Masih Alinejad(@AlinejadMasih):Check out this threatening statement by a cleric in Iran. As more women walk the streets across Iran without hijab, his response is a threat. He says if women have the freedom to choose their clothes, men should have the freedom to rape or sexually assault them. That is incitement to sexual violence. I call on democratic governments to impose Magnitsky sanctions or arrest warrant on this cleric and other Islamists who incite violence against women. Let there be consequences for normalizing rape.

2026.08.27 17:34

Check out this threatening statement by a cleric in Iran. As more women walk the streets across Iran without hijab, his response is a threat. He says if women have the freedom to choose their clothes, men should have the freedom to rape or sexually assault them. That is incitement to sexual violence. I call on democratic governments to impose Magnitsky sanctions or arrest warrant on this cleric and other Islamists who incite violence against women. Let there be consequences for normalizing rape.

Masih Alinejad@AlinejadMasih

2026.08.27 07:47

A cleric in Iran just announced that if a woman gets to choose her own clothes, then a man gets the right to rape her. Do not scroll past that. Read it twice. That is not a slip of the tongue. That is not a fringe opinion from the back of a mosque. That is Kazem Rohbakhsh an official worldview of the Islamic Republic of Iran, finally spoken without the mask. For 45 years this regime has told women they are the problem. Cover yourself, or you "tempt" men. Dress modestly, or you "deserve" what comes next. And now the punchline, straight from the cleric's mouth: If you dare to be free, then we are free to sexually assault you. Let me be clear about something. That is the whole ideology of the Islamic Republic of Iran in one sentence. A regime so terrified of women that it believes your only choice is a headscarf or a predator. So here is my answer to the mullah, in simple words: Women don’t need to cover themselves to control men’s behavior. Men need to control themselves. A woman's body is not a bargaining chip. Our freedom is not a crime. And your "right to rape" is not a right. It is a confession. A confession that your ideology is too weak to win a single woman's heart, so you must crush her body instead.