The Women of Iran

Artemesia was a woman who commanded the Iranian naval forces when Cyrus the Great attacked Greece in 563 BCE. The women of Iran were equal members of their society in ancient Iran and joined their men in the affairs of State – until 623AD, when Iran was invaded by the military forces of Islamic Arabs who imposed their rule upon Iranians.

During the 15th century, the Ottomans invaded Iran making the Mullahs partners of the crown in order to control Iranians and, worse yet, oppress women.

In 1888, the women of Iran joined the revolutionary forces to fight for modernity, constitutional monarchy and separation of the religion and state.

According to historians, alongside the dead revolutionaries in the battlefields lay the bodies of women who valiantly fought shoulder to shoulder with the men. The constitutional revolution succeeded in 1906, but in their negotiations with the plutocratic Mullahs, the revolutionary leadership left the family laws under the cleric-controlled Sharia. The women of Iran were betrayed but their war against the Mullahs had just begun. In 1907, with the establishment of their nationwide, underground organization, “The Secret Society of the Ladies,” a war was declared on the clergy; they would not stop until they had their equal rights.
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State-owned press reports that in Tehran, 120 women have been hung in public in the first five months of the Iranian year; that suicide among the women of Iran has been the highest in world history.

The young generation of Iranian women has again declared war against the Mullahs of Iran, but this time the power of government is against them. The paramilitary forces of the Islamic regime make it impossible for the women to protest against their inhumane laws…..
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Today an Iranian woman’s worth is considered to be half that of a man’s. They can not dress as they choose, but must comply with strict sharia law and there are plenty of religious police to arrest them off the street should they be so bold as to attempt to deviate. Eight women face death by stoning for so called crimes of adultery and Iran has racked up 155 executions so far this year.

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