By: Rezvan Moghaddam

On Saturday, June 7, 2025, Ommolbanin Gholizadeh, a 47-year-old woman living in a
village in Maneh and Samalqan County, North Khorasan Province, was killed in a brutal
act of domestic violence. She was stabbed multiple times by her 53-year-old husband.
According to local sources, the killer turned himself in to the local police station and
confessed to the killing, citing “family disputes” as the motive.
However, according to people close to the victim, Ommolbanin had faced repeated
death threats from her husband while trying to separate from him. Her killing once again
highlights the urgent need to address domestic violence, the lack of effective support
systems for women at risk, and the failure of Iran’s legal and social systems to respond
to victims’ warnings.
The frequent use of vague terms such as “family dispute” in state media and official
statements obscures the gendered and deadly nature of such killings and enables their
recurrence. The phrase “family dispute,” often used by government media to describe
femicide and so-called “honor” killings, is a misleading, reductive, and dangerous term.
It reduces systemic, gender-based, and lethal violence against women to a personal
misunderstanding.
Not only does this terminology conceal the true nature of the crime, it also portrays the
killer as neutral or misunderstood, allowing perpetrators of femicide to escape
accountability, and preventing society from fully grasping the scope of the tragedy.
Killings like Ommolbanin Gholizadeh are not the result of simple disagreements they
are the outcome of years of threats, abuse, domination, and the absence of legal
protection.
Ommolbanin was not the victim of a “dispute”; she was the victim of a system of control,
violence, and injustice that failed to protect her. Her warnings were ignored, and that
silence led to her death.

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