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JINA MAHSA AMINI
The face of Iran's protests. Her life, her dreams
and her death.
And also
Read all about the assasination of the 22 year young Jhina Mahsa
Amini or Zhina Mahsa Amini (Kurdistan-Iran) and the Zan,
zendagi, Azadi (Women, life, freedom) revolution in Iran
2022
and the ZZA Revolution per month:
April--March--Feb--Jan
2023
covering
the period of the 'Women Life Freedom' revolution in 2023 and
with links to the period of the murdering of Jina Mahsa Amini on September 2022
'till December 2022..
updated 7 April 2023
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'TO WEAR OR NOT TO WEAR A HIJAB i.e. TO BE OR NOT TO BE A FREE WOMAN'
Unveiled
And Unbroken, Woman's Revolution In Iran. |
Gino d'Artali
Indept investigative journalist
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When one hurts or kills a women
one hurts or kills hummanity and is an antrocitie.
Gino d'Artali
and: My mother (1931-1997) always said to me <Mi
figlio, non esistono notizie <vecchie> perche puoi imparare qualcosa da
qualsiasi notizia.> Translated: <My son, there is no such thing as so
called 'old' news because you can learn something from any news.>
Gianna d'Artali.
Note by Gino d'Artali: The Zan, zendagi, azadi!> (Women, life,
freedom) will only then end when khamenei and his
puppets i.e. the morality police, the basijis and the irgc give way or go away!!
So here is where the protests continue and I'll continue to inform you
about it. That's my pledge.
UPDATES: LINKS 2 'Blinding as a weapon' (menu to the right) AND
'Biological terror attacks' (menu to the left) go here:
www.cryfreedom.net/ZZA-JINA-FFF3-blinded-april-2023-eye-of-the-dragon.htm
Iranwire
April 10 2023
By ROGHAYEH REZAEI
<<The Power of Civil Disobedience against the Islamic Republic
Iranian women are passionately continuing their disobedience movement
against the draconian hijab laws despite the high price that the
protesters have paid in the past seven months. In videos from public
spaces in Iranian cities during Nowruz holidays, we see crowds of women
without hijab and women who are dancing to the music in the streets. By
removing their hijab in public, many Iranian women are engaged in a
daring movement of civil disobedience. Seven months after the death of
Mahsa Amini in the custody of <morality police>, the government's
threats to force mandatory hijab continues. However, videos of the
Persian New Year holidays, Nowruz, show that, after months of
oppression, imprisonments and the killing of more than 500 protesters,
Iranian women are passionately continuing their disobedience movement
against the draconian enforcement of hijab laws. By rejoicing and
dancing in the streets and by defying hijab rules, they have given a new
expression to their demands and the slogans that they shouted throughout
the <Woman, Life, Freedom> revolutionary uprising. But what is civil
disobedience? Can civil disobedience o'erthrow the government? To find
answers to these questions, IranWire spoke with Fatemeh Masjedi, a
Berlin-based social historian and a women’s rights activist, and Saeed
Paivandi, a professor of sociology at the University of Lorraine in
Paris.
***
What is civil disobedience and why is it important?
According to Paivandi, professor of sociology with the University of
Lorraine in Paris, civil disobedience is a peaceful and collective
action of protest whose <essence is to disobey laws that the society
believes are unjust.> He says that those who participate in civil
disobedience are well aware that they might be punished for disobeying
these laws. Masjedi says that what is happening in Iran is the result of
a new <social and collective awareness among the new generation,
especially women and, of course, the men who accompany them.> Majedi
believes that, by performing acts of civil disobedience following an
uprising and nationwide protests, a young generation of Iranians is
endeavoring to accustom religious and traditional sections of the
society to the freedom of women's body and to the participation of women
in the public arena the way that they want: <In most of these videos of
dancing, boys are playing music and singing next to girls who are
dancing without hijab. This is a kind of harmony between men and women
of the new generation who want to say that a woman’s body can show
itself in the public space, that women can enter society without the
symbol of Islamic ideology, i.e., hijab. And all this is happening
despite morality police, security police and a multitude of other kinds
of agents and the huge amount of money spent to control the woman’s
body. This is why these performances should be seen as civil
disobedience and as a peaceful, collective action against violence to
women.>
....
