By:Rezvan Moghaddam

On Monday, April 14, 2025, a 51-year-old woman in Shazand, a county in Markazi
Province, was severely beaten by her husband and died from her injuries after being
transferred to the hospital. According to the Mehr News Agency, the killer attempted
suicide after the crime and was arrested after receiving medical treatment.
The motive for the killing has been described by official media as “family disputes”—a
vague, overused phrase systematically deployed in the Islamic Republic’s narratives to
obscure the structural nature of violence against women. Rather than clarifying the
context of the violence, this phrase reduces it to a personal disagreement and deflects
responsibility from state institutions that are meant to prevent domestic violence.
In many cases, these so-called “family disputes” include years of threats, psychological
abuse, physical violence, and social and economic deprivation of women.
Another alarming aspect is the refusal of state-affiliated media to publish the identities of
the killer or the victim. This deliberate withholding of information and erasure of the
woman from the public narrative is, in itself, a reproduction of violence. It renders the
victim nameless and voiceless and blocks any path toward justice and accountability.
While women continue to be killed—one after another—by domestic violence, honor-
based killings, and deep-seated suspicion rooted in a patriarchal system, the Islamic
Republic’s media policy remains rooted in silence, concealment, and minimizing these
tragedies as mere “family disputes.”
This killing is only one of dozens of such tragedies reported in Farvardin (March-April)
2025 and once again illustrates that as long as protective laws for women remain weak,
media refuse to truthfully represent these atrocities, and patriarchal culture remains
unchallenged, women’s insecurity in the Islamic Republic will persist.

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