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picture of an Iranian women in a demonstration 

Yesterday, Fatemeh Alia , head of women’s fraction of parliament of Iran’s Islamic regime in her speech requested restricter control of women dressing. In her speech she said  :” roots of many of social violence and harrasments is in the women themselves. Women with their own clothing show if they want to be harrassed and harmed or not“. !!!

I am not sure which women Ms. Alia associates with but I have not met any normal woman (or human being for that matter) who wants to be harrassed, harmed or be subjected to violence. Blaming women for being the cause of rapes, violence etc. is nothing new in the thinking of Islmic regime who wants to blame women so that men in the male dominant society that they have created do not assume responsibility for their actions. In my view her second sentence is nothing but an indirect ultimatum to Iranian women that they must adhere to the forced clothing or they will be harmed!!! As old as 2500 years ago Iranian women had roles such as ruler of the persian empire, heads of army, musicians, artists, etc and it is obvious that the Ms. Alia is not a true representative of Iranian women’s sentiment.  

That is the same mentality that initially held Nazanin Fatehi responsible for the rape attempt to the extent that the first verdicts were death sentence for excercising her right to self defense. It was only after international pressure and publicity that the regime’s judiciary eventually shifted the responsibility to the rapist for the “harm, harrasment and violence” that he has caused and not the victim.

رييس فراكسيون زنان مجلس گفت

“ ‌ريشه بسياري از خشونتها و آزارهاي اجتماعي زنان در خود زنان بوده است؛ زنان با نوع پوشش خود خواستشان مبني بر اين كه مورد آزار و اذيت قرار گيرند يا نه،

Source: ISNA (Iranian student new agency)