Spring of freedom

Reported by PMOI/MEK RESISTANCE 3/10/2019 Reported by PMOI/MEK Iran, March 10, 2019  -  Members of a network, known as the “ Resistance Units ,” associated directly to the Iranian opposition People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran ( PMOI/MEK ), launched a widespread campaign marking March 8, the International Women’s Day. In  Urmia , northwest Iran, members of resistance units put up signs quoting Mrs.  Maryam Rajavi , President of the Iranian opposition coalition National Council of Resistance of Iran ( NCRI ). The PMOI/MEK is a member of the NCRI coalition. Members of Resistance Unit 667 in  Shiraz , central Iran, and Abadan, southwest Iran, put up signs in Farsi and English quoting the NCRI President’s views about women. In Hamedan and  Karaj , members of resistance units put up signs quoting Maryam Rajavi saying, “No to compulsory hijab, no to compulsory religion, no to a compulsory state.” Members of resistance units in the...

Iranian women's struggle on the eve of International Women's Day The 20 th  century was the era of both the formation and escalation of women’s liberation movements in course of realizing women’s equal rights in all of its aspects, to put an end to gender discrimination. It was for these struggles that despite major hurdles on its way, women’s equality could take steps forward. From the 1908 strike of women workers of a textile factory in New York, where women protested against working conditions, which turned to a symbolic day for women’s equality movement, up to now, a long path has been paved. But, unfortunately, the achievements are not the same everywhere in the world. In this regard, we review the situation of women in Iran on the eve of the International Women’s Day. After more than a century of struggle for equality, Iranian women are still suffering from gender discrimination and violence against women. Their status-quo under the mullahs’ regime ruling Iran is ...

A year into the uprising, it is befitting to have a glance on women’s role in a year of persistent protests in Iran. On December 28, 2017, some 10,000 people took to the streets of Mashhad to protest against skyrocketing prices while the general public’s purchasing power was next to nothing. Women were numerous, loud and active in the protest.  Eyewitnesses  described women’s role in the demonstration as admirably courageous. The protest in Mashhad sparked a year of persistent anti-government uprisings and protests across Iran bringing ever closer the prospects for regime change and the overthrow of the misogynist theocratic rule of the mullahs. On the second day of the protests, a daring scene was created by a woman in the western Iranian city of Hamedan. For the first time in the protests, she shouted “ death to Khamenei ” right into the face of security forces surrounding her and then repeated it a couple more times before being whisked away by a friend. Women’...

woman in iran with women should have same rights as men on her hands Every year, the day November 25 comes as a grim reminder that we have a long way to go for achieving gender parity. There are still many countries in the world where women cannot fully exercise the right to shape their own destiny. Violence against women is another detestable vestige of the mostly patriarchal societies inherited by our generation. It may seem that we have come a long way since the Dark Ages, but there are still some countries in the world that have made little progress in according equal rights to women and men. There is even a country where misogyny is the order of the day and where women have no legal rights. It may come as a shock to many, but Iran continues to run in this way. The Iranian regime may keep up pretences in public on issues related to women’s rights, but in practice women remain second class citizens in that country.       The violence led to c...