On the 16th of this September, the twenty-two-year-old Iranian woman Mahsa Amini was killed in hospital after she fell into a cerebral coma (coma), after she was arrested by the Iranian morality police of the “Basij” forces, i.e. the paramilitary wing of The Iranian Revolutionary Guards on a street in Tehran, accused of not wearing the hijab in an appropriate way, and took her to a police station, where it appeared that she was severely beaten in the police car that transported her and then at the station.
Mahsa was taken to the hospital and then died. This incident could have passed like many others that Iran witnessed and is witnessing around the clock in most cities. This time, Mahsa’s death was the spark that sparked a massive revolution across Iran in dozens of Iranian cities and towns, where popular demonstrations, especially those led by young Iranian women of no more than twenty-five years old, did not stop.
Dozens, if not hundreds, of demonstrations spread in the neighborhoods of major cities such as Tehran, Isfahan, Mashhad, Qom and others, all of which began in the early hours bearing the slogan denouncing the killing of Mahsa Amini, who was killed by the regime’s men, and soon turned to denouncing the “dictator” i.e. the guide Ali Khamenei, and then the regime And its symbols and historical and symbolic figures, such as the founder of the Islamic Republic, Imam Khomeini, and the commander of the “Quds Force” of the “Revolutionary Guard” Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in an American raid in Baghdad at the beginning of 2020, to the other slogans calling for revolution, freedom, dignity and confronting the theocratic regime that dominates over the country. Iran since the victory of Khomeini’s “revolution” in 1979.
These large-scale demonstrations are a surprising event. It comes about four years after the uprising that raised fuel prices, which the regime at that time drowned in blood and claimed more than a thousand and five hundred victims in order to stop it, and succeeded. At first, observers, including us, did not expect things to develop to this extent. We thought that the issue would be limited in scope and impact, and would not exceed the protest dimension over the killing of the young woman Amini, and then end due to the strength of the regime and its steel hand that holds the ground throughout Iran, in addition to the fact that the laws that govern dress in Iran were accepted for a long time during the era of the Islamic Republic .
It was surprising to those who followed how the regime, and through it the state, has moved in the past two years towards comprehensive radicalism after seizing control of the conservatives over the Iranian parliament, and then transferring Ibrahim Raisi (who moved from the presidency of the judiciary) to the presidency of the republic and thus to the executive authority. All this at a time when the regime’s institutions that frame the work of the state were “purified” at various levels from reformist forces or “suspicious” of their Western tendencies. All of this is orchestrated by the close alliance that exists between the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and his successor, the fundamentalist conservative religious institution and the military-security institution represented in general by the “Revolutionary Guard”, a broad framework that goes beyond the military-security framework to include an economic, financial, and now religious dimension after his arrival years ago in Qom and penetrated the estates.
This radicalism, which seized the regime in one of the most difficult economic and social phases, may be one of the main reasons that made the Mahsa Amini case an issue that went beyond the boundaries of protest to become, contrary to all expectations, a revolution that could be called a “women’s revolution” that young women ignited in the streets of cities and towns, She was joined by young men, and now a large number of different age groups in the country. Every night, hundreds of Iranian cities and towns turn into theaters for revolutionary demonstrations against the regime and everything it symbolizes, and thousands of young people face the security forces and the “Basij” with rare courage. Day after day, despite dozens of deaths caused by the bullets of the regime forces, the momentum of the street has not diminished, which has become clear that it is no longer coming out for Mahsa Amini only, but for the sake of every “Mahsa Amini” in all of Iran.
The young woman, who is coming on a tourist visit to Tehran from the Iranian north, has become the title of the revolution for the rights of Iranian women, but most importantly, it is a massive social revolution with multiple titles: cultural, humanitarian, and religious. It is also a political revolution against the entire system. It reveals the severity of the internal crisis experienced by the regime fleeing from its crises abroad, in order to vent it with confrontations with the outside, and mobile wars, while the concerns of the Iranian citizen are elsewhere.
It is a revolution in the face of the regime with its aging religious institution controlled by clerics, most of whom have become religious merchants and owners of fantastic wealth, and their age ratio is very high. It is also a revolution in the face of the security-military establishment, which turned Iran into a kingdom of silence, and made protest an occasion to take lives. Every time he went out into the street, the regime drenched him in blood. Hence the fear that the revolution that is taking place under our eyes in Iran will be drowned out in the blood of young women and men who are revolting against the religious and military institutions of oppression that hold the fate of one hundred million Iranians.
Our expectation is that the regime will not be long before confronting the current massive revolution with more violence, even if it leads to the killing of hundreds. What is important for the organization is its survival. There is no limit to the price to be paid. In the end he will make the decision. But how will Iranian society and the silent majority react to the regime’s next round of violence and bloodshed?
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