Raped, tortured, imprisoned: the Iranian women fighting for their daughters’ future
The brutal crackdown on protests at the death of Mahsa Amini won’t stop the female fightback against the mullahs
Telegraph, March 8, 2023
Lying in a coma with bandages around her head and breathing tubes protruding from her nose and mouth – this was the social media image that saw the brutality of the Iranian regime go viral.
For decades, the barbarism of supreme ruler Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s misogynistic mullahs went largely unnoticed as thousands of Iranian women endured immense suffering and torture.
But when Jina “Mahsa” Amini, a 22-year-old Kurd, died after a “violent arrest” for infringing the country’s strict hijab rules, the Western world finally sat up and took notice..
As many as 30,000 Iranian women have been killed in Iran over the past 40 years, but it was Amini’s death on September 16 last year that proved the final straw for the country’s brave female freedom fighters, who tore off their hijabs, cut their hair and adopted a rallying cry of “women, life, freedom”..
Yet as the world marks International Women’s Day (IWD) today, Iran’s swelling feminist movement is showing no sign of slowing down – fuelled by a new era of Generation-Z rebels like Amini who refuse to be enslaved by their male rulers…
As Maryam Rajavi, the Iranian opposition leader and president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), said in an IWD speech last weekend: “The uprising and unparalleled courage of Iranian women have captivated the attention of the world. Defiant girls from Tehran to Zahedan are shouting: ‘With or without the hijab, onward to the revolution!’ Read More
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