Ongoing Battle With Women In Iran And Human Rights Violations

Yasmine Elsayed

Mr. Foley

English 10

03/16/2023

Ongoing Battle with Women in Iran and Human Rights Violation

The ongoing battle that women in Iran are facing is a brutal, sexist, and an ongoing problem that is affecting their way of life. Everyday that passes women, children, even some men are being brutally beaten and murdered for standing up against the ridiculous secular laws against those who are female. How are the laws in Iran against women violating the declaration of human rights set forth by the United Nations? The secular laws placed by the Iranian government violate the declaration of human rights articles one, two, five and so on since they are treated less than a human.

At birth you're assigned a gender male or female, that one

The date that began it all, March seventh, nineteen-seventy-nine Ayatollah Khomeini, leader of Iran, had implemented a mandatory dress code meaning they had to be fully clothed at all times in public. The Iranian government had created the infamous morality police to enforce said dress code and the newfound laws.(Zamani) Since then Iranian women have been deprived of their basic rights and have suffered the male centered ideologies and male dominance that allow them to perceive women as an immature, irrational child from their birth to their death. Even as an infant they are still fighting to be recognized by men as more than dirt on their shoe or as a mere sacrifice they must bear for their bloodline to continue. Iranian men preach the islamic ideologies especially in the stance of polygamy.("Position of Women") However in the Quran it states that polygamy is not harmful as long as every wife is treated equally but men attest this saying that in no universe is it possible to treat every wife equally. In the Quran it is also said that a woman must cover up to avoid lust however in today's Iran it is being translated as a completely different meaning as it is simply a meaning of control. (Keddie) The Quran also states that men and women, female and male alike must be treated equally and that in itself is

An act of a silent rebellion in the past ten years would have to be Vida Movahed. On December twenty-seven, twenty-seventeen Vida Movahed stood on a utility box on Revolutionary Street in Tehran she had stood without a hijab in public for the first time since nineteen-seventy-nine someone had been unveiled in public sparking many more incidents all over Iran. “The revolution gave women confidence in themselves. With all the sacrifices they made, Iranian women know how much their current and future rulers owe them and that egalitarian rights are part of what is due to them. This demand is no longer that of a group of women; it is a nationwide one. (Keddie) The acts of rebellion is the revolution, no matter how loud or silent they are, Iranian citizens are waking up realizing that the equality they have been missing out on for about a century is more than fair to want and is worth a fight. However ever since the death of twenty-two year old Mashi Amini who was detained on September thirteen, twenty twenty-two because she was habiting an ‘inappropriate’ hijab for the morality policies standards she was found dead three days later on the sixteenth. Many voiced up demanding justice as she was clearly mistreated in custody although the authorities denied the claim.