In the early hours of Friday, December 19, 2025, a young woman was killed in one of
the villages of Kerman Province after her husband attacked her with a bladed weapon.
The perpetrator was arrested after committing the crime and has confessed to killing his
wife.
However, government-affiliated news agencies, without mentioning the identities of
either the killer or the victim and without providing details about the circumstances, any
history of violence, or how the crime occurred, have vaguely attributed the motive to
“family disputes”—a term that for years has been used as a tool to conceal the reality of
femicide and systematic violence against women.
The use of the phrase “family disputes” not only distorts the nature of this crime, but by
erasing unequal power structures within the family, it shifts attention away from the
individual responsibility of the killer and the role of discriminatory laws. A “dispute” only
has meaning when both parties have equal power and agency, whereas the killing of a
woman with a bladed weapon by her husband is a clear sign of lethal, gender-based
violence—not a simple disagreement.
The silence of official media regarding the victim’s identity, any possible history of
domestic violence, and the conditions that led to this killing is part of the same
mechanism that normalizes violence against women—a mechanism that, by reducing
femicide to a private matter, prevents public demands for accountability, legal reform,
and the creation of preventive measures.
This killing, like dozens of similar cases, is neither an isolated incident nor a family
matter, but the direct result of structures that ignore, justify, and ultimately enable the
repetition of violence against women.

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