The Women’s March’s Shameful Betrayal of Iranian Women

The Women’s March just exposed itself as a fraud. Within hours of the U.S.-Israel operation against Iran’s nuclear facilities, the organization posted “feminists vs. fascists” on Instagram, declaring “no war on Iran.” These self-proclaimed champions of women just sided with a regime that has slaughtered over 32,000 of its own civilians and sexually assaults female protesters in custody.

Let that sink in. The ayatollahs are the good guys now.

This is the same Iranian regime that has massacred thousands of peaceful protesters, with estimates suggesting 300,000 more were wounded. Iran’s regional terror campaign has killed approximately one million civilians across the Middle East. American blood stains their hands too—thousands of U.S. service members and civilians have died at the hands of Iranian-backed militias and terrorists.

And these so-called feminists want to protect them.

The Real Fascists Wear Turbans, Not Suits

Iran operates the most misogynistic government on Earth. Women cannot leave home without permission from their husband, father, or closest male relative. Every woman faces brutal enforcement of strict dress codes. Violations result in arrest, torture, and sexual assault by regime enforcers.

This isn’t hyperbole. Margaret Atwood explicitly drew inspiration from the Islamic Republic when writing “The Handmaid’s Tale.” The fictional dystopia of Gilead pales compared to the real nightmare Iranian women endure daily.

When Mahsa Amini died in custody after her arrest by morality police in 2022, thousands of brave Iranian women flooded the streets. The regime’s response? Violent rape of nonviolent protesters. Teenage girls sexually assaulted in detention centers. Brutal crackdowns that left hundreds dead.

Where were the Instagram feminists then? Where are they now?

Elite White Feminists Turn Their Backs

Iranian Americans celebrated in the streets when strikes hit the regime’s nuclear facilities. Finally, someone was standing up to the dictatorship that has tormented their homeland for 47 years. Finally, there was hope for the millions suffering under theocratic oppression.

Jane Fonda responded by organizing protests against American intervention.

The absurdity is staggering. Elite white feminists lecture American women about microaggressions while ignoring actual rape rooms operated by the Iranian government. Women’s media outlets that dissect every perceived slight against Western women have gone silent on Iran’s atrocities.

The Cut hasn’t posted about Iran in three years. Elle published a trendy piece on Iranian protest fashion in 2023, then apparently decided the topic was no longer worth their attention. Apparently, genuine oppression isn’t as marketable as manufactured outrage.

The Iranian People Love America—Their Government Wants Us Dead

The Iranian people rank among the most pro-American populations in the Middle East. They understand what Western feminists refuse to acknowledge: America represents their best hope for freedom from tyranny.

The Islamic Republic has positioned America as its primary enemy since 1979. This isn’t rhetoric—it’s policy backed by action. Iran seeds unrest on American college campuses, deliberately working to erode our institutions from within. Iranian operatives actively interfered in the 2024 election.

The regime has orchestrated assassination attempts against American journalists, government officials, and President Donald Trump himself. During so-called negotiations, Iran released AI-generated videos showing the destruction of U.S. Navy vessels and called upon America to dig 5,000 graves for our troops.

This is the government the Women’s March wants protected from consequences.

Real Feminism Means Destroying the Regime

You cannot be a feminist and support the Iranian regime. These positions are fundamentally incompatible. The ayatollahs represent everything genuine feminism should oppose—systematic oppression, sexual violence as policy, total control over women’s bodies and lives.

Iranian women have been the faces of resistance in their country. They have risked everything to demand basic human dignity. Many have paid with their lives, their bodies, their freedom.

Supporting the regime that tortures them is not feminism. It’s betrayal.

The celebrities posting Instagram graphics and organizing protests against American intervention don’t speak for women. They speak for themselves—privileged, sheltered, and utterly disconnected from the reality Iranian women face every day.

True supporters of women’s rights understand a fundamental truth: Iranian women will never be free while the Islamic Republic stands. Every day the regime survives means more women raped in custody, more protesters shot in the streets, more families torn apart by theocratic brutality.

Choose Your Side

The lines could not be clearer. On one side stands the most oppressive, misogynistic government on Earth—a regime that treats women as property, massacres peaceful protesters, and exports terror across the globe.

On the other side stands the possibility of freedom for millions of Iranian women who have suffered for 47 years under theocratic rule.

The Women’s March made their choice. They chose the rapists over the victims. They chose the oppressors over the oppressed. They chose virtue signaling over actual virtue.

Real feminists stand with Iranian women. Real feminists support the destruction of the regime that has brutalized them for nearly five decades. Real feminists understand that some evils cannot be negotiated with—they must be defeated.

The Women’s March isn’t a feminist organization. It’s a political costume party where privileged Americans play dress-up while real women suffer and die.

Iranian women deserve better. They deserve freedom. And they deserve allies who will stand with them against their oppressors—not celebrities who protest their liberation while claiming to speak in their name.

The regime must fall. Everything else is cowardice dressed up as activism.