Woman, Life and Liberty

Iranian Women Shaking Mullahs' Regime 

The people of Iran, leading by the brave Iranian women, have shaken the Ayatollahs' regime to its core like never before. 

IT all started with the death in custody of a 22-year-old girl Mahsa Amini in the hand of the Morality Police of the Theocratic regime in Tehran. 

Whilst the regime, as its usual practice, denied any wrongdoing during the brutal arrest and taken into custody of Ms Amini; the majority of the Iranians did not believe the version of events the Islamic Republic--not Iranian--there is a gulf of difference as the former is an unelected, undemocratic theocratic regime--authorities provided. This was not a first-time that a young Iranian girl or boy gets killed during the arrest, in custody or after being taken to hospital and declared dead followed by a concocted death certificate presented by a corrupt coroner. 

There have been countless occasions where civil, labour and student activities, journalists, human rights lawyers, doctors who treat the victims or witness their deaths and writers have been killed under suspicious circumstances. The security and/or intelligence authorities a) coerce, dictate, a coroner to issuing a favourable reason in a death certificate and b) seek the next of kin of the deceased to accept and announce publicly what the coroner says, in a similar fashion.   

This kind of Mafia-like-killings have been a usual practice for decades, without acknowledging and/or accepting any responsibility on behalf of the Police, Morality or otherwise, or within the paramilitary, military, judicial or political hierarchies.

In this case, witnesses reported, as being seen many times before, Mahsa was forcefully and violently taken into a Morality Police van. Later, at a Morality Police Centre, she suffered and complained about headache, dizziness and pain which was ignored. By the time they moved her to hospital, it was already late, she was bleeding from her right ear, see first image above. Iranian doctors raised their concerns about a "cover up" in her case underlining the coercive and/or corrupt practices of the Iranian coroners.   

The widespread people uprising followed is now passing its 80 days and continuing. It is so far marked as the longest, and persistent, protests the Mullahs' regime has experienced since its inception over four decades ago. This one, however, seems different in many ways, and for good reasons, which seeded such hopes amongst the new generation Iranians for fundamental change in the country's political landscape.

1. Their protests have now turned into a significant civil unrest, uprising, supported internationally, direction of which is now changed towards the head of the Islamic Republic establishment, targeting Vali Faghih--the so-called Supreme Leader. 

2. Their uprising is now moved pass all previous so-called reformists-controlled protests during the past two and half decades. 

3. Their main slogans now aim at the so-called Supreme Leader and the entire Theocratic establishment with a clear message and demand for a constitutional change in Iran. 

4. What we, and the world, are witnessing unfolds in Iran is a Constitutional Revolution. 

This is unprecedented. 

During the past 43 years of the Theocratic establishment in Iran, the extent of all previous attempts by the new generation of Iranians to express their demands was what the so-called reformists, headed by former president Mohammad Khatami, backed by the late Hashemi Rafsanjani, offered them since 1997. Critically, going anywhere near the Theocratic Constitution and its head, the Vali Faghih, was off the table!

That was perfectly understandable as Khatami and his so-called reformists' movement were part of the same crew members on board of the Islamic Republic's ship. For them, it was as much suicidal, and idiotic, as it was for the so-called conservative hardliners headed by the Supreme Leader, the Vali Faghih, to damage the ship. Their main task, in cooperation with the other crew members, was to ensure the smooth sailing of the Islamic Republic ship through the unchartered waters of the new generation of Iranians with different types of demands mainly their human and democratic rights. 

Hence, they just did that for two terms the former president Khatami was in the office. They kept this new generations away from any meaningful advances and/or achievements in terms of their human and democratic rights. That two terms then led the young Iranians to the 2009 so-called presidential election--there has not been, as the Theocratic Constitution is incapable of offering one, a single democratic election during the life of the Islamic Republic establishment examination of which is beyond this piece--to gather around a new so-called reformist Mir Hussein Mosavi against the former president Ahmadi Nejad.  

Not having had a real alternative at sight, the new generation of Iranians, then again, desperately got behind and voted for Mr Mir Hossein Mosavi in the hope of a miracle as to achieve, or at least advancing a little, their ultimate goals of human and democratic rights. After that election show, they poured into streets protesting the result as it was widely known as being a rigged election. The Islamic establishment brutally crashed their protests killing thousands and arresting thousands more. 

In 2019, the Iranians, mainly the young's, occupied the streets for the petrol price hike. That one was also quickly turn into the people uprising against the Islamic establishment with most of the slogans aimed and shouted against the Supreme Leader, the Vali Faghih. They used that opportunity, like many times before, to stress their wish for fundamental change in Iran. The so-called Supreme Leader ordered the young Iranians being massacred on streets by thousands.  

This time around the people uprising now enters its nine consecutive weeks and continues. The so-called Supreme Leader, as the Commander in Chief of the Iranian Armed Forces, has ordered, and is responsible for, the killing of young protesters including women and children. That, however, did not deter the young Iranians, boys and girls, from coming back to streets again and again. In light of their persistence, reports suggest that the Islamic Republic's officials including politicians, military, judiciary, police and security people flee Iran with their families and assets that may well be belong to the Iranian people and their country.  

This time is different. There is a real chance and hope for the young Iranians to reach and achieve what they deserve, a better life under the protective umbrella of a secular democratic constitution.