“I did it for my daughter,” says woman arrested for headscarf protest in Iran

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Nothing from the totalitarian left, which serves at the pleasure of these oppressors. Their leaders, such as Linda Sharia Sarsour, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, are militant spokespeople for Islamic law (sharia) and jihad.

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By: Iran Wire, February 14, 2019:

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The “Revolution Women” protests hit international headlines. Now Reuters’ Emily Wither looks at one woman’s struggle to make sure her daughter has access to the rights to which she is entitled. 

Azam Jangravi’s heart was pounding when she climbed atop an electricity transformer box on Tehran’s busy Revolution Street a year ago. She raised her headscarf in the air and waved it above her head.

A crowd formed. People shouted at her to come down. She knew all along she was going to be arrested. But she did it anyway, she says, to change the country for her eight-year-old daughter.

“I was telling myself: ‘Viana should not grow up in the same conditions in this country that you grew up in’,” Jangavi recalled this week in an interview in an apartment in an undisclosed location outside Iran, where she now awaits news on an application for asylum.

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