Iran Tries To Stifle Women's Voices
Poet Simin Behbahani was prevented from traveling to Paris to attend a Women's Day event./ "Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights."/ The Iranian regime marked International Women's Day on March 8 in telling fashion: it prevented Iran's most prominent female poet, Simin Behbahani, from traveling to Paris to attend a Women's Day event. Ms. Behbahani planned to read a poem and speak about feminism, but her passport was confiscated at Tehran's international airport. The regime's action is the latest in a long ...
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