40 years of oppression in Iran ..

40 years of oppression in Iran ..
"Today writes in Svt -Opinion on the anniversary of the revolution in Iran. Today, Feb. 11, the unarmed revolution in Iran fills 40 years. The workers, the women, the students, the teachers, and all other democratic offensive people rose against the Shah's poetry. But the Ayatolians stole the revolution.




 For 40 years, the country's population has suffered the repression of the tyrants. The women became the foremost target of the Islamists - Sharia and sexuality were introduced. But Iranian women and democracy-minded people have defied repression, stoning, hanging, mass executions, rape, and torture in the prison in the struggle for freedom and democracy.
When some Western feminists advocate the hijab as a "right", this is a blow to all these brave sisters in Iran, writes Amineh Kakabaveh (V), who believes that Sweden must show solidarity with the oppressed women in Iran❤️✌🏾✊️ "
When some Western feminists advocate the hijab as a "right", this is a blow to all these brave sisters in Iran, writes Amineh Kakabaveh (V), who believes that Sweden must show solidarity with the oppressed women in Iran. (The picture from a demonstration in Stockholm 2009). Photo: Fredrik Persson / TT
For 40 years, Iran's women have been oppressed by the regime ”
Published yesterday 14.31
"What happened in Iran in 1979 has had far-reaching implications in much of the Middle East and Africa - especially when it comes to depriving women of their rights and limiting their freedom," writes Amineh Kakabaveh (V).
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Amineh Kakabaveh (V)
Amineh Kakabaveh
Member of Parliament (V)
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When I was a kid, nobody talked about covering the hair and body with the men, or God would punish us if we didn't.
When the Islamists with Ayatollah Khomeini at the forefront stole the Iranian revolution in 1979, forced slavery - an Islamist uniform for women - was introduced. It was the first attack on women's rights and freedom in public space.
Subsequently, an increasingly strict gender gap was introduced gradually. With Sharia law, Iran was brought back 200 years back.
The woman was degraded to a half-man in terms of inheritance law and reliability as a witness.
The right to travel without a male guardian and the right to custody of children disappeared, the marriage legislation was changed to the woman's disadvantage, child marriage was introduced into law.
It took a couple of years before Sharia reached the villages in Kurdish areas. Our province was ruled by the Marxist and socialist Peshmarga. The Komala guerrilla made it possible for women, for example, to come to the mosques on the same terms as the men.
Together with men and boys, we watched women at theater in the village's mosque.
When our village and the entire Kurdish part of Iran were invaded by the regime, the Islamist uniform, the veil, was also introduced in the Kurdistan schools.
Our freedom of movement as a girl child was severely limited. What counts as "Ayb" (taboo) involves constant internal conflicts for women and girls: Should you cover your hair or not?
Three weeks after Khomeini's takeover of power 40 years ago, he issued a fatwa of compulsory compulsion for school-age women and girls and all public places.
Women should not go out, go to their jobs or to schools and universities "naked", as Khomeini put it.
For five days in March 1979, women demonstrated against compulsory mourning in the major university cities. It was a powerful protest against the state control of women's lives.
Their slogan during the demonstration then - and even today - is that women's rights "are not west or east but universal."
Furthermore, the slogan "control over my body is my right, not any religion, state or power". State and religion should be separated.
Today, it is the 40th anniversary of the revolution in Iran in 1979. The first world-historical weapon-free revolution that overthrew the balance of power throughout the Middle East.
A secular system was replaced by a religious, Islamist system, where a priesthood seized power.
What happened in Iran in 1979 has had far-reaching implications in much of the Middle East and Africa - especially when it comes to depriving women of their rights and limiting their freedom.
The women's five-day protests against the introduction of obsessive-compulsive sex gave echoes throughout the world.
For 40 years, Iranian workers, intellectuals, teachers, journalists, cultural workers, bus drivers, students, Kurds, women and others have been fighting for democracy and human rights and against Sharia and the barbaric regime in Iran, often with their lives as an effort.
Today, the country is in a deep economic and political crisis. The workers' mass protests for not getting their wages, as well as for democratic and trade union rights, have been going on for months.
While our ministers and other representatives of Sweden and Europe decide on their business visits to Iran, women and men are protesting today against forced labor - with great risk of being severely punished by the regime.
Women's struggle has been