By M. K. Bhadrakumar, Asia Times Online, Feb. 18, 2012 The foreplay is nearing completion on the Iran situation. The surest sign is that there were no serious takers in Western capitals for the Israeli smear campaign this week that Tehran's agents had been going about placing bombs in New Delhi, Tbilisi and Bangkok. Simply put, there is growing impatience that it is way past
What s happening in Iran right now is unprecedented. But the Iranian people s struggle for gender equality began generations before the death of 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amini, also known by her Kurdish name, Jina Amini. The successes of this struggle, as well as its setbacks and horrors, are well-documented, but often misunderstood. Scholar Arzoo Osanloo argues that women have been at the center of Iran s century-long fight for freedom and self-determination. It s a historical thread that goes all the way back to Iran s Constitutional Revolution in the early 20th century: A complicated story of reform, revolution, and a fundamental questioning of whether Iranian people and people around the Islamic world will accept a government of clerics as the sole arbiters of Islam and the state.
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