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By now, the image of a young woman lying in a Tehran street, her life ebbing from her body, is indelibly etched in the collective conscience of the world. Twenty-six-year-old Neda Agha-Soltan has become a symbolic martyr for the millions of Iranians confronting an oppressive government. It’s fitting that an innocent young woman’s death should be the rallying figure for the movement against a government whose laws treat women as second-class citizens. It is the fairer sex that has historically suffered the most under unjust, repressive regimes and although Agha-Soltan’s murder has attracted worldwide publicity, her death is just the latest...
Giving Voice to the Women of Iran
We do know Liberals opposed Freedom for Iraqi.
Under Saddam, Iraqi women were living under terror of being raped, taken out and stoned, and executed for talking with men. Being tossed into a human shredder for speaking out.
Liberals opposed removing Saddam. They said, "Crimes against Humanity is not a sufficent reason to remove a dictator from power."