How Feminists Failed the Women of Iran

Facing torture and death, Iranian women remind the world what bravery looks like. Throwing off their hijabs, defying the oppressive laws of the Iranian Republic, they risk the ultimate price in a “turquoise revolution” to rescue their country. This is a country where one imam preached that “women are animals created by Allah to be used by men. Women are no different from cows, sheep, horses, or mules.”

And feminists? Silent. No statement of outrage from feminist groups, nor from any of the left-wing alphabet soup agencies of the useless United Nations — no resolutions of censure, no investigations, just one meeting arranged by US Ambassador Mike Waltz. Masih Alinejad, an activist who left Iran with her family for America after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, testified there about the Iranian regime efforts to kill her, an attempt to rob her of her First Amendment rights. She spoke as the U.N. Human Rights Council just added a new member in October — the Iranian regime.

Since 1979, when Iranian terrorists overran the US embassy in Tehran, and took 66 Americans hostage, keeping 52 of them as prisoners for 444 days, the Ayatollah’s political agenda has been clear. The regime stones women to death for adultery and for failing to wear the hijab properly, as happened to Mahsa Amini, beaten to death by the “morality police” in 2022, sparking widespread riots across the country.

Now, the evil ayatollah of Iran is slaughtering his own people, protestors in the streets, risking their lives for freedom. Reports suggest 12,0000 to 30,000 have been massacred. We know this because Elon Musk is providing Starlink connection for those seeking to overthrow the regime that shouts ‘Death of America’ at every turn.

There was a similar silence during the Afghanistan debacle of the Biden era, when the Taliban stripped women and girls of hard-fought rights to education after the last US planes left. We abandoned them without a cry of regret from left-wing feminists.

But nothing has made clearer the chasm between wealthy left-wing feminists and the cause of women’s welfare than the unfolding tragedy in Iran right now. Morgues are overflowing with body bags, evidence of the Ayatollah’s order to the military to kill protestors. In one night alone, Jan 8-9, experts believe 12,000 Iranians were slaughtered, making it the largest two-day massacre since World War II.

After half a century of beating women for failing to wear their hijabs, after imposing the death penalty on women for the adultery, after decades of putting death-sentence fatwas on westerners like author Salman Rushdie and encouraging child-rape marriage and funding attacks on Israel by Hamas and Hezbollah, Iran is again alive with protests, facing its judgment day.

Truth is, the West has looked the other way or even abetted the regime for far too long.

The Iranian Revolution in 1979 led to the overthrow of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and the establishment of the Islamic Republic under Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Jimmy Carter arranged for the shah to flee and receive cancer treatment in the US because, according to declassified documents, Khomeini had assured him he would protect the Americans. It cost Carter the 1980 election.

President Obama, in 2015, sent billions of dollars in cash to Iran in a deal meant to curb its nuclear ambitions but instead fueled their repressive agenda.

As for President Biden, in 2021 he sought to appease the Iranian regime, hoping to revive the nuclear negotiation. According to the Federalist, Biden “permitted Iran to access $6 billion in previously frozen assets, undermining the pressure that had been built.” So Hamas had enough money to attack Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing 1,200 people, including at least 32 Americans. Houthi rebels in Yemen used Iranian-supplied missiles and drones to attack civilian and military targets across the Middle East and to terrorize international shipping in the Red Sea. Additionally, on Jan. 28, 2024, Hezbollah launched a drone strike in northeastern Jordan, killing three American soldiers and injuring more than 40 other service members.”

But this is not a failure alone of Democrats. It is a uniparty agreement to make diplomacy while shunning solutions. As @4yourcountry put it, “American foreign policy establishment gets paid to manage problems, not solve them. Every administration kicks the can. Every Congress funds the State Department that perpetuates it. Careers are built on maintaining dialogue with murderers.”

As for feminists, it has been clear for more than a century that feminists do not care about women, as much as they exploit them for political ends.

In 1916, Margaret Sanger opened the nation’s first birth control clinic in Brooklyn, with the express goal of restricting reproduction among women she saw as socially or genetically undesirable. They meant to cull the population of immigrants and blacks.

In the 1970s, a so-called second wave to feminists told women to stop shaving their armpits and convinced them that women could do everything better without men, or families. They empowered a generation of miserable, deranged activists.

And in the 2020s, sports legend Billy Jean King supported transgender men in women’s sports, while Hollywood’s Naomi Watts, Charlize Theron, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Ariana Grande advocated for mutilating girls in the name of transgenderism. This assault on Title IX was further fueled by the Biden administration, which made transgenders a new category against which discrimination could not stand.

But nothing has made clearer the chasm between wealthy left-wing feminists and the cause of women’s welfare than the unfolding tragedy in Iran right now. Morgues are overflowing with body bags, evidence of the Ayatollah’s order to the military to kill protestors. In one night alone, Jan 8-9, experts say 12,000 Iranians were slaughtered.

When Israel defended itself against Iranian-funded Hamas terrorists, western leftists wore keffiyeh and shut down universities in an epic anti-Israel rant.

When Russia was the bad guy, they put Ukrainian flags on their online profiles.

But when the Islamic Republic of Iran is the villain, they can’t go there. It interrupts their ideological narrative that Islam is the victim, colonized by the West. If they knew anything about the history of the Crusades, they would know that the Muslims waged violent war against the Christian world, and almost won power.

Of late I’ve seen only one brave voice on the left, including feminists, who dared to issue a statement in support of the Iranian protestors.

As much of the Hollywood elite is still silent, Madonna stepped up.

“As I reflect on my time in Morocco over the holidays I think of all the people in IRAN who are fighting a much needed Revolution and willing to die for what they believe in. The women of Iran do not have this freedom. I stand with them. My thoughts and prayers are with the people of Iran. The time is now,’ she posted. “Hold Tight! I stand with Iran. Let their voices be heard. FREE IRAN!’

Iranians are now shouting, “The last battle.” There have been several major clashes in the last few years, all of them quashed by a brutal regime. Amid rumors Iran is now using chemical weapons on protestors, it is critical we do not fail the Iranians again.