Discrimination and barbaric oppression are indispensable to the mullahs’ worldview and policies.
They continue to arrest women in the streets, as a vital part of the campaign to control society and impose repression.
In February 2020, during an en masse hanging in Gohardasht Prison, west of Tehran, one of the victims, Zahra Esmaeeli, a mother of two, died from a heart attack after seeing 16 others hanged before she was. Nevertheless, the henchmen still hanged her dead body. Her lawyer told this story afterward.