SIMS: The Unbreakable Spirit of Iranian Women – 47 Years of Gender Apartheid and Western Hypocrisy

As New Hampshire State Chapter Leader for the Independent Women’s Network, I’ve seen Americans wake up to leftist hypocrisy and media lies. My own exit from the Democratic Party came from watching selective outrage: people who scream “believe women” and “save the children” ignore real oppression in Iran. The regime there is a machine of gender apartheid that has crushed women for 47 years.

When President Trump finally struck it hard in Operation Epic Fury—killing Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and halting atrocities—the same voices cried “fascist” or “no war.” Silence from progressives, liberals, isolationist “America First” types, Trump-haters, and Jew-haters is deafening.

Iranian women live every nightmare American activists claim to fight. Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution under Khomeini, then Khamenei, girls can marry at 9 lunar years (about 8-9 solar). Thousands of children are forced into “marriages” with middle-aged men. Women face beatings, torture, jail, and execution for showing hair or face, refusing sex, or defending against abusers.

Protests crushed in blood: 1979 anti-hijab marches, 1988 prison massacres (teen girls hanged for refusing to repent), 2018 “Girls of Revolution Street,” 2022 Mahsa Amini uprising (beaten to death for loose hijab), 2026 revolt (over 32,000+ dead, estimates 7,007–36,500; 1,449 verified including 176 women/100 children shot point-blank).

Atrocities aren’t abstract: teenage girls raped in police vans, batons forced into bodies tearing rectums until blood floods seats, feces shoved into mouths when begging for food, schoolgirls poisoned (over 1,000 cases burning lungs/eyes), gang-rapes with tasers on genitals causing swelling/bleeding.

Washington knew for decades. Presidents from Carter to Biden condemned abuses in speeches/UN resolutions but never broke the regime’s spine—Reagan armed Iraq but avoided action; Clinton’s sanctions did nothing; Bush decried “rape rooms”; Obama admitted betraying 2009 protesters; Biden sanctioned morality police but no strikes. Empty words while mullahs hanged women every few days and married off girls by tens of thousands.

Trump did what “human rights” presidents wouldn’t: hit hard in Operation Epic Fury, backed protesters, exposed death tolls media ignored, halted 837 executions. Overnight, hypocrites flipped—liberals, Democrats, isolationists, and fashionable antisemites discovered pacifism. Women’s March posts “feminists vs. fascists” at U.S./Israel, not mullahs. Hollywood marches against “war” while Iranian women dance in streets celebrating IRGC strikes. WaPo/NYT run soft obituaries on Khamenei as “defiant leader” or “literature-loving cleric,” ignoring rape cells/child brides.

To those shouting about Epstein, #MeToo, elite pedophiles: If you care about abused women/children, why draw the line at killing the world’s most powerful child-rape cartel—the Iranian regime? Why “justice” against American predators but “imperialism” against ayatollahs marrying 9-year-olds, ordering mass hangings, unleashing rape squads? Activism stopping where it helps pro-American, pro-freedom women isn’t morality—it’s tribal politics as compassion.

Same Democrats, Different Vote on Iran Terror Designation — What Changed?

Iran didn’t change—the White House did.

In January 2023 under Biden, the House voted 420–1 to condemn Iran as the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism—every Democrat supported it (lone no: Rep. Thomas Massie, R-KY).

Now, in March 2026 under Trump amid Epic Fury, 53 House Democrats voted against reaffirming that designation in non-binding H.Res. 1099 (passed 372–53; Republicans 215–0; Democrats 157 yes, 53 no, 2 present). The 53 no votes included progressives like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY), Ilhan Omar (MN), Rashida Tlaib (MN), Pramila Jayapal (WA), Ro Khanna (CA), Ayanna Pressley (MA), Maxine Waters (CA), and others (Beyer, Bonamici, Carson, Casar, Castro, Clarke, Cohen, Davis, Dexter, Doggett, Evans, Fletcher, Foushee, Frost, Garcia, García, Green, Grijalva, Hoyle, Huffman, Jacobs, Johnson, Kelly, Krishnamoorthi, Lee, McBride, McGarvey, McGovern, McIver, Menefee, Menendez, Moore, Pingree, Pocan, Ramirez, Randall, Rivas, Sánchez, Schakowsky, Simon, Takano, Trahan, Underwood, Velázquez, Watson Coleman, Williams).

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt: administrations of both parties long called Iran the top sponsor—yet Democrats flip under Trump.

Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX): “They’re totally going off the cliff because of how much they hate the president… 53 Democrats won’t vote for a resolution that simply states Iran is the leading state sponsor of terrorism.”

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA): “By denying this basic fact, these radical Democrats are defending the murderous Iranian regime and standing against America.”
Some Democrats claimed political motivation. Rep. Lateefah Simon (D-CA): “I voted against H.Res. 1099, a Republican resolution that contains inaccuracies and is designed to justify the president’s actions.”

