Iran is a nervous, fumbling regime. Its strength primarily lies in its brutality against its own population, and funding and control over its proxies. By severely sanctioning Iran, Donald Trump managed to greatly diminish its strength.
Ever since the mass protests over the death of Mahsa Amini nearly two years ago, following Iran’s morality police detaining her for not wearing her hijab properly and murdering her, the regime has been threatened to its very foundations from within. Now Iran is renewing its crackdown on women via a surge in executions. As usual, the charges are often trumped up. Back in April, Iran executed 853 people in a so-called “war on drugs.”
The purpose of Iran’s renewed surge in executions is to instill fear and terror into Iranian women, so that they will passively accept the dictates of the government, and to deter any uprising, especially now, given Iran’s proxy war with Israel. The last thing Iran needs at this moment is domestic turbulence.
“Rising Number Of Iranian Women Sentenced To Death Amid Surge In Executions,” by Kian Sharifi and Diako Alavi, Radio Free Europe, September 1, 2024:
What do an Iranian aid worker, a labor activist, a political campaigner, and a protester have in common?
All four are women who have been charged in Iran with armed rebellion against the state — which carries the death sentence — in recent months.
Two of them — aid worker Pakhshan Azizi and labor activist Sharifeh Mohammadi — have already been sentenced to death. Political activist Varisheh Moradi and protester Nasim Gholami Simiyari are awaiting their sentences.
Besides Simiyari, all the women have been accused of being members of opposition Kurdish groups outside Iran. Azizi and Moradi are both members of Iran’s Kurdish minority, which has long been suppressed.
There has been a rise in the number of women sentenced to death and executed since unprecedented antiestablishment protests erupted in 2022 following the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, an Iranian-Kurdish woman.
Fear Of Execution
Mohammadi, the labor activist, was sentenced to death in July. She was accused of membership in an independent labor union and a banned Kurdish separatist group based in neighboring Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region.
Her family has said she was not affiliated with any political organization inside or outside the country.
mike says
Islam only can control the people thru fear
somehistory says
And even that doesn’t work on some. Some are willing to risk everything to stand up for what is right or to tell the Truth or just to voice an opinion about something.
And some women in iran have just taken off the scarf the ghouls demand that they wear.
The threats don’t always work, so death is the only weapon the ugly, evil sons of the devil have left.
Steve says
Where are movements like “Me Too” and other women’s organisations voicing their opposition to the way these women are treated. Losing your life for speaking out against a policy is just not on, it’s barbaric, it’s archaic and it’s just plain wrong and has absolutely no place in this modern world. I beg of you ladies, please do what you can to help the subjugated Iranian women.
Walter Sieruk says
That horrendous oppressive Islamic tyrannical regime of Iran is based on the Quran and its Sharia.
Therefore this Islamic /Sharia tyranny is most misogynistic to the preponderance horrific brutal cruel and murderous ways possible.
Regarding such hostile vicious and deadly treatment of females , both girls and women , the scholar on Islam, Brigitte Gabriel , in her book fittingly titled THEY MUST BE STOPPED in one of that books subtitles about the wicked misogyny of Islam which reads “Islam and the mistreatment of women” the terrible truth is revealed which is that “Control of behavior and disregard for human life are key elements in Islamic ideology.” Of course , the savagely cruel “Islamic ideology ” is based on the theology of the religion of Islam.
In addition , that book further exposed that “Women in Islam are considered unclean, deemed inferior even to dirt.”
abu taleb says
I had been hoping that the Iranian would soon toppled the Iranian government when I saw the news about millions of Iranians converted to Christianity, but then my heart sank when I realized that Iran population was about 90 millions which mean the majority were muslims. Even if the mullah regie is overthrown, it will be still an Islamic government which sometimes can be worse than its predecessor like in Iraq or Afghanistan. And the western governments always pick the wrong people for the new government.
OLD GUY says
Oh where are the Women leaders and spokesman’s voices on the brutal treatment of their sisters in Iran.
Women should NOT forget that the Democrats released and sent billions of dollars to the leaders of IRAN.
The same leaders who are persecuting women in that country today.
My body My choice is irrelevant when you are dead.