The most underreported story in Iran is the one its brutal regime is waging against its own people – the near total internet blackout that is shielding the world from witnessing hundreds of executions, an Iranian American told The Post.
“They’re controlling what goes in what goes out and they’re executing people en masse,” writer and entrepreneur Sheila Amir, who lives in North Carolina, said as the blackout that began 43 days ago hit its 1,000th hour.
“They’re the masters of propaganda.”
Amir said people living inside Iran aren’t allowed to communicate freely with one another as the repressive regime has feverishly tightened its stranglehold over its people since a nationwide uprising in January led to the slaughter of more than 7,000, though thousands more are still under investigation.
“It’s a mass of human rights violations. They’re not allowed to communicate with the outside world. … They’re executing people under this blackout,” she lamented, as Vice President JD Vance led talks in Pakistan on Saturday that could bring an end to the Iran war.
“The regime is literally going up and down the streets looking for [Internet] signal and then kidnapping and killing people that have Starlink [devices]. I mean, they’re on a murder spree, and nobody’s covering it.”
Meanwhile, the regime provides “white cards” to loyalists allowing them Internet access – although it still gets monitored by the state.
A few public executions, like the killing of 19-year old championship wrestler Saleh Mohammadi, were able to make news outside Iran.
The Islamic regime executed 14 people on political charges in the three weeks since the start of the war, according to the Euronews TV site, though Iranian human rights group Hengaw reported evidence of 160 hangings since January.
That follows a UN report that said Tehran executed at least 1,639 people in 2025.
Amir, 43, who has relatives in Iran and in the US military, says members of the large Iranian diaspora have provided chilling images and stories of executions.
Some people inside the war-torn country have even smuggled out videos and images to show the world — at great personal risk.
“When your own government is constantly mentally terrorizing you and physically terrorizing you, it’s exhausting,” she said, calling it the “mental aspect” of the regime’s plan – although “nobody’s buying it.”