is that helpful to your cause? that s actually. that s a very good question. but let me tell you something. where are these intellectual women? more than 60% of university in iran, across iran, is being occupied by brave, smart, intellectual women. but are you kidding me? these women are not mature enough to choose what they want to wear? these women are not allowed to go to stadium. allowed to dance, to sing, to show their hair, to travel abroad without getting permission from their husband. these women are not allowed to get a passport without getting permission from a male relative . so, this is what isis do, this is what the taliban do. that s why i m saying that this regime actually trying to show the rest of the world that, we are a normal regime. we respect women s rights, but they re lying. look, many women inside iran, they re fed up with this gender apartheid regime. and that is why they took to the streets, to end the islamic republic.
that the islamic republic is a gender apartheid regime. the islamic republic is. i mean, clearly, there is no difference between the islamic republic and isis. let me give you an example. isis behead people. the islamic republic do the same. they hang and kill people if they say that, we don t want to be muslim any more, if they criticise islam inside the country. the islamic republic actually count women like second class citizen. they lash us, they put us in jail, if we show our hair. you know. isis does the same. but hang on, hang on. i m also mindful that there are very successful women in iran. you can look at engineers, you can look at pilots, you can look at athletes, you can look at artists. you know, to talk in those terms about 21st century iran, is that useful?