Drought in Iran? Blame the rebellion of women who no longer want to wear the religious veil according to Islamic law. The madness of Iran’s religious authorities has blamed the girls who launched protests after the death of Masha Amini and hundreds of people brutally killed by police. If it does not rain, the responsibility lies with those who offend God.” This thesis is supported by the representative of the Supreme Leader in the city of Karaj, who confirmed that the reason for the low rainfall in the country is related to non-compliance with the rules of hijab , after many women unveiled them after months of protests. The words of Mohammad-Mehdi Hosseini Hamedani, the imam who leads Friday prayers in the city, were echoed with great force in the local press.
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In practice, observance of hijab is necessary and anyone who transgresses is an enemy. “One cannot think of living in an Islamic country when one enters some institutions, shopping malls, pharmacies, etc. that serve women who have removed the hijab.” It is not the first time that the Islamic Republic’s fundamentalists Islamic rites associate drought or natural disasters, but this time Hosseini Hamedani’s obscurantist vision seems to have crossed all bounds. Ahmad Alamolhoda, another cleric, recently urged people to pray for rain to solve the country’s drought problem. Even a prosecutor general – Mohammad Jafar Montazeri – warned in 2019: “The justice system does not allow women to show themselves in public because it causes natural disasters such as floods and earthquakes”.
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Ali Khamenei representative Yousef Tabatabai Nejad stressed some time ago in the city of Isfahan that the cause of the drying up of the Zayandeh Roud river must be blamed on the sinful women, without pointing out that the water crisis in Iran has been worsening since then have last decade due to mismanagement in building unnecessary dams, promoting crops such as rice.
THE PROTESTS
Protests in Iran began in mid-September over the death of Mahsa Amini, a university student who was beaten by police for improperly wearing the veil. Since then, the wave of dissatisfaction has ignited and is gradually spreading throughout the country, starting in particular from the university centers. The protests focus on the lack of human rights and respect for personal freedoms by an extremely conservative regime. Between late 2017 and late 2019, Iran was already rocked by internal criticism of the price hike. This time the movement is more rooted because it has an identity and starts with women and young people born after the 1979 revolution and not reflected in the vision of society proposed by the ayatollah regime. These three months have seen massive and brutal violence, arrests of demonstrators, systematic raping of girls who defy the veil, to public executions of several boys, all in their 20s.
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