Iran is currently experiencing its largest civil rights movement since the 1979 revolution. Will it spark permanent change? yaldahamidi and ParmisKhatibi join michelebgoodwin on the latest OnTheIssuesPod to break it down:
Magazine. As you know, we are a show that reports, rebels, and we tell it just like it is. On our show, history matters, we examine the past as we think about the future, and we’re interrupting our scheduled programming to bring a special episode to you about what’s happening in Iran. About the 14,000 arrests that have taken place since September.
Unfortunately, this time, she died in their hands after all the trauma and the violence that they inflicted upon her. I think this is basically 43 years of pain and suppression that everyone just had enough, and now there’s this large and the first time ever women’s-led civil rights movement in Iran and anywhere in the country actually.
In the United States, we’ve become more familiarized in recent years with police-involved violence, certainly after the deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd and similar to the kinds of protests that erupted in the United States after the killing of George Floyd. We see a version of that. Different but still in Iran taking place.
I want you to think about all those women and all those girls who have been asked inappropriate questions, immoral questions. Those women, those girls are moral agents on the ground. They are screaming for their agencies, and they are actually exposing the police. So, in their honor, I really agree with them that we shouldn’t be using the term morality police because these police is actually devoid of any morality. I understand your point.
So, I just wanted to give you a background view of different branches of feminism in Iran. We have at least four different branches, and it’s so expected that these people have disagreements on different issues with each other. We have the history of the secular feminism that goes back to 1905.
So, I think it’s really important to see this issue in a global scale because that scale has provided us with better steps for moving forward. So, regime change is the demand that usually implies military intervention. Because of that I try to stay away from that. Right. Yalda, let me get to that. I want to stay back on the point that I raised. That point being about the judiciary announcing last week that over a thousand indictments had been issued in relation to the protestors.
What else is to do, I know that there are abolitionist feminist groups working on different issues, some of them are located in California. Some of them are trying to get internet to the hands of people in Iran. I know that there are technical ways and governments can do things and corporations can do things. For example, because of the sanctions, people can never use their iPhones in full capacity in Iran. I’m one of those people.
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