Some 30 women have boycotted on Thursday the Conference Deen Spain, says Zabib, partially held at the Madrid Athenaeum. The appointment was at 19.30 in the Ramón y Cajal Sala and although it initially gave the impression that there was a huge expectation for listening to the ambassador, the reality is that much of the room was occupied by a group of among the public with the intention of
As soon as the intervention starts and citing the name of the ambassador from the speaker table, the group of feminist, among which they were standing and has begun to shout “murderer” to the diplomat. To the shouts of others have been added later, chanted by the group that stirred Iran and maps maps with the faces of some famous dissidents recently condemned to death penalty.
Before the screams, the ambassador has remained motionless and with his hands crossed on the table, looking at the group with half smile. But they have returned to the load: “Pederasta, pedophile.” The group of women had masks with the names of Sarina Esmaeilzadeh, the boy Kian Pirfalak or the young Mohammad Mehdi, recently hanged in the public square from a crane.
During the protest there has been exchange of insults and pushes among some of the attendees. The screams, however, were increasing, until a group of police have entered and forced to evict the room.
Finally, almost 45 minutes after the scheduled time, the act entitled has begun Geopolitics in the geographical area of Iranfocused on the threats of the United States to Iran.
The ambassador has begun thanking the police to have imposed public order. “We respect all opinions, but no one must let order and democracy are victims of anarchism,” Zabib began in Farsi.
Before the diplomat, the lawyer Rosa María Arteaga, who presented the ambassador, has recounted the pressures that the conference has received in recent weeks. Pressures addressed to both her and the Athenaeum, to cancel the talk organized by the Republican group. Among those who have exercised these pressures were Esteban Ibarra, of the movement against intolerance, said Arteaga. “But canceling and giving in to the pressures would have been to betray the essences of the Athenaeum,” said Arteaga, after listening for many minutes: “Athenaeum is not bleaching.”
Already on the street, the group of feminist has continued with its protests guarded by the police. “The ambassador of this murderous regime must know that we will not let him breathe, that he will not be able to speak, that he will not be able to go out publicly and that wherever we go we will make his life impossible and boycott him,” said Nazanin Armania. The Iranian writer has told that she was imprisoned for several years in Iran, but fled through the mountains to Pakistan until she reached Spain, where she is one of the most blunt voices against the Islamic regime.
“The Iranian regime lowered the bridal age at age eight, that is official pedophilia,” added another of the women who organized the protest and was escorted to the street by the police. “Simply, we are feminist and that oppressor country will not shut up,” he protested. Many of women’s criticisms have been directed against the Athenaeum for organizing the talk, despite the rejection of some partners and members of the management.
