JINA MAHSA AMINI
The face of Iran's protests. Her life, her dreams and her death.

In memory of Jina 'Mahsa' Amini, the cornerstone of the 'Zan. Zendagi. Azadi revolution.
16 February 2023 | By Gino d'Artali

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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: May 31 -16--May 15-1--April--March--Feb--Jan 2023 

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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.
Updated 25 May, 2023

 
'TO WEAR OR NOT TO WEAR A HIJAB or TO BE OR NOT TO BE A FREE WOMAN'
Unveiled And Unbroken, Woman's Revolution In Iran

Jinha - Womens News Agency - May 16, 2023
<<The Municipality of Vienna has announced that a street in the city will be named after Jina Mahsa Amini, the symbol of the popular uprising in Iran.
News Center- A street in the city of Vienna, Austria's capital, will be named after Jina Mahsa Amini, who was murdered by the Iran's so-called ><morality police> in Iran on September 16 and became the symbol of the <Jin, Jiyan, Azadi (English: Women, Life, Freedom)> uprising in the country. The Municipality of Vienna has announced that a street will be named after Jina Mahsa Amini to support the uprising started by the people of Iran and Eastern Kurdistan. <A street of the city of Vienna will be named after Jina Mahsa Amini in order to support the 'Jin, Jiyan, Azadi' uprising started by the people in Iran. The struggle for freedom and democracy is a right to self-determination>, said Marina Hanke, member of the regional parliament of Vienna and the Social Democratic Party of Austria. <As the city of Vienna, we want to show our solidarity with all the brave protesters by naming a street in our city after Jina Mahsa Amini.> >>
Source:
https://jinhaagency1.com/en/actual/street-in-vienna-to-be-named-after-jina-mahsa-amini-33282?page=1

Iranwire - May 15, 2023
<<Hijab is the Islamic Republic's <Symbol,> Iranian Vice President Says
Mohammad Dehghan, Iran's vice president for legal affairs, has once against revealed the misogynistic nature of the country's clerical regime by stating that <hijab is the symbol of the Islamic Republic.> <Without hijab, the Islamic Republic would not have much of a meaning,> Dehghan said on May 13, adding, <So we must not be negligent on this issue.> When asked whether women who flout the Islamic Republic's strict dress code are all felons, he answered, <No, the felons are those who promote not wearing hijab in an organized way. They are usually connected to foreign countries, and they apparently play the role of mercenaries who promote not wearing hijab.> A growing number of Iranian women have appeared in public without the compulsory head covering since Mahsa Amini's death in the custody of morality police in September last year triggered months of widespread protests demanding economic, social and political changes. In response, authorities have closed down hundreds of businesses due to the failure of owners or managers to observe hijab rules. Police and volunteers issue warnings in subways, airports and other public places. Text messages have targeted drivers who had women without head covering in their vehicles.>>
Read more here:
https://iranwire.com/en/news/116568-hijab-is-the-islamic-republics-symbol-iranian-vice-president-says/
Opinion by Gino d'Artali: What the vice president really is saying is when all free women burn their hijab the Islamic republic will be burned to ashes.

Iranwire - May 15, 2023
<<Row over Hijab Sparkes Violence at Tehran University
The security guards of Tehran University attacked students at the School of Fine Arts on May 13 after a quarrel with a student over her head covering. The guards reportedly beat a number of students who had come to the defense of the female student. According to the Telegram channel of Iranian Students' Unions, the security guards accosted a number of female students as others protested by chanting slogans such as <Woman, Life, Freedom,> <Students will die but will not be humiliated,> and <Death to the Leader after so many years of crime.> The report said that the security guards followed and locked a student in a classroom where she had taken shelter and tried to confiscate her mobile phone and student ID. The guards also insulted and beat professors and an old university watchman, and harshly pressed the throat of one of the students. On the same day, Sepideh Reshnoo, a student at Tehran's Alzahra University who was arrested and tortured after she was filmed arguing with a woman on a bus over forced hijab, reported that she had been suspended from the university for two semester for not abiding by the Islamic Republic's dress code.>>
Read more here:
https://iranwire.com/en/news/116547-row-over-hijab-sparkes-violence-at-tehran-university/

