Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi who was killed in a helicopter crash was married to author and academic Jamileh Alamolonda.
The writer and academic widow of its president Iran Raisiwho died in the fatal helicopter crash, is considered a controversial “First Lady” as she publicly expressed her thoughts while writing to Macron’s wife regarding the war in Gauze.
Born in Iran’s second most populous city, Mashhad, in 1965, Jamileh Alamolhoda, daughter of the hardline imam, Ihman Alamolhoda, is a professor of educational philosophy and received her PhD from Shahid Beheshti University. He has also directed the university’s science and technology research institute since 2001.
In 1983, she married Ebrahim Raisi, a hardline member of the Islamic Republic dubbed the “Butcher of Tehran” at the age of 18, and they had two daughters.
It is highly unusual for the wife of an Iranian leader to promote her own views but the 59-year-old – now Raisi’s widow – has already changed the traditional image of a woman with her role.
She is considered a controversial figure around the world for her outspoken views on the role of women in society.
“I’m a teacher and I focus on philosophical theories,” she had recently told the Financial Times from her office at Shahid Beheshti State University in Tehran. “I’ve been doing this for a long time, but now I feel like I have a platform and that my activities are visible”
She promotes her views on the role of women and the importance of education, giving interviews to foreign media when accompanying her husband on official trips, such as to the United Nations in New York, and writing letters to the spouses of European leaders asking them to use the their influence to stop the war in Gaza.
“Please ask your husband to condemn the killings of defenseless Palestinian children and women and to act immediately to consolidate peace,” she wrote not long ago to Brigitte, the wife of the French president, Emmanuel Macron.
In an interview on Venezuelan state television in June 2023, Jamile Alamolonda claimed that governments abuse women sexually or in the workplace in the name of freedom.
Speaking with her husband on a national television channel, she said at the time that women’s rights groups had overemphasized cases of domestic violence, while claiming that “organized violence outside the family is much more important.”
A critical issue in Iran is the hijab law which mandates that women must cover their hair and body in public.
The issue came to the fore with the death of 22-year-old Mahsha Amini following she was arrested for allegedly failing to follow the Islamic dress code. This sparked massive street protests under the Islamic Republic, with many women, especially young women, taking the plunge and going out without covering their hair.
She wears her black chador, which is not just a headscarf but a cloak that covers the entire body and leaves the face exposed, but not the hands.
It is a visible sign of her rejection of the Western style embraced by many Iranian women, particularly those who participated in the protests.
According to newsit, asked if Iran should retain the hijab law, Alamalonda said the problem is the cult of fashion and consumerism, not the Islamic dress code. The hijab should not be used as a “weapon for those who want to show their hostility to the Islamic Republic,” he said.
“I have to tell you that the hijab was a tradition, it was a religiously mandated tradition, widely accepted. And now, for years, it has become law. And breaking the law, breaking any law, just like in any country, comes with its own punishments,” he said.
The letter to Brigitte Macron regarding the war in Gaza
In November 2023, he caused further backlash when he sent a letter to French President Emmanuel Macron’s wife, Brigitte, urging her to seek a ceasefire in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
He wrote: “Dear Madame Macron! Please, as a kind and self-sacrificing woman representing the women, mothers and daughters of France, ask your husband not to be complicit in the killing of helpless Palestinian children and women. I wish you a reward from God for your humanitarian efforts.”
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