We may never know her name, or what led her to public act of defiance. But if we lived in a just world, her young face would have appeared on the front of every newspaper.
Every network, every social media influencer would be demanding an answer to one question: What’s your response to the sacrifice of the young woman in Iran?
Perhaps you haven’t heard her story yet. While we don’t know much, we do know the circumstances leading to her apparent death.
It began when the young college student’s hijab didn’t fit properly on her head. The Ayatollah’s omnipresent henchmen, who often target university campuses, demanded she fix her covering. But like so many women confined to the horror show that is today’s Islamic Republic of Iran, she was having none of it.
Instead, she defiantly took action she knew would generate immediate and dire consequences from an unforgiving murderous regime. In an unimaginable act of bravery, she not only refused to comply with the demands of the religious police, but she also stripped to her underwear in a public square and walked like a lioness with her proud head held high, her beautiful long hair covering her back.
We can only guess the fate that awaited her when the police carted her away. Dead or alive, it was, once again, a young Iranian woman who bravely pierced for a few minutes the evil that is the Mullahocracy.
The question for the world’s elite, for democracies, high and mighty advocates of human rights sitting in their safe perches in New York and Geneva, is clear: Do they possess the moral GPS to denounce the Iranian regime? Or will the self-anointed vanguards of human rights maintain their stoic silence?
From the Green Revolution in 2009 to the Woman, Life, Freedom movement in 2022, and 10,000 small acts of defiance every day, it is the women and girls of Iran who continue to struggle to keep hope alive as they pray that the civilized world will one day awaken to help the Iranian people bring down the evil regime
