Iran Genocide Not Mentioned By “Progressive” Left

Comments At Arlington County Board Meeting, April 18, 2026.

At the March 14, 2026 County Board meeting Ryan Nary took issue with the newly established high tech Innovation Quarter in Crystal City to promote partnerships among leading defense and AI corporations. Said Nary:

“We are now 3 weeks into an illegal and unprovoked war, one year into a cruel and arbitrary deportation regime, and 2 and a half years into a genocide. Black rain falls from the sky in Tehran as mothers and fathers mourn the loss of 170 schoolgirls wiped off the face of the earth by a U.S. tomahawk missile . . .

What has been the County’s response to this? Supercharge the defense industrial complex. As we watch our world crumble around us, Arlington Economic Development sponsored the launch of the Innovation Quarter (IQ) backed by a veritable rogue’s gallery of defense and AI firms. . .”

Nowhere in Nary’s commentary is mention of more than 30,000 Iranian civilians killed in the latest uprising, nor of the hangings and rapes of those in custody. Yet estimates that the bloodthirsty Iranian regime killed as many of its own civilians in 2 days in January as Israelis did for two and a half years in Gaza is remarkable. On this subject commentator Micha Danzig says: “Large parts of the anti-Israel, self-described ‘pro-Palestinian’ movement are not engaged in a human rights campaign. They are engaged in a selective political project that ignores abuse when it is inconvenient and amplifies (and lies about) it when it is useful. If human rights were the standard, the Iranian regime would be at the center of their outrage. It isn’t.“