{"id":221058,"date":"2020-06-24T15:59:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T14:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=221058"},"modified":"2023-01-24T14:23:55","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T13:23:55","slug":"another-achievement-of-irans-misogynous-regime-women-living-in-holes-and-canals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/women\/another-achievement-of-irans-misogynous-regime-women-living-in-holes-and-canals\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Achievement of Iran\u2019s Misogynous Regime: Women Living in Holes and Canals"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_221059\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-221059\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"women-living-in-holes-and-canals-\" class=\"size-full wp-image-221059\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/women-living-in-holes-and-canals-.jpg\" alt=\"Another Achievement of Iran\u2019s Misogynous Regime: Women Living in Holes and Canals \" width=\"1000\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/women-living-in-holes-and-canals-.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/women-living-in-holes-and-canals--300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/women-living-in-holes-and-canals--768x407.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/women-living-in-holes-and-canals--696x369.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/women-living-in-holes-and-canals--792x420.jpg 792w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-221059\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iran: women living in holes and canals<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The Iranian regime has brought nothing but poverty and destruction for Iranian people. Iranian women <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">are under even greater pressure, <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">due to the regime\u2019s misogynist nature<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. The current situation of the Iranian society has forced <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">some Iranian <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">women to live in holes and canals, according to <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">a regime expert.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In an interview with the state-run <\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/etemadonline.com\/content\/413878\/%DA%AF%D9%88%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%84-%D9%87%D8%A7-%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%84-%D8%B2%D9%86%D8%AF%DA%AF%DB%8C-%D8%AC%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%AF-%D8%B2%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%B3%D8%B1%D9%BE%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA-%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D8%A8%D8%B9%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D8%B2-%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%B2%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B4-%D9%82%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%AA-%D9%85%D8%B3%DA%A9%D9%86\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Etemadonline<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> website, <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Mohammad Reza <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Mahboubfar<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> said: \u201cSome women heads of household<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s have no shelter<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> and<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> are forced to live in ruins, destroyed buildings, <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">shantytowns, tents, underground holes and canals. Female slumdwellers <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">do <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">not have<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> appropriate housing.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Iran is one of the richest countries in <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">world in terms of natural resources. Yet, the Iranian regime has plundered <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">nation<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u2019s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> wealth to <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">pursue its warmongering policies such as <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">helping its<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> terrorist proxy groups in other countries, <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">obtain<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ing<\/span> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">a nuclear <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">bomb,<\/span> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">and <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">increas<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ing<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> suppression. Th<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ese policies <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">have<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> forced the Iranian people into poverty. Many Iranians are forced to become slumdwellers.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In this regard<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">Mahboubfar<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> said: \u201c<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In the past, the number of <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">slumdwellers <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">was<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> said to be around 25 million, but today it has risen to 38 million. We can <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">surely<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> say that <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">slumdwellers<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> in Tehran ha<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ve<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> increased by 60%<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The Iranian society grapples with poverty and now the COVID-19 pandemic, which has claimed<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> the<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> lives of over 60,000 people. Iranian women <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">have<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> a more deplorable condition.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201c<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The number of women heads of households in the country has increased, and these people are facing many problems<\/span> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">because of living in shanty towns, rising <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">inflation, and living crisis, especially housing. Some of these women, who are forced <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">to live on the<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> outskirts of the cit<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ies<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, are severely threatened by violence such as violence against women, addiction, selling babies <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and [prostitution]<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201d <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Mahboubfar<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/stats.sender.net\/forms\/dGYVLa\/view\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Weekly-Signe-up-logo\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Weekly-Signe-up-logo.png\" width=\"250\" height=\"83\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">According to this regime expert, w<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">omen heads of households live mostly in the suburbs, southeast and southwest of Tehran and around cemeteries, in <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Islamshahr<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Pakdasht<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Varamin<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, etc.