This shift exposes hypocrisy: bipartisan truth under Biden, but partisan hate shields mullahs when Trump acts decisively against gender apartheid, child rape, and mass murder.

During Women’s History Month, Iranian girls fight for existence without rape vans or child marriages. Khamenei—slain in Epic Fury—built this hell; IRGC rapists carry it on. Yet leftists, feminists, isolationists, and horseshoe-right Jew-haters call strikes “fascist.” Dr. Sheila Nazarian exposed it: “Can anyone really call it ‘feminist’ to stand with this murderous regime and against the women of Iran?” (March 3, 2026).

A Schoolgirl’s Nightmare in Kermanshah: In January 2026, a 16-year-old Kurdish girl arrested for removing her veil was dragged into an IRGC van, stripped, baton-raped, beaten bloody, denied care—left suicidal but unbroken. Standard terror amid crackdowns killing thousands.

Origins: Post-1979, mandatory hijab even for girls 7-9 crushed protests with executions and floggings. Family Protection Laws nullified; marriage age dropped to 9 lunar. Women lost rights in marriage, inheritance, custody.

1980s: University “cleansing” under Khamenei—midnight raids, electric cables on feet, bottle rapes, hangings. Girls 14 watched mothers executed, then faced same.

1988 Massacre: Khamenei oversaw death commission killing 30,000-33,000 prisoners. Teen girls stripped, flogged, hanged slowly from cranes; bodies twitched, urine soaked floors. Maryam in Gohardasht hooded, dumped in Khavaran lime grave.

Legal Shackles: Civil Code Article 1041 allows 9-year-old marriages; Khamenei vetoed reforms. 2022: 26,974 girls under 15 married, 1,390 gave birth before 15. 2025: 61 women hanged (one every 4 days) for “morality crimes” or self-defense.

Raha’s Nightmare (2019, Ilam): 11-year-old sold to 50-year-old, beaten black-and-blue; clerics defended as preventing “prostitution.” Thousands disappear; high maternal mortality, fistulas, PTSD, suicides.

2018 Revolution Street: Vida Movahed hung cloak; arrests, lashes splitting skin (Yasaman Aryani, Monireh Arabshahi, Nasrin Sotoudeh—38 years + 148 lashes).

2019 Fuel Riots: 300-1,500+ killed; gang-rapes in detention.

2022 Uprising: 551+ dead (68 minors), 20,000 arrested; poisonings; Zahra/Farzad/Fatemeh gang-raped with batons/feces/electric prods.

2026: Economic collapse, bread riots, 50,000 arrested, executions 2,038 in 2025.
IRGC Rape Machine: 150,000-strong; tasers on genitals, baton-rapes en route, leaked memos hide complaints. “Noor Plan”: 50,000 cameras, $500 fines, car seizures, 10-15 years jail. Femicides up 180% to 179 in 2024.

Iranian Heroines Leading the Fight

Narges Mohammadi, the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner, has endured unimaginable tortures in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison. Guards chained her spread-eagle to beds, gang-raped her repeatedly, and flogged her 154 times until strips of skin hung from her back like shredded cloth. She survived months in pitch-black solitary confinement and led hunger strikes to protest the hanging of teenage girls as young as 14 for minor defiance. Jailed since 2021 on charges of “propaganda against the state,” she continues smuggling out handwritten notes declaring “Woman, Life, Freedom,” inspiring global rallies even as her health deteriorates from denied medical care.

Maryam Rajavi serves as president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, from exile in Paris. She champions a detailed Ten-Point Plan for a future democratic Iran, promising full gender equality, abolition of compulsory hijab, elimination of nuclear weapons and the death penalty, a ban on child marriage at age nine, and complete separation of religion from state. Her network’s Resistance Units operate inside Iran, hacking government VPNs to broadcast censored footage, spray-painting over 50,000 facial-recognition cameras to blind the regime’s surveillance, and sabotaging “Noor Plan” fines that punish unveiled women. As the widow of Mujahedin-e Khalq founder Massoud Rajavi, she faces ongoing IRGC death fatwas but rallies millions in diaspora protests following Operation Epic Fury.

Nasrin Sotoudeh, a Nobel Peace Prize nominee and fearless human rights lawyer, defended the 2018 “Girls of Revolution Street” protesters pro bono. The regime sentenced her to 38 years in prison and 148 lashes, which tore her back open during a public flogging, leaving pus oozing from untreated wounds in Evin’s filthy cells. Cancer medication was withheld as punishment, dropping her weight to just 88 pounds, while her husband Reza Khandan faced repeated arrests and her daughters fled into exile. Released on medical grounds in 2021 only to be re-arrested in October 2023 after attending teen Armita Geravand’s funeral—another girl beaten to death for improper hijab—Sotoudeh still challenges sham trials from her cell, her voice hoarse but unyielding.

