Last week I wrote about Ivy League activists chanting for peace while Iranian women risked prison for freedom.
This week the world is watching two streets tell two different stories.
In one set of streets, Iranian women are ripping off mandatory hijabs, dancing, crying, waving the Lion and Sun flag, and celebrating what they believe may be the first real weakening of the regime that has governed their bodies for nearly half a century. In cities across the United States, Iranian diaspora communities have gathered in public squares, embracing strangers, thanking Americans, and expressing relief that the regime which has ruled their lives with brutality may finally be showing cracks.
In another set of streets, in major American cities, protesters are marching in outrage over the very strike that weakened that same regime.
The contrast could not be more stark.
Before 1979, women in Iran served as judges, lawyers, members of parliament, and professors. The Family Protection Laws of 1967 and 1975 raised the marriage age to 18 for girls, restricted polygamy, and expanded women’s rights in divorce and child custody. Women entered universities in growing numbers, and civil courts governed family life.
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