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/women.ncr-iran.org\/national-council-of-resistance-of-iran-ncri\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Women\u2019s Committee<\/a> of the National Council of Resistance of Iran<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ncr-iran.org\/en\/alternative\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NCRI<\/a>)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> in a statement on April 15 <\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/ncri-statements\/statement-women\/iran-female-breadwinners-primary-victims-of-the-repressive-regime-during-the-coronavirus-outbreak\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">wrote<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">: \u201c<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">One sector of society that suffers dual economic pressure is nearly four million female breadwinners, most of whom live under the absolute poverty line.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> state-run Javan daily<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, in an article on April 13, 2020,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> wrote<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">:<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> \u201cOne of the worst economically affected sectors by the Coronavirus outbreak are women heads of household<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">T<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">heir true (suffering) could be seen among peddlers in subways, carrying heavy goods from one car to another, trying to sell their goods to female passengers on the metro. Female breadwinners, working in underground workshops, either those who have lost their husbands or those who lack support, as well as girls who need to support themselves, are very vulnerable in such a situation.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">On <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">April<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> 20<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, as the Iranian society was facing the coronavirus pandemic<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, a shocking video circulated online, showing a group of poor \u201c<\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/human-rights\/amid-coronavirus-outbreak-shocking-images-from-iran-show-a-new-phenomenon-underground-dwellers\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">underground dwellers<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u201d\u00a0<\/span> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">This shocking <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">footage was filmed<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> on <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">March 16, 2020 and<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> published on April 20 on the state-run website of <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Hamshahri<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> TV. Although the issue of the underground<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> dwelling<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> of the unfortunate victims of addiction is not new, the release of this film attracted a lot of attention on social media. It caused a wave of public disgust<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> at the regime<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The NCRI, in a shocking report <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">September 2019, revealed that as the Iranian economy<\/span> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">fails<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> due to the regime\u2019s wrong policies, lucrative business of selling bodily organs increases.\u00a0<\/span> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">State-run newspaper <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Mashregh<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> reported on February 28, 2017 that regarding the sale of kidneys by people in extreme poverty, Dr. Hossein Ali <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Shahriari<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">then\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> member of the Health Commission of the Majlis (parliament)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> said: \u201cThere is nothing wrong when a person who lives in poverty, and by receiving 200 to 300 million <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">rials<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> ($2,000 to $3,000 at the exchange rate<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> of the time<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">) transforms his life.\u201d<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Many women are selling their kidneys to make their livings<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Hossein <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Bigl<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">a<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ri<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, director of the Association of Special and Incurable Patients in Kermanshah<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, western Iran<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, in an interview in 2014 said: <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201c<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Youth, 20 to 30-year-olds, including young girls, come to us to sell their kidneys.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201d\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In addition to poverty, the regime\u2019s misogynist constitution has legalized violence against women. The so-called \u201c<\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/human-rights\/the-mullahs-regime-is-responsible-for-the-brutal-murder-of-the-14-year-old-romina-with-its-medieval-and-misogynist-laws-and-practices\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">honor killings<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">,<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201d <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">such as <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">beheading of 1<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">3<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">-year-old Romina Ashrafi by her father, or Fatemeh Ameri being killed <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">with <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">an ax<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">e<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> by her father in recent weeks, <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">are <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the outcome<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> of the oppressive and medieval policies and laws of the misogynist clerical regime that encourage and promote violence against women and girls<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In a nutshell, the regime\u2019s institutionalized corruption<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, funding <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">of terrorism and wasting national resources on unnecessary projects such as <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">its <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">nuclear program, along with the regime<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u2019s<\/span> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">misogynist <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">nature<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> has turned Iran into<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> a<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> hell for Iranian women. For the very same reason, the Iranian women are on the forefront of <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">struggle against the religious <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">fascism. Hundreds of thousands of women have sacrificed their lives, and <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">they have been<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> leading the Iranian Resistance movement <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">against the mullahs\u2019 regime.\u00a0 The presence of the Iranian women at the forefront of the Iran protests in November and January <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">confirms<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> women\u2019s leading role in Iranian people\u2019s quest for freedom.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iranian regime has brought nothing but poverty and destruction for Iranian people. Iranian women are under even greater pressure, due to the regime&rsquo;s misogynist nature. 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