NCRI - Women Committee - Articles - May 13, 2023
<<Beyond the Veil: Iranian Women's Uprising against a Religious Dictatorship
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An interview with Elaheh Azimfar on women’s role in the Iran uprising
In an interview with Elaheh Azimfar, the representative of the Iranian Resistance in international organizations, Grand-Lebanon examined the ongoing popular uprising in Iran sparked by the brutal killing of Mahsa Amini.
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Iranian women, from NO to the mandatory hijab to YES to <down with the dictator>
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To clarify this issue, Elaheh Azimfar, the representative of the Iranian Resistance in international organizations, in an interview, told Grand-Lebanon:
<The killing of Mahsa Amini was a state murder. The clerical regime's Guidance Patrol killed this young woman under the pretext of improper veiling, leading to an uprising in Iran. However, the cause of the uprising was not the compulsory hijab; it was much more than that. The uprising started with the slogan <Death to Khamenei> and <Death to the dictator.> Mahsa's murder was a spark to a barrel of gunpowder. Iranian people hate the mullahs' regime because this regime is a religious dictatorship ruling under the guise of religion. A regime full of fraud, hypocrisy, lies, and corruption.>
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We asked Azifmar about Iranian women’s calls of <With Hijab or without it, onward to revolution.> She answered: <Yes, this slogan is correct because women have realized that the regime and all those interested in maintaining this regime intend to reduce the level of demands of this revolution to the issue of hijab. <Our Resistance's position regarding women’s freedoms and freedom of choice concerning their clothes is clear. Our motto has been 'No to compulsory hijab' for four decades, not today or in this uprising. But we will not allow our people's demands for freedom from religious tyranny to be reduced to the issue of hijab. <More than 750 martyrs and more than 30,000 arrests in this uprising were not only to remove the hijab but to remove the cause of the compulsory hijab, which is the mullahs' oppressive regime. Iranian women took an active and serious part in the anti-monarchy revolution. They played their role, but after the victory of the revolution and the fall of the Shah, they were the first victims whose rights were violated.> Here we asked: If the issue of hijab for women is not given priority today, how can we know that tomorrow after the victory of this revolution, the same dilemma will not happen to them again? She answered: <Khomeini usurped the 1979 revolution; he was not its leader.> He never presented a plan and never spoke openly about his point of view and the future. But now look at the scene of the Iranian people's new democratic revolution. A Muslim woman, Maryam Rajavi, leads this scene. A woman who has said for four decades: 'No to compulsory hijab, no to compulsory religion, no to compulsory government.’ <She has presented a clear plan for Iran's future, reiterating gender equality and women's freedoms in all arenas, including the freedom of clothing. There is no need to worry. Today, the Iranian revolution and the role of women in it are discussed in a different context. After the inevitable victory of this revolution and the overthrow of the regime, Iranian women have found a place where they will not allow a dictatorship to return to Iran, let alone become its victims.> Azim Far pointed out that: <Khamenei, who sees his regime as very weak and vulnerable and is very afraid of its fall, resorted to this trick to stop the uprising behind the slogan of hijab.> He thinks this slogan is less dangerous than <death to Khamenei> or the slogans that call for overthrowing his regime. Iranian women want the complete overthrow of this corrupt and authoritarian regime. In the future Iran, neither compulsory hijab nor any other type of coercion will have a place.> >>
The quotes are only an excerpt of the whole interview and about the role of saying no to the hijab has in the 'Women, Life, Freedom' Revolution.
Read the whole interview here:
https://women.ncr-iran.org/2023/05/13/womens-uprising/

