The Guardian view on Iran’s repression: political prisoners such as Narges Mohammadi need freedom not bombs | Editorial

The critically ill Nobel peace laureate should be released. Iranians’ human rights are under attack from both the regime and the US-Israel war “Authoritarian regimes do not always need an executioner’s rope,” the Iranian Nobel peace laureate Narges Mohammadi observes in a forthcoming memoir smuggled from her cell. “Sometimes, they simply wait for the human body to fail – and then make sure no help arrives, or they create conditions in which death can come easily, helping it along by standing in the way of life-saving care.