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Speaker 1: This is Carol Platt Libel for town hall dot Com.

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Speaker 1: As the world marked International Women's Day, an international incident

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Speaker 1: reminded us what real repression looks like and how silent

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Speaker 1: many so called feminists have become. As their bus left

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Speaker 1: Australia for a flight back to Iran, members of Iran's

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Speaker 1: women's soccer team flashed SOS hand signals pleading for help.

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Speaker 1: Iranian state media had branded them traitors for refusing to

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Speaker 1: sing the regime's national anthem before a match. It's easy

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Speaker 1: to see why they were afraid to go home. Under

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Speaker 1: Iran's Islamis's theocracy, women possess few rights and defiance Carey's

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Speaker 1: brutal consequences. As the Australian government dithered, President Trump urged

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Speaker 1: officials to act and offered asylum in America. For years,

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Speaker 1: American feminist groups have called the president's sexist, Yet when

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Speaker 1: real women risked everything for freedom, he moved quickly to

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Speaker 1: protect them, while the so called feminists did nothing