The quest for preserving the politico-religious identity of the Islamic Republic of Iran is a constant concern of the Islamist theocratic State since its emergence in 1979. At its birth, the new regime considered that the veil imposed Women was a central element of his authority and a means of social control. This imposition from the top resulted in a fragmentation of the social body between the customers of the regime who, out of conviction or by opportunism, relayed the official discourse on the obligation to wear the veil and the imperative need to fight against the Unveiling, but also the “bad hidjab” (bad wearing of the veil).
Slogans of the regime compare women revealed to appetizing pastries that could try men or insist on the necessary female modesty, with images like “a well veiled woman is like a pearl in her shell”! These arguments were at the heart of the official propaganda of a diet that does not hesitate to prevent women from swimming in a swimsuit in the Caspian Sea or in the Persian Gulf, while men can bathe shirtless.
Contrary to advancing the sociological analyzes of a part of the Western university world since the birth of Islamist theocracy, the compulsory port of the veil by Iranian women has never constituted a factor favoring their emancipation in relation to Their condition under the old regime, nor a proof of the existence of Islamic feminism. On the contrary, it was, from the first day, an ideological pillar of the strategy of the revolutionary elites wishing to prove the “moral” superiority of their model outside the Iranian borders. Inside the country, the political will to impose an indoctrination of the population and to promote a new Islamist lifestyle has been total.
daily humiliations
For four days, Iranian women have demonstrated in Iran to denounce the death of Mahsa Amini, arrested by the manners brigade for bad wearing of the veil. The demonstrators identify with their compatriot victim of the Islamist arbitrariness. These popular dispute movements of the Islamist order appear at the forefront of the anti-astalitary struggle against the Khomeynist ideology in Iran. The massive participation of men in this struggle for the defense of equality between men and women also marks an ideological failure of the regime in its desire to indoct the majority of the population.
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