Iran

[Paigntonian]

It finally looks like internal dissent, and the brutal actions by the regime against women and young people in particular, is reaching critical mass in Iran. Let's hope that change can happen without too much bloodshed. Currently people are being lifted from demonstrations and butchered.

[sandyRoe]

They used to say that the Shah was a tyrant.
Compared to the Ayatollahs he was small beer.

[royfromaus]

I wonder if the Iranian morality police will still be battering women as our gallant boys line up against them in about 6 weeks?

Will the lives of these women matter as much to our heroes as that of George Floyd?

[naomi24]

You echo me Roy. They never do. #metoo. Not a peep.

[Peter Pedant]

Here is another echo
Any one remember this?

In March 1979, the white American feminist Kate Millett landed in Tehran, in the wake of one of the most significant revolutions of the 20th century. Just weeks earlier, the Shah—the monarch of Iran—had been overthrown. Millett arrived with a suitcase of recording equipment and her partner, filmmaker Sophie Kier. While there, Millett methodically recorded her whispered reflections on everything around her: the cups of tea with her hosts, the hours stuck in traffic, and the International Women’s Day celebration, which exploded into major protests against Ayatollah Khomeini’s new mandatory veiling laws.1

Millett’s whispers were the raw material for her own Going to Iran (1982),

They chucked her out double quick. Millett mistook the revolution as liberating. Later in the ONLY instance ever, the leddies of Iran voted to disenfranchise themselves
excuse me?
Any good wife should vote as her husband instructs
so we dont need one ( vote not husband that is!)

You dont?

well I am reminding you - first posted
https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1811815-1.html
and nothing seems to have gone forward

so the commentators ponderously intone
for forty years the women have had no vote......ponder ponder
yeah because the women voted not to have one!

[johnk]

Were the women told how to vote by men? If so They didn't vote for at all

[davebro]

link?

[emmie]

Iran, a great country?

[ichkeria]

Iran is a great country.
Just a shame about the people who run it.

[emmie]

suppression of women - people disappeared for so called dissent, yeah can see it now.

[naomi24]

//the women voted not to have one! //

Nothing like grasping the wrong end of the stick.

[douglas9401]

I'm remembering the Arab Spring.

Don't get too excited.

[Gromit]

The Arab Spring was largely about the people rising up and removing their pro West leaders and replacing them with more islamic ones. Iran wasn’t pro West and already had an islamic Government, so no Arab spring there.
And of course, the Iranians aren’t Arabs.