masih Alinejad journalist and dissident, in the USA since 2009, e Hamed Esmaelionspokesman for the association victims of the families of flight PS752, shot down on 8 January 2020 on the orders of the Pasdaran, spoke to the Italian Senate, they are the two activists most feared by the theocracy in power in the Islamic Republic of Iran. And both arrived in Rome for ask for support from Italy on the actions to be taken against Tehran also in Europe.
Masih Alinejad, the dissident who frightens the Islamic regime
Like so many other “Iranian women of the diaspora”, too Masih Alinejad, 46, who has become an icon for her curly and “provocative” hair always held in place by a flower, he has openly taken a stand against the regime since the outbreak of the protests. They did and continue to do so on social networks and also on every public occasion.
Loaded and full of energy the intervention in Rome by Masih Alinejad: always his fight is centered on rights of Iranian women and for human rights in general. But in particular on opposition to the use of the compulsory Islamic veil, a battle he has been carrying on since long before the protests underway today. «The obligatory Islamic veil is like the Berlin Wall» says the activist according to whom «succeeding in tearing down this wall, the Islamic Republic of Iran will no longer exist».
The ideology that “infects the world”
The activist then invited those present to support the revolution of the Iranian people who have been fighting for their freedom for 5 months. And he has urged not to believe the reports spread by the state media whose ideology is dangerous and “infects the rest of the world”.
The reference is to happened in 2016 when for the visit to Italy of President Hassan Rouhani, all the nude statues in the Capitoline Museum were covered “so as not to offend him.”
Masih Alinejad: «Pasdaran terrorists»
Together with Hamed Esmaelion and the approximately 30,000 people they marched with in Brussels, they are asking Europe to include the IRGC, the Pasdaran, the Guard Corps of the Islamic Revolution, in the list of European terrorist organizations which has already happened in the United States. «We don’t ask much of Italy, just to be on the right side of history».
The invitation to Italian politics
In the conclusion, another invitation: «The time has come for the political sisters in Italy to be an example for the leaders of democratic countrieslet’s get organized, create an international march for women, we must be united and isolate the Islamic Republic as was done for Putin”.
Hamed Esmaelion the fight against the regime is a reason for living
Hamed Esmaelion is instead a resident of Canada, and is known for being the spokesperson for the families of the 170 victims of the flight shot down 8 January 2020 on the orders of the Pasdaransin which he lost his wife and 8-year-old daughter.
The fight against the regime has become his reason for living and above all the one against the Pasdaran for whom he also asks that be included in the list of terrorist organizationswhich, being a problem for the stability of the Tehran government, could still give hope for a change.
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