The misery of autocracies knows no bounds. The examples are countless and the assassination of Mahsa Amini on September 16 is another one that will be forgotten by history. Of course, events that are considered unimportant sometimes become historic milestones. It is unlikely that Mahsa’s death, like those of the rest of those oppressed during the protests, will topple the Ayatollah regime, but her own survival will require undoing the noose that has left Iranian society and especially women in it. the country is suffocating.
Many have been murdered and unfortunately many more will be added to this sinister list, but we are interested in highlighting in this reflection another murder, that of Nika Shakarami, a 16-year-old boy who ‘disappeared’ in one of the demonstrations. on September 20 and that she was also murdered by accomplices of the regime.
And we are interested in this case to verify that shame knows no bounds, since in the case of Nika, in addition to the murder, we verify with disbelief another weapon of the “servants” of the Iranian theocratic system, the looting of corpses. When the young woman’s body was taken to Khorramabad, her father’s hometown, the security forces did not allow her to be buried there and stole it for later burial in a village 40 kilometers away, Veysian. The robbery sparked protests in the cemetery, where dozens of protesters chanted anti-government slogans.
That the aforementioned security forces use such tools to coerce the families of the dead reflects their pettiness and that of those who support the regime.
The riots currently sweeping Iran are aimed not only at the brutal murder of Mahsa and Nika, but also at the very essence of the Islamic regime. The demand is clear: the end of a bureaucratic regime whose frequent violence against marginalized bodies has become apparent with the deaths of these women. And let’s not forget something that magnifies the rottenness of regimes like this, that the hijab issue is a class issue and therefore the main victims are among the poorest sectors of society. When the daughters or wives of important clergy, ministers, government officials, etc. are photographed, or they photograph themselves, without a veil and dressed in very revealing clothes, they never have a problem.
We don’t know how far the protests will go or if things will change. What we do know is that the deaths of other Mahsas and Nikas will undermine the fabric of a revolution in which its adherents live very well and flout the rules they impose on others. As usual.
Source: La Verdad
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