1/Today marks the 45th anniversary of the day Iran became colonised by the religious fundamentalists, backed by urban guerrilla terrorists, fuelled by a mass propaganda which portrayed the late Shah as a decadent despot, and Khomeini as the saviour of the people of Iran.





2/This propaganda stood in sharp contrast to the experience of my parents and grandparents, who were horrified by the destruction of the prosperity, modernity, order, dignity, pride, and security they had known before.

1/There is a reason today's #iraniangovernment fears the power of #Iranianwomen's bodies. Whenever that power is unleashed, history changes & states fall. All over Iran, women are removing their veils, exposing their beauty & saying no to cowardice.
#Mahsa_Amini #IranProtests2022 2/This regime of corrupt mullahs cannot withstand such an onslaught.
In 550BCE, attempting to escape a vastly larger Median army, fleeing Persian soldiers were stopped in their tracks by an indignant crowd of women.