Please allow me a history teacher moment. It’s John Donne’s fault: “Any man’s death diminishes me.” This is about two women.

This is Clara Jurado, Mothers of the Disappeared (Desaparecidos), during a protest in Buenos Aires in 1983.

While I am happy for the Argentine football team, victors in Sunday’s World Cup, what is happening in Iran today happened in Argentina in 1976. When a military dictatorship came to power, a wave of arrests and extrajudicial killings followed.

30,000 Argentines, overwhelmingly young people, were “disappeared.” Pregnant detainees were executed soon after they had given birth.

I hope that the World Cup victory somehow brings healing—and much joy— to Argentina this year.

But last year, the Argentine government issued thousands of DNA kits to help identify the human remains still being unearthed. Because the two nations are so close, some of the DNA samples match living Italians.

There are still mass graves from the 1936-39 Spanish Civil War that remain undisturbed; previous generations knew where they were but did not talk about them. Young Spaniards talk about them but they have now passed into myth.

The writer Adam Hochschild wrote of the Russian River Ob changing course in 1976, exposing sandbanks packed densely with human bodies. Permafrost had preserved some so completely that relatives could recognize the man or woman who had gone missing in the 1930s. What the Ob revealed lay below what was the headquarters of Stalin’s secret police, the NKVD, in a town called Kolpashevo.

And now people are being “disappeared” in Iran.

This week actress Taraneh Alidoosti was arrested. She committed two crimes: protesting the brutal repression of protestors and posting this photograph. Her hair is uncovered.