Iran protests: 'Women, life freedom'

Demonstrations show that cruelty against women oppresses everyone

A famous cover of Zanan (Women) Magazine, Iran’s now-closed version of Ms.

The American South, an elderly Alabama native once told me, could never have prospered without ending segregation because no state can discriminate against a large portion of its population without impoverishing itself. 

That comes to me again and again as I watch the fury of Iran…