By Staff Writer
The women of Iran are continuing to actively protest against various sectors of Iranian society that suppress women and the Iranian people as a whole. In recent days, women have been seen leading protests in Abadan, Tehran and Iranshahr.
On Thursday, June 21, students at Tehran University’s School of Social Sciences continued their protest, against the illegal and harsh sentences imposed on their fellow students for taking part in the December uprising, for a fifth consecutive day.
They demand the immediate and unconditional release of their classmates, that the sentences be repealed, and that the classmates are allowed to return to school. The students have threatened to boycott their final exams if their demands are not met.
In Abadan, the second-largest city in the oil-rich Khuzestan Province, residents protested outside the Department of Water and Waste Water on Wednesday, June 20. They were demanding clean, safe drinking water, citing that what they are being provided with currently is salty and has a foul odour, which they should not have to pay for.
An ongoing drought has caused severe water shortages, particularly in southern Iran, but this has been exacerbated by the Regime’s corruption and mismanagement. For instance, the Regime has wasted money on its proxy terrorist groups in the Middle East, rather than work to solve the environmental problems, and has diverted safe drinking water away from the cities most in need and towards ethnically Persian cities.
Women led two separate protests on Tuesday, June 19.
In the first, Tehran residents who were plundered by the fraudulent Caspian Institute staged a protest march around Argentine Square, chanting slogans against the politicians who lied about reimbursing the money.
In the second, women gathered outside the Governor’s Office in Iranshahr, south-eastern Iran, to protest the gang rape of 41 young women and girls and demand that the culprits be arrested and punished.
Iran women and protest
Of course, it is not unusual that Iranian women are taking part in these protests against the Iranian Regime. Iranian women were a driving force behind the 1979 revolution, which deposed the Shah, and they have been at the forefront of social justice movements in Iran for decades.
Iranian women were prominent in the fight against the sexist mullahs’ rule when it began and continue to be so to this day. Iranian women, like all the people of Iran, seek regime change.
They will also have a prominent place at the Free Iran gathering in Paris on June 30, which is organised by the Iranian Resistance, as the Resistance supports and promotes women – unlike the mullahs.
Everyone who supports democracy, human rights, and gender equality, should support the Free Iran gathering, as regime change is the only hope for change in Iran.
