One of the most striking aspects of the “Green’ Revolution taking place in the Islamic Republic of Iran is the prominent place women have taken in moving it forward.
In the cell phone pictures being smuggled out, after the foreign media was expelled, crowds that are at 25 to 50 percent are evident. And for good reason. It is women who have borne the brunt of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Under the Shah, no democrat he, the treatment of women had moved substantially forward from the 15th century they had been moored in culturally. They did not forget this small taste of freedom even after thirty years. So it is not surprising to see them marching, bleeding and dying in the streets of Tehran. They are speaking out for the right not to be imprisoned in a burrka, arrested for wearing lipstick or nail polish, stoned to death on an accusation of immodesty or beaten for showing a lock of hair in public. It is women who have the most to gain and the most to lose and so they fight on with the most fervor. Let’s support them.

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