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Sunday, 19 April 2015
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The news about the protests of teachers is free
Iran Watch Canada - Thousands of Iranian Teachers from allover Iran today Thursday protested in a Silent Gathering and demanded for the
release of their imprisoned colleagues, an end to discrimination and for a
better living condition.
Teachers from almost every city’s in Iran joined the protest on Thursday, April 16, 2015.
Teachers from almost every city’s in Iran joined the protest on Thursday, April 16, 2015.
A look at this protest by pictures
Rihaneh. Jabbari 26-year-old student
In defending itself against aggression One of the agents of the Iranian regimeAfter 7.5 years in prison, was executed at the hands of the executionersThis is just one example of the crimes
This regime is Misogynist and rear wing
Reyhaneh
Jabbari
ExecutedbytheMullahs’Regime in Iran
Reyhaneh
Jabbari, 26, was executed at the break of dawn on Saturday, October 25, 2014 in
Gohardasht Prison in Karaj, west of Tehran. She had already spent 7 years in
prison.
Jabbari,
a decorator, was 19-years old when charged with murdering Morteza Sarbandi, a
47-year old married doctor who had three children and was a former employee of
the Ministry of Intelligence (MOIS). Jabbari, defended herself against the MOIS
employee’s attempt to rape her.
Ahmad
Shaheed, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran, had at
the time described her death sentences as inadmissible and unfair. He cited
credible documents that proved Jabbari was innocent of premeditated murder
charges. The UN Special Rapporteur emphasized if Jabbari’s claims are true she
is twice a victim: once by the individual who intended to rape her; and second,
by the judicial system that must protect individuals against sexual and
physical aggression.
Jabbari
was convicted after a deeply flawed trial process and later executed, despite
international efforts to see a fair trial and halt it. Reyhaneh was also put
under savage torture by the clerical regime's henchmen to extract forced
confessions.
Reyhaneh
Jabbari was laid to rest on October 25, 2014 in Tehran’s Behesht-e Zahra
Cemetery. This is while state authorities had dispatched over 150 armed forces
to encircle the site and did not allow anyone to deliver any speeches in her
memory.
Since
then, brave Iranians inside Iran have protested the execution despite threats of
arrests. Hundreds of people have expressed solidarity with Reyhaneh calling her
a symbol of a girl who never succumbed to the misogynist laws of the mullahs’
ruling Iran. Her will has been echoed throughout the world creating more
antagonism against the Iranian regime and sprouting hope that Iran will soon be
freed of such tyranny.
A brief look at the history of
this case:
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13 April 2014 – Amnesty International warns: “The death sentence of Iranian woman Reyhaneh Jabbari
has been sent to the Office of Implementation of Sentences in Tehran, Iran.
Once death sentences have gone to this body, they may be carried out at any
time. Reyhaneh Jabbari, aged 26, was arrested in 2007 for the murder of Morteza
Abdolali Sarbandi, a former employee of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence.”
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14 April 2014: A group of people rallied outside the judiciary in Tehran to
save Reyhaneh Jabbari’s life. Security agents attacked and dispersed the
protesters.
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15 April 2014: Ahmad Shaheed, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran,
called on the regime to stop the execution of Reyhaneh Jabbari on the charges
of murdering an MOIS agent.
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30 September 2014: Amnesty International issued a statement saying: Reyhaneh
Jabbari has been transferred to Gohardasht Prison to be executed, and it is
possible she will be executed today, Tuesday.
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30 September 2014: State agents in Gohardasht Prison responded to follow-ups
made by Shole Pakravan, Reyhaneh’s mother and said: “She has been transferred to
this prison. Reyhaneh is on death row and come tomorrow to receive her body!”
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1 October 2014: US State Department spokesman Jen Psaki issued a statement
saying: “We are deeply concerned of
reports indicating Iranian officials are finalizing Reyhaneh Jabbari’s death
sentence.”
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1 October 2014: Reyhaneh Jabbari’s lawyer said: “Currently her case has been
sent for the ruling to be carried out. However, there are no orders in the
case.” State-run ‘Iran’ daily said on Reyhaneh
Jabbari’s execution: “A 10-day period was granted to
her so her family could gain the consent of the victim’s family.”
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5 October 2014: Former EU foreign policy Chief Catherine Ashton called for
Jabbari’s execution to be stopped.
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8 October 2014: State-run ‘Mehr’ news agency wired a report entitled “Reyhaneh Jabbari to be
executed tomorrow” reading in part: “Tomorrow, the 10-day grace
period granted to Reyhaneh Jabbari comes to an end and she will be sent to the
gallows if she cannot gain pardon from the victim’s parents.”
