While on Saturday our president spent the night of the parrot over the launch of drones and missiles by Iran against Israel (and the criticism for his condemnation of the attack by the ayatollah regime later than that of the EU countries), The networks were burning in Iran amid mockery of their country’s offensive, general fear of a war that would impoverish (even more) its inhabitants, and an (even more) hardening of internal repression, especially against women.
Does anyone in the West remember that the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize, just a few months ago, was awarded to Narges Mohammadi for his “brave fight for human rights, freedom and democracy in Iran,” as the article stated? statement from the Norwegian Committee?
Well, it seems that, within the spectrum that one would consider progressive and even feminist, not so many people, based on what was written on the networks that same night and in the following days.
It hurts, and not only visually, that one of the most frequent qualifications of national Twitter users in X of the actions of the ayatollahs is “sexist.” Sorry, some elevate it to “misogynist.” Oh really? One would expect something more emphatic, when the Iranians themselves describe it as “gender apartheid” (@FtTatah, @AlinejadMasih) and when you can die in a police station for wearing the Islamic veil incorrectly, as happened to Mahsa Amini, 22 years old. His murder filled the streets with hundreds of thousands of people. The repression continued and continues.
But it seems that in X and out you can only have one cause at the same time. Does the defense of the Palestinians involve turning Iran into an acceptable, respectable, even responsible actor? Who finances Hamas?
Some excerpts that give food for thought: “What legitimacy do the USA and Europe have to ask Iran not to defend itself? What does it have to do with whether Iran is sexist or whether grandfather smokes a pipe?” (@Monolo_soy). Some responses: “I find this speech a bit hypocritical, on the one hand we support women in our countries but on the other we support those oppressors” (@DraAbigailCeva1).
Narges Mohammadi has been detained up to 13 times by the Iranian authorities and sentenced to more than 30 years in prison and 154 lashes; In 2021 she published a book about the torture of women in Iranian prisons. She is still in prison.
