Today women in Iran have taken to the streets demanding freedom. It’s a huge outcry in the world, is coverage. It is said that the health of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has also deteriorated. The Islamic government and its patrons, the Maulana and the Imam, use the police and intelligence agencies in all kinds of ways to crush women, Giving orders and threats. But the number of angry women is increasing. There are reports of women beating mullahs in mosques in many places.… What will Iran change then?, Oppose After a few more days, the agitating women would be scared. The girls will stop going out and even if they come out, the family members will allow the girls to go out wearing two burqas instead of one.
Then Persia and now Iran
Iran was once Persia. The tales of the city. What is that now? She is in news these days for women’s freedom from black clothes. Iran was once a country among the few great civilizations of history. It was Parsia who used to bask in the tales of the prince and the princess and the majestic splendor. Very beautiful and adorable. History Persia has tales of a glorious, glamor and blissful civilization of miraculous Maya. That parsia where the love of the prince or princess was immersed in the magical blue sky and silvery rivers. The splendor of Persia, its royalty has always fascinated outsiders in history. He always had a royal reputation. No wonder the country was the envy of the Arabs, the Turks and the Mongols in the early centuries.
It happened in Persia, Persia, Iran in modern times. In the twentieth century, when oil was found there and the world gave it colors. There a new emperor, a new monarchy, was born. The pretentious, grand global ambitions of the monarchy fueled the country’s spirits. Iran became Persia. But that new name was probably inauspicious. With the new name, the glamor of his mood, his brilliance faded away. Black viscous oil started flowing instead of Silver River. But because oil was needed by the world, because of petroleum products, Iran became rich and royal for the rest of the world? The eyes of Britain and Russia on this land were blind. By an agreement in 1907, both countries divided Iran into two parts of their respective spheres of influence.
The modern emperor Yaki Shah Reza dreamed of making Persia a modern Iran. Build a lot It is as if to make Europe. The purpose of making the country back into a great civilization of the world. He banned black tents like chadar, burqa for women. Heavy infrastructure of roads, rails, airports, modern settlements was built. Build a strong army of the country. The Iranians became modern educated.
The modern Shah of Iran of the twentieth century worked very hard to make Iran military power and modern. Not only this, when Hitler made Germany’s glory in Europe, Shah praised Hitler and called German engineers and gave them the task of developing the country’s ‘infrastructure’. There was a courageous prime minister under his rule. His name was Mohammed Mossadiq. He nationalized the oil companies. And talked about building democracy in Iran. The Iranians took the pledge to create modern understandings like democracy, free press and elections.
But how could such ideas come into force under the rule of the monarchy? When people started liking the new ideas of their Prime Minister, the Shah of Iran understood it as a threat to himself. But the popular Prime Minister showed his tax. Conflict ensued and for a few days Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi had to leave the country.
But he lobbied for himself in Western countries while abroad. Explained the importance of the country with petroleum products to the friendly western countries. With their help, they then returned back to Iran. Captured the capital Tehran and the freedom choice of the people. By making business deals with Western oil companies, winning the hearts of America and Europe, Shah Reza ended all the challenges of his power. That was Iran’s grip on the Shah’s monarchy. To create fear in the public, to keep an eye on the freedom seekers, to suppress them, Shah terrorized the intelligence agency named SAVAK. Through this agency, he kept crushing opponents for decades.
Author James Buchan (Days of God: The Revolution in Iran and its Consequences- James Buchan) has written in his book that the country got rich during the time of Shah. The earning of petrol items made it happy. Despite this poverty persisted. If the focus was not on getting the people out of poverty, then in the end it happened that – if Shah was in a hurry to bring modernity, he was also doing the work of eradicating it immediately. They misunderstood the centuries-old conflict by squeezing it out in a few years.
The monarchy had got its strength from the western countries, then first Raja Shah and then his son ruled with impunity. Iran lived for some forty nine years under the rule of the first emperor.
Suddenly abroad, an Ayatollah Khomeini, an exile in France, challenged the Shah to become the Messiah of the torch of Islam for the poor-middle-class people. Such an event happened. Such conditions were created that in the year 1970, the anger of the Iranian people boiled. People from the poor orthodox countryside and madrassas in the holy religious city of Qum revolted. Khomeini was called upon to overthrow the monarchy and its non-Islamic rule. One of the surprising aspects of that period is that the BBC, a democratic free voice of the world, played a role in the rebellion. BBC Persia carried the uprisings of the Iranian people across the world, from door to door within Iran. Promoted it. Shah Raza trembled.