Civil Disobedience cannot Overthrow the Regime by itself
In most videos of women dancing and removing their hijab, we see
citizens chanting the same slogans demanding the fall of the Islamic
Republic that they have been using throughout the nationwide protests
since September 2022. But it is unlikely that civil disobedience would
be enough to topple the regime even though the demands are still the
same. <In countries where there is a minimum amount of democracy, civil
disobedience can get some results,> says Paivandi. <In these countries,
the governments don't ignore collective protests and civil disobedience
results in a new public awareness, forcing the government to sit at the
negotiating table with the opposition to find common solutions or a way
to change the law. However, in undemocratic countries where governments
refuse to engage in negotiations with the opposition, civil disobedience
becomes just one of the ways people can choose to express their
protest.> Paivandi asserts that, simultaneously with civil disobedience,
other ways of struggle must be used to achieve the goals and rights that
protests have been demanding: <In the particular case of Iran, society
has gained a new collective awareness through seven months of protests
and has reached a new level of resistance. So if civil disobedience can
become nationwide and the resistance continues, it can prepare the
ground for other kinds of struggle that would have more fundamental
demands. Nowruz was an important test for gauging the resistance by
various groups of people and their response to the government's coercive
behavior>. Paivandi says that, following the <Woman, Life, Freedom>
protest movement, a new political relationship has emerged between
government forces and the people who don't want the Islamic Republic.
<On the one hand, society wants to change the government but, on other
hand, the government is not yielding to this fundamental demand and
society is not powerful enough to force the government to abdicate. The
continuation of this struggle can change the current facts on the ground
and we might enter a period in which a war of attrition continues and
civil disobedience merges with other forms of protest to achieve a
regime change that Iranian society wants.>
Civil Disobedience is also a Revolution in Personal Relationships
Masjedi believes that civil disobedience has triggered a revolution
within the traditional and religious layers of society: <Each act of
civil diso-bedience inspires and affects the family, the social network,
friends, classmates and neighbors of the person who performs the act>.
She says that the major impact on the human and social networks of the
individuals who engage in civil disobedience is on religious and
traditional social groups because it forces them to <face the issue of
secularism in society.> <This is unavoidable and necessary if they are
to get used to seeing women's bodies in a humane way, necessary to
challenge the will of both the government and of those who still want to
force women to wear hijab and to control and dominate women's bodies.>
<This would facilitate the change on how women and their bodies are
perceived. It is the courage to keep the flames of Mahsa's revolutionary
uprising that is motivating the youth to once again take to the streets,
and this has become a kind of foundation to rebuild civil society,
women's organizations and political and social groups in Iran that have
been severely damaged by the repression in the past 40 years, especially
in the past decade.> She points out that acts of civil disobedience are
only partially reflected on social media, but <even though changing the
views of religious and traditional groups in society is going to take
time, they will change in the end. The actors who engage in civil
disobedience know that the government would treat them with violence but
they still continue doing it.>
Is Civil Disobedience worth the Price in the face of Repression?>>
Read her answer and more here:
https://iranwire.com/en/women/115359-the-power-of-civil-disobedience-against-the-islamic-republic/
NCRI Women committee - In articles
April 7 2023
<<Iranian heroines whose epic resistance saved Ashraf
One of the most courageous confrontations in the world's history of
nationalist wars and liberation movements took place on April 8, 2011,
in Ashraf, Iraq, the seat of the Iranian opposition movement at the
time. Spearheaded by 1,000 Iranian heroines, the PMOI freedom fighters
stood up to a column of ten armored, infantry, mechanized brigades, and
battalions of the Iraqi forces who attacked Ashraf City at the behest of
the Iranian regime to massacre all of its defenseless residents, destroy
the city and annihilate the opposition. The young and old freedom
fighters, women and men, were empty-handed without any shields. Snipers
targeted their heads and hearts. At least 22 people were run over by
armored vehicles. Resi-dential units were shelled. Iraqi troops did not
allow the wounded to be taken to hospital. The shooting of heavy armored
vehicles and snipers continued incessantly for six hours. The plan was
to massacre all the residents of Ashraf. 180 people were shot directly.