NCRI - Womens committee - in articles - May 13, 2023
<<Beyond the Veil: Iranian Women's Uprising against a Religious Dictatorship
An interview with Elaheh Azimfar on women's role in the Iran uprising
In an interview with Elaheh Azimfar, the representative of the Iranian Resistance in international organizations, Grand-Lebanon examined the ongoing popular uprising in Iran sparked by the brutal killing of Mahsa Amini. The interview highlights the uprising's underlying causes, extending beyond the mandatory hijab, and emphasizes the Iranian people’s discontent with the religious dictatorship ruling Iran. Azimfar advocates for women's freedom to choose their attire, arguing against the mandatory hijab, and discusses the broader aspirations of the revolution, including women’s equality, freedom of speech, and the establishment of a democratic republic. The interview concludes by asserting that the uprising seeks to completely overthrow the regime and create a future Iran where coercion, including the mandatory hijab, has no place.
Iranian women, from NO to the mandatory hijab to YES to <down with the dictator>
Interview with Ms. Elahe Azimfar, NCRI representative in international organizations
Since the beginning of the popular uprising in Iran after the death of Mahsa Amini, who was brutally killed in a security center last September under the pretext of not having a proper veil, Iranian women are still in the streets, especially the new generation in universities and high schools. Those in prisons and interrogation centers have been subjected to the worst tortures and even shot dead while participating in demonstrations. Recently, and not for the last time, women have been threatened with death by poisoning female students without clarifying the reality of these actions and without the perpetrators being exposed and held accountable. However, human rights organizations around the world condemn these actions.
Beyond the Veil: Iranian Women's Uprising against a Religious Dictatorship
Elaheh Azimfar, the Iranian Resistance's representative in international organizations
To clarify this issue, Elaheh Azimfar, the representative of the Iranian Resistance in international organizations, in an interview, told Grand-Lebanon:
<The killing of Mahsa Amini was a state murder. The clerical regime's Guidance Patrol killed this young woman under the pretext of improper veiling, leading to an uprising in Iran. However, the cause of the uprising was not the compulsory hijab; it was much more than that. The uprising started with the slogan <Death to Khamenei> and <Death to the dictator.> Mahsa's murder was a spark to a barrel of gunpowder. Iranian people hate the mullahs' regime because this regime is a religious dictatorship ruling under the guise of religion. A regime full of fraud, hypocrisy, lies, and corruption.> <The uprisings that took place in 2009, 2017-2018, 2019, and (2022) each started with a spark. One by a fraudulent election, the other by increasing the price of eggs, then we had the tripled price of gasoline, and in September 2022, the murder of Mahsa Amini. <One of the prominent features of the misogynist regime of Velayat-e-Faqih in Iran is the suppression of women, which manifests itself in the mandatory hijab. Khomeini's regime started its dictatorship immediately after coming to power by brutally suppressing women and imposing the mandatory hijab with the slogan <either the veil or a hit on the head.> Women defied it from the beginning. We believe that women are free to choose what to wear. One woman wears a hijab, and another does not; it is their choice and has nothing to do with the government. We are resisting for the freedom of women so that the hijab would not be mandatory.> Elaheh Azimfar added, <This uprising and revolution also wants to realize these freedoms: Women's freedom and equality, freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of assembly, freedom to choose one’s religion. But the people of Iran, especially the women of Iran, have come to the conclusion that these freedoms, including the freedom of clothing, will not be achieved unless this regime is overthrown. That is why the first slogan chanted after Mahsa's death was 'death to the dictator.' That means that this dictatorial regime must go. We asked Azifmar about Iranian women’s calls of <With Hijab or without it, onward to revolution.> She answered: <Yes, this slogan is correct because women have realized that the regime and all those interested in maintaining this regime intend to reduce the level of demands of this revolution to the issue of hijab. Our Resistance's position regarding women’s freedoms and freedom of choice concerning their clothes is clear. Our motto has been 'No to compulsory hijab' for four decades, not today or in this uprising. But we will not allow our people's demands for freedom from religious tyranny to be reduced to the issue of hijab. <More than 750 martyrs and more than 30,000 arrests in this uprising were not only to remove the hijab but to remove the cause of the compulsory hijab, which is the mullahs' oppressive regime. Iranian women took an active and serious part in the anti-monarchy revolution. They played their role, but after the victory of the revolution and the fall of the Shah, they were the first victims whose rights were violated.> Here we asked: If the issue of hijab for women is not given priority today, how can we know that tomorrow after the victory of this revolution, the same dilemma will not happen to them again? She answered: <Khomeini usurped the 1979 revolution; he was not its leader.> He never presented a plan and never spoke openly about his point of view and the future. But now look at the scene of the Iranian people's new democratic revolution. A Muslim woman, Maryam Rajavi, leads this scene. A woman who has said for four decades: 'No to compulsory hijab, no to compulsory religion, no to compulsory government.'>>
Note from Gino d'Artali: Read more of this wonderfull, inspiring and uplifting interview here:
https://women.ncr-iran.org/2023/05/13/womens-uprising/
 
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