In an exclusive interview with DW, Iranian human rights activist and 2003 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi calls for urgent measures to prevent the killing of civilians in Iran. The US could use "jamming technology" to disrupt regime's communication with its security forces and the spread of its propaganda.
Ebadi also proposes "highly targeted actions against Iran's supreme leader and senior commanders of the Revolutionary Guard," noting that similar operations have previously occurred in Iran without harming civilians.
The activist's remarks follow a recent online post by US President Donald Trump in which he called on Iranians to "keep protesting" and pledged that "help is on its way."
Ebadi describes the situation inside Iran as "a disproportionate war."
"When at least 12,000 people are killed in less than two days, what should we call that, peace and calm?" she asks, citing casualty figures that have not yet been independently verified.
Comparing the current uprising to Iran's "Woman, Life, Freedom" movement in 2022, Ebadi says "the regime did not escalate violence to this extent, nor did it pursue repression at this level" during the previous protest wave, which was sparked by the death of Kurdish woman Jina Mahsa Amini in police custody.
"Today, security forces are out there, among the people, using military-grade weapons," Ebadi tells DW. "They are killing civilians. What is happening really is a full-scale war in Iran."