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Letter to Mayor Mamdani
Masih Alinejad
February 4, 2026

Mayor Mamdani, While mass killings are unfolding in Iran, you have chosen silence. While women are being beaten, imprisoned, and killed for refusing compulsory hijab and the entire Islamic regime in Iran, you have offered no sympathy, no solidarity, not even a basic condemnation. This silence matters…I came to New York yearning to breathe free. Free from the violent oppression imposed on women by the Islamic Republic of Iran. In my country of birth, women are forced by law to wear the hijab. Refusal is punished with beatings, prison, torture, and death. Mahsa Jina Amini was murdered in 2022 for showing her hair. Thousands of women since have paid a similar price. Schoolgirls are poisoned. In Iran, the Islamic Republic has carried out one of the largest massacres of civilians in its history. Protesters are shot in the streets. Detainees are raped and killed. Hospitals are raided.READ MORE

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