There is growing awareness in the world about the agitation started by Iranian women, seeking human rights and investigation into the murder of Mahsa Amini for alleged violation of the mandatory hijab rule. The protests have assumed massive proportions within and outside Iran. Across the world people have expressed solidarity with the agitating Iranian women.
According to news from VOAFARSI, 54 countries all around the world including Canada and the US are asking the Iranian government to stop its brutalities against the protestors. The Iranian government has deployed ambulances for transporting the police who are using force to suppress the protests. The authorities are using cranes that should have been utilized for the construction of infrastructure are being used for executing civilians. Police vehicles are being used to block the roads to restrict civilian movement. Brutalities are committed against civilians. They use cutting machines to sever the limbs of protesters. It is an irony that such an anti-people regime tries to drive home that it is building nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.
We, the women of Iran, have started the movement for freedom and we need the world’s support and help to remove this wicked and disastrous regime. This is not just for Iranians but for the entire humanity. If it is not removed, the entire humanity will have to pay a huge price. Once they gain access to nuclear weapons, how they will use it is anybody’s guess.
The cruel regime of Iran is capable of perpetrating crimes on its own people. Their ideology envisions that God created the earth for them and they are the representatives of God in the universe. They behave as if God has given them the power to do whatever they want. I am not talking about the ideology of Islam but the kind of Islam being practiced by the regime. We have been at the mercy of these despots for the last 44 years.
The protest has entered its third week. According to unofficial reports pouring in from different parts of Iran, more than 250 protesters have been murdered and about 2000 of them have been arrested and imprisoned. The Iranian government continues to employ its outdated methods to suppress the voices of civilian protesters without success. They can no longer kill us, as they have already done so. Walking and breathing alone are not signs of being alive. For more than four decades, we Iranians have been reduced to ‘living dead’. Unless we obtain our freedom and rights, including the right to choose what we want to wear, how we want to think, whom we want to be, the right to openly express ourselves, then only we can say “oh yes, we are alive as much as any other free person on this planet does.” Although Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, the current Iranian president, Ebrahim Reisi, and Iran’s former president, Hassan Rohani, have been found guilty for the crimes they have committed against humanity by a group of judges in one of Iran’s cities called Abadan, the regime is exercising its utmost effort to disable the internet aiming to murder protesters behind closed doors as they did a few years ago. The good news is that they have failed to enforce it, thanks to technological support from all over the world — the most important being the assistance provided by a group of international hackers known as “Anonymous”. They have been consistent in updating us by providing various ways to circumvent the internet ban. Today, as the evidential data supports, it is possible that the government will propose negotiations with the protestors. However, we must not forget that this is an old trick of this government. At any point in history in the past 44 years whenever they felt weaker than the people, they stepped back and made promises with an intention to buy time to get stronger and stepped forward more prepared to exercise extreme brutality.
A parliament member of Poland stated the best description of the Iran regime: – “Iran (government) claimed to be a republican Islamic regime, but as this resolution makes it clear, it is also one of the world’s most repressive regimes. Therefore, I have a question for the Mollas in Tehran: If you represent a God who is GOOD, POWERFUL, and MERCIFUL, then why do you need to repress, torture, and murder your people so much? No, your regime is blustery and diminishes every Muslim, every person of faith, and every person of conscience. You have brought your country to such a (state of) desperation that you are now signing agreements with China to give away your energy sector that needs to be used in building infrastructure. …” This two-minute speech invites any politician from all over the world to think twice about what is running in Iran and how this disaster is going to create misery on the whole planet shortly.
I would like to end my words by giving the following expression from an Iranian to picture life in Iran: As an Iranian citizen, I don’t know how it feels to live a normal life. Have you ever played with your dog in a park or kissed a loved one in public? Do you remember feeling the warmth of the sun on your skin on a sandy beach? Or have you been at a party with your friends with no fear? Have you ever danced with your partner at a concert by a female singer or in the street when someone played your favorite song? Of course, you do because these are how normal life experiences are. But I don’t know how it feels to experience any of the above-mentioned. I don’t know how it feels to make art without censorship, how it feels to be connected freely to the free world.”
If you wish to help this movement, please be our voice and connect us to the rest of the world.
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