While most Iranians both in Iran and around the world are celebrating the attacks on the country and the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Western feminists are choosing to side with the Islamist dictatorship.
As news of Khamenei’s death spread around the globe on Saturday evening, and as the Iranian people may finally be glimpsing the beginning of the end of decades of oppression, Feminist Initiative announced that they are siding with the dictatorship—or as they put it: “stand in full solidarity with the Iranian people.”
“We view with disgust how US imperialism and the Zionist terror state of Israel once again violate Iran to cement their dominance in the region,” the statement continued.
Fi claims the attack is “a cover for yet another act in a long history of Western intervention, systematic resource plundering, and violence against the :censored:6:cdd6bbaa89: south.”
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The conclusion:
What we are witnessing is raw imperialism: to use military force to crush all attempts at liberation from the :censored:6:cdd6bbaa89: order that serves Western powers and the Israeli occupation power. Freedom, equality, and justice can never be achieved through occupation, blockades, and military attacks. We demand an immediate halt to all forms of aggression against Iran and support the Iranian people’s struggle for liberation.
Storm of Criticism
Even though comments were limited to people who had followed the page for more than 24 hours, criticism was still extensive—some comments:
“What the hell are you talking about?
Do you really hate Israel and the Western world so much that you want the Islamist oppression to continue?”
“So how does F propose the regime’s slaughter of civilians would have been stopped if the mullahs had stayed in power? What does this full solidarity with the Iranian people look like concretely in action?”
“Fi seems to have missed that the population in Iran has been protesting since the turn of the year to be free from the mullahs!”
Previously, they have also raised objections to removing Venezuela’s communist dictator Nicolás Maduro from power:
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