Compulsory veiling to enchain women, to crack down on the public
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The next issue is why the mullahs have deprived women of their most basic rights . The ruling mullahs claim that this is in accordance with the instructions of Islam. Faith is based on free choice and free will. The Quran stipulates, “There is no compulsion in religion.” Therefore, anything that is forcibly imposed on people is against genuine Islam, whether it is imposed religion or the veil. Mandatory veiling is against Islam and is only meant to enchain women, facilitating a general social clampdown.
Iranian women realized that was their objective from the onset. Which is why the Mojahedin women participated in the protest march against the compulsory veil in March 1979, although they wore headscarves. From day one, imposing the veil on women was a means of repression and obstructing women’s way forward, and nothing else.
Khomeini began his ominous rule on February 11, 1979. Fifteen days later, only 15 days, on February 25, he revoked the law on the protection of family. On February 28, he extended gender discrimination against women to the sports arena. On March 4, he granted men the unilateral right to divorce. On March 6, he revoked the law on women’s social services. On March 7, he imposed the compulsory veil on female employees. The person in charge of implementing this in the Army’s offices was Rouhani, the current president of the clerical regime.
The 39-year history of this regime is a history of suppression of Iranian women. And now the women of Iran want to turn this dark page of Iran’s history with their own rising.
And that explains why Iran’s uprising is not only for the overthrow of a political regime, but is also a revolt against religious fundamentalism. This is a new dawn. A hopeful dawn not only for the people of Iran, but for all the peoples of the region and the world, because the fundamentalism born with the rule of religious tyranny in Iran, died in the uprisings of 2017 and 2018.
Resistance to oppression is a victory for all women
When women continue to suffer from oppression, poverty, discrimination, and violence while making up half of the world’s population, any resistance against oppression and injustice is an achievement for all women.
Now, I would like to tell you, women active in the equality movement: The uprising of your sisters in Iran against the mullahs’ misogynist regime, is an advancement for all humanity. Any step you take for them, any activity in defense of the arrested women, any effort to expose the torture of prisoners, and anything you do to compel your governments to sever relations with the clerical regime, is going to be very effective.
In the present circumstances, we demand the immediate release of the prisoners of the uprising, freedom of speech and assembly, and abolition of women’s suppression and the compulsory veil. To realize these demands, we need the support of each and every one of you.
The day, when Iranian women destroy the roots of fundamentalism in Iran, freedom and equality will have made a leap forward all across the world. And that day is not far.
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