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Iran's Courageous Women Fight On In regard to your Dec. 22 editorial "The Peoples' Revolt in Iran": It has been highly disturbing over the past six months to see so many women demonstrating in the streets of Iran. Of course, all of the demonstrators are not women—many men were also on the streets. It's just that I never remember seeing so many women take the lead in demonstrations, especially at the risk of their lives. Meanwhile, the silence from the free world has been deafening. President Barack Obama, instead of embracing the protesters, has stood by hoping that the Iranian...

For the sake of recording history accurately for future generations, please post pictures of Iranian protest babes at the rallies here.

an Iranian magazine called Zanan ("Women," in Farsi). Written by Haleh Esfandiari of the Wilson Center, who was imprisoned in Tehran for several months last year, "Iranian Women, Please Stand Up" told the tale of Shahla Sherkat, who bravely courted controversy as the founder of a glossy women's magazine that covered topics both political and personal. Despite harassment from government officials, periodic censorship, and budget woes, Sherkat managed to keep the magazine open for 16 years. But last week the government shut down Zanan, this time for good. Iranian authorities, according to an editorial in the New York Times, claim...

Tehran's heroic women Despite violent repression, the Iranian women's movement is defiant. Why is much of the left and the liberal media ignoring the struggle for democracy and women's rights in Iran? Tomorrrow - March 8 - is International Women's Day and the women of Iran are growing bolder and more defiant than ever. Last Sunday, a group of courageous women's rights activists staged a vigil outside the Engelab Court in Tehran. They held banners demanding: "We have the right to hold peaceful protests". These gentle, unthreatening women - armed only with words, ideals and paper placards - were violently...

1/21/2006 ALLIANCE OF IRANIAN WOMEN PROTESTS CODE PINK ***** The Alliance of Iranian Women protests the actions of the Code Pink activists who have distorted the legitimate struggle of Iranian women, for their human rights, to suit their own political and ideological agenda. The top part of the picture is what the A.N.S.W.E.R coalition/Code pink activists, have photoshopped the top part of the photo (below), out of the original photo, shown in the bottom. First, they have mixed the picture of some western women to the original Iranian women’s picture. Then, not only they have made up slogans, in pink...

HUME: Now, in one recent such soccer match ... women were present. What's that all about? That's not permitted, correct? LEDEEN: Well, it hasn't been permitted, but they're now pretending to have elections. And they will pretend to have elected some kind of reformer. And so in the midst of this great pretense of elections — it's not an election at all. It's a beauty contest and a charade. HUME: Why is that so? LEDEEN: Because they pick the candidates. The supreme leader — over 1,000 people wanted to run for president. They picked six. HUME: And this is all...

June 8th, 2005: Senate Event, Partial Transcription: “The plight of Iranian women and children under Islamic rule”. Full transcription of Undersecretary of State Paula Dobriansky: Begin Transcription ### Good morning to all of you and thank you [Organizer] I’d like to thank our distinguished panelists for being here and I also know that we have distinguished senators coming by and welcome to all of you. The president in fact did make it clear in his State of the Union Address that the United States supports the democratic aspiration of the people of Iran. As part of our commitment to spread...

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