Maryam Rajavi, IWD 2017: Iranian Women's Significant Role in Struggle Against Mullahs

Maryam Rajavi; Pioneering Women and a Generation of Men Who Seek Freedom and Equality

News Now, 07 March 20 17 - An international conference was held in Tirana, Albania, on the occasion of the International Women's Day.

Maryam Rajavi , political personalities and activists of the equality movement from various countries participated.

 The conference entitled, 'Women in Political Leadership', featured speeches on the threat of the mullahs' fundamentalist and misogynous tyranny in Iran, the Iranian women's resistance against the regime and the trailblazing role of the vanguard heroines of Ashraf.

Maryam Rajavi made the following remarks to the conference:

 

MARYAM RAJAVI PAYS TRIBUTE TO THE ENDURANCE OF THE VANGUARD HEROINES OF ASHRAF IN IWD CEREMONY

MARYAM RAJAVIS MESSAGE TO THE WOMEN FORCE FOR CHANGE

March 4, 2017
I would like to extend my sincere appreciations to the people and elected representatives of Sweden for their support for the Iranian people's Resistance.
On the eve of the International Women's Day, I would like to congratulate this day to my sisters in Sweden and all women of the world. I would also like to appreciate the efforts and sacrifices of those women who fought for freedom and equality.
The International Women's Day reminds us of a glorious future promised to mankind by women's equality movement and at the same time, it underlines the ongoing inequalities, violence and exploitation of women in our world.

And Iran is a country where women are living under one of the most oppressive conditions.
The mullahs' systematic suppression of women initially started under the pretext of Islam and they took advantage of religion to impose a wide range of restrictions on and discriminations against women such as the obligation to wear the mandatory veil.
The Civil Code was drafted on the basis of discrimination against women, and the Penal Code considers women's worth half of men's.
According to the mullahs' Sharia law, many activities of women including ownership, travel, leaving home, education, and employment are contingent on the decisions and desires of men.
MARYAM RAJAVIS MESSAGE TO THE WOMEN FORCE FOR CHANGE

Struan Stevenson is president of the European Iraqi Freedom Association and a lecturer on Middle East policy. He has served as a member of the European Parliament representing Scotland (1999-2014), president of the Parliament's Delegation for Relations with Iraq (2009-14) and chairman of Friends of a Free Iran Intergroup (2004-14).

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Iran is a country where women are living under one of the most oppressive conditions.

Maryam Rajavi's Message to The "Women Force for Change" Meeting in Stockholm, Sweden

The International Women's Day reminds us of a glorious future promised to mankind by women's equality movement and at the same time, it underlines the ongoing inequalities, violence and exploitation of women in our world.

 Iran is a country where women are living under one of the most oppressive conditions.

The mullahs' systematic suppression of women initially started under the pretext of Islam and they took advantage of religion to impose a wide range of restrictions on and discriminations against women such as the obligation to wear the mandatory veil.

The Civil Code was drafted on the basis of discrimination against women, and the Penal Code considers women's worth half of men's.
According to the mullahs' Sharia law, many activities of women including ownership, travel, leaving home, education, and employment are contingent on the decisions and desires of men.
Based on the mullahs' repressive and misogynist laws, girls as young as 13 and sometimes as young as 9 can get married and even punished.
The mullahs have spread the male-dominated culture with decadent customs like polygamy, temporary marriages, and sanctioning of honor killings.
The mullahs have deprived girls from studying in dozens of fields of higher education. Women's participation in the job market is only 14 per cent.
The women of Iran started their struggle 150 years ago. They have been in the frontline of the struggle agains
t the mullahs' religious dictatorship and comprise its pivotal force. Tens of thousands of women have been tortured or executed since the Iranian people's 1979 revolution against the Shah's dictatorship was usurped by the repressive mulla