Explosive poverty and the collapse of people’s livelihoods—resulting from an exhausted and devastated economy caused by anti-people policies, plundering, and looting of national wealth by Iran’s clerical regime, including the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)—are among the main factors behind the rise in violence against women.
As a result, every year we witness increasing domestic violence, femicide, child abuse, forced marriages of girls—particularly young girls—driven by severe poverty and other social harms under laws that discriminate against women in Iran.
Beyond the inefficiency of statistical systems in Iran, the regime’s lack of transparency and deliberate minimization of social harm prevent an accurate assessment of the real situation. Therefore, figures and statistics published by government sources should be considered cautiously, as the actual numbers are likely far higher.
