By :Rezvan Moghaddam<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Wednesday, June 11, 2025, a 32-year-old man in the Golshahr area of Karaj killed
his 31-year-old wife by stabbing her multiple times. Immediately after the killing, he
turned the knife on himself and then jumped off the rooftop of their home, dying at the
scene.
State-affiliated media, including Rokna, covered the killing in their usual formulaic style,
describing it vaguely as a \u201cfamily dispute\u201d without providing essential details. The
reports failed to mention the victim\u2019s name, any history of domestic violence, the
absence of social support systems, or the structural roots of this gender-based killing.
The official narrative offers only ambiguity and repetition of censorship patterns:
reducing a brutal act to a meaningless phrase, \u201cfamily dispute\u201d, and erasing both the
victim\u2019s and the killer\u2019s identity while ignoring the systematic violence against women.
But these are not isolated personal events. They are clear examples of femicide,
unfolding in a context of institutional silence and denial.
\u201cFamily Dispute\u201d or a Structure of Femicide?
By reducing such killings to \u201cdomestic disputes,\u201d government-linked media help
normalize violence, deny state responsibility, and portray femicide as something natural.
This language not only hides the reality of the crime but also prevents public
examination of its roots such as the absence of support services for women, legal
barriers to divorce, economic dependence, and lack of public education on mental
health and relationships.
Domestic violence, especially when it ends with a woman\u2019s killing, is not a \u201cdispute\u201d it
is a crime rooted in gender inequality.
Five Killings in Five Days: A Documented Record of Femicide
Between June 6 and June 11, 2025, the Stop Honor Killings Campaign reported the
following five killings of women:
\uf0b7 Ommolbanin Gholizadeh North Khorasan; stabbed by her husband
\uf0b7 Kobra Rezaei (Shaqayeq) Afghan asylum seeker; mutilated body found 50
days after her disappearance
\uf0b7 Unnamed 31-year-old woman Karaj; killed by her husband, who then died by
suicide<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\uf0b7 Unnamed woman \u2013 Tehran
\uf0b7 Hanieh Behboudi Pouramghan from Fariman, Razavi Khorasan
These are only the documented and publicized cases. Many others remain hidden,
censored, or unrecorded.
The silence of the state, the concealment by official media, and the indifference of legal
institutions are all part of the cycle of femicide in Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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