A recently released footage shows Iran’s security forces in Tehran violently assaulting two teenage girls, one aged 14, for violating the regime’s misogynistic hijab rules.
According to the mother of one victim, physical evidence of the assault remained visible on her body over six weeks after the incident.
The egregious nature of this event has prompted even the regime’s State Security Forces to state: “Such behavior by SSF agents falls outside our operational standards. The case is currently under investigation by FARAJA (the regime’s State Security Force) judicial and inspection system.”
The incident has caused outrage across Iran, but is sadly one of many similar incidents happening under the rule of the mullahs. At this moment, Arezou Badri, a 31-year-old mother of two, is struggling for life after being shot by security forces enforcing the regime’s hijab rules. She is currently in critical condition at Tehran’s Valiasr Hospital, where she recently underwent a second surgery to address pleural effusion.
In 2022, the regime’s so-called morality police in Tehran assaulted and killed Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old women, for not conforming to the hijab rules. Amini’s death triggered a nationwide uprising that lasted for months. In October 2023, the regime’s security forces assaulted and killed Armita Geravand, another teenage girl, again for violating the hijab rules.
While the regime has been taking extreme security measures to prevent a backlash for this latest brutal treatment of innocent girls, Iran’s rebellious youth are responding by targeting the regime’s centers of repression and fundamentalism in different cities.
In Fardis, Karaj, rebellious youth targeted a center of fundamentalism and repression with explosives. The explosion was heard in the neighboring areas, a reminder to the regime that the people will not be cowed by repression.
In Tehran, the rebellious youth targeted one of the regime’s so-called centers of “culture and guidance,” which is used to suppress people, especially women and girls, who do not abide by the regime’s fundamentalist laws.
Iran’s rebellious youth are carrying out dozens of similar activities every week as the regime tries futilely to establish an environment of terror as it is seeing its power wane both at home and in the region. Iran’s rebellious youth are making it clear through their actions that the regime’s unprecedented wave of executions and repression will not stop them from fighting for the freedom of their people and country.
These activities come against the backdrop of a growing wave of protests despite the regime’s repressive measures. As one of the main targets of the regime’s misogynistic rule, women and girls play a key role in leading the resistance against the regime, and the regime’s violence against them is not deterring their drive to bring change to Iran.