Thread by @monaeltahawy

tw: regime violence, gender-based violence

Iranian security forces are targeting women at anti-regime protests with shotgun fire to their faces, breasts and genitals, according to interviews with medics across the country. theguardian.com/global-develop… #mahsaami̇ni̇ #IranRevolution

"Doctors and nurses – treating demonstrators in secret to avoid arrest – said they first observed the practice after noticing that women often arrived with different wounds to men, who more commonly had shotgun pellets in their legs, buttocks and backs." #IranRevolution

Revolutions are dangerous. All who rise up risk death and serious injury. The Iranian regime has factored gender into that risk.

A doctor from Isfahan province told The Guardian the regime "wanted to destroy the beauty of these women".

#IranRevolution #mahsaami̇ni̇

Multiple trigger warnings--regime violence, sexual violence, gender-based violence.

Please be aware before you read this paragraph.

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"Traumatised by his experience, the physician – who like all medical professionals cited in this article spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals – said he had a hard time dealing with the stress and pain he witnessed."

“She could have been my own daughter.”
#Iran

I am so sickened and enraged at reading that article. I know this kind of violent misogynist targeting by the State.

Exactly, 11yrs ago I had surgery to fix a bone in my arm broken by Egyptian riot police. They broke my left arm, right hand, and sexually assaulted me.

At the same protest, they sexually assaulted 12 other female protestors in an identical manner which says to be they were instructed to do so.

I will never forget this, from another protest, 11yrs ago. Fuck fascist misogynists everywhere #Egypt #Iran

"One doctor from Karaj...said security forces “shoot at the faces and private body parts of women because they have an inferiority complex. And they want to get rid of their sexual complexes by hurting these young people.”"
theguardian.com/global-develop… #IranRevolution

Glory and power to the feminist revolution in Iran.

Fuck fascism everywhere.

Fuck the patriarchy everywhere.

feministgiant.com/p/essay-women-… #mahsaami̇ni̇ #IranRevolution

I wrote this 1o years ago about the Arabic-speaking countries in the part of the world I was born.

I know because they have told me, that women in Iran find it relevant to their revolutionary fight too.

feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-10…