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Read moreForced hijab, main tool of Iran’s misogynist rulers to suppress women
For thousands of years in Iran, women’s clothing and covering was a matter of personal choice, a social issue that was never deemed as a privilege. The past century, however, saw Iranian dictators and specifically the mullahs’ regime transforming this issue into a leverage for oppressing women through imposing the forced hijab.
Enforcing the mandatory veil for women is another excuse for the regime to use violence and coercion against the people of Iran.
Contrary to all teachings of Islam, the mullahs’ misogynous dictatorship has institutionalized the compulsory veil for women in the country’s Constitution and other legal codes. A network of 26 agencies and ministries are in charge of enforcing the veil for Iranian women.
Suppression of women under the pretext of failure to observe the forced hijab is one of the regime’s most effective tools to create an atmosphere of repression in society and silence any voice of dissent. In recent years, a considerable number of women have been imprisoned in Evin and Qarchak prisons and handed down heavy sentences for their opposition to forced hijab.
Many female athletes have been expelled from the national team or their professional sports, or forced to leave the country for refusing to observe the forced hijab.
The Office of Cultural Studies of the Research Center of Majlis (the mullahs’ parliament) published a special report on July 28, 2018, stipulating that only 35 percent of Iranian women value the forced hijab (Chador), and nearly 70 percent of women either do not believe in it or are among “the improperly veiled” and protest the compulsory veil in Iran.
In the post-mullahs Iran, women are free to choose their clothing and covering, and the law on the mandatory veil will be totally abolished.
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Read moreWe work extensively with Iranian women outside the country and maintain a permanent contact with women inside Iran. The Women’s Committee is actively involved with many women’s rights organizations and NGO’s and the Iranian diaspora.
The committee is a major source of much of the information received from inside Iran with regards to women. Attending UN Human Rights Council meetings and other international or regional conferences on women’s issues and engaging in a relentless battle against the Iranian regime’s misogyny are part of the activities of members and associates of the committee.
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The copyright of all the material published on this website has been registered under © 2016 the Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran. To obtain permission to copy, redistribute or publish the material published on this website, you should write to the NCRI Women’s Committee. Please include the link of the original article on our website, women.ncr-iran.org.