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13 October 2014: European Parliament President Martin Schultz called for
Reyhaneh Jabbari’s execution to be stopped. In a letter to Larijani, Iran’s
Majlis (parliament), Schultz said, “The
European Union has a strong and principled viewpoint opposing the death
sentence. Cancelling this ruling is amongst this union’s concrete objective of
human rights policymaking.”
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17 October 2014: Reyhaneh Jabbari is once again on the verge of execution.
Mohammad Shahriari, head of Tehran’s criminal prosecution said the victim’s
parents are not willing to pardon and therefore there is a possibility that
Reyhaneh Jabbari’s death sentence will be carried out.
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25 October 2014: Reyhaneh Jabbari, a 26-year old student and designer, was
executed in Gohardasht Prison at dawn.
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25 October 2014: Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance,
described the execution of student and decorator Reyhaneh Jabbari as yet
another sign of the mullahs’ viciousness and misogynist nature. She called on
all international human rights organizations to strongly condemn this young
woman’s execution and take immediate binding action to stop executions, torture
and massacres in Iran.
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26 October 2014: The funeral of Reyhaneh Jabbari was held on the morning of
Sunday, October 26 amid tight security measures in block 98, row 13 of Tehran’s
Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery. Her family, friends and people joined the ceremony
and laid flowers and expressed condolences to her family. State officials had
stationed nearly 300 State Security Force agents and other security forces in
all streets of this cemetery to keep a close watch on the participants in the
funeral.
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28 October 2014: Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the US House of Representatives
Foreign Affairs Committee, issued a statement in response to the UN’s
investigation highlighting worsening human rights conditions in Iran. This text
reads in part: “… Just this past weekend, the
Iranian regime hanged a 26-year old woman, Reyhaneh Jabbari, whose only crime
was defending herself against rape. The regime’s response to the recent acid attacks
on Iranian women is appalling but not surprising... I fear that Iran’s Basij
militia will see this new law as an even more liberal license to attack Iranian
women for how they are dressed. Hopefully Iranian society will step up to these
acts of cowardice.”
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29 October 2014: Rupert Colville, UNHCR spokesperson condemned Reyhaneh
Jabbari’s execution. He said he was shocked from this hanging. Colville had
expressed concerns about increasing executions in Iran at a press conference in
Geneva held October 28, 2014.
Reyhaneh Jabbari’s execution
received widespread coverage in world news media outlets referring to the
flagrant violation of human rights by the Iranian regime:
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Amnesty International – 25 October 2014: AI condemned the execution of Reyhaneh
Jabbari as “another bloody stain on Iran’s
human rights record” and “an affront to justice.”
“The shocking news that
Reyhaneh Jabbari has been executed is deeply disappointing in the extreme,” said Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui ،Amnesty
International’s Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa Programme. “Once again Iran has insisted
on applying the death penalty despite serious concerns over the fairness of the
trial.”
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US State Department Website – 25 October 2014: Jen Psaki, Department Spokesperson: “We join our voice with those
who call on Iran to respect the fair trial guarantees afforded to its people
under Iran's own laws and its international obligations."
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UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office: “Following
the execution of Reyhaneh Jabbari, Foreign Office Minister, Tobias Ellwood MP,
calls on Iran to end the use of the death penalty.”
Tobias
Ellwood, Foreign Office Minister for the Middle East, said:
“I am very concerned and
saddened that it has been used in the case of Reyhaneh Jabbari.”
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CNN – 25 October 2014: “Reyhaneh
Jabbari, 26, was sentenced to death for the 2007 killing of Morteza Abdolali
Sarbandi, a former employee of Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security.
The United Nations has said she never received a fair trial. The U.S. State
Department also said there were concerns about the trial.”
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Reuters – 25 October 2014: “Reyhaneh
Jabbari walked to the gallows at dawn on Saturday in Tehran's Evin prison after
failing to secure a reprieve from the dead man's relatives within the 10-day
deadline set by sharia law in force since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.”
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Agence France Presse – 25 October 2014: “Iran
executed Saturday a 26-year-old woman who had spent five years on death row for
the murder of a former intelligence official, defying international pressure to
spare her life”.
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The Independent – 25 October 2014: “Ms
Jabbari’s mother Shole Pakravan confirmed her death. She said her 26-year-old
daughter was hanged in a Tehran prison and she was due to see her daughter’s
body at the cemetery today”.
