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The Guardian - UK
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Mona Eltahawy

Netanyahu is using Muslim women’s ‘rights’ to justify his war. What hideous, hollow hypocrisy

Iranian women at a funeral for military personnel killed during Israeli airstrikes, Khoramabad, 16 June 2025.
Iranian women at a funeral for military personnel killed during Israeli airstrikes, Khoramabad, 16 June 2025. Photograph: Taraneh Bazdari/EPA

The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has invoked the Iranian regime’s heinous women’s rights record to justify his heinous war on Iran. This is the man whose genocide of Palestinians in Gaza killed more women and children in its first year than the equivalent period of any other conflict over the past two decades.

“They’ve impoverished you, they’ve given you misery, they’ve given you death, they’ve given you terror, they shoot down your women, leaving this brave, unbelievable woman, Mahsa Amini, to bleed on the sidewalk for not covering her hair,” he told Iranians in an interview with Iran International.

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