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"In Iran, the veil and the sword"

2022-10-07T18:33:02.249Z


The editorial of Le Figaro, by Philippe Gélie. For more than three weeks, the Iranian clerical regime has repressed with unprecedented brutality demonstrations sparked across the country by the death of a 22-year-old girl, Masha Amini, at the hands of the religious police. More than 150 people were reportedly shot, beaten and thrown from rooftops, hundreds more injured and thousands arrested. This murderous madness, in the face of the longest


For more than three weeks, the Iranian clerical regime has repressed with unprecedented brutality demonstrations sparked across the country by the death of a 22-year-old girl, Masha Amini, at the hands of the religious police.

More than 150 people were reportedly shot, beaten and thrown from rooftops, hundreds more injured and thousands arrested.

This murderous madness, in the face of the longest wave of protests that the Islamist theocracy has known in forty-three years, reveals its deep nature - a sclerotic, violent, corrupt and irreformable power.

It is by this yardstick that one must appreciate his hatred of Israel, his demonization of the West and his quest for nuclear weapons.

Masha had been arrested for wearing the

“incorrect”

Islamic headscarf.

In our country, feminists cut a lock of hair in solidarity, but defend the veil as a woman's right.

Just crowned with the Nobel Prize for Literature, Annie Ernaux wanted to support the revolt of Iranian women

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Source: lefigaro

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