Why are Western feminists silent on the war on Iranian women?

Feminist attention is not neutral. It is shaped, directed, and unevenly distributed.

In 2022–2023, Western feminist institutions mobilised loudly in support of protests in Iran, celebrating women’s resistance to compulsory hijab as a defining feminist struggle. Today, as war kills women and girls and destroys their access to education, that same infrastructure has fallen conspicuously silent. Th...