Reality is that Iran under Khamenei was a brutal place for women. Today represents a chance for them to finally be free.

[PeaceWave]

Gender Apartheid in Iran is Crushing Women’s Lives and Futures

March 6, 2025 — In Iran, women are second-class citizens—systematically oppressed by laws and policies that serve only one purpose: to entrench the power of the government. For over four decades, the Islamic Republic has restricted women’s rights in marriage, divorce, inheritance, child custody, work, the courts, political office, travel, lifestyle, and clothing—using their bodies and freedoms as tools of domination—and has blatantly failed to protect women from gender-based violence.

As the Iranian government escalates its systematic assault on women’s fundamental rights and solidifies a discriminatory system that can only be described as gender apartheid, the urgent need to criminalize gender-based violations of international law has never been greater, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) said today.

“The oppression of women in Iran is not just discrimination—it is a deliberately designed, institutionalized system of domination intended to enforce the subjugation of women to maintain the state’s grip on power. This state-sanctioned systematic subjugation amounts to nothing less than gender apartheid, which fully meets the threshold of a crime against humanity,” said Bahar Ghandehari, the director of communications at CHRI.

https://iranhumanrights.org/2025/03/gender-apartheid-in-iran-is-crushing-womens-lives-and-futures/

[Mister Ed]

1. A slim chance, alas. For this war is not being waged to liberate women.

The women of Afghanistan were similarly oppressed, and sadly remain so twenty years after our invasion.

[VMA131Marine]

2. Women in Afghanistan have it much worse

than Iranian women.

And let’s not forget one of our “allies” in this, Saudi Arabia has an abysmal record when it comes to women’s rights; at least as bad as Iran’s if not even worse. Iranian women can travel unaccompanied, not so for Saudi women.

[PeaceWave]

3. You're kidding right? Women in Iran have - for decades - needed permission from their husbands to obtain a passport.

[VMA131Marine]

5. I know an Iranian woman who has regularly travelled between the US and Iran

on her own.

[PeaceWave]

6. If she is married then, per Iranian law, she required her husband's permission...

But, this is beside the point. The conditions women have been living in under Khamenei have been insane and getting worse as time went on.

[VMA131Marine]

20. But still better than those in Saudi.

[fujiyamasan]

10. Maybe so but there are important differences

Iran was, even under the ayatollah, a better place for women than Afghanistan.

Iranian women can get an education even at the university level and women have led the way for more freedom for years now. Iran is also much more urbanized than Afghanistan. The two countries are very different culturally.

Not sure why any of this matters. We didn’t go into Afghanistan because the taliban treated women badly. The same here. Women may end up better off. That’s great, but it wasn’t our responsibility to go in and depose their leader. I hate to say it, it’s cold but the fate of Iranian women’s human rights doesn’t impact most Americans lives anyways. I’m more concerned about the brutality of ICE and the pedo president we have.

[Melon]

21. Woman are executed in Iran and sentenced to prior rape, so that they cannot go to paradise.

There is always something worse is a disgustingly low bar to achieve. Iran treats woman horribly.

[JI7]

19. Bad comparison. Most Iranian men support women being free. Iranians are mostly liberal

We don't know what will happen but the comparisons to other Islamic countries don't work.

I would say there is a bigger chance of something like what happened in Russia happening. Things involving corrupt elites and businesses and other shit .

[yaesu]

4. Who will save the women in fascist red states who face being put to death for miscarriages? nt

[viva la]

7. Or it could be replaced by an even more oppressive regime.

Cf Afghanistan.

[RockRaven]

8. Only in the fantasies of warmongers does it represent that. The CIA's assessment was very different.

Exclusive: Prior to Iran attacks, CIA assessed Khamenei could be replaced by hardline IRGC elements if killed, sources say
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WASHINGTON, Feb 28 (Reuters) - In the run-up to the U.S. and Israeli attacks on Saturday, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency assessed that even if Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in the operation, he could be replaced by hardline figures from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), two sources briefed on the intelligence said.

