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[–] belastend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

The current regime has been enforcing a gender apartheid system for over 45 years. I reserve the same hatred for these fuckers like I do for Netanyahu and Trump.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 4 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah, but the monarchist protestors want to reinstate the US-backed Pahlavi dynasty in the form of Reza Pahlavi.

His father Mohammad, the last US-installed Shah of Iran has literally said this in an interview:

Women are wicked, evil, all of them ... Women haven’t produced anything, no scientists, they’re pretty creatures

And has repeatedly referred to women as sexual objects existing only for his gratification.

Reza himself has been quiet on women's rights, never once denouncing either his father's views or the currently existing gender inequality in Iran.

I guess it wasn't very socially acceptable to be that misogynistic in the US after the 70s or so. Maybe he will finally speak out now that Trump made this kind of discourse mainstream again.

[–] belastend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 8 hours ago

I feel really icky defending a prince, but Reza Kiri has, on multiple occasions, denounced the gender apartheid in Iran.

His father being misogynistic, like any patriarch, does not negate the fact that women are de facto second class citizens in Iran. Their testimony in court is worth less than that of a man, their right to divorce is severely limited and let's not forget how Mahsa Amini got beaten to death for not wearing her hijab correctly.