The Iranian women from various strata of Iran’s society are continuing to actively participate in and lead the protests against the Iranian regime’s corrupt policies and repressive organs that suppress women and the Iranian people as a whole.
As the Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance (NCRI) reiterated in its 2018 Annual Report, “women are indeed the Force for Change. This was vividly seen in Iran throughout the past year and of course, most conspicuously during the uprising in December and January.”
In recent days, women have been seen leading protests in the cities of Tehran, Abadan and Iranshahr.
Although the situation in Iran is extremely oppressive for women in particular and they have borne the brunt of repression for the past 39 years, they are not submissive contrary to the regime’s expectation.
On Thursday, June 21, students at Tehran University’s School of Social Sciences continued their protest, against the illegal and harsh sentences imposed on their fellow students for taking part in the December uprising, for a fifth consecutive day.
They demand the immediate and unconditional release of their classmates, that the sentences be repealed, and that the classmates are allowed to return to school. The students have threatened to boycott their final exams if their demands are not met.
In Abadan, the second-largest city in the oil-rich Khuzestan Province, residents protested outside the Department of Water and Waste Water on Wednesday, June 20. They were demanding clean, safe drinking water, citing that what they are being provided with currently is salty and has a foul odour, which they should not have to pay for.
An ongoing drought has caused severe water shortages, particularly in southern Iran, but this has been exacerbated by the Regime’s corruption and mismanagement. For instance, the Regime has wasted money on its proxy terrorist groups in the Middle East, rather than work to solve the environmental problems, and has diverted safe drinking water away from the cities most in need and towards ethnically Persian cities.
Women led two separate protests on Tuesday, June 19.
In the first, Tehran residents who were plundered by the fraudulent Caspian Institute staged a protest march around Argentine Square, chanting slogans against the politicians who lied about reimbursing the money.
In the second, women gathered outside the Governor’s Office in Iranshahr, south-eastern Iran, to protest the regime afiliate gang rape of 41 young women and girls and demand that the culprits be arrested and punished.
Of course, it is not unusual that Iranian women are taking part in these protests against the Iranian Regime. Iranian women were a driving force behind the 1979 revolution, which deposed the Shah, and they have been at the forefront of social justice movements in Iran for decades.
Iranian women were prominent in the fight against the sexist mullahs’ rule when it began and continue its misogynous policies to this day. Iranian women, like all the people of Iran, seek regime change.
They will also have a prominent place at the Free Iran Gathering in Paris on June 30, which is organised by the Iranian Resistance, as the Resistance supports and promotes women – unlike the mullahs.
Everyone who supports democracy, human rights, and gender equality, should support the Free Iran Gathering, as regime change is the only hope for freedom, democracy and justice in Iran.