As demonstrations against the death of Mahsa Amini enter their third week in Iran, a protest song by one of Iran’s most popular musicians has become the soundtrack to the biggest civil uprising for decades, channelling the rage of Iranians at home and abroad. The lyrics to Baraye by Shervin Hajipour are taken entirely from messages that… Read More Iran arrests musician as anthem for protests goes viral
Kian Tajbakhsh NB: For state officials to beat a young woman to death for showing too much hair under her hijab is positively Kafkaesque for its surreal brutality. We need to think about what religion means. Is this the will of God at work? Or the demented egos of old men with long beards? Eternal… Read More Iran’s first feminist uprising
Patrick Wintour Worldwide protests were being held on Saturday in solidarity with the growing uprising in Iran demanding greater freedom and protesting against the death of Mahsa Amini following her arrest by Iranian morality police. Demonstrations under the slogan “Women, life, liberty” took place in many major cities, including Auckland, London, Melbourne, New York, Paris, Rome, Seoul,… Read More ‘Women, life, liberty’: Iranian civil rights protests spread worldwide
FARIBA AMINI In the summer of 1993, I went to Iran to visit my parents who at the time were living in Tehran on and off. We had left Iran six months after the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and I had not returned until 1993. I remember the atmosphere at the time, which was quite… Read More Mahsa, a National Iranian Symbol of Resistance
The father of an Iranian woman who died in police custody last week has accused authorities of lying about her death, as protests rage nationwide despite the government’s attempt to curb dissent with an internet blackout. Amjad Amini, whose daughter Mahsa died after being arrested in Tehran by morality police, said doctors had refused to let him see his daughter… Read More Iran protests rage as Mahsa Amini’s father says authorities lied about her death; prevented him from seeing her body
Weronika Strzyżyńska NB: The Iranian theocracy is a brutal ideological tyranny. From their horrendous prison massacre in 1988 till today their approach to politics has remained unchanged. And we should all think as to why governments and man think they have the right to tell women how to dress. In India there’s an ongoing battle… Read More Protests in Iran at death of Kurdish woman after arrest by morality police
NB: The Iranian theocracy is a criminal and inhuman regime. Those who equate the rule of law with justice; or those who believe that Almighty God requires people to be murdered for same-sex love; or those who think men with long beards are in direct communication with God, are pathologically insane. These deranged men also… Read More Iran Sentences Two LGBTQ Activists To Death For ‘Promoting Homosexuality’
NB: Iran’s vicious theocracy has never withdrawn the fatwa against Salman Rushdie. The practice of placing monetary rewards on persons heads, i.e., offering money for death, is repulsive and barbaric, no matter who does it. Contract killings are murder, and to for so-called believers to claim this is done for Almighty God is despicable. God… Read More Salman Rushdie has again instructed us in a profound lesson: great literature will always be a matter of life and death
Analysts say economic desperation and growing frustration in Iranian society have led to angry demonstrations around the country that began with people protesting water shortages in the southwestern province of Khuzestan. “If the society wasn’t hopeless, it wouldn’t take to the streets. It wouldn’t react. Its dissatisfaction wouldn’t result in protests and it wouldn’t be… Read More ‘Hopeless And Dissatisfied’: Growing Anger At Iranian Officials As Khuzestan Water Protests Spread
Saudi Arabia’s role as a counter-revolutionary force in the Middle East is widely understood and thoroughly documented. Historian Rosie Bsheer calls the Saudi kingdom “a counter-revolutionary state par excellence,” indeed one that was “consolidated as such.” The Saudi monarchy has gone into counter-revolutionary overdrive since the onset of the Arab uprisings, scrambling to thwart popular… Read More Danny Postel – The Other Counter-Revolution: Iran’s Role in the Shifting Political Landscape of the Middle East
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