"You raised your fists and ruined our lives. Now we raise our fists. Be men, join us. I as a woman will stand in front and protect you. Come represent your country.”
The most striking images coming out of the Iran
human rights protests are not of men – they are of women. And while
American media was slow and even hesitant to pick up that anything at
all was actually happening – this, while protests ignited for what is
now six full days around Iran, nine years after the Green Movement
protests began – Twitter was flooded with videos and photos on the
ground, in defiance of the Iranian regime’s social media policy.
Almost none was more striking than a
young Iranian woman standing atop a container and shedding her hijab – a
garment mandated and enforced upon her and all women in Iran – while
simultaneously waving it as a flag.
It was an act of defiance much like that of the Iranian chess champion
Dorsa Derakhshani, who was expelled from competition in Iran for refusing to wear a headscarf in competition.
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