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Iranian Women’s Courage Must Not Be Forgotten on International Women’s Day, Part 1

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06.03.2026

While we celebrate International Women's Day on March 8, we must remember the many brave Iranian women who have endured decades of hardship under the harsh rules of Islam, imposed on them by the Islamic Republic of Iran. Today, we are seeing the fruits of their struggles and suffering, praying that by the time you read this, the Islamic Republic will have fallen. But the job is not done, and their suffering has not ended.

Under Islamic rules, Iranian women have been subjugated and suppressed for more than 47 years since the satanic Ayatollah Khomeini took power in Iran. Iranian women lost all their rights after the revolution in 1979. The regime started suppressing women systematically and publicly through many misogynist laws, making women and women's rights only half of that of men. Women are forced to wear a hijab from the age of seven. Iranian women cannot sing or dance in public or have custody of their children after getting divorced. Women cannot travel or obtain a passport without the permission of their fathers or husbands. They cannot get government jobs or hold other important positions. The humiliation of women under the Islamic Republic runs deep in the regime's DNA.

Under Islamic rules, women are treated like property of men. Their testimony in court is half that of men because, under Islam, a woman's brain is considered half that of men. Women's........

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