Iran has changed a great deal since the early days of the Iranian revolution in the 1980s, but its leadership has not. Their search for revenge could destroy the entire fragile structure of the state. Its brutal and misguided actions have provoked the anger of millions of Iranian Medeas, who are seeking revenge, first for their murdered 22-year-old sister Mahsa Jina Amini, the young Kurdish woman fatally beaten in the custody of the so-called “morality” police, and second, for decades of mistreatment and discrimination by the Islamic Republic.
Through its blindness, it has brought catastrophe on itself. It’s no surprise that the clerical elite that rules the Islamic Republic has been as obtuse as Jason. He writes, “Long ago the Medes had been called Arians by everyone, until Medeia of Colchis came to them from Athens, and then, at least according to what the Medes themselves say, they, too, changed their name.” Herodotus, in The Histories, adds the detail that Medea and her son Medeus ended up on the Iranian plateau, and that the inhabitants took their name “Mede” from her and her son. Colchis, in today’s Western Georgia, is a region that was long under Iran’s cultural, as well as political, influence. It is possible that the mythological Medea was originally Iranian. In today’s Iran, millions of latter-day Medeas are bravely telling the world they have had enough of mistreatment by a brutal regime. In Greek mythology, when the hero Jason betrays his wife, the princess Medea of Colchis, and marries another woman, Medea exacts the most horrible revenge and kills her rival and even her own children. OctoBy killing Mahsa Amini, the Islamic Republic has created millions of Medeas
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