Ahoo Daryaei is a young Iranian student. Her image taken in the
courtyard of the Department of Science and Research at the AzadUniversity of Tehran goes around the world in a few minutes. Ahoo
belongs to the vast group of women in this country who demand a
dignified life free from the behavioral rules inflicted by the gray
Islamic-Shiite authorities: she stages a moving protest.
According to more or less official sources, it seems that the student
was attacked during the countless checks that the moral police carry out
at the entrance to universities to verify compliance with the dress code
required in a theocracy that bases its very survival above all on the
suffocating control of women, who represent a true outpost in clear
antagonism to the regime.
Ahoo, desperately outraged by the systematic and well-organized violence
of the regime's henchmen, undresses outside her university and remains
walking apparently in a state of "serene waiting" in bra and panties,
with folded arms and measured steps. This event, in a country where
re-education interventions for those who wear the hijab inappropriately
materialize in forced arrests, beatings and violence of all kinds,
leaves one breathless.
Many have wanted to imagine that everything was born from an elaboration
resulting from modern digital techniques, or from a media provocation
orchestrated by unidentified opponents of the theocratic regime who, in
truth, seem to multiply over time for increasingly understandable reasons.
However, reading the images shakes us for some reason that immediately
appears unavoidable in its substance. Ahoo in her wandering does not
encounter immediate opposition or visible contrast from the authorities,
and not a single colleague tries to cover her or at least hide the
nakedness that is expressly shown, in order to avoid the reaction of the
moral police. The scene unfolds in a surreal dynamic of silent, tacit
tension, incomprehensible in its evolution, where one notices the
apparent indolence of passers-by, of the students who continue their
journeys without even turning to look or being surprised by what is
happening. Fear reigns supreme, at a time when many lives have been
sacrificed in terms of rapes and killings, fake suicides, permanent
damage with blinding and compromised genital functions in many very
young people who demonstrated for the request of rights and freedom.
The thought runs to the stories of always, to the story of always, in
relation to the news of Ahoo's internment in a hospital for the mentally
ill. That many writers, poets, exponents of the so-called civil society,
but especially women, are mentally ill is a truism. Bonfires, summary
trials, hangings, new and modern courts of the most vile inquisition
find residence especially in some areas of this devastated planet
pervaded by unconditional violence. There is a common thread that links
many of these dynamics, made up of political, ideological aspects and
cultural models regarding which we should once and for all say what is
truly hidden at their base. What we do not like is the asymmetry of
those who think differently, who are very clear about the type of social
control that is fiercely implemented against them, because it is from
this root that dissidence to authority, to power, is generated. This is
the point: authority and power. The reaction to this event, glimpsed
through the prism of all the components of information, politics,
feminist associations and human rights, is disorienting and painful.
However, we must start from an element that is often questioned, this
time in a truly surreal way, which concerns that inferior idea that
permeates some environments of our society also formed by intellectual
elites, in the sense that human rights can be analyzed from a
perspective of cultural relativism. This idea of imagining violations of
the person as a legitimate or understandable aspect depending on the
geographical and cultural areas of the planet is shocking and
terrifying. We forget, for example, how much suffering and how many
battles have been undertaken over the years in our Western societies for
the conquest of rights paid even at the cost of one's own life.
Even the citation of human rights violations in current societies, but
fought with all the tools available, also denied elsewhere, is resorted
to in order to support the hypothesis that these rights are not
respected anywhere. False and misleading, the result of unconditional
ignorance or bad faith. It is ignored that, for example, in modern
"Turkish democracy" there is the highest number of journalists in prison
in the world and that lawyers who defend their clients for crimes of
opinion are arrested together with their clients. Not even Franz Kafka
in his writings against authority and power could have come to think of
it, as happens in many countries such as Iran where Sharia law is in
force: the testimony of women is worth half that of a man in court.
These are even very limited examples that terrify the mere thought that
in our battered democracies one could end up in similar modes of horror.
