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The Iran Primer - The West has committed an “unforgivable sin” against women by defining them as merely objects of pleasure, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Iran’s National Women’s Day. The supreme leader claimed that Islam grants women equal rights and honor, while Western lifestyle degrades them. He also warned that irreparable damage to family values will lead to the West’s collapse, according to Fars News Agency.

Shahrzadnews - The arrival of a hot summer in Iran is once again providing the country’s security forces with an excuse to increasingly harass women who defy the obligatory full-cover Islamic hejab.

Committee of Human Rights Reporters – Raheleh Zokayi, a female prisoner exiled to Gharchak and Ramin prison launched a hunger strike on April 23rd, demanding to be transferred back to Evin prison.

HRANA News Agency – The chief commander of Tehran traffic police said we will stop the cars the drivers of which dress non-Islamic, disturb the others and make loud sounds.

The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran - Over the past several months, Orumiyeh and Mahabad Intelligence Offices have summoned, detained, and harassed several Kurdish former political prisoners on the pretext of concern over their continued political activities after their release from prison, a local source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. In most reported cases, security forces have gone to the homes of former political prisoners on several occasions. The forces have searched the homes for several hours without providing any explanation for these actions, detaining the individuals and releasing them later.

Iran Human Rights Documentation Center - (March 8, 2013) -- Today, on this year's International Women's Day, the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC) is pleased to release “Gender Inequality and Discrimination: The Case of Iranian Women”, a 60+ page legal commentary from Iranian lawyer Mohammad Hossein Nayyeri.

Shahrzadnews -  According to Article 987 of Iranian civil law, a woman must get state consent before marrying a foreign national. Failure to do so means the marriage is illegal, and she, her husband and their children will forfeit their civil rights.

The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran - Human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh’s eyesight is deteriorating in prison, but she has not been granted any leave to visit an ophthalmologist, her husband Reza Khandan told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran.