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Fort Worth Star-Telegram\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 BY HOMEIRA HESAMI\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 OCTOBER 13, 2022<\/p>\n

A few weeks after it began, the scale and intensity of Iran\u2019s uprising are tangibly diminishing an already weak regime in Tehran. Women, who for more than four decades bore the brunt of the mullahs\u2019 inequities and misogyny, are braving bullets and demanding a similarly unprecedented response from Western powers. Choosing the path of least resistance, the free world has typically been ambivalent.<\/p>\n

But courageous actions of women, brutal murders of the innocent and the persistence of Iranian resistance promise to change that calculus. In mid-September, as embers of anger smoldered below the ashes of oppression in Iran, a group of hard-working Texans who are members of the Iranian-American community, spent a week in New York to protest against the expected appearance of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi at the United Nations. This predator actually did address the U.N. \u2014 only to badmouth democratic values and make a mockery of the rule of law.<\/p>\n

Thousands of miles away that week, agents of the mullahs\u2019 regime in Iran bludgeoned to death an innocent young woman named Mahsa Amini, who was arrested for improperly wearing a headscarf. That ignited the protests, which grew with each passing day \u2014 as did our disgust at the powers inside and outside the U.N. headquarters who catered to the murderer among them.<\/p>\n

Just days earlier, 52 members of Congress had written a bipartisan letter to the Biden administration, trying to prevent Raisi from entering the U.S. Seven of them are Texans, including Rep. Ronny Jackson, a Republican whose district includes part of Wise County. \u201cGiven Ebrahim Raisi\u2019s record of supporting terrorism and violating human rights, he should not be afforded the privilege to step onto American soil,\u201d the lawmakers wrote. \u201cWe cannot turn a blind eye to perpetrators of gross violations of internationally recognized human rights and cruel regimes that endanger both their people and Americans.<\/p>\n

\u201d The protests, which demand regime change in Iran, broke out near Amini\u2019s hometown of Saqqez immediately after her death. Today, demonstrations continue in more than 170 cities in all 31 provinces of Iran. The regime\u2019s attempt to depict the unrest as misplaced outrage or foreign \u201cinfiltration\u201d has not tamed the uprising. Nor has the killing of at least 400 protesters and arrests of more than 20,000 people, according to an Iranian women\u2019s group.<\/p>\n

The fact that these protests have persisted speaks to the people\u2019s motivation for change.<\/p>\n

This time around, the main focus is the end of the regime itself, as demonstrated by the slogan \u201cDeath to the dictator!\u201d Sensing this, the regime used force. To us Iranian Americans, it is obvious that this confrontation is mutually existential. Moved by short-sighted economic aims, the international community has typically chosen to equivocate or ignore previous Iran uprisings. The considerable worldwide support today suggests that\u2019s changing. Across the world, people are rallying in solidarity with Iran\u2019s aspiration for a democratic, secular, and non-nuclear republic. The latter is coincidentally also outlined in a bipartisan resolution cosponsored by 257 House members, including 29 Texans.<\/p>\n

Conversely, the regime\u2019s repressive instincts are on display. This confrontation will not cease until Tehran\u2019s rulers are held accountable for four decades of carnage, inequity, murder, and terrorism.<\/p>\n

If the free world continues to dodge its responsibility, participants in the uprising acknowledge the risks in their collective chants of \u201cWe will fight, we will die, we will reclaim Iran.\u201d Video from protests confirms on-the-street executions of protesters by repressive authorities. Western governments and relevant international bodies bear a moral obligation to clearly voice support for the Iranian people\u2019s right to self-determination and democratic regime change.<\/p>\n

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