SMCCDI-We, Iranian Women, Will Not Be Tread Upon

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SMCCDI (Public Statement)
December 30, 2002

More than twenty-three years ago, the 'regime of the
oppressed' was supposed to bring the promised Paradise to
Iran. The return of 'honor' had been promised to the group
of fundamentalists that cried 'horror' for being
'dishonored' because their daughters- instead of staying at
home- were commuting on the streets between school or work
and home, without the black covering of the chador or veil,
and with the clothing of their own choosing. To this end,
the mullahs of the Mosque sermons and the bankrupt
political fundamentalists proposed the thesis of "Rule of
the Oppressed." Thus, the groundwork was laid for those
who, despite having higher levels of academic training, due
to their fundamentalist beliefs, had been shunned from the
community of free-thinkers and from the political scenes to
give their allegiance to the fundamentalist mullahs and
control the destiny of a nation in their hands.

Circumstances had allowed this group to follow their own
fundamentalist beliefs without having the slightest inkling
what the wants and needs of the Iranian community were in
those days: a community whose one and only desire was
political freedom. In pursuing those fundamentalist
ideologies the fundamentalist allegiance quickly mobilized
and destroyed all the social, cultural, and economic
freedoms that the Iranian nation had acquired throughout
history: all taken away in the name of religion with
deceitful lies.

The enemies of civilization made the women their first
target and their enmity with women went so far that their
incompetent governance managed to show their capabilities
by policing the hair of six year old girls. The educated
and fundamentalist- yet non- mullah- President appeared on
TV and announced that women's hair should be covered,
because rays from the women's hair will target the men! It
is thus that by covering the hair of Iranian women, they
first covered their own incompetence; unaware that after
[23] years, the same six year old girls of those days have
now risen to demand their lost rights despite all the
propaganda that these unwise rulers have spread to justify
their laws.

[The ruling fundamentalists should be told]: For [more than
23] years, you fundamentalists have stepped on the people's
proverbial throat. You disregarded women's rights and with
all your might you tried to keep half the nation out of
society- to not hear their voices-unaware that these very
ladies are nurturing this country's children. How could you
have thought that by taking away people's rights you could
create a strong society?

Unwise ones, do you remember when you would compare the
Iranian girls and women to Fatemeh [the Prophet's daughter]
and Zainab [Fatemeh's daughter], thus lying that you were
giving her a high place? What happened? Why are you making
them 'Chaste Houses' [, government controlled prostitution
houses,] today? Are not these youth of today the small
girls of yester-year that you praised so excessively? How
is it that you have made drug addicts out of the children
of these women? How is it that our countrywomen are being
sold [literally] in neighboring countries? Till when are
you to be the proverbial companion to the caravan and
partner with the thieves?

You gave away our rights in the Caspian, was it not enough?
You plundered our oil, was it not enough? You stole what
rightfully belonged to the nation and turned your shacks to
castles, was it not enough? Now, you are eyeing the Iranian
women. You put the Iranian women on sale next to the
islands of the The Greater Tonb, The Lesser Tonb, and Abu
Musa and you debate the price with foreigners.

Your contemplations are dead wrong. Whatever you may have
taken away from us during these years, you have not taken
away our burning desire for freedom. Even those women who
sell their bodies have sent their cries for freedom beyond
the boundaries of your tyranny: They have said how they are
forced to sell their bodies to feed themselves, to have a
roof for their children to sleep under. They sell their
bodies to stay alive, for there is no other way left. Stay
alive so at the right opportunity they can reclaim the
rights you have stolen from them: to avenge the addicting
of their sons, the spilled blood of their husbands, and the
compromised borders of the country. And the time is soon.

The pedestals of the proverbial throne of your injustice
have been badly shaken by the same oppressed women. Open
your eyes: we are the very same freedom-loving women who
were pilots, attorneys, physicians, teachers, and mothers.
The mothers of Sattar Khan and Bagher Khan, and the mothers
of all the children of this land. It is we who next to our
children will again destroy your castles of tyranny with
our cries for justice and will take back the throne of
power you have been sitting on through force and with lies.


We will destroy your courts of injustice and replace them
with justice. We will build again our ravaged country and
will replace today's indignities with our proud
accomplishments; for, the hands of the Iranian women have
rocked the cradle of freedom and have nourished
freedom-lovers.

December 30, 2002 (9th Dey 1381)

The "Student Movement Coordination Committee for Democracy
in Iran" (SMCCDI)

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