I would indeed like to support the Great Walk against the present 
Iranian regime's vicious acts against women and its entrenchment of
institutionalised patriarchy, all the more heinous as the process of
abrogating such subordination had already been well underway in the 
1960s.
This is not the only case where women's rights have been supmmarily
abandoned - exactly the same happened to women (and Jews) after they 
had begun to gain higher education and to enter the professions and the
political arena in France in the 1920s and early 30s (see Francine
Muel-Dreyfus, Vichy and the Eternal Feminine, Duke 2001). There are 
grounds for believing that these acts to restrain women always go hand -in hand 
with an incipent turn to (neo)fascism.
 	I also ask the US and UK Governments not to contemplate taking 
military action against the Iranian Government on the grounds that it is 
preparing for nuclear attack against Israel. In my view, the way to control such 
acts on the part of Marmedinov's (spelling?) govt. is to have total global
multilateral nuclear disarmament, and failing that, UN inspectors of 
the Hans Brink calibre inspecting Iranian nuclear installations. It is also
necessary for the policies pursued by Israel and the US re the Middle 
East to take account of the numerous UN motions against their present 
positions.
 	Yours Bridget


Profesr Bridget Fowler