Finally!
My name is Mahsa Rezaie.
I'm from Tehran.
I do parkour for six years now.
There are literally no leisure
time facilities for us.
That's why parkour is sport and fun at the same time.
But it is also about the buzz and the power
that parkour gives you.
That is a very special power, in my opinion.
Welcome, I'm Masih Alinejad
and this is the 124th episode of "Tablet".
They don't like a poor girl being her own representative and saying: "Although I lived in poverty,
now I have the right to defend
women's rights."
Hallo Masih.
We're making this video in Kermanshah.
Look at this!
Because of the Islamic Republic
and the compulsory hijab,
we are not allowed to enjoy swimming in the sea.
No compulsory hijab, no!
But here, look at the men!
All of them are just having a blast
swimming in the sea.
This is a patriarchy!
There is no support in Iran.
There are no gyms where you can learn parkour.
Especially for women there are none.
There are just no female trainers 
who can teach you parkour.
That's why we have to practice 
parkour in the parks.
In the past, we got always in trouble with
morality police when we practiced with men.
Okay, let's go!
Let's talk to a woman in Iran
that was brutally whipped.
Not because of participating in demonstrations,
but because of attending a mixed-gender family party, plus drinking alcohol.
You don’t believe it, Masih! The moment they kicked down the door and broke in, it was scary as hell!
Moreover, we were kinda relatives. It was me, my sister and our husbands, my husband’s cousins
with their wives, and we were not
supposed to dance with each other.
So we had spend three nights in custody.
On the fourth day, they trialed us so to speak, they meted 74 whips to everyone of us as discretionary punishment.
Anyways, there was another officer, she took
her chador and told me to put it on.
I did so, and then the whipping started.
I don’t recall much of it because I collapsed with the fifth, sixth whip because of the pain.
There are a lot of passengers who say:
"It bothers and annoys us, that you practice here."
Parkour is even prohibited in many parks.
If you go there with sportswear,
you get kicked out.
Sir, your officer has arrested me.
He said: "Go, stand in a certain distance.
I want to see if your veil is OK."
If I am "badly veiled", then listen to me.
He has no right to tell me to stand
at a certain distance to evaluate me.
Why does he need to evaluate me
from different angles?
What is wrong with my headscarf?
Hello. You guys have launched a campaign.
You are demanding freedom from hijab.
Here is what I want to say:
You might say: “We want to dress the way we want and men should control themselves”.
But your idea sounds like this analogy:
Imagine cooking a very delicious dish, 
but nobody is allowed to have some of it,
they should control themselves not to eat from it.
My first video had lots of negative comments.
That hurt me very much.
Most of the comments were religiously motivated.
And things like: "Why do you wear those clothes?"
"You upload videos, so that men will watch you"
But now it is much better. My newest video has a lot of positive comments, like:
"We are proud that our women go this way."
Once my neighbour who lives below me
locked herself in the backyard.
I knew she has a heart condition. And when I heard her screams for help, I immediately changed my clothes
and went to our balcony where I climbed down the wall.
So I reached her balcony and
entered through the window.
I broke the door to the backyard open and rescued her.
In the beginning my mother was against parkour.
After this incident she told everybody she met:
"My daughter does parkour."
Man: Go screw yourself!
Girl: You got the guts to say that again?
Man: Bugger off.
Girl: Say it to the camera!
On the highway today, the police stopped my car because they noticed my white headdress.
He fined me because of my smoked glasses.
Man: I’m gonna slap you, if you don’t wear your hijab.
Girl: What?
Man: Put your headscarf on.
Girl: What did you just say? You’re gonna slap me?
Slap me in my face?
Most of the parkour runners are on Instagram.
If I want to see what they do,
I follow them on Instagram.
Also because it is heavily used in Iran.
With my videos I'd like to show other women this special power that is necessary to do parkour.
They should see that you can also reach a high level when you are female.
Because in Iran they hold the view that men are stronger and more powerful then we are.
I want to show to women that if they do training,
this difference is not so big anymore.
Hi everyone.
It is an another White Wednesday today.
My daughter, my mom and I are here to support the White Wednesdays Campaign.
We came out wearing white
because we are against violence.
We don’t accept to see other women repressed.
To all those within the campaign:
We’re like rivers that should unite to become an ocean.
It's best if I don’t say anything at this point.
Because in the past few days,
the people have released all that
what they had been keeping in their throats
for the past 40 years.
Why do you hit us?
We have to say "Death to Khamenei"
– the Supreme Leader.
Death to Khamenei!
Death to Khamenei!
I’m standing here and I am not going anywhere
Here in Vesal, this woman does
her protest against forced hijab.
What more can I say?
We don’t know her name, and we don’t know what they’re doing to her.
Or where they’re keeping her now.
I want to ask all women to do the same like her.
Take off your white hijabs,
attach them to a wooden pole and wave it.
And when I say "I", then I mean every girl in Iran
that can hear me now.
I want every ordinary Iranian woman that is watching
to believe that she can use her own voice
and her TV at home to be heard by the Iranian legislators.
I would be very happy if Iranian society becomes more amenable to parkour
I wish for a better future for parkour in Iran.
