THE WORST FATE FOR A SCHOOLGIRL IN IRAN is to live under Khamenei’s rule
and die under Trump’s bombs
The bodies of 168 schoolgirls killed in the U.S.–Israeli strike on a girls’ primary school in southern #Iran on Saturday were laid to rest yesterday. Since that attack, the injustice of this world has appeared more clearly than ever.
People, everywhere, are always the ones who pay the price.
And in Iran in particular, women pay the highest price. Those girls paid the price for living in Khamenei’s Iran and then paid it once again after his death.
For years, much has been said about the crimes of Khamenei’s regime against its own people, and about the oppressive methods it relied on for decades. Yet a simpler and more painful question has rarely been asked: what does it mean to be a woman living in Iran?
Perhaps there is nothing harsher in the world than to be born a woman in Iran. From the very moment a girl is born, the course of her life is drawn in advance: what she should wear, when she should marry, how far she is allowed to study, what she may do and what is forbidden to her. Even speech even breathing is governed by rules imposed by a power that does not see women as fully human.
The morality police pursued them on every street corner, scrutinizing the smallest details of their lives. And whenever they took to the streets demanding their rights, they were met with more repression and pain either by killing them, or by killing their sons and relatives.
Women were killed again and again under Khamenei’s rule. Yet the bitter irony is that today they are also being killed after his death.
Some of those girls or their families may have been among the crowds that filled the streets just two months ago in protest against the regime. Perhaps their mothers held on to hope when Trump said weeks ago that support was coming.
But after the killing of the girls in the bombing of the primary school, a painful reality emerged: the only thing worse than being a schoolgirl in Iran is dying under Trump’s bombing of Iran.
Today, a serious question must be asked: how long will Iranian women continue to die twice?
They have already paid more than enough for living in Khamenei’s Iran.
How long will they continue to pay the price for what comes after his death?1w
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