Washington Examiner / Magazine
October 4, 2022 Issue
October 4, 2022 Print Edition
Cover Story
Iran’s revolutionaries need us
Hundreds of thousands of Iranian women and men have flooded the streets of over 80 cities over the past two weeks, expressing outrage over the regime’s violent enforcement of religious dress codes imposed on women, particularly the hijab. But don’t just call them protesters — they aspire to be revolutionaries. We recently spoke with a woman inside Iran before the regime shut down internet around the country. She recounted how her friends had been beaten on the streets by regime security forces earlier that day and had likely been dragged to secret detention facilities. We asked her what message she wished to share with America. “Be our voice,” she said, “because the regime won’t let our videos and messages out for much longer.” Finally, she implored: “We need international sanctions against this regime,” similar to those imposed by the international community against South Africa during apartheid. “Apartheid” is a fitting word to describe the system imposed by the Islamic Republic of Iran against Iranian women, who are not only prohibited from showing their hair in public but cannot study certain subjects in school, have fewer rights as victims of physical and sexual violence, and even face one-year prison sentences for singing in public. Six Iranian women were sent to prison in August for that particular “crime,” while eight of their male friends were also jailed just for helping produce or record the music. Surely the...

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