Iran is rising. In 1978, Iranians took to the streets to burn the portrait of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. 44 years after the Islamic revolution, the same images of popular revolts in the streets of Tehran are going around the world, but this time with the portrait of Ayatollah Khamenei.
Since the death of Masha Aminini, who was murdered by the morality police on September 16th for carrying rape deemed “inappropriate”, the whole country has been calling for justice, but also for change!
Every day, at the risk of their lives, Iranians demonstrate to demand an end to the compulsory wearing of the veil, the cessation of the activities of the morality police and the immediate release of those recently arrested.
A sustained fight in France
A real fight for freedom that several French public figures have decided to support openly. While Mélissa Theuriau posted an Instagram message to highlight the injustice suffered by Masha Amini on Instagram on September 27, other personalities showed their support for Iranian women through a very strong gesture!
Charlotte Gainsbourg, Marion Cotillard, Pomme, Angèle, Juliette Binoche, Isabelle Carré, Yael Naim, Muriel Robin, Alexandra Lamy, Isabelle Huppert, Pomme… About fifty artists, singers, actresses appeared in a video from the Instagram account “Support women Iran” symbolically cutting off a lock of hair.
A video posted this Wednesday, October 5 and accompanied by the following text: “It is impossible not to denounce again and again this terrible repression. There are already dozens of dead men and women, including children. The arrests only swell the number of prisoners already illegally detained and too often tortured. We have therefore decided to respond to the call that has been made to us by cutting, too, some of these locks. »
On the eve of the publication of this video, on Tuesday, a minute of silence was observed in the National Assembly in honor of the “incredible courage” of the “women, men and all the youth of Iran” who “express their thirst for freedom”, in the words of Yaël Braun-Pivet.
Lisa Ziane
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