Protests have broken out all over Iran, following the murder of a young Kurdish woman, Jina Mahsa Amini, by Iran’s morality police. Protests have broken out and have spread like fire in more than 30 cities, including all the largest country. What started as a reaction against police brutality has quickly turned into a mood of rage against the regime as a whole.

Women have always been degraded and demeaned in the partriarchal society. Gender equality have been suppressed by the patriarchal society. As Simon de Beauvoir said, “one is not woman, but becomes one”. Gender can be biological, but becoming a man or woman depends upon the society, which incorporates gender heteronormativity within the sex. Wearing hijab or not wearing it should a choice, not rigid alignment from god.

What happened with Mahsa?

Mahsa, originally from the city of Saqqez, but on holiday in Tehran was arrested by the morality police on 13 September. The reason of arrest given was that she was wearing her headscarf improperly. She was dragged in to a van and taken away for “re-education”. Mere hours later, she was pronounced dead. She was man-handled by the morality police and struck on her, which caused her death. Upon breaking of the news of her death, protests erupted spontaneously across the country.

The Oppressed pushed to the fore

Kurdish areas of Iran, have longstanding revolutionary traditions, have been on the receiving end of regime discrimination and oppression for decades. These Kurdish areas have large reservoir of mineral, oil, and water reserves, as well as dense forests, which are pivotal for Iranian economy. As a result, biting poverty and unemployment is widespread amongst Iranian Kurds. And any attempt to struggle for improved conditions have been met by harsh repression and punishment by the regime. In the murder of Mahsa Amini, the Kurdish people of Iran undeniably see a symbol of the racism and chauvinism that underlies the actions of the regime towards them.

Widespread Support

Lenin once explained that revolutions are “festivals of the oppressed”. Once the movement begins it takes off it draws the oppressed layers of the society. Millions of workers, farmers, shopkeepers, unemployed, poor and dispossessed of Iran have showed support on the youth. The barbaric injustice with which the girl was treated, serves the daily injustice that they are being suffocated with. The movement on the streets is providing an outlet and a focal point for this pent up anger and hatred, as well as an opportunity to be heard. The hijab burning of the woman showcases, that woman are an individual and they have equal rights and they are not the means of abuse or oppression in the hands of the regime.

Iranian capital has been subdued in mass revolution and protest against this heinous, barbaric act of the “morality police”. Iranian capitalisn has never been capable to give the masses a dignified existence, and especially to women. WhatsOn stands in solidarity with women movement for all the exploited and oppressed women of Iran and the world. Theocratic regime must be overthrown for this exploitation in the name of God to stop.

WOMEN, LIFE FREEDOM!