After the killing of the 22-year-old Mahsa Amini by the systematic machine of gender apartheid of Islamic Republic of Iran, on 15th Sep 2022!
After the heart-breaking death of Mahsa Amini by the anti-woman regime of Iran, for the sake of preserving the hijab, this medieval Islamic collar that has been locked on women's necks in Iran for forty years!
Iran entered into a nationwide transformation with a major exposure. With this murder, one of tens of millions of wounds on women's bodies in Iran for three or four generations, a revolutionary change happened in Iran.
This murder led a community of 80 million people all over Iran to stand up. In just a few hours protests broke out all over the country, from Tehran to “isolated” and marginalised areas, from cities and villages in all provinces.
A broad protest that does not seem to be subsiding. With a loud bang, the train of the women's revolution has started its journey from Iran! A journey that should be aimed to reach its destination of freedom and equality! We all have to support and aid this train to continue moving and safely arrive at its destination!
The women's revolution in Iran, in the course of its journey against gender apartheid, is going to topple the Islamic Republic of Iran and all its anti-woman and anti-human Islamic laws!
A revolution that will forever cut off religion and Islam from the lives of women and the entire society! It will be a revolution that will change the position of women not only in Iran and the region, but globally.
This revolution has given birth to a new women’s movement not only in Iran and the Middle East but also internationally throughout the world. This revolution is able to complete the great but partly completed struggle of the women’s suffragette in the early 20th century and the sexual revolution of the sixties. By overthrowing the today’s Mecca of women misogyny, by bringing down the Islamic Republic of Iran, and by completely cutting off the hands of Islam and religion from women’s life, the new women’s movement can achieve real gender equality all over the world.
Moreover, the Iran's women's revolution, alongside the struggles of men and women in Iran against poverty and exploitation in the recent years for economic justice, can turn the page in favour of the deprived majority of the society.
Iran’s women revolution, alongside the existing nationwide struggles of the entire society of over 80 million workers and citizens, women and men, in oilfields, factories and all workplaces and in the streets, can turn the page all around the world. This movement has to be supported by all justice, freedom and equality seeking people. We should all come aboard this train and help it safely reach its destination of freedom and equality.
Soraya Shahabi
22 Sep 2022