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Joy Reid did a side-by-side comparison of the United States and Iran, and her overall takeaway was that if American women were better off than their Iranian counterparts, they were not better off by much.<\/p>\n
Reid, who was ousted from her regular gig with liberal network MSNBC before NBC News jettisoned the now rebranded cable news network (MS NOW), argued that the United States had secret police just like Iran and was just as oppressive when it came to how women were treated \u2014 although she listed off the \u201coppressive\u201d policies impacting American women and did not mention one of the many that affect Iranian women. The only real difference, she claimed, was that American oppression came at the hands of Christians and Iran\u2019s oppressive regime was rooted in Islam.<\/p>\n
WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n Joy Reid: America is a Christian form of Iran & women may have be better off there pic.twitter.com\/mDAheewOPU<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) March 16, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n \u201cWe get told, particularly when it comes to Arabs and Muslims and Africans, that people are just diabolically evil for no reason, right? That they do things because they hate our freedoms. We were told this about Iraq, that they just hated us for no damn reason at all,\u201d Reid said, suggesting that the narrative was invented out of whole cloth in order to justify American actions.<\/p>\n \u201cNow, I\u2019m not saying that that regime is not bad, but, by the way, our regime is not good,\u201d Reid continued. \u201cOur regime has secret police. They have secret police. Our regime is oppressing women, taking away abortion rights, taking away women\u2019s rights in like 26 states \u2014 some states where they\u2019re trying to have the death penalty for having an abortion.\u201d<\/p>\n Reid acknowledged briefly that the Iranian rulers \u201calso oppress women,\u201d but omitted the extent of that oppression<\/a>. A number of the regime\u2019s laws \u2014 and the punishment for breaking them \u2014 only apply to women.<\/p>\n Reid, clearly unbothered by that, went on to claim, \u201cThey have the highest rate of women who are in STEM careers. We\u2019re kicking women out of the military, out of university. We\u2019re saying that DEI means women can\u2019t be hired for high positions in the sciences.\u201d<\/p>\n While it has been claimed in viral social media posts that 70% of STEM graduates in Iran are women, data from the United Nations<\/a> shows that 25% of Iran\u2019s STEM graduates are female.<\/p>\n \u201cSo we\u2019re marginally better,\u201d Reid concluded. \u201cAnd we\u2019re doing it for Christianity, they\u2019re doing it for Islam, right? So, it\u2019s like we don\u2019t get told those things because it would take away the kind of American exceptionalism narrative that makes it easy to take our people and send them off to die in a war that we have nothing to do with, that we don\u2019t want.\u201d<\/p>\n The Daily Wire\u2019s Isabel Brown fired back at Reid, saying, \u201cForgive my Christian ignorance but when was the last time a woman was BEATEN TO DEATH BY THE MORALITY POLICE for a sliver of her hair showing in a Christian country?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
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