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Guardian – 25 October 2014: “Iran
has ignored an international campaign to spare the life of a 26-year-old woman
convicted of murder by hanging her at dawn on Saturday.The UN and bodies
including the European Union and Amnesty International had said that the
interior designer’s confession for killing Morteza Sarbandi in 2007 was
obtained under intense pressure and threats from Iranian prosecutors, and she
should have had a retrial”
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Associated Press – 27 October 2014: “Ahmed
Shaheed spoke Monday, a day before presenting his report on Iran to the General
Assembly's human rights committee.
Shaheed says he's never been
allowed into Iran and has been banned every year since he was appointed in June
2011. Shaheed again condemned the execution on Saturday of Reyhaneh Jabbari, a
woman convicted of murdering a man she said was trying to rape her. ”
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The New York Times – 28 October 2014: “A
United Nations investigator said on Monday, drawing attention to rights abuses
just as Iran’s president is pushing for a diplomatic breakthrough with the
West. Mr. Shaheed said he had been shocked by the execution on Saturday of
Reyhaneh Jabbari, 26, who was convicted of killing a man she had accused of
raping her.” .
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Thursday, 16 April 2015
Maryam Rajavi hails protesting Iranian teachers and urges expansion of support for them
NCRI - Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, hailed the teachers, workers and toilers who have risen in various parts of the country for their rights and to protest against discrimination, corruption and oppressive measures by the mullahs’ regime. She called on the people, especially the youth and students, to expand the protests and express solidarity with the teachers.
Teachers’ protest movement, ongoing since last year, swelled on Thursday, April 16, in Tehran and most provinces, including Fars, Mazandaran, Esfahan, Eastern and Western Azerbaijan, Ardebil, Central, Kurdistan, Zanjan, Yazd, Alborz, Khorasan Razavi, Southern Khorasan, Sistan and Baluchestan, Lorestan, Ilam, Kerman, Kermanshah, Qazvin, Khuzestan and Hamedan. Teachers demanded the annulment of judicial sentences and the release of the imprisoned teachers, increase in wages, ending discrimination, and improvement of the educational environment.
Protestors were carrying placards that some of them read: “Imprisoned teacher must be freed”, “improvement of livelihood is our absolute right”, “equality is our absolute right”, “our silence is louder than outcry”, and “criticizing forbidden – embezzlement permitted”.
In Kerman the protestors put on shrouds to portray the condition of teachers while in some cities the teachers chanted slogans against the Education Minister of Rouhani.
Mrs. Rajavi said: While teachers are struggling with severe poverty, the riches of the Iranian people is either spent on unpatriotic projects of export of fundamentalism and terrorism, production of the nuclear bomb, beefing up the suppression machine, the revolutionary guards, and the terrorist Qods Force, or is plundered by the leaders of this regime and their families.
The official budget of the military, suppressive and export-of-terrorism organs is three fold that of the education with around one million teachers and 13 million students. Beside the official budget, billions of dollars is placed at the disposal of the revolutionary guards and the mullahs’ intelligence by Khamenei or through the vast economic resources that these organs control with no supervision over them.
Mrs. Rajavi added: As long as the clerical regime is in power in Iran, poverty, unemployment, inflation and high prices that hurt the people in general and teachers and workers in particular, shall only get worse. Only the overthrow of this anti-human regime by the people and the Iranian Resistance and the establishment of democracy will bring this great catastrophe to an end.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
April 16, 2015
NCRI - Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, hailed the teachers, workers and toilers who have risen in various parts of the country for their rights and to protest against discrimination, corruption and oppressive measures by the mullahs’ regime. She called on the people, especially the youth and students, to expand the protests and express solidarity with the teachers.
Teachers’ protest movement, ongoing since last year, swelled on Thursday, April 16, in Tehran and most provinces, including Fars, Mazandaran, Esfahan, Eastern and Western Azerbaijan, Ardebil, Central, Kurdistan, Zanjan, Yazd, Alborz, Khorasan Razavi, Southern Khorasan, Sistan and Baluchestan, Lorestan, Ilam, Kerman, Kermanshah, Qazvin, Khuzestan and Hamedan. Teachers demanded the annulment of judicial sentences and the release of the imprisoned teachers, increase in wages, ending discrimination, and improvement of the educational environment.
Protestors were carrying placards that some of them read: “Imprisoned teacher must be freed”, “improvement of livelihood is our absolute right”, “equality is our absolute right”, “our silence is louder than outcry”, and “criticizing forbidden – embezzlement permitted”.
In Kerman the protestors put on shrouds to portray the condition of teachers while in some cities the teachers chanted slogans against the Education Minister of Rouhani.
Mrs. Rajavi said: While teachers are struggling with severe poverty, the riches of the Iranian people is either spent on unpatriotic projects of export of fundamentalism and terrorism, production of the nuclear bomb, beefing up the suppression machine, the revolutionary guards, and the terrorist Qods Force, or is plundered by the leaders of this regime and their families.
