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Religious leaders ban 30 women from running for Iran's presidency
By Lisa Daftari
Published May 17, 2013
FoxNews.com
Some 30 women are among the nearly 700 Iranians who registered to run in the election to succeed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but the Islamic republic?s ruling clerics wiped out their candidacies with one broad stroke.
Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi, a member of the regime?s Guardian Council told the semiofficial Mehr news agency the participation of women in an election would go against the country?s constitution. He went on to say that not only does the law bar a female from the presidency, it prohibits a woman from appearing on the ballot...
?...This regime has made the role and only function of women as objects that serve for the enjoyment of men...?
- Sara, medical doctor from Tehran
Religious leaders ban 30 women from running for Iran's presidency
By Lisa Daftari
Published May 17, 2013
FoxNews.com
Some 30 women are among the nearly 700 Iranians who registered to run in the election to succeed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but the Islamic republic?s ruling clerics wiped out their candidacies with one broad stroke.
Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi, a member of the regime?s Guardian Council told the semiofficial Mehr news agency the participation of women in an election would go against the country?s constitution. He went on to say that not only does the law bar a female from the presidency, it prohibits a woman from appearing on the ballot...
?...This regime has made the role and only function of women as objects that serve for the enjoyment of men...?
- Sara, medical doctor from Tehran