When Iran's 'morality police' came for me
This woman, the provost at the University of Montana, was on our local NPR this morning. Washington Post, but paywall free link at bottom.
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The “morality police” came for me exactly 13 minutes into my lecture on gender and sexual politics in post-revolutionary Iran. Four sets of auditorium doors swung open simultaneously. In they came, boots pounding, weapons clanking. The Tehran lecture hall erupted in confusion as the komiteh, as the morality police are known, filled the room.
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Audience members ran every which way. I should have been shredding my lecture notes, running from the lectern into the nearby street. But the sight of a dozen bearded men in dark green uniforms rooted me to the floor. Two of the thugs climbed the steps to the stage; one raised his hand above my head, and then everything went black.
When I came to, in the back seat of a car, their voices reverberated in my aching skull. “You are a ruined woman who is here to ruin our country,” one growled at me. I was accused of trying to foment a revolution.
Fifteen years later, the streets of Iran have erupted in protest. Chants for “woman, life, freedom” reverberate throughout a country that has brutally repressed all three for more than 40 years.
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https://wapo.st/3SETA8c
Another thread on this topic, highly recommended:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217204581
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