The official budget of the military, suppressive and export-of-terrorism organs is three fold that of the education with around one million teachers and 13 million students. Beside the official budget, billions of dollars is placed at the disposal of the revolutionary guards and the mullahs’ intelligence by Khamenei or through the vast economic resources that these organs control with no supervision over them.
Mrs. Rajavi added: As long as the clerical regime is in power in Iran, poverty, unemployment, inflation and high prices that hurt the people in general and teachers and workers in particular, shall only get worse. Only the overthrow of this anti-human regime by the people and the Iranian Resistance and the establishment of democracy will bring this great catastrophe to an end.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
April 16, 2015
The news about the imminent execution
Three women jailed in Iran
3 female prisoners, Akram Mahdavi, 46, Fereshteh Abdulmaleki 36,and Zohre Lavastati 36, are faced with imminent danger of execution after
serving years in the notorious Gharchak Varamin prison.
Simultaneously, Basima Al-Jabouri, a 39 year old Iraqi woman and
mother of two, which is also being held in Gharchak Varamin prison, has staged
a hunger strike since April 8th, 2015 to protest ban on access to medical care.
Prison guards have threatened to take her to solitary confinement, with harsher
conditions, if she continues her strike. She is constantly faced with
harassment, threats and torture, especially by a female guard by the name of
“Khaki”.
While calling upon all international human rights organizations
and women’s rights activists for the prevention of Mrs. Mahdavi, Abdulmaleki,
and Lavastati’s executions, the Iranian resistance calls for an independent
investigative delegation to be sent to Iran to examine the appalling conditions
of female prisoners in the country.
At the same time, the Iranian Resistance condemns the misogynist
regime ruling Iran being granted a 4-year membership in the “United Nations
Commission on the Status of Women” and considers it a disgrace for the United
Nations to grant membership to the Mullahs’ misogynist regime which has
institutionalized gender segregation into law and publically defends stoning,
execution, torture, acid attacks against women, in an institute which is
responsibl
The news about the imminent execution
Three women jailed in Iran
Three women jailed in Iran
3 female prisoners, Akram Mahdavi, 46, Fereshteh Abdulmaleki 36,
and Zohre Lavastati 36, are faced with imminent danger of execution after
serving years in the notorious Gharchak Varamin prison.
Simultaneously, Basima Al-Jabouri, a 39 year old Iraqi woman and
mother of two, which is also being held in Gharchak Varamin prison, has staged
a hunger strike since April 8th, 2015 to protest ban on access to medical care.
Prison guards have threatened to take her to solitary confinement, with harsher
conditions, if she continues her strike. She is constantly faced with
harassment, threats and torture, especially by a female guard by the name of
“Khaki”.
While calling upon all international human rights organizations
and women’s rights activists for the prevention of Mrs. Mahdavi, Abdulmaleki,
and Lavastati’s executions, the Iranian resistance calls for an independent
investigative delegation to be sent to Iran to examine the appalling conditions
of female prisoners in the country.
At the same time, the Iranian Resistance condemns the misogynist
regime ruling Iran being granted a 4-year membership in the “United Nations
Commission on the Status of Women” and considers it a disgrace for the United
Nations to grant membership to the Mullahs’ misogynist regime which has
institutionalized gender segregation into law and publically defends stoning,
execution, torture, acid attacks against women, in an institute which is
responsibl
Wednesday, 15 April 2015
Large
number of youth in Ahwaz arrested; call for their immediate release
On Wednesday, April 8, regime’s suppressive
forces barbarically
raided Hamidiya, Molashia and Kouya Enghelab
in Ahwaz arresting around 40 of the youth in these townships and districts.
Moreover, a poet of the Arab compatriots by the name of Ahmad Haj Sobhan was
also arrested on this day in Kut Abdollah of Ahwaz and was taken to an
undisclosed location. This savage crackdown was carried out in fear of
expansion of popular protests in the deprived province of Khuzestan.
Last month, the people and the valiant youth
of Ahwaz, in protest to the shocking self-immolation of Youness Assakera, a
petty seller in Khorramshahr, turned his funeral ceremony as well as the soccer
matches in Ahwaz into a scene of protest and expression of loath for the
religious fascism ruling Iran.
The anti-human clerical regime, engulfed in
political and economic crises, has found no solution to rein in the increasing
protests but to ramp up the suppression.
The Iranian Resistance calls on the UN High
Commissioner for Human Rights and the Human Rights Council, as well as other
agencies that advocate human rights, to take immediate measures to secure the
release of the arrestees.
