Each time I see the images of her lying in a coma in a hospital bed, I cannot help thinking that I could have been #MahsaAmini. I was a girl in Iran in 1981, when a law making the #hijab a mandatory dress code for #women first came into force, two years after the Islamic #Revolution. And I was a teenager when the morality #police began making the rounds, stopping and arresting people on a whim, sometimes on no more pretext than a few strands of hair peeking out from under one’s scarf.
One August day in 1984, thickly wrapped under my Islamic uniform and headscarf when the temperature was intolerably high and the water fountains in Tehran had been shut off in observance of Ramadan, I began thinking that I would not mind dying if those who had made our lives so miserable were to die along with me. I left #Iran later that year, but today I feel what so many Iranian women feel: We are all Mahsa Amini.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/09/iran-headscarf-protest-mahsa-amini/671555/ #revolution #usa #kurdistan #islamism #sanctions #ukraine