In this post by Jim Hoft, he points out the bravery of Iranian women. They are showing their hair and are lighting cigarettes off of burning pictures of the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
Either act could get them imprisoned, beaten, raped, broken, and executed.
This is the brutal reality of life for women under the Islamic Republic in Iran. A woman in Tehran sent me this photo of her scarred back, flogged for the “crime” of showing her hair. Yet, she refuses to be silenced.
Holding a Woman, Life, Freedom slogan, she took this photo as a powerful act of defiance, declaring:
“The morality police arrested me for resisting their van. My ‘crime’ was unveiling. After months of court hearings, I was sentenced to 74 lashes. The cleric overseeing the punishment stood there to ensure it was carried out. I won’t give up my fight against this brutal regime, but we are fed up with living as prisoners in our own homeland.”
This potential is not be exaggerated.
More than 2,600 people have been reported detained since the wave of protests began, including at least 167 under the age of 18, according to HRANA. Some 116 people have been killed, the group said, including at least seven people under the age of 18 and 37 members of the security services.
The group found that most victims “were killed by live ammunition or pellet gunfire, predominantly from close range.”
Iran’s attorney general on Jan. 10 warned that anyone taking part in the protests would be considered an “enemy of God,” according to The Associated Press, a death-penalty charge.
A 16-year-old Iranian girl, who was ‘attacked by morality officers on a train in Tehran for failing to wear a hijab’, has died after she lay in a coma for weeks.
Armita Geravand fell into a coma earlier this month after she sustained ‘severe injuries’ following a ‘physical assault’ by female morality police officers on the Tehran metro, according to a human rights group.
Hengaw, a Norway-based Kurdish human rights NGO, claimed that Mc Geravand was attacked by hijab officers in Shohada Station, a stop on the city’s metro, for not wearing a hijab, which all women in Iran are meant to wear under strict morality laws.
What happened in the few seconds after Mc Geravand entered the train on October 1 is unclear.
Her death comes after the first anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini and the nationwide protests it sparked.
And here in the West, useful pro-Hamas idiots are protesting anti-theocracy Iranians (ht: Gerry from a comment on a previous post).
Do they not realize that Hamas is Sunni and the Iranian theocracy is Shia? They should be wanting the present Iranian government to fall….
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