The Healer’s Gallows: Why Is the Media Ignoring Iran’s War on Doctors?
While Japanese media reports on "regional stability," the Islamic Republic is sentencing dermatologists like Dr. Ameneh Soleimani to death for the "crime" of mercy.
The Face of the Forbidden Oath
The woman in the photo above is Dr. Ameneh Soleimani. She is a dermatologist, a clinic manager, and a professional who took an oath to preserve life. Today, that oath has become a death warrant.
Dr. Soleimani was arrested and sentenced to death by the Islamic Republic. Her crime was not espionage or violence; it was providing medical care to wounded protesters. In the eyes of the regime, a bandage applied to a protester is an act of war against the state.
The Great Media Disconnect: A Japanese Perspective
There is a profound and dangerous contradiction in how the world—and specifically Japan—is viewing the current crisis.
In Japanese media, we often see a “sanitized” version of the Middle East. News cycles focus on the rhetoric of Donald Trump or Benjamin Netanyahu, framing the Islamic Republic as a victim of “Western aggression.” We see reports of “human chains” around energy infrastructure and claims that the Iranian population stands in solidarity with the regime to protect the nation’s resources.
This is not just a different perspective; it is active disinformation. While certain Japanese MEPs and commentators describe the Islamic Republic as a “friend of Japan,” that “friend” is currently:
Publicly hanging citizens of all ages to instill terror.
Targeting the medical community to ensure that protesters bleed out in the streets rather than receive care.
Systematically executing anyone involved in humanitarian acts.
Humanity as a Capital Offense
The narrative being pushed in Japan—that the regime is a stabilizing force against “U.S. and Israeli violence”—ignores the fact that the most violent force in the lives of Iranians is their own government.
When the media mixes the legitimate struggle of the Iranian people with state-sponsored propaganda about “defending infrastructure,” they erase the victims. They erase people like Dr. Soleimani.
Providing medical care is not a political act; it is a human one. Yet, the Islamic Republic has rebranded “humanity” as “treason.”
Why the Silence?
Why do Japanese outlets and politicians continue to offer legitimacy to a regime that executes its healers?
Energy interests are being prioritized over human lives.
Diplomatic neutrality is being used as a shield to ignore state-sponsored murder.
Simplistic anti-Western framing allows the regime to hide its domestic atrocities behind the veil of “geopolitics.”
Conclusion: We Cannot Look Away
The “human chain” the regime wants you to see is a fabrication of state media. The real human chain consists of the doctors, nurses, and ordinary citizens standing between the regime’s gallows and the youth of Iran.
As long as we allow the media to frame a brutal theocracy as a “partner for peace,” we are complicit in the silencing of heroes like Ameneh Soleimani. It is time to stop calling this “regional tension” and start calling it what it is: A state-led campaign of mass execution.