{"id":10022,"date":"2019-03-05T18:55:23","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T17:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/?p=10022"},"modified":"2019-03-05T18:55:26","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T17:55:26","slug":"violence-iranian-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/articles\/2019\/03\/violence-iranian-women\/10022\/","title":{"rendered":"Violence against Iranian women: On the occasion of International Women\u2019s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In many countries women are still victims of oppression\nand violence. Iran is a prime example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As we prepare to celebrate the International Women\u2019s Day<\/a>, violence against Iranian women continues to be part of their daily lives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is now 40 years since the Islamic fundamentalism\nruling Iran has placed acrimony towards women at the core of its villainy and\nthrough their oppression it intimidates the whole Iranian society. Forty years of\nmullahs\u2019 regime atrocity against Iranian women serves the security of and is of\n\u2018ideological\u2019 value to this theocracy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the worldview of male-dominated regime of Velayat-e\nfaqih, women are considered an incomplete creation to be pushed to the sidelines\nand to obey their male masters. They cannot even wear their choice of clothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The situation of women in Iran is terrible. Women are\nnot just victims of unhuman\npressures imposed by the government. The bitter truth is that the laws of the Islamic\nRepublic based on mullahs\u2019 interpreted Sharia, justifies discrimination against\nwomen. In Iran, government officials do not view women as equal to men before\nlaw. For sex related crimes, women are not only condemned to severe punishments\nsuch as death, but their sentences are brutally carried out such as stoning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Violence against Iranian women is based on a reactionary\nculture that has institutionalized itself in the form of law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Poverty is another factor that leads to perpetration of\nviolence against Iranian women<\/strong>\n<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Women are poorer that men in Iran and the situation is\nonly getting worse with time. In addition to economic factors, other elements\nsuch as job restrictions and lower wages compared to men has exasperated the\nsituation. Women are barred from positions of political power or from becoming\na judge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Discrimination against women in inheritance in the civil\ncode is another cause for poverty. According to law, a woman\u2019s share of\ninheritance from her parents is half of a man (article 911 of civil law) and inheritance\nfrom a spouse (in case they have children) is one eighth (article 913 of civil\nlaw). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women who end up with divorce are forced to leave their\nhome and may well end up in streets despite all the years of their toil to\nserve their husband and children. Due to discrimination, most women do not\nlawfully own real estate therefore if they end up having to rent their\nresidence, steep rent prices devour a great portion of their income leaving\nthem with scarce money to manage their livelihood. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ultimately, these forces take their toll on women and\nmany end up as beggars or search in the trashes to survive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Organized aggression of IRGC<\/a>; another aspect of violence against Iranian women<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Human traffickers, mostly members of the revolutionary guards<\/a> (IRGC) or elements affiliated to it, kidnap young homeless girls or those peddling in streets and transfer them to neighboring countries, especially the rich Arab gulf states and use them as sex slaves<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is also organized violence against women in\nprisons. Prison officials use rape as a tool to extract confessions or to\nbreakdown women activists who have raised their voices against repression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the 2009 popular uprising<\/a>, the intelligence ministry and security organs extensively used this tool to break the arrested women during anti-government demonstrations. Women are defenseless against this barbaric and inhumane aggression. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nevertheless, in these 40 wretched years, violence against women has failed to force them to succumb to the theocratic dictatorship. Women have joined men in the struggle against this religious tyranny and have in fact placed themselves at the forefront and the political leadership o<\/a>f the main opposition movement against the mullahs<\/a>. Women in Iran are fighting for their rights and pay the price of freedom to<\/a> turn the page in their country\u2019s history. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In many countries women are still victims of oppression and violence. Iran is a prime example. As we prepare to celebrate the International Women\u2019s Day, violence against Iranian women continues to be part of their daily lives. 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