Somewhere we sense a "different attention" reserved for those women who,
although violated in all their rights and subjected to the most iron
discrimination, belong to geographical areas or countries that finally
rebel against the "colonial and capitalist domination of Westerners". On
this issue the debate seems to be paradoxical, because if we agree that
in the history of this humanity there are dominators who exploit and
exploited who suffer, it is necessary to understand why and
unconditionally the political, social and cultural models of those who,
as exploited, legitimately react to the yoke of the oppressors cannot in
any way be accepted. It would then be said without mincing words that
the reaction of a country like Iran to the interference of those who
would like it to be in a dynamic of vassalage appears legitimate, but at
the same time it must be firmly pointed out that its political, cultural
and social model is not acceptable for a series of very serious reasons
that concern the limitations on the right to speak and to equal
opportunities, to the right to opposition and freedom of profession of
any political and religious belief, the right to respect for one's body,
to assert one's claims during judicial processes and to defense, the
right to associate and to form political parties or cultural centers
that are not subject to censorship by a religious authority, the right
to express oneself by any means in conditions of freedom and the right,
finally, to health. These are just some of the claims of thousands of
rights denied especially to women in some countries, in this case Iran,
that it is no longer possible to remain silent. Other analyses on the
event that involved Ahoo Daryaei take on grotesque aspects. There would
be an Islamophobic exploitation of these events coming from environments
linked to the extreme right, even feminists, where excessive emphasis
would be placed on the denial of rights towards women in particular, and
towards other citizens of the country in general. On the contrary, there
would be an understanding of the phenomenon where rights are strongly
prejudiced in some countries in an anti-capitalist, anti-colonial and
"third world" key, and which would require a more lucid analysis of
these dynamics in a geographical and cultural contextualization. In
reality, however, with a more serious attitude, it must be pointed out
that there are conditions of violation of rights that cannot be denied,
discussed or opined by any ideological sector they come from, because
they are visible events and interpretable for their violence and
absurdity in broad daylight. Therefore, a "desperate study" of the
history and events of some areas of the world is necessary that is truly
downgraded from logics, schemes and positions of ideological
entrenchment, which seriously undermine intellectual honesty and clarity
of interpretation. I believe that the legitimate and dutiful struggle
that is undertaken daily in Western societies for the conquest of new
values, the maintenance of acquired rights and the strengthening of new
visions in relation to human rights in general is an act of dutiful
moral commitment, individual and collective. I underline that many
rights and many conquests are threatened by conservative and
obscurantist visions, and that the path of struggle in our societies
must therefore be even more constant and unconditional for the
sacrifices that are undertaken. In the same way, however, I condemn and
fight against those who do not allow and will not allow, as in Iran of
the veto of the "velayati faghi" (that is, the highest political and
religious authority of Twelver Shiism, embodied by Ayatollah Khamenei),
the conquest of human rights that must be reserved to every man and,
above all, woman naturally on the basis of their very existence.
The issue is always the same: authority and power.
It is not out of place to admit that "there are no good powers", that
this admission should in no way distract from any breath of protest,
rebellion and asymmetry to authority, but on the contrary be a
generating reason for a serious, honest and culturally structured
struggle against power and authority, elements of unconditional
oppression and violence on all fronts.
Ahoo Daryaei represents the "madness" that we love and appreciate as a
form of antagonism to the most vile power now founded on values of death
and denial. We support any process of struggle that has as its guiding
star the conquest of human rights in every geographical and cultural
area of the world. We believe that a debate on political and cultural
models is a terrain on which no one can avoid today or in the immediate
future in a more honest and calibrated way.
The fight against the puppeteers of any oppressive power is a challenge
that involves societies of all geographical areas on multiple levels
through the overcoming of the tools expertly put in place by the various
tentacles of the authoritarian octopus, whether media, police or
religious, it matters little. Adopting polarized attitudes on positions
that would further undermine the conquests achieved and the rights
acquired, in addition to representing an unforgivable damage to
societies, is the most obvious manifestation of a sectarianism that is
the result of an ignorance that is perhaps often unconscious.
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