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The current state of the women’s movement in Iran
Women’s second-class status is enshrined in law in the People’s Republic — but Iranian women refuse to be bowed down in their struggle for justice and a life free from exploitation, says AZAR SEPEHR of the Democratic Organisation of Iranian Women

IN AUGUST 2021, Ebrahim Raisi became the eighth president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and he has continued the main thrust of the regime’s policies of the last few years, including negotiating with the US in order to lift Washington’s sanctions.
The economic system of the Islamic Republic is capitalism with an “Islamic ideology.”
It is dependent mainly on the export of oil and import of goods, creating fertile ground for rentiers, embezzlers and profiteers connected to the regime to thrive.
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