NCRI – Deputy Commander of State Security Forces in Khorassan Province, Brig. Gen. Satar Bozorgmehar announced a new suppressive plan called "National Security" under which 4,518 mal-veiled women had already been arrested, the state-run news agency Mehr reported on September 11.
He added that the plan would be implemented through new patrols called "Anti-Vice Patrols" which are comprised of both stationary and mobile units.
Simultaneously, the government-run media reported that the death sentences for two young women identified as Shahla Jahed and Kobra Rahman-pour were upheld by the mullahs’ judiciary. One of the regime’s female Majlis deputies, Eshrat Sha’egh, expressed amazement at the media for paying any attention to the upholding of their sentences.
The two women have spent several years in prison. Despite various attempts by women’s groups to win their freedom, the misogynistic regime has upheld their execution.
Regarding the increase in suppression of women, the NCRI’s Women’s Committee Chair Ms. Sarvnaz Chitsaz said, "The attitude of the mullahs’ regime in response to increasing turmoil on the domestic and international scene is to step up suppression inside the country especially against women and youths. The regime is intensifying suppressive measures and intimidation of the Iranian people in a bid to cap popular opposition to its rule and control the volatile state of Iranian society."
Ms. Chitsaz called on international human rights organizations and women’s rights groups to condemn the suppression and execution of Iranian women.
Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
September 14, 2006