A number of hostages died in captivity. Some 300 people were wounded. In
the history of nationalist and revolutionary wars, there never was an
instance where people stood, empty-handed without any shields, in front
of armored vehicles and armed-forces of the enemy and yet succeeded in
repelling them. The attack was another link in the long chain of
terrorist schemes, blockades, and massacres of the Iranian opposition
members carried out by Tehran's puppet in Iraq, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
But Ashraf residents stood firm and resolved to prevent the enemy from
taking over the city, which was the beating heart of the Iranian
people's Resistance movement.
....
The price was horrendous, but these Iranian heroines and heroes managed
to stop the enemy's advancement and save Ashraf, the Iranian people's
bastion of freedom. They proved that they could overcome any force by
their amazing unity and steadfastness and by paying the dear price.
....
In this epic picture, there were eight Iranian heroines who fought and
died at the forefront of the confrontations but foiled a major
conspiracy by the mullahs through their sacrifice and courage. These
women symbolized the resolve and sincerity of a generation of women.
These 1,000 Iranian heroines pioneered and led the Iranian Resistance
movement and comprise an unprecedented asset to the Iranian people’s
150-year history of struggle for freedom, an amazing force for change.
....
With their sacrifices, these heroines saved Ashraf and impacted
subsequent developments, which opened the way for Iran's freedom. They
will always be remembered as heroines who hoisted the flag of freedom in
the darkest days of their country's history.
...
|One story of a heroine:| <Asiyeh Rakhshani's parents, both PMOI
activists, had to leave Iran to join the Resistance. So, she never saw
the homeland she loved so much. Her ancestors were from Sistan and
Baluchestan, and she loved her native land dearly and followed up on
their news. She joined the Resistance in 1999 and she was very devoted
to the cause. She was prepared to sacrifice from her own for the
well-being of others. She believed that the fate of her people in Iran
is tied to the efforts and resolve of the pioneers in Ashraf, including
herself. Most recently, she was into film production and helped document
the events in Ashraf. So, on April 8, 2011, she was also filming the
scenes of savagery and brutality of the Iraqi forces, targeting and
shooting the human chain of her friends and comrades who were defending
their city with their flesh and bone. Finally, she became a target for
the snipers at the age of 28.
....
Here is a glance at the lives of the eight Iranian heroines slain during
an epic resistance on April 8, 2011: >>
Read about these heroines here:
https://women.ncr-iran.org/2023/04/07/iranian-heroines-epic-resistance/
Opinion: People of the 'Zan, Zendagi, Azadi' revolution, to be honest
enough people (and mostly women) have died already under the regime of
khamenei and mojtaba khamenei, the son, his puppets (the mullahs, irgc,
basij and the naja). And with the bio-terror campaign against
schoolgirls the waiting only is when schoolgirls will start a new PMOI
and really fight back. I personally believe not only that you can but
moreso that it will lead to the ultimate victory! The time has come for
the regime to give in or to give way!
Asiyeh Rakhshani :<An unfinished film for My. Daughter, Somayeh>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEb5-ZBuk4k&pp=ygVDQXNpeWVoIFJha2hzaGFuaQnigJxBbiB1bmZpbmlzaGVkIGZpbG0gZm9yIE15LiBEYXVnaHRlciwgU29tYXllaOKAnQ%3D%3D
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