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On Monday, the Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran hosted a virtual conference<\/a> to mark International Women’s Day. The event featured Iranian female activists and lawmakers from Britain and several European nations, and it served to highlight the Islamic Republic’s systematic denial of women’s rights, alongside a range of other issues.<\/p>\n Among the speakers was Anthea McIntyre, who served as a British Member of the European Parliament from 2004 until 2019. She declared to the virtual audience, “I find it sickening to see European officials pursuing trade relations, appeasing mullahs, and ignoring their human rights abuses, especially against women.”<\/p>\n Several participants expressed this sentiment in Monday’s conference on women’s rights, but it was an especially prominent feature of written statements preceding that event. Those statements bore lawmakers’ signatures from the EU, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and some were also associated with non-governmental organizations focused on Iranian affairs, such as the International Committee in Search of Justice (ISJ<\/a>). They were generally prepared either in anticipation of or in response to the verdict in a Belgian federal case against a high-ranking Iranian diplomat, Assadollah Assadi<\/a>.<\/p>\n Live stream: #ChooseToChallenge<\/a> — NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) March 3, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n
How Iranian Women Rise-Up for Freedom & Equality#IWD2021<\/a> #IStandWithMaryamRajavi<\/a>
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