Western women must show solidarity with repressed 'Iranian sisters'
Iranian opposition leader Maryam Rajavi addresses a meeting at the European Parliament in 2017. Photo courtesy of - Maryam Rajavi There are about 40 million women in the Islamic Republic of Iran, over half under age 30. At a time when women in the West have achieved political, economic, personal and social equality, Iranian women are among the most repressed in the world, ruled by a regime dominated by elderly, bearded misogynists. It is little wonder that the nationwide protests, which have continued in almost every town and city in Iran for the past 14 months, have often been led by or involved the participation of thousands of women. Female teachers, medical staff, students, factory workers and pensioners have taken to the streets to demand an end to corruption, an end to discrimination and repression and an end to the clerical regime's aggressive military adventurism across the Middle East. The chants of the protesters now openly call for regime change. It is clear ...