Iranian women who can’t even travel, but Italian progressives rant for a ministry
Samira Zargari, coach of the Iranian alpine ski team will not be able to come to Italy for the world championships in Cortina. Not because it was blocked by some physical impediment, but as reported by the Italian newspapers it was stopped by Iranian "bureaucratic" impediments.
In this case, by "bureaucrats", we refer to the decision of Zargari's husband not to grant his wife permission to leave the country. A necessary permit because, beyond what the Islamic Republic affirms on respect for gender equality, women in Iran have no real rights, except through male concession. Including the right to travel the world, conditional on the signature of a male "protector", who can be the father, brother or husband as appropriate. Among other things, we talked about the violation of women's human rights in Iran in Atlantico Quotidiano only a few days ago .
The news of the impediment of Zargari reached Italy in the same hours in which the exponents of the Democratic Party complained of their absence from the delegation of ministers of their party in the Draghi government. In the same hours in which, even, to claim their "rights" of ministerial presence, the exponents of Dem – led by Laura Boldrini – threatened a new Aventine. Except then being answered by Draghi that true gender equality does not depend on women's quotas imposed by law, but on competitive conditions between genders (ie being a woman is not enough to earn a place in the Executive …).
None of these illustrious Italian progressives, however, thought in the same hours to publish a tweet in support of Samira Zargari. To initiate a petition in his favor and to deliver it to the Iranian ambassador to Italy, who just a few days ago claimed to illustrate to the Italians the goals achieved by Iran since the fundamentalist revolution of Khomeini in 1979.
To dedicate a tweet to the case of Samira Zargari, however, were the "very bad" parliamentary exponents of Lega and Italia Viva : senators Pucciarelli, president of the Human Rights Committee, Lucia Borgonzoni and Daniela Sbrollini (tweet later taken from the official account of Italia Viva ).
In short, the women representatives brought to Parliament by the “very dangerous” two Matteo were able to go beyond their backyard, to denounce the abuse of human rights against an Iranian woman. The others, those who make a lot of noise in the newspapers, just can't go beyond a conception by "quotas" of gender equality, thus demanding – by right – a ministerial seat.
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