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June 16, 2009
Getting rid of discrimination and demanding equal rights with men is the number one priority for women in Tehran
Michael Ledeen makes an interesting aside as he points out - helpfully, in my opinion - that nobody, not even the actors involved, knows what is going on in Iran, how it will turn out or even how key figures want it to turn out. One actor I had not heard of, and whose existence may be a hopeful sign, is Zahra Rahnavard, wife of erstwhile president Mir-Hossein Mousavi.
Does Mousavi even want to change the system? I think he does, and in any event, I think that’s the wrong question. He is not a revolutionary leader, he is a leader who has been made into a revolutionary by a movement that grew up around him. The real revolutionary is his wife, Zahra Rahnavard. And the real question, the key question in all of this, is: why did Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei permit her to become such a charismatic figure? How could he have made such a colossal blunder? It should have been obvious that the very existence of such a woman threatened the dark heart of the Islamic Republic, based as it is on the disgusting misogyny of its founder, the Ayatollah Khomeini.
And kudos to The Guardian for getting up the regime's noses. More than could be send of the BBC or, for that matter, the al-Jazeera farm team at the CBC.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at June 16, 2009 08:47 AM
