It is a common issue within Western literature to undermine the Women, Life, Freedom movement in Iran by considering it an isolated situation. This assumption gives the movement a very linear development with little external influence. In reality, the WLF movement is a global movement affected by internal and external national and historical factors. This approach not only takes in Iranian movements but also global women’s rights activist movements that all connect and as Moradian states, cross-pollinate ideas and strategies. This approach would take in external movements that also deal with state oppression, such as in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Palestine. Out of this approach, a global perspective is formed for the Women in Iran, who previously were isolated from other feminist movements.

     An example of a group that has broken through this isolation would be Feminist for Jina, a group of Iranian Women who live outside of Iran. The group drew inspiration from feminist movements in Latin America against dictators such as Trujillo. The women in the group are not part of the large population of Iranians who fled during the 1979 revolution but those who grew up in the Islamic Republic and hold a deep connection to the state and the effects of state-imposed religion. Feminist for Jina held rallies across Europe and North America on International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Leading up to the rallies, the group posted across social media a Chilean song titled “A Rapist in Your Path,” which is a piece that speaks on gendered violence. Following the protest, the group performed the piece in Berlin, London, and New York. The performances allowed Iranian and non-Iranian Women outside of Iran to participate in the revolutionary women's freedom movement in Iran. The song “A Rapist in Your Path” is a prime example when looking at the now global Women, Life, Freedom movement and how it proliferated outside of Iran.

-Mathew Montiel