Iranian life held hostage by world politics is a painful rip off of Iranians’ agency. IR calling #Iranrevolution, Israel/America’s, atop of those who rely only on the US forced lens on Iran, must all understand that until they liberate their own gaze on Iran, we won’t be free.
Iran’s fate should only be in the hands of its people. And the Revolution is not just led by the visible figures of « opposition » in the west, MANY - far too many to know how many- want radical change irrespective of political allegiance but that of a potential free democracy.
If the “visible western opposition” knew to center margins of the movement that the world fails to see, instead of pushing the narrative that oppression is all the same when it ain’t, when there are degrees of oppression x nuances to the movement, like any other, then the world
wouldn’t be buying into IR propaganda as the only possible “narrative” to #womanlifefreedom The world would lean in our nuances and see for itself that #Iranrevolution is the will of the streets, of the people x cannot be reduce to foreign policy despite its relevance.
That it reaches basic right to life when it hits Baluchestan, such as challenged rights to citizenship because of ethnicity, they’d remember it executes people because of sexual orientation, they’d know the harassement Black folks in Iran go thru bc of state surveillance
that projects harmful and discriminatory narratives onto minoritized populations, they’d know Baha’i folks been persecuted to the point of often not taking center stage bc of vivid fear of additional persecution, etc etc. Oppression dials up in many parts of the country reaching
everyone but in specific ways atop of gendered discrimination. The Islamic rep is a discriminatory system, period. The world choosing not to see it reach, doesn’t make it any less.
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