The Iranian propaganda machine is pumping out content on social media claiming that repression in Iran is fake and that women are much freer under the regime than in America. This is, of course, nonsense. Below is a summary of the laws restricting women. Ironically, liberals, including women, are repeating the regime’s talking points, while in Iran, women have been subjected to arrest and physical assault in retaliation for forbidden social media posts, with some receiving jail time plus as many as 50 lashes.
Following the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Iran adopted a civil code based on conservative Sharia law, systematically stripping women of rights they had held under the monarchy. Under the current Constitution, the rights of women and girls are equal to those of men only when deemed in conformity with “Islamic criteria,” a term with no legal definition that has served as the basis for codifying gender-based discrimination across every area of Iranian life.
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