The Islamic Republic has abducted 19-year-old Bita Shafiei and taken her to an undisclosed location. This was a targeted extraction: agents first arrested her mother as leverage, then came for the daughter who dared to name the regime's successor.
To understand why this specific teenager poses such an existential threat to a military theocracy, we must look at the red lines she crossed. Bita was abducted because she publicly dismantled the regime's political legitimacy and explicitly called for the return of the Pahlavi dynasty.
Bita is currently in incommunicado detention. There are no charges, no lawyers, and no transparency. In her last messages, Bita anticipated this silence. She understood that her voice would be taken, and she assigned the responsibility of that voice to us. We are witnessing a regime that is terrified not of an army, but of a 19-year-old girl who refuses to believe their lies.
She served as the proxy for every Iranian who was too afraid to speak. Now that the regime has enforced her silence, the moral obligation to be her voice has transferred to us. I ask you to use every tool at your disposal to amplify this story and ensure that her abduction results in global noise rather than the quiet they intended.