Karens for Khamenei
How Trump Derangement turned feminist icons into mullah defenders.
For decades, the American Left’s loudest voices on women’s issues styled themselves as fearless guardians of peace and equality. They chained themselves to fences at nuclear bases, waved “No Nukes” signs during the Reagan years, and lectured the rest of us about the patriarchy while demanding the Equal Rights Amendment and unfettered abortion. Jane Fonda, the original celebrity activist, was at the forefront—Vietnam-era traitor turned fitness-video feminist turned Trump-hating scold. These women claimed moral high ground on nuclear proliferation and women’s rights.
Then Donald Trump happened.
The moment Trump descended the golden escalator in 2015, something snapped. Suddenly, the same women who once warned that Ronald Reagan’s defense buildup would end civilization found themselves marching in pink hats, screaming about “pussy grabs,” and declaring the 45th president a greater threat than any foreign dictator. Their feminism didn’t evolve; it mutated into a cult of anti-Trumpism so total that it now requires them to defend the indefensible.
Fast-forward to today. Israel and the United States have finally done what sane people have long demanded: crippled Iran’s nuclear weapons program. Precision strikes have turned enrichment facilities into smoking craters, setting back the ayatollahs’ apocalyptic bomb by years. Any rational feminist should be cheering. Iran’s regime is the planet’s leading sponsor of terror, executes women for “improper hijab,” and has openly vowed to wipe Israel off the map. Destroying its nuclear capability should be a victory for every woman who values her own skin.
Instead, the former nuclear freeze crowd is in the streets protesting the destruction of the Iranian nuclear program. Leading the charge? Jane Fonda herself.
Welcome to the age of the Karens for Khamenei.
These are the same women who once denounced nuclear weapons as the ultimate patriarchal sin. Now they clutch signs reading “Hands Off Iran” and “No War for Israel” while Tehran races toward a weapon that could incinerate Tel Aviv and beyond. The hypocrisy is so staggering it would be comical if it weren’t so grotesque.
But the real betrayal runs deeper than nukes. These “feminists” have quietly aligned themselves with the very ideology that treats women as chattel. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini—the founder of the Islamic Republic whose portrait still hangs in every Iranian government office—laid out the rules in black and white. In his book Tahrir al-Wasilah, the revered leader of the 1979 revolution explicitly endorsed the marriage and sexual use of girls as young as nine years old. He ruled that a man could take a prepubescent wife and consummate the marriage if she was “fit for intercourse.” He normalized sigheh—temporary marriage contracts that amount to religiously sanctioned prostitution and human trafficking. Girls as young as six have been sold into these arrangements, auctioned off to the highest bidder under the watchful eye of the mullahs.
Khomeini also made clear that non-Muslim women—“infidels”—occupied a special category. Captives in jihad could be used sexually without the constraints placed on Muslim wives. Rape of the conquered was not a crime; it was theology. Iran’s regime has institutionalized this worldview: forced veiling, gender segregation, stoning for adultery, execution for homosexuality, and the systematic trafficking of young girls into “temporary marriages” that last anywhere from an hour to ninety-nine years. This is not ancient history. This is current Iranian law and practice.Yet the new Karens for Khamenei—Fonda and her Hollywood coven—say nothing. Worse, they protest the very military action that weakens a regime that rapes, sells, and murders women as official policy. Their hatred of Trump has become a solvent that dissolves every principle they once claimed to hold. Trump imposed maximum pressure on Iran. Trump celebrated Soleimani’s demise. Trump moved the embassy to Jerusalem and brokered the Abraham Accords. Therefore, in the deranged logic of the resistance, anything that weakens Iran must be opposed—even if it saves millions of women from living under the boot of medieval theocracy.
This isn’t feminism. This is performative treason against women.
Real Iranian women risk their lives tearing off hijabs and chanting “Woman, Life, Freedom.” They are beaten, imprisoned, and hanged for the crime of wanting basic dignity. Meanwhile, Jane Fonda—safe in her California mansion—poses for cameras in front of “Protect Iran” banners. The same woman who once sat on an anti-aircraft gun in Hanoi now effectively sits on the side of the regime that would stone her for wearing the wrong outfit.
The transformation is complete. The women who once marched against nuclear proliferation now march to preserve a nuclear-armed caliphate. The feminists who once denounced child marriage in the Third World now make excuses for the country that codified it. The “resistance” that began as hatred of one American president has ended in alliance with the world’s most notorious misogynist theocracy.
History will record this as one of the most shameful chapters in American activism: the day the Karens traded their protest signs for Khamenei’s turban. And leading the parade, megaphone in hand, is the woman who never met a communist dictator she didn’t like—now adding the Supreme Leader to her Rolodex of regrets.
The rest of us, meanwhile, will keep cheering every crater in Natanz and Fordow. Because some of us still believe that protecting women means destroying the regimes that enslave them—not protesting the people who finally had the courage to do it.
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