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\nWomen\u2019s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran urges women and freedom-loving youth of Iran to protest regime\u2019s suppressive policies<\/strong><\/p>\n NCRI – In the past week, the Iranian regime has ratcheted up repression of women. Hassan Rouhani\u2019s Interior Ministry has issued a directive for forced veiling. On the advice of the regime\u2019s leaders, the directive was first issued to government and private businesses. The agency dubbed \u201cHeadquarters to safeguard public security sanctum and citizens\u2019 rights\u201d issued a 10-point directive to all governorships and provincial executive departments in this regard (Tasnim News Agency, affiliated with the Qods Force \u2013 June 20).<\/p>\n According to this directive, women\u2019s veil should be a \u201cchador or loose under-knee long dress with long sleeves without any marks, cloth trousers, and a large scarf that covers the head, hair and neck with conventional colors. Unconventional jewelry should not be used. No makeup is allowed.\u201d Male employees should also \u201crefrain from wearing T-shirts, tight or short-sleeve shirts, tight trousers or jeans, clothing with Western marks, ornaments, wide belts with unconventional buckles, and unsuitable hair and beard designs\u201d.<\/p>\n The state radio and television has also resorted to extensive measures for gender segregation of its employees. According to this plan, in state propaganda agencies, including radio \u201cWarzesh [sports]\u201d, \u201cEconomy\u201d and \u201cJavan\u201d, female staff and secretaries have been removed from offices managed by men. Moreover, a number of employees, especially female contract employees, have been fired under the pretext of regulating the workforce.<\/p>\n The repressive scheme for gender segregation was ordered last year by Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, Mayor of Tehran and a former senior Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) commander, and was implemented in municipalities of Tehran before being extended to other state agencies. The regime\u2019s officials have praised this repressive measure dubbing it \u201ccleaning women\u2019s workplace\u201d and \u201cspecial attention to and honoring of women\u201d and a plan \u201ccoherent with the regime\u2019s values that leads to higher production\u201d (NCRI Women\u2019s Committee statement \u2013 1 August 2014). That plan led to the firing of many female employees.<\/p>\n Ms. Sarvnaz Chitsaz, Chair of the NCRI Women\u2019s Committee, expressed deep abhorrence for the intensification of repression of women under the mullah-fabricated pretext of combating \u201cmal-veiling\u201d and the implementation of gender segregation. \u201cThe increase in the dimensions of repression of women and the youth, who are the force of change in society, and the regime\u2019s reuse of the outdated excuse of \u2018mal-veiling\u2019 is simply the reaction of a moribund regime that is facing growing social protests and is unable to respond to the most fundamental needs of a fed up people due to its anti-democratic and medieval nature,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n She called on Iranian women and freedom-loving youth, who during years of the mullahs\u2019 rule have constantly confronted all oppressive measures and pressures, to expand their protests against these suppressive policies. Ms. Chitsaz added: \u201cDoubtless, this misogynistic and medieval regime that Iranian people call \u2018the Godfather of ISIS\u2019 shall be toppled by these very valiant women and youth.\u201d<\/p>\n Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran urges women and freedom-loving youth of Iran to protest regime’s suppressive policies NCRI – In the past week, the Iranian […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":43289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[175],"class_list":{"0":"post-18574","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-women","8":"tag-updated"},"yoast_head":"\n
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