Secretariat
of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
April 10, 2015.
The photos on the big protests teachers
Which took place in different cities of Iran
Quantity and quality of teachers' rights to protest in Iran
Tuesday, 14 April 2015
this is about Religious and ethnic minorities in Iran
Religious and ethnic minorities
Rights violations against religious and ethnic minorities is considered one of the most blatant human rights violations. In the past month the Bahaii community experienced such measures.
Susan Tabianian, was arrested in the city of Semnan (North) by agents of the
Ministry of Intelligence who raided her home, arrested her and took her to an unknown location. (NCRI Women’s Committee, June 2, 2014)
Furthermore, two Baha’i women were also arrested by security forces in the eastern Iranian city of Mashhad and transferred to an unknown location. Their names were identified as Dary Amri and Mee Khalussy. (NCRI Women’s Committee, June 2, 2014)
Rights violations against religious and ethnic minorities is considered one of the most blatant human rights violations. In the past month the Bahaii community experienced such measures.
Susan Tabianian, was arrested in the city of Semnan (North) by agents of the
Ministry of Intelligence who raided her home, arrested her and took her to an unknown location. (NCRI Women’s Committee, June 2, 2014)
Furthermore, two Baha’i women were also arrested by security forces in the eastern Iranian city of Mashhad and transferred to an unknown location. Their names were identified as Dary Amri and Mee Khalussy. (NCRI Women’s Committee, June 2, 2014)
Monday, 13 April 2015
March 7, 2014 | 9:47pm
Maryam Rajavi, president-elect of the NationalCouncil of Resistance of Iran. Photo: Reuters
International Women’s Day, celebrated Saturday
for the 106th year, marks continued progress for women across the world, but
that progress has been reversed in countries where Islamic fundamentalism has
taken hold.And nowhere is women’s freedom more under official assault than in
Iran.
Prior to the Islamic Revolution in 1979, women
in Iran had significant personal freedom and protection under the law. One of
the first changes Ayatollah Khomeini made after taking power was to revoke the
1967 Family Protection Law, which governed marriage, divorce and family
custody.
Today, women have less than second-class
status in Iran. Their husbands may divorce them at will and take as many as
four concurrent wives; divorced women have no custody rights to their own
children once the child reaches age 2. Women are denied the right to study what
they choose and are forbidden from entering certain professions and from
studying abroad unless accompanied by their husbands. Their testimony in court
is devalued: Two women must testify to carry the same weight as one man.
The court system is an arm of fundamentalist
Islam. Female victims of crime receive less justice than male victims.
Punishment for harming or even killing a woman is less harsh than if the victim
is a man.
What we in the West might consider moral
transgressions, such as adultery, incur the severest criminal penalties,
including the stoning to death of female adulterers. Even minor transgressions,
such as failing to wear the hijab, can result in beatings and imprisonment.
Last week in Paris, I joined a group of
prominent women gathered to draw attention to the plight of women in Iran and
under other Islamic extremist governments. The conference theme, “Women Leading
the Fight Against Islamic Fundamentalism,” drew speakers including former
Canadian Prime Minister Kim Campbell, former president of the German Bundestag
Rita Sussmuth, South African activist Nontombi Naomi Tutu and Mariane Pearl,
journalist and widow of reporter Daniel Pearl, whose videotaped execution by Khalid
Sheik Mohammed became a symbol of the barbarity of al Qaeda.
Maryam Rajavi, the conference organizer and
president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, described the
outrageous misogyny that the mullahs inflict on Iran: an acid attack against a
woman and her daughter in the streets of Tehran, forced marriages for girls
under 15 and new laws (unopposed by “moderate” President Hassan Rouhani) that
allow men to marry their adopted daughters at age 13.
But Rajavi’s message was not one of despair.
“Iranian women and all women in the region must move from being hopeless to
being hopeful. They have to move from simply being angry to becoming inspired
to change and to bring about change.”
It was the same message Tutu invoked.
Recalling her famous father, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, she described a visit he
made to Alaska during the apartheid era where he met a woman who told him that
she woke every morning at 3 o’clock to pray for the liberation of South Africa.
“And he said, ‘What chance does the apartheid regime have when we were being
prayed for at 3 o’clock in the morning in Alaska?’ . . . What chance
does the regime stand when there are young women inside Iran leading protests
on college campuses? What chance does the regime stand when the opposition
is lead by a woman named Mrs. Rajavi? No chance! No chance!”
Pearl spoke of resistance in personal terms.
“The women that we talked about today are those ordinary women with a mighty
heart — and they can defeat terrorism,” she said. “They also know that we have
no choice but to win that fight.”
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