Mohammad Khakpour: You cannot silence the voice of the people with a simple label of disturbance.
Mohammad Khakpour, the former captain of Iran’s national football team, wrote on Instagram that you cannot expect silence from people who are crushed under the burden of inflation, unemployment, and insecurity about the future, and then silence their voices with a simple label of disturbance.
In this post, he wrote that the people of this land are neither in pursuit of chaos nor enemies of a peaceful life. However, when economic pressure, chronic injustice, and unfair humiliation accumulate over years in people’s lives, protest is not a political choice; it is a natural reaction of a person under pressure.
Khakpour wrote that if protest is not heard, it does not disappear; it only turns into deeper pain. The issue is not politics; it is the life and dignity of people who are bent under pressure and have the right to be seen and heard without fear.