Maria Pia Calzone

Forced Hijab Claims Another Life: 16-Year-Old Arezoo Khavari Takes Her Life After School Harassment Over Dress Code Violations💔 A 16-year-old schoolgirl named #ArezooKhavari tragically took her own life by jumping from a building after being sent back from a school trip for violating the dress code by wearing jeans instead of the prescribed uniform. Her grieving father revealed that this was not an isolated incident; Arezoo had faced repeated harassment from the school for her attire and her non-compliance with the mandatory hijab policy. Last year school almost refused to enroll her. Following her death, her father lodged a formal complaint against the school authorities, accusing them of negligence and insensitivity, especially for their failure to offer any condolences or follow up after the incident. A reliable source told me, the that she was threatened with expulsion after the school’s vice principal handed over a video of her dancing without hijab to the principal for disciplinary action. This case echoes a broader issue in Iran where in 2023, nearly 1,000 schoolgirls were victims of poisoning attacks, believed to be linked to the enforcement of discriminatory hijab laws in gender-segregated schools. The responsibility for Arezoo’s death falls squarely on the shoulders of the Islamic Regime in Iran. #آرزو_خاوری

In my birth country Iran, one person was executed every six hours last month. Meanwhile, in my adopted country America, the same clerics who hang innocent Iranians for so-called “insults to Islam” have established the Alavi Foundation and fund students at top universities like Columbia and Harvard to preach that “Islam is a religion of peace.” How can those who kill in the name of religion be allowed to whitewash their crimes in the West? Let’s expose their lies before they shape the minds of future leaders while executing the innocent. 💔

I received this video from an Afghan woman named Bahar. She says: ‘I fight for my sisters, whom the Taliban first stripped of education and work, and now force to cover their faces and silence their voices. We won’t back down. We have only one option: to fight. Does the world hear us?’ The Taliban and the Islamic Republic are two sides of the same coin, and our struggles are the same. We must unite and fight together.