Monday, November 7, 2022

The woman threatening the Iranian regime - Madeleine Hubbard

 

by Madeleine Hubbard

Alinejad said last year that four Iranian intelligence officials were charged with attempting to kidnap her.

Iranian journalist and women's rights activist Masih Alinejad's newest social media campaign is encouraging young Iranians to knock the turbins off of Islamic clerics in protest of the ayatollah's regime, but the exiled dissident has been an online voice for women in her homeland for years. 

Alinejad first rose to the international stage in 2014, when she started the Facebook page "My Stealthy Freedom" to challenge Iran's laws mandating women to wear the hijab, or head covering, in public. The page took off, garnering more than a million "likes" and evolving into a nonprofit organization dedicated to women's rights in Iran.

Five years later, Iranian authorities arrested three of her family members, according to Amnesty International

Last year four Iranian intelligence officials were charged in federal court in Manhattan with attempting to kidnap Alinejad, although the Justice Department did not name her in the indictment.

When 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died in the custody of Tehran's morality police in September for allegedly not wearing the hijab properly, Alinejad's name appeared in the news again for her women's rights efforts.

Alinejad, who has more than 8.5 million followers on Instagram, posts daily videos of women taking off their hijabs and protesting the Iranian regime.

 


 

Former Israeli Ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer told "The John Solomon Reports" podcast last week that if he were advising President Joe Biden, "I'd say invite her to the Oval Office, sit with her, talk about what is happening to the people of Iran, because that would put wind in the sails of all the Iranians who are struggling for their freedom."

Alinejad, who works at Voice of America's Persian Service, has been critical of Biden for not supporting Iranian protesters enough. In an interview on "Honestly with Bari Weiss" earlier this month, Alinejad was dubbed the "Iranian regime's most wanted woman." She has been forced to live in a safe house in New York to avoid being attacked by Iranian agents.

Her most recent online campaign is promoting a new social challenge from Iranian teenagers brave enough to knock off the Islamic clerics' turbins.

 

Madeleine Hubbard

Source: https://justthenews.com/world/middle-east/woman-threatening-iranian-regime

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