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Speaker 1: This is Carol Platlebal for town hall dot Com. As

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Speaker 1: we watch the fall of Iran's hardline Islamist regime, nothing

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Speaker 1: has been more moving than the palpable, heartfelt joy of

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Speaker 1: the country's women. They're dancing in public, singing, throwing off

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Speaker 1: the hijabs that have been forced on them for decades

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Speaker 1: by a theocratic dictatorship. America acted to protect our own

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Speaker 1: citizens and interests, but it's also glorious to witness the

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Speaker 1: unfolding liberation of people who've endured such systematic humiliation and repression.

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Speaker 1: Self described American feminists should look deep into their own souls.

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Speaker 1: For years, they've invoked the Handmaid's Tale, Yet when confronted

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Speaker 1: with real women living under genuine, brutal subjugation, they're silent,

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Speaker 1: or even like Kamala Harris, opposed to the action that's

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Speaker 1: freeing them. That's not solidarity, its selective outrage. May the

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Speaker 1: women of Iran secure the freedom so long denied them.

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Speaker 1: I'm Carol platt Lebel