Iranian women...
the women folks in Iran, this last Wednesday, the New York-based Human Rights Watch decried internet shutdowns and said it had verified 16 protest videos that show "police and other security forces are using excessive lethal force against picketers" in Tehran and other cities.
The strong critic of the Iranian rigid regime, the regime in Tehran and Washington are clashing again, claims Maziar Motamedi for Al Jazeera on 29 October over weekslong protests (it began in September in earnest after Mahasa Amini was declared dead.). in Iran as, reports have it, the United States is soon convening an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) over the strife that erupted across Iran after Mahsa Amini died. Albania, yet another strong ally of the US and conversely a strong critic of the Iranian regime is all set to call jointly for a new UNSC session in the upcoming days. This
news has been backed by Reuters and also has duly been confirmed by Iranian state media.
From the Indian media on Iran:
Ms Lauren Frayer writes for the NPR News on October 29 quoting columnist Tavleen Sigh, “er since 9/11, the first thing you see with the arrival of radical Islam is the attire," Ms Singh, a Sikh herself said on a recent TV news program ( Mumbai) further says that every time men decide what women should wear, it is wrong. The hijab... is meant to be a political weapon."
She goes on to hit India’s Modi government by stating that “it's a reflection of just how sensitive anything related to the hijab is in Hindu-majority India, especially under Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Lawmakers from his Hindu nationalist party have been accused of inciting violence against India's 200 million Muslims — the country's largest minority.
In sharp contrast, Modi's Hindu conservatives are championing female Muslim protesters in Iran. For the record, Ms Tavleen
used to be a supporter of PM Modi, however, for some reason she talks now against PM Modi and his Islamophobic actions.
Our own regular columnist, Katrin Fidencio, from San Diego, USA, says the following in an article that has already been published by the Telegraph Nepal:
Katrin Fidencio touching upon the Iranian culture writes, “Iran has a culture that traces back to old Persia and right up 'till now is among the most remarkable countries in the Center East. Not at all like a significant number of its neighbors where the greater part of religion is Sunni. Islam, Iran's predominant religion is Shia Islam, an unmistakable order. Despite the religious government implementing strict regulations on Iranian culture, Iran is really among the most evolved and cosmopolitan countries in the district and its kin keeps a mindboggling relationship with Western culture and impacts. All through the system's set of experiences, the conflict of religious rule with common (non-strict)
interests and a longing for change in the nation has prompted distress and political unrest. By the way, the religious government has figured out how to keep up with its control”.
While searching news on Iranian events from various Muslim countries, we came across a rare article from neighboring Pakistan carried out by Pakistan Observer on October 31 which says in part, “What began as outrage over Amini’s death on September 16, has evolved into one of the toughest challenges to clerical rulers since the 1979 revolution, with some protestors calling for the death of “Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei”. Similarly, a lady journalist Rafia Zakaria writes for the DAWN on September 28, “No state whether it is Iranian or the Saudi, the French or the Indian, has the right to tell women what to wear”.
Ms Zakaria then concludes by saying, “this is just why Pakistani women have an important role to play as allies in Iranian women’s struggle against bodily control by the repressive State”. That’s all.