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In response to UN’s decision to elects Iran to commission on women's rights. Below is a brief timeline of the steps taken by the regime to gradually deprive Iranian women of their rights:

February 26, 1979: Khomeini’s office announced that the Family Protection Act was going to be repealed.

February 27, 1979: The Women’s Social Services Act was revoked

February 28, 1979: Gender discrimination was extended to the sports arena and women’s athletic tournaments were cancelled one after the other.

March 2, 1979: Women were banned from judgeship. Hundreds of female judges and juristic interns were left in limbo.

March 4, 1979: The right of divorce was granted exclusively to men, enabling them to unilaterally decide for divorce at any time of their liking.

March 7, 1979: Khomeini issued a fatwa on the compulsory veil, obliging women who worked in government offices to cover their hair at work.

May 22, 1979: The first time a woman was flogged in public.

July 12, 1979: The first time three women were executed on the charge of committing vice.

June 29, 1980: For the first time, two women were stoned to death in Kerman, southern Iran. The verdict was carried out even before the adoption in 1982 of the inhuman Retribution Law by the mullahs’ parliament (Majlis).

By the end of 1981, the gender-segregation was implemented in public transportations, recreation centers, seaside, and other public areas.

According to Article 1041 of the Civil Code reformed and amended on November 5, 1991: Marriage of girls before 13 solar years and boys before 15 solar years is conditioned on the permission of the guardian on the condition that a qualified court deems it appropriate.

According to Article 102 of the Punishment Law ratified in 1983, women who appear in public and in the streets without the religious veil are punished by 74 lashes of the whip.

Article 8 of the mullahs’ Constitution institutionalized the duty of “promoting virtue and forbidding vice.” In the year 2010, the mullahs’ president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, placed greater emphasis on this law by supplementing it by another bill.

In 2010 another act was embraced to “spread the culture of chastity and Hijab” according to which at least 26 government agencies were instructed to carry out duties to enforce the compulsory veil on Iranian women.

In 2014, the mullahs’ parliament passed two articles of a new bill which lent support to those who promote virtue and forbid from evil. The rest of the bill was adopted in 2016, which gave priority to the views of the mullahs’ supreme leader and was readily implemented.

In 2012, the regime implemented an extensive plan in all universities, designating gender quotas for admission of female students. According to this plan, girls were completely banned from applying for B.S. or B.A. in 77 fields of study.

In mid-April 2013, Khamenei offered a plan to increase the country’s population, by boosting the average birth rate. The mullahs’ parliament followed suit and passed a legislation which openly placed further restrictions on women’s employment and family rights.

#1988massacre testimonies: include: shooting women in the womb, letting them die in pain, raping girls before execution, amputation of limb, confinement in solitary cells called, execution of girls, pregnant & elderly women and torturing children in front of their mothers’ eyes.

More than 500 young women and girls were arrested and imprisoned for participating in the December 2017-January 2018 uprisings.

On December 15, 2019, the Iranian Resistance announced that +1,500 people were killed by the security forces in the November protests. Then, on December 23, Reuters news agency confirmed from sources within the Iranian regime that 400 women and 17 youths were among those killed.

Freedom-loving women & female students participated extensively in the protests in January 2020 against the downing of a Ukrainian passenger aircraft by IRGC missiles. Participants in the protests called for resignation of the supreme leader Ali Khamenei & for regime change.

In conclusion:

The courageous women of Iran will carry on their struggle until they overthrow the mullahs’ misogynous theocracy in its entirety and bring freedom and equality to their country.