killed by her husband, the issue is not a
“dispute,” but the outcome of a system that grants men the power to dominate, control,
threaten, and kill while denying the victim even a name in public memory.
The Tasnim report and others in official media outlets focus not on the root causes of
this violence or demanding accountability from responsible institutions, but rather on
dramatizing the police response and emphasizing the restoration of “security”—as if
public calm is more important than women’s lives. The omission of the victim’s name,
the absence of the family’s voice, and the lack of attention to the woman’s history of
experiencing domestic abuse all contribute to a media narrative that frames femicide as
a private, momentary, and insignificant matter.
Although police forces arrested the killer in under 24 hours, the central questions
remain: How many times had this woman raised alarm before being killed? Had any
support institutions offered her a safe and viable path to escape? The omission of such
questions is just as dangerous as erasing her name and her life just as it is for the
many women whose killings go unnamed and unnoticed in the media.

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