The agency's assessments, which were produced over the past two weeks, looked broadly at what could occur in Iran following a U.S. intervention and the extent to which a military operation could trigger regime change in the Islamic Republic -- now a pronounced objective for Washington.

IRGC figures taking power was among the multiple different scenarios that emerged, a third source familiar with the matter said.

It continues:
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/prior-iran-attacks-cia-assessed-khamenei-would-be-replaced-by-hardline-irgc-2026-02-28/

[Skittles]

15. warmongers and their enablers

yup

[WhiskeyGrinder]

9. sure, and monkeys might fly out of my butt

[Skittles]

17. I am really sick of that whitewasher

[sinkingfeeling]

11. Irani women may be in worse shape if the replacement is more hardliner.

[SamuelTheThird]

12. And Venezuelans are now free, right?

[Iggo]

13. Reality is that's not what's happening at all.

Trump attacked a country because he’s down in the polls and people just won’t let go of this Epstein thing. His SOTU was shit. His attempt to glom onto the hockey gold medal was shit. His tariffs are shit. His invasion of Minneapolis was shit. His rubber stamp congress is shit. Even the support from his foaming at the mouth racist base is turning to shit. War is the only way out of this. So now we’re in a war.

Nothing about this is saving the women of Iran.

[Skittles]

14. LOL

repukes don't give a fuck about women in AMERICA, let alone anywhere else in the world

[Hope22]

16. I think we can calm down about which country is a brutal place for women.

In the US It appears that no harm no foul if young girls are raped and used as sex slaves. Don’t worry about going to jail boys. As long as you have the cash in your pockets. Somehow our rights to control our own bodies has been snatched from our existence. Zygotes have first right to the hosts body. Now the right to vote for non male citizens is under direct attack. The list goes on and on. The history of the US and close inspection of what is going on here today should put the spotlight on this country as a hostile place to navigate as a female. It starts at the top but lives in the dark corners of the male hearts groomed over time by the system.

[Quiet Em]

18. Here is a con supporting woman from Oklahoma City discussing how great(sarcasm) everything is right now.

At 11 p.m. PST on Friday, she shared that sirens were sounding throughout Israel, and that people were advised to seek shelter, and that they could not cross into Jordan. She requested prayers for their safety.

At 1 a.m. PST, she shared, “I am just a little farm girl from [southwest Missouri] right in the middle of the forthcoming war in the Middle East. Warnings and sirens are going off again. The 2 main targets are Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. I am near Jerusalem in a shelter. I’m just a little girl from [southwest Missouri] who is scared to death. The airport is closed down, and I can’t get to Jordan. I am in God’s hands.”

In a post an hour later, she shared pictures of the bomb shelter she was in: “It is all concrete and cold,” she said. “Lord, I want to be with my family. I am beyond scared.”

Just minutes later, she posted that people were rushing into the bomb shelter and that it was chaos. She said that she had learned that fear is a universal language.

At 5 a.m. PST, she updated her followers that the border crossing to Jordan was in fact closed. As a result, they would need to travel approximately five hours by bus to the next available crossing, though there was no certainty that it would be open. She also mentioned that they might need to drive to Cairo, which is nine hours away, and that the situation was changing by the minute.

Two hours later, she reported that Jordan was being bombed, so they were leaving immediately for an undisclosed location, where they hoped to find refuge. She asked for prayers and support for her family, her husband, and her two children.

https://fox40.com/news/national-and-world-news/missouri-woman-trapped-israel-iran-conflict/

[roamer65]

22. Ali Larijani is probably the next Supreme Leader.

He’s more hard line than Khameini.

[LudwigPastorius]

23. "Today represents a chance for them to finally be free."

Yes, represents a chance, meaning it is symbolic, but ONLY symbolic because there are still 100,000 clerics in Iranian government...national, regional, and local.

And, there is still the Revolutionary Guard and its militias which protect and prop up those theocrats. Instigating a true revolution is a lot more involved than just capping the guy at the top.