It is incomprehensible today that why the BBC, Persia has fueled the political turmoil of Iran’s internal affairs? But the truth is that sometimes the very tool of wanting democracy takes the people to the other extreme. BBC Persia’s coverage of that time has a hand in bringing it to the dogmatic system that Iran is in today and if women are also interested in basic freedom.
Keep in mind that during the Second World War, international broadcasting of radio was an important tool of diplomacy of countries. London’s Bush House or BBC Headquarters started the BBC Persia broadcasting service for Iran. The purpose was two-sided. To build, increase British influence on Iran. And indeed after the Second World War, the BBC Persian service gained a great reputation among Iranians. It gave a fierce competition to Germany’s Persian broadcasting service even during the war.
However, in the 1970s, when Iran’s power in the Persian Gulf and West Asia dominated, neutral coverage of the BBC’s Persian service created a rift between Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and the people of his government. BBC Persia was not liked. In the confusion of all this, when Ayatollah Khomeini started his campaign from France, BBC Persia broadcast his speeches against the monarchy i.e. Shah Raza.
Overall, Islamic fundamentalism and the Ayatollah-led rebellion led to a coup in Iran in 1979. The alleged Iranian revolution, Shah Reza, fled and took refuge abroad. Ayatollah Rouhola Khomeini, who was exiled in France for years, returned to Iran and established Islamic power. Iran became an Islamic republic.
And what was it then? The day is then and today is the day. Iran is a country badly deviated and crippled by its internal whirlwinds, Islamic shackles, and the ambition of the Shia regime’s Islamic might against the world, and especially in West Asia, Sunni-majority Saudi Arabia. He made a lot of ruckus against America. As a result, he made himself an untouchable country in the world. Losing the tales, glamor, glamor of Persia’s emperors and townspeople, the country of the world survives as it is, despite resources like petrol. The country has become conservative in every way under the leadership of mullahs.
Khomeini and his later Ayatollahs are not even an inch of reformist and modern. He is neither in favor of giving rights to the followers nor to the public. Let the people vote as he says, become the President. People lived life in the ways they told. Not only this, paint the world in your own colors. When Salman Rushdie wrote the book, it was a direct fatwa against the Muslim to kill this author!
Khomeini died in 1989. Till then he had written that script in the sands of Iran, from which no one can bother. His Islamic system has penetrated so much in the hearts and minds of the government and the people, in the memories that there is no room for change. On the one hand, people devoted to religion and on the other hand the frustrated-disappointed-exile and the angry-discontented Iranians fluttering in their hearts.
Then even after the death of Khomeini, time did not change. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei took the throne after his death. Even under his rule, four presidents have come and gone. But no one changed. Neither in domestic matters nor in foreign affairs. Change of government and president all meaningless. Restricted not to change and innovate but to act according to Khomeini’s Tell Islamic version.
There have been sporadic revolts like this twice. Once in 2009, under the regime of Mohammad Ahmadinezadeh. He was considered a disciple of Ayatollah Khamenei. There were many agitations and demonstrations in the country regarding election rigging by him. Then in the year 2019, during the time of Hasan Rouhani’s government, people took to the streets due to the economic crisis. When the US canceled the nuclear deal with it in 2018 and imposed sanctions on Iran, the economic situation remained fragile. There were all-out protests. In the protests of November 2019, slogans of “tyrant ki death” were also heard.
At present, Iran is in a different kind of crisis. There women have taken to the streets demanding freedom. There is a huge outcry in the world, there is coverage. It is said that the health of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has also deteriorated. The Islamic government and its patron Maulana and Imam are giving all kinds of methods, orders and threats from the police and intelligence agencies to crush women. But the number of angry women is increasing. There are reports of women beating mullahs in mosques in many places. For example, on 17 September in the southern city of Shiraz, eight imams were killed.
It is natural that Tehran’s government should panic. She is shaken. CNN’s Christina Amanpour was asked to wear a headscarf while interviewing President Ibrahim Raisi on US soil because of the “situation of Iran”. Incidents of burning of burqa, hijab in public, public cutting of women’s hair on the streets and agitations against the Islamic government and its laws are increasing continuously in Iran. In this, the economic plight is working as fuel in the fire. Iran is the country in the world where the figure of per capita income is decreasing from year to year. In 2012, the GDP was $8000, it is now less than three thousand dollars.
Despite all this, the Islamic government also seems careless. Tehran experts are telling that the government is confident that women will cool down with time. Many people feel that the agitating women will get scared after a few more days of protest. The girls will stop going out and even if they come out, the family members will allow the girls to go out wearing two burqas instead of one. Iran cannot change. The history of Iran today and tomorrow cannot be that of Shahzade or Persia with the magic blue sky and silvery rivers of the crown prince. He is destined to have a life of being wrapped in barren, sandy and black clothes.
