Dec 28 2022

Infamous Iranian regime judge Abolqasem Salavati, who has been tagged as Iran’s “hanging judge,” sentenced a 25-year-old Iranian woman to 10 years in prison for “encouraging prostitution” because she took off her mandatory headscarf at an anti-regime protest.

The American government news organization Voice of America (VOA) tweeted in Persian about Mahsa Peyravi’s sentence on Sunday. VOA wrote that the Tehran Revolutionary Court sentenced Peyravi for taking off her headscarf in October on Mirdamad Boulevard in Tehran. She twirled her hijab in an oft-repeated act of women’s rights defiance against the clerical men who rule the theocratic state.

The Tehran court found her guilty of “encouraging corruption and prostitution” for her rejection of the obligatory Islamic dress code. She was also convicted of “assembly and collusion.” Human rights organizations have long argued that the Islamic Republic of Iran’s opaque judicial system fails to meet rudimentary norms for a modern legal system.

‘End of Iranian dictatorship is near’

Hamid Charkhkar, an Iranian American academic, told the Jerusalem Post that “this cruel and inhumane treatment of Iranians by the Islamic regime in Iran shows the end for [Ali] Khamenei’s dictatorship is near. The youth in Iran will no longer tolerate Sharia laws and they are done with medieval Mullahs controlling their lives. Over the last 100 days, Iranians have fought this regime every day and now for the first time in 43 years since the emergence of Islamic fascism in Iran, most people can see a future without the Islamic Republic.”

Iranians launched a nationwide upheaval against the Khamenei regime after the nation’s notorious morality police killed Mahsa Amini in September for failing to wear her hijab properly. The highly repressive Islamic nation has been gripped with demonstrations since Amini’s murder.

Charkhkar, who is a member of the Alliance Against Islamic Regime of Iran Apologists, added “Although Khamenei and his thugs use scare tactics such as executions, torture, and long-term prison sentences to silence people, this revolution will continue till the day Iranians are rid of these monsters.”

Frieda Fuchs, who is also a member of the Alliance Against Islamic Regime of Iran Apologists and has a PhD in government from Harvard University, told the Post that “The control of women’s minds and wombs is a fundamental feature of theocratic regimes such as Iran…Wherever women’s rights are attacked, so are the fundamental rights of other groups in that society. Iranian women are the noble heirs of the enlightenment; theirs is humanity’s struggle for freedom. Iran’s gender apartheid regime has no place in our world. Let’s hope that one day we can look back on theocratic Iran, where women are jailed or killed for unveiling, and then labeled prostitutes, in the same way, that we look back at racial apartheid South Africa: A historic anachronism.”

The Alliance Against Islamic Regime of Iran Apologists is a US-based organization that currently seeks to secure the dismissal of pro-Iran regime professor Mohammad Jafar Mahallati at Oberlin College in Ohio. Amnesty International accused Mahallati of covering up the mass murder of at least 5,000 Iranian dissidents in 1988. Mahallati served as the Islamic Republic’s ambassador to the UN between 1987-1989. Mahallati denies the allegation he covered up crimes against humanity in 1988.

Source » jpost