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  Meta Description: Iranian doctors are facing arrests, raids, and severe state charges for treating injured protesters. Explore how healthcare has become a line of resistance in Iran. We were walking in blood': Iran's doctors recount crackdown on protesters When Healing Becomes a Crime: How Iranian Doctors Are Forced to Choose Between Their Oath and Their Survival Imagine walking into an emergency room with a severe gunshot wound or shattered limb, only to find the attending doctor hesitating—not out of medical uncertainty, but because treating your injuries could seal their own death warrant. It sounds like a dark plot from dystopian fiction, but across Iran, this is the daily, terrifying reality facing doctors, nurses, and paramedics. For generations, society has taken medical neutrality for granted—the principle that hospitals are inviolable sanctuaries and healthcare workers are non-political healers. Inside Iran today, that principle has been erased. The simple act of ful...

Inside Iran's medical crisis: How healthcare workers treating injured protesters are facing arrests, raids, and state violence for honoring the Hippocratic Oath. Inside Iran's medical crisis: How healthcare workers treating injured protesters are facing arrests, raids, and state violence for honoring the Hippocratic Oath. Dr. Alireza Golchini, Qazviz surgeon has received the death sentence for treating injured protesters. Let us pray for him and for the people of Iran If you walked into a hospital emergency room with a shattered arm or a gunshot wound, you wouldn't expect the person in the white coat to pause before helping you to assess whether treating you might land them in prison. Yet today, in hospitals across Iran, that is the exact choice every doctor, nurse, and paramedic is forced to make. The headline sounds like the plot of a dark dystopian film, but it is a sobering reality: Iran’s healthcare community is fighting for its own survival. For decades, we’ve taken t...