Australian politician Fatima Payman says Iranian women ‘have a voice’, accuses West of spreading ‘propaganda’

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/fatima-payman-says-iranian-women-have-a-voice-accuses-west-of-spreading-propaganda/fnggq49gt

Posted by Naderium

4 comments

  1. Wow what an awful look for her, but people will still support it because being anti-west is more important to them than women’s rights.

    Ya Iranian women have such a voice, just ask [Masih Alinejad](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masih_Alinejad), all her family members who ow disowned and deposed her after being arrested, or the several kidnapping and assassination attempts on her by the cowardly ayatollah and his goons who fear the power of a woman’s hair.

    Major Kanye “slavery was a choice” vibes over here.

  2. Better than all the westerners who are convinced that Iran needs even more intervention from the west. We’ve caused enough damage to Iranian women it’s time lift up the women in our own countries

  3. As an Iranian woman now living in US, I understand where she comes from, but her mistake was making it sound like the Iranian government is somehow misunderstood, while it’s the image of Iranian women that is misunderstood. It is frustrating that at this age of information technology people I meet still get confused that as an Iranian woman I got my BA there, worked at a clothing factory located in a rural town as a designer living alone, and was also an active musician on the side. Later, I interned at the Iranian Documentary Makers Association and learned video editing and eventually became a video journalist for a women’s magazine, and this is not a very exceptional path at all. Sure, I was born and raised in Tehran, but Iran has a very educated population in general, and there are years that higher ed in master and PHD has more women than men in them. None of it means that the government is not oppressive, but I also don’t like the certain “oppressed woman” imagery that’s evoked in people every time I mention my origins.

  4. I don’t know enough about Iran to comment on women’s rights there, but it feels weird that the “expert” they quote, Kylie Gilbert Moore, was arrested and held by Iran for being a spy.

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