'The Right To Choose': two Iranian women speak to UBTV | UBTV

"The Right To Choose": two Iranian women speak to UBTV | UBTV

UBTV's reporter, Alice Padgett, speaks to two Iranian students in the wake of Mahsa Amini's murder.

Presenter: Alice Padgett
Camera crew: Mary Cooper and Lily Roberts
Editor: Alice Padgett and Joe Morgan
Producer: Alice Padgett and Grace Burton

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Station Manager: Sophia Crothall
Deputy Station Manager: Noa Taylor

[gunnerbenny]

Some may ask "why do we need to see this?"

This should help answer the question:

Mahsa Amini’s tragic death has become the focal point for the seething anger of Iranian women at the existing gender apartheid, and of the Iranian men distraught and angry at the continued rule of an incompetent, corrupt, and despotic regime. The fact that men have joined women in their epic battle for equality, and that the youth, savvy about the world and despairing about their future, have joined hands to create a better tomorrow is the reason for the remarkable number of protesters in cities and villages all across the country, as well as outside the country.

The Iranian Islamic regime in its constitution bars women from any of the high offices in the country. Based on its iteration of Islamic sharia it considers the life of women literally worth half the life of men. Men have the right to polygamy. Women can file for divorce only under rare circumstances. After divorce, women receive virtually nothing by way of community property and women virtually never get custody of their children. Girls get half their share of inheritance compared to that of their brothers. Women cannot receive a passport without the written approval of their fathers, husbands or grandfathers, or uncles. No surgery can be performed on women without the approval of their male “guardian.” Many academic disciplines are closed to women.

The defiance of Iranian women, unity between women and men, the relentless participation of youth from all walks of life, and the increasingly defiant slogans against theocracy and against the Supreme Leader make this a singular development. Women are burning their forced hijab as a symbolic gesture of their insistence on gaining freedom. Iranian women have in fact organized a national movement.

They need and deserve our support.
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So... Thank you for showing this. 👏👌

[parmismonsef]

Thank you so much for bringing awareness to this❤️

[bearsagainstevil]

I remember going to Weston super mare technical college with Iranians during the Islamic revolution (wow that was 42 years ago), and the shock they felt when fundamentalists took power. Iran went mad, it used to be a great country hopefully the protestors will win