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Iran was the first country [2] to pledge assistance to Iraq to fight ISIL, deploying troops in early June 2014 following the North Iraq offensive. [3] [4]President of Iraq Fuad Masum has praised Iran as "the first country to provide weapons to Iraq to fight against the ISIL Takfiri terrorists".
The society is also known as the Women's Association of the Islamic Republic [4] and the Society of the Women of the Islamic Republic of Iran. [3] The secretary general of the society has been Zahra Mostafavi, a daughter of Ayatollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran. [1] Nida, is the official quarterly organ of the society. [2]
Nor has the killing of at least 400 protesters and arrests of more than 20,000 people, according to an Iranian women’s group. The fact that these protests have persisted speaks to the people’s ...
The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Shirin Ebadi, Iranian human rights and women's rights activist, further emboldened women's rights activists in Iran and fixed their relationships with Iranian feminists abroad. [citation needed] According to secular feminists, the problem that women face in Iran derives from merging religion and politics ...
Women in Iran "still live in a system that relegates them to second-class citizens", according to the UN. An Iranian woman without a mandatory headscarf, or hijab, walks in a street in Tehran ...
Women vote for the first time in Iran, 1963. With the passage of the election law in the first term of the National Assembly of Iran in 1906, the first group to be barred from voting, as well as barred from being candidate and being elected, was women.
Islam does not prohibit women from public life however it is the political and cultural climate of Iran that encourages women to practice a private domestic life. Many schools are now inspiring young girls to prepare for tomorrow, as a mother and a wife and as active figures in the involvement of social and political affairs.
Beginning in 2012, dozens of girls and women traveled to Iraq and Syria to join the Islamic State (IS), becoming brides of Islamic State fighters. While some traveled willingly, including three British schoolgirls known as the Bethnal Green trio, [1] [2] others were brought to Iraq and Syria as minors by their parents or family or forcefully.