Grassroots firebrands fuel the resistance daily. Schoolgirls chant “Death to the Dictator” in classrooms despite chemical poisonings that scar their lungs black and blind their eyes milky-white from burning mists. Baluch mothers in Sistan-Baluchestan physically shield daughters from public baton-rapes during crackdowns. Kurdish teens in Kermanshah, assaulted in IRGC vans during the 2026 uprising, smuggle out audio testimonies of their beatings. These unnamed thousands lead wildcat strikes across all 31 provinces—shutting down factories barefaced, boycotting bazaars, and staging university sit-ins—proving the regime’s grip is slipping.

Reckoning: 47 years of rivers of blood while U.S. presidents issued empty condemnations.

U.S. Presidents’ Empty Words on Iran

Several former U.S. presidents publicly condemned Iran’s human rights abuses—especially against women and during protests—but took no military action or regime-change efforts, relying instead on empty statements, sanctions, or diplomacy that failed to halt the atrocities over 47 years. I ASK WHY ?

Jimmy Carter (1977–1981)

Carter made human rights a core of his foreign policy, criticizing Iran’s pre-revolution Shah for abuses and pressuring allies on global violations. After the 1979 Revolution, he condemned the new regime’s crackdowns but focused on diplomacy amid the hostage crisis—no strikes or intervention occurred, even as women’s rights eroded immediately with mandatory hijab mandates.

​Ronald Reagan (1981–1989)

Reagan labeled Iran part of the “axis of evil” precursors and spoke broadly on Middle East women’s oppression under Islamists. His administration armed Iraq in the Iran-Iraq War but avoided direct action against Tehran’s internal abuses, despite reports of post-revolution purges targeting women.

​Bill Clinton (1993–2001)

Clinton inherited hostile U.S.-Iran relations and announced a “dual containment” policy targeting both Iran and Iraq, labeling Iran a “hostile” and “dangerous” government sponsoring terrorism and pursuing nukes. His administration imposed tight oil/trade sanctions via Executive Order 12957 (1995) and signed the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act (1996) to punish firms doing business with Tehran—no military strikes ensued despite evidence of Iranian Revolutionary Guard involvement in the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing that killed 19 U.S. airmen. On human rights, Clinton’s team condemned Iran’s abuses, including against women, as a barrier to normalized ties, yet no intervention targeted child marriages, hijab enforcement, or post-revolution violence—despite rhetoric about not normalizing ties until policies changed “across the board.” This left the regime unchecked as it solidified gender apartheid over the 1990s.

George W. Bush (2001–2009)

Bush’s administration highlighted Iran’s gender apartheid, with Laura Bush praising Afghan/Iraqi women’s gains post-invasions while slamming Iran’s “rape rooms” and hijab enforcement in speeches. He supported dissidents rhetorically during smaller protests but launched no operations against the regime, leaving the 1988 massacre oversight and ongoing floggings unaddressed militarily.

​Barack Obama (2009–2017)

Obama expressed “deep concern” over the 2009 Green Movement protests—where women led against election fraud and hijab laws—but stayed “silent” to avoid tainting the movement, later admitting it was a “mistake.” He pursued the JCPOA nuclear deal despite abuses like child marriages, vetoing reforms, with no strikes despite vows to stand with Iranian people.

Donald Trump (First Term, 2017–2021)

In his initial term, Trump withdrew from JCPOA, imposed “maximum pressure” sanctions, and ordered the 2020 strike killing Qasem Soleimani. He vocally backed 2019 protests and women’s rights but stopped short of full regime decapitation strikes like the 2026 Epic Fury under his current term.

​Joe Biden (2021–2025)

Biden repeatedly stated the U.S. “stands with” Iranian women post-Mahsa Amini’s 2022 death—”Mahsa should be alive,” he said—and imposed sanctions on morality police/prisons for rapes. VP Harris vowed to boot Iran from UN women’s commissions, but no military action ensued amid 2022/2026 uprisings, with focus on diplomacy and internet access.

Trump’s strikes exposed the IRGC machine, earned “USA!” chants from Tehran crowds waving pre-1979 flags. Hypocrites rail against trafficking but defend mullahs consummating 9-year-olds, flogging teens, shoving feces down throats—now even refusing to call Iran the top terror sponsor when Trump acts.

War is ugly—no endless occupation needed. But ignoring 47 years of brutality isn’t “America First”—it’s cowardice. Past presidents called it evil but hid behind sanctions/speeches as regime threatened “Death to America,” assassinated officials, bombed troops, pursued nukes. Crush this cancer with targeted strikes—no quagmire—or own the next horrors, here and abroad.

Evil isn’t Trump’s precision halting executions; it’s unmarked vans flooding with girls’ blood, Khavaran graves dissolving teen flesh. Iranian blood cries from Kermanshah, Tehran, mass graves: Honor their torture, crush killers, liberate pro-American warriors chanting “USA!”—or your virtue-signaling triumphs over their bruises and our future security.