The Iranian women’s national football team, while in Australia for a tournament, left their training camp and applied for asylum in Australia. Their asylum application was accepted, and the Australian government announced that five players from the Iranian women’s team were granted humanitarian visas after their elimination from the Asian Cup.
Women were among the most oppressed people in Iran. Punished for not wearing headscarves, they were treated as property of men and perceived as commodities used by radical Islamists.
A significant number of men were punished by regime guards for not growing beards. Now, Iran and Israel are punishing this country, and the world, by remaining silent about this war, is approving this punishment.
In reality, the situation of women in Iran is generally the same as that of women in the Islamic world. Women are almost always at the center of both sin and paradise in nearly all Islamic countries. The man who controls the woman believes he will definitely go to heaven, and the woman who obeys her husband, stays home, and denies her individual identity, accepts this as perfectly natural.
In recent years, especially with the rise of social media, women in Iran and Saudi Arabia have come forward demanding more rights. While Iranian women expressed this in the streets, Crown Prince Salman in Iran acknowledged the reality and granted women certain rights, such as the right to drive and enter male-dominated environments.
The Iranian woman’s asylum with the Australian government is actually a turning point for women. And this situation can serve as an example for oppressed women in other countries.
Women are life itself; removing them from life and turning them into slaves of men will only lead the world back to the Middle Ages.