Yet their uprising has been given short shrift in media and by “progressives.”For almost two weeks, Iranian protesters have put their lives on the line. The “progressives” maintain their silence despite real-time videos showing Iranian bravery against the Islamic regime in more than a dozen cities in Iran. So are many feminists, who seem to have nothing to say about the savage repression of women by mobs of religious Iranian men spurred on by the mullahs. But when Iranians protest an Islamist regime — especially while rejecting Hamas and political Islam altogether — the media mostly evaporates. It tells Iranian women that their rebellion against forced veiling is less newsworthy than Western debates about symbolism.

Source: National Post January 11, 2026 21:03 UTC