Stephan: All over the world there is a major trend underway; it is particularly intense and active in the Islamic world and in the United States. What is it? A militant attempt to keep women a subordinate gender. Nowhere is this clearer than in Iran where, as this article describes, the police are deliberately trying to shoot women in their groin so that their genitals are damaged. The good news about this trend though is that the women are winning. In spite of the hysteria, particularly by patriarchal religious movements, I think, the 21st century will stand out as the century where gender equality became a reality. If you look at countries governed by women, for instance, you see clearly that they have better-functioning governments and policies than the previous men, and that they tend to foster wellbeing. Voters in those countries -- Iceland, The Marshall Islands, New Zealand, Namibia, Bangladesh,Nepal, Estonia, Croatia, Norway, Ethiopia, Taiwan, Lithuania -- seem to be understanding this.
A protest in Tehran days after the death of Mahsa Amini. One medic said he treated a woman ‘deliberately’ shot in the genitals and thighs. Credit: Social media /Rex / Shutterstock
Iranian security forces are targeting women at anti-regime protests with shotgun fire to their faces, breasts and genitals, according to interviews with medics across the country.
Doctors and nurses – treating demonstrators in secret to avoid arrest – said they first observed the practice after noticing that women often arrived with different wounds to men, who more commonly had shotgun pellets in their legs, buttocks and backs.
While an internet blackout has hidden much of the bloody crackdown on protesters, photos provided by medics to the Guardian showed devastating wounds all over their bodies from so-called birdshot pellets, which security forces have fired on people at close range. Some of the photos showed people with dozens of tiny “shot” balls lodged deep in their flesh.
The Guardian has spoken to 10 medical professionals who warned about the seriousness of the injuries that could leave hundreds of young Iranians with […]
I think Iran is a horrible country, especially since they have the ability to make nuclear weapons! They might just decide to use them on the USA.