Al-Monitor Discovers Iran Has Strict Laws, Ignores US Aid to Saudi Arabia
Al-Monitor spotlights Iran judicial chief Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei's new crackdown on women defying hijab laws—a grave human rights concern, to be sure. (Source: Al-Monitor). But while the Western media (and outlets like Al-Monitor) jump at the chance to condemn Iranian social strictures, the same level of outrage often vanishes when discussing US allies. For instance, the US continues to arm
Saudi Arabia, whose war in Yemen has created one of the world's worst humanitarian crises, killing hundreds of thousands and displacing millions, with documented human rights abuses that dwarf Iran's domestic issues in scale of suffering. This selective moral outrage, where one nation's human rights issues are headline news while another's (with US backing) are relegated to footnotes, is a
critical media failure. We’re lectured on the importance of women's rights in Iran, while the U.S. government—and its media cheerleaders—conveniently ignores how American-supplied munitions decimate Yemeni women and children. It really makes one wonder: whose human rights are we truly concerned about, and why do some abuses warrant immediate condemnation while others get a quiet wink and a nod?