NCRI – The clerical regime’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, tried to dress its medieval concept of forced veiling as “national attire” in remarks that smacked of absurdity and demagoguery.
During a ridiculous show entitled “The Ceremony for National Registration of the Chador as the Veil of Iranian Ethnicities,” Ahmadinejad tried to amass a series of ludicrous statements and expressions like “the preference to veil oneself,” and “Iranian men and women have covered themselves throughout history,” and “chador is a full attire,” to describe the forced and suppressive veiling imposed by the mullahs against Iranian women as “the veil of Iranian ethnicities” and a “moral heritage.”
He also manufactured bizarre historical falsities like, “it has been discovered in three thousand and several hundred year old relics that chador was among the clothes that Iranian women wore at the time.” He then proceeded to demand for the “chador veil” to be promoted in the rest of the world (State-run Fars news agency, January 16, 2010).
The mullahs’ president, who drew on the vulgar and repulsive cultural lexicon of the clerical regime regarding women, once again insisted on gender apartheid in the clerical regime and said, “In contrast to those in the West, we will never say that men and women are alike.”
Ms. Sarvnaz Chitsaz, Chairwoman of the Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, described the nonsensical ramblings of the puppet of the mullahs’ Supreme Leader, Ahmadinejad, as reflective of the reactionary and rotten culture of the mullahs. Ms. Chitsaz stated:
The freedom-loving women and girls, who are now at the forefront of the Iranian people’s uprising, and have taught an unforgettable lesson to the mullahs and their proxies and agents over the past three decades of the clerics’ disgraceful rule, will never be intimated by the useless statements of a torturer like Ahmadinejad. With their chants of “Death to Khamenei,” and “Death to the principle of absolute clerical rule [velayat-e faqih],” Iranian women have targeted the entirety of the clerical regime and the day is not far when these women will toss the clerical regime and its disgusting and medieval culture into the trash bin of history.
Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
January 18, 2010
Photo: Depicting a woman beaten by the police for "immoral appearance" in the public (File Photo)
