Last Saturday, an Iranian revolutionary court conducted the first trial of the trials for participating in the explosion of protests that began with the death of Mahsa Amini. In this case, Tehran’s Revolutionary Court has tried six men who face death sentences for crimes of “corruption on earth”, “war against God” and “fighting against the Islamic government”, but in subsequent trials this weekend and later many more people, some 2,000, will be tried, half of them in Tehran.
Although the first defendants were men, it is fair to point out that the protests are mainly led by women, most of them young, and their rallying cry is “Woman, live, freedom!” is, a slogan coined by the women fighters of Kurdistan, essentially by the mothers of the disappeared and murdered politicians in Turkey, known as ‘Saturday Mothers’, and later used in Rojava. Outraged women who spread slogans against the government and its representatives and who do not hesitate to burn their veils and sing songs in protest.
Both the first demonstrations that took place on the streets of the country’s main cities and the concentrations in some universities that have become the nerve center of the protests during this time have been suppressed with all the brutality of the country’s regime and security forces. Dozens of deaths and thousands of prisoners in the six weeks of outcry reflect this. Last Thursday, the popular explosion in one of the mourning ceremonies (chehelom) in the city of Karaj, in this case for the death of the young Hadis Najafi, and in all those places where they were held, was a constant in the Persian country. This situation will cyclically repeat as the death toll increases and what were initially protests are moving by leaps and bounds towards a revolution that can only be suffocated with blood and fire.
The demands are no longer focused solely on the question of the veil and go to the heart of a theocratic system that has been crushing women physically and mentally for more than forty years (men too, but to a lesser extent as always), the various peoples of the modern Iran (especially Baluchis and Kurds) and in the workplace to workers demanding labor rights. There has been much violence in Iran since Khomeini came to power and began a process controlled by a theocratic aristocracy and turned into a religious dictatorship protecting the interests of the powerful. The current protest is added to the protests that were brutally suppressed in 1999 (freedom of speech), 2009 (election fraud), 2017 (price hikes and compulsory veil), 2019 (uprising of the hungry) and 2021 (uprising of the thirsty).
The greatest challenge to Iran’s ayatollahs’ power comes from the women of their country, angry women who set fire to cities at the risk of their lives, brave women who deserve another life.
Source: La Verdad
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