A-Infos (en) Itali, Umanità Nova: March 8 From the prison to the streets: Iranian women never give up! (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

On International Women's Day, Iran is under bombardment, and Iranian 
women, as always, are at the center of the fire, not as victims, but as 
fighters. ---- Since the early days of the Islamic Republic, it was 
women who said no. When Khomeini imposed the compulsory veil in 1979, 
women took to the streets within days. For nearly five decades, they 
paid the price for that refusal with prison, whippings, and death. The 
regime built its ideological architecture on the control of women's 
bodies, their movements, and their voices. And for five decades, women 
dismantled that architecture brick by brick.

When Mahsa Jina Amini was assassinated in September 2022, it was women 
who lit the flame that became the Woman-Life-Freedom revolt. Not because 
anyone ordered them to. Not because a party or leader authorized them. 
But because they had burned for decades, and finally the fire became 
visible to the world.
That flame has not died out. In December 2025 and January 2026, women 
were once again on the front lines of the uprisings, organizing, 
leading, inspiring. The regime responded with all its brutal force. 
Women were beaten in the streets. Shot with live ammunition. Sexually 
abused in detention. Tortured in cells. Some were killed. Their names 
may not yet be known to the world, but we know them. We carry them with us.

We honor every woman who gave her life in those weeks, asking for 
nothing more than the right to exist freely and with dignity.
The prisons have once again filled with women who dared to stand up. 
Today, as bombs fall on Iranian cities, those same women remain 
detained. Some have been transferred to Revolutionary Guard military 
bases, used as human shields. Their trials are being expedited in courts 
in silence and blackout. The risk of mass executions is real.

Now war has been added to oppression. Women in Tehran, in Minab, and in 
cities across Iran are protecting their children from missiles while 
their sisters rot in cells. They treat the wounded in bombed-out 
hospitals. They document atrocities with phones connected to illegal 
VPNs. They keep the memory of the struggle alive in the darkest hour.

We state clearly: the liberation of Iranian women will not come from 
American bombs or Israeli missiles. It will not come from a monarchy 
that treated women like property before the Islamic Republic treated 
them like sinners. It will come, and is already coming, from women 
themselves. From below.

On this March 8th, we honor every Iranian woman who refused. Every woman 
who burned her veil. Every woman who took to the streets. Every woman 
who was beaten, tortured, abused for daring to demand freedom. Every 
woman who was killed and whose blood waters the seeds of struggle. Every 
woman who is in a cell today. Every woman who is alive and continues to 
fight.

They are not waiting to be liberated. They are liberation.

Neither Mullah! Nor Shah!
Woman - Life - Freedom!

Anarchist Front of Iran and Afghanistan

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