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Den
iranska revolutionen 1978-79 var en oerhört positiv händelse, som
störtade den hatade shah-regimen. Det blev resultatet av en massiv
revolutionär folkrörelse, där miljoner människor revolterade, trots att
den mordiska regimen gjorde alt för att dränka upproret i blod.
Tyvärr
lyckades ett reaktionärt islamistiskt ledarskap få kontrollen över
revolutionen, vilket bland annat resulterade i att Iran idag är ett land
med ett ovanligt konsekvent genomfört kvinnoförtryck.
Vad det resulterat i kan ni läsa nedan.
People revolt after Iranian police murder young woman
Thursday 22 September 2022
Issue 2823 Protesters in Iran
have torched police stations in cities as demonstrations over the
police killing of a young woman entered their sixth day. At least seven
people have died as cops try to smash the protests, centred mostly in
the north west Kurdish region, but also in the capital Tehran.
The demonstrations are the latest in a series of
challenges from below to crisis-stricken Iranian governments since 2019.
They began on Saturday following the police killing of Mahsa Amini the
day before.
Mahsa fell into a coma at a detention centre after Iran’s
“guidance patrols”—which enforce Iran’s religious laws—arrested her on
Tuesday of last week. She died three days later in hospital.
Police claimed that Mahsa was arrested for not wearing her
hijab—headscarf—in a way that fully covered her hair. They also denied
that officers had beat her head with a baton and banged it against one
of their vehicles, instead claiming she’d suffered heart failure. But
her family said she had no health problems.
Protests in the wake of her death took up the slogan,
“Women, life, freedom”. Women on many of them have removed their
headscarf in public—in defiance of Iran’s law—and cut their hair.
But, Iranian academic and activist Peyman Jafari told
Socialist Worker, the protests are not so much against the headscarf
itself as against brutally-enforced compulsory wearing.
“Women and the youth are at the forefront, but the
protests are really mixed and there are all generations participating.”
he said. “There has been a growing mood among younger generations that
they do not want state interference in their daily life, their social
lives.
“This does not mean that they are anti-religious or
against the hijab. It’s really about the freedom of wearing it or not
wearing it. I was talking to a friend who is joining the protests and
has a hijabi mother who is supporting her. Lots of these women will have
mothers, grandmas, aunts, friends even who will wear the hijab.
“So this crosses the line of being religious or non-religious. It’s about the freedom of wearing what you want.”
The protests come amid a years-long crisis for Iran’s
governments, and waves of resistance. Iran has suffered economic crises
caused by Western sanctions, and reforms designed to open the economy to
privatisation and the market.
That has resulted in repeated explosions of demonstrations and strikes,
mostly over poverty, unemployment and shortages. These began with a
series of mass protests in early 2019, where police and state forces
killed up to 1,500 people.
More recently, there were protests earlier this year after
the government cut subsidies for basic foodstuffs. That, coupled with a
growing urban working class and a rise in women entering the workforce
and universities, has created the conditions for social revolt.
In response, the government of Ebrahim Raisi promised to
enforce religious laws more strongly, in a bid to shore up his
conservative supporters. Instead, this only widened the rift between the
government and younger generations who want greater freedom, while high
unemployment and poverty erodes its support.
Reports in Western media outlets have focussed on chants
of “down with the dictator” recorded on some demonstrations. Western
governments that view Iran as a challenge to the US’s dominance in the
Middle East frequently latch onto anti-government protests.
But, says Peyman, protesters have also chanted, “Down with
the oppressor, be it the supreme leader, be it the Shah”. That refers
to both Iran’s current regime and the previous Western-backed
dictatorship overthrown by a revolution in 1979.
Instead, Peyman says, the main slogan of the
demonstrations, “Women, life, freedom,” ties political and economic
demands together into a broader revolt against the system.
“Women, life freedom puts the sexism issue at the
forefront,” said Peyman. “Life means everybody wants to have a good
life—this also refers to workers like the poor and so on. And freedom is
freedom from state repression.”
He added, “I do think this is a growing sentiment of
radical sections of youth that oppose the entire system. It’s because of
both corruption and economic mismanagement and this infringement on
political and social liberties.”
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