The inconsistent attitude of western groups, organizations and exponents and, instead of hoping for the collapse of the Iranian regime, tend to relativize their responsibilities or even to defend their position, often in an anti-western or anti-senior key, is increasingly surprising and worries more and more. The Iranian regime is not simply “different” from the West: it is structurally opposite to it, to the extent that it bases its power on an extreme interpretation of the Islamic law, represses with violence any internal dissent, systematically internet censorship And it requires asphyxiating control over women’s lives. And to think that it is sufficient to “leave him alone” and close his eyes is a huge mistake, for our consciences and also for our international strategy.
It is not a secret: The most progressive European fringes are among the most fervent supporters of the soft line towards Tehran. We are talking about the same country, Iran, who arrest and kills women if they claim the right not to want to wear the veil (local feminists, remember Mahsa Amini, massacred in 2022 to have badly worn his hijab?) And which responds with an unprecedented brutality to any social protest: according to Amnesty International, Only in 2023 there were over 750 arrests of women for “behaviors not compliant with the Islamic code”, with at least 354 Total executions That year for crimes ranging from apostasy to offense to supreme driving.
Yet for many, and many, today’s enemy are US and their “imperialism”. In particular, clearly, it affects The inconsistency of part of the western feminist movementwhich has shown an extraordinary ability to mobilize for internal gender issues, but which often ignores (or relativizes) the battles of women who live in contexts where patriarchate is not only cultural, but codified by law. The same rumors shouting at the scandal for western sexism, show themselves ambiguous against a regime that obliges women by law to cover themselves, without the right to the custody of children and freedom of travel.
The same reasoning applies to pacifist and anti-militarist movements That, in the name of the opposition to European rearmament, they end up indirectly favoring powers that every day try to undermine the Atlantist concept of freedom and now choose from time to time who prefer between alleged invaded and alleged invader: just see what happened to the anti -restoring procession of yesterday in Rome, in which at a protester that took to the streets with two flags, the Palestinian one and the Ukrainian one, the Ukrainian flag was torn. since “does not comply with the provisions of the organization”.
In short, there are good and invaded bad invades. So local pacifists strongly criticize the increase in military expenses by Europe, without considering the growing global instability and forget that Iran is not only an oppressive regime internally, but it is also a very active financier of Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthi rebels in Yemen and therefore an antagonist throughout the Middle East area (and not only).
The contradiction of those who defend Iran in an anti -American or anti -western function is finally even more paradoxical if you notice the strength with which the Iranian society is trying, with very high costs, to get rid of its theocratic and violent hood. Recent popular protests, guided above all by young people and women, ask for freedom, dignity and radical reforms. Who in the West pretends not to seeeither worse still accuses these protests of being “exploited by the United States”, or sins of knowledge or flanks repression.
In short, in the western world, for many, international politics means unconditional respect and trust also towards repressive governments, in order not to fight. It certainly amazes how the most tenacious supporters of this thesis are those who today mark themselves as “anti -fascists”: they forgot that without the American intervention in Europe today they would perhaps shout “Sieg Heil!”.
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