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Women Hating Misogynist Iranian Authorities Die In Tragic Helicopter Crash
But less tragic than the brutal bloodletting they unleashed on young Iranian women and other protesters who opposed their cruelty.
People who do brutal and cruel things do not deserve to die in helicopter crashes. They deserve to be dis-empowered and confronted with the brutality they unleashed. The Iranian authorities who died in a helicopter crash got worse than they deserved. Or maybe better. They were never held accountable for the evil they committed.
But while the now deceased President and Foreign Minister of Iran have the world’s attention, we should be thinking about and reminding everyone about Mahsa Amini, who was murdered by the Iranian “Morality Police” (yes, they are officially called that!) for not wearing a hajib.
This regime, like many governments and powerful institutions around the world, abuse their power in the most brutal ways. Their behavior deserves no respect, and those who lead these regimes don’t deserve our attention. Their innocent victims deserve our attention.
We must champion good, and oppose evil at every opportunity. This would be a good time for Iranians who love life and want their abuse to end to rise up yet again, and challenge the ridiculous 12th century clerics who somehow have been empowered in the 21st century. The support for those clerics must be very weak. They’ve repeatedly had to bus in people to protest in their support. Even now, people are being bused in to…