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Happy International Women's Day to all leading egalitarian women around the world.

First of all, I send endless greetings to all the brave women of Iran who, with perseverance and stability, have brought the gender and religious apartheid of the Islamic Republic regime to its knees. I salute the brave women of Afghanistan who raised the flag of protest against the brutality of Taliban and liberation of women.
I also send greetings to the brave women of Ukraine who showed that in defending their homeland and democracy, women and men are equal and are fighting side by side against the Russian dictatorship.

Unfortunately, throughout history, women have been discriminated against almost everywhere on this planet, especially in areas like the Middle East and countries like Afghanistan and Iran, where the current governments are extremely religious, traditional, patriarchal, and anti-women.

Nevertheless, liberal women have always been at the forefront of the fight against these governments. That's why March 8, International Women's Day, is a great opportunity for leading egalitarian women to draw international attention to these countries.

In Iran for more than four decades, the Islamic dictatorship regime of Iran has eliminated women from society with all their capacities and abilities, who make up half of our population.

After the 1957 Revolution in Iran, the basic rights of Iranian women were among the first victims of the Islamic Revolution. Under the shadow of religious supremeleaders, a backward society, and a patriarchal culture, Iranian women lost many of their basic human rights, as well as their gender and feminine identity.
The result was the promotion of child marriage, as well as violence against women and, in many cases, honor killings.
Violence against women ranged from verbal and physical violence, serial acid attacks to horrific and heinous crimes of slaughtering of women and honor killing by their male family members, which are crimes against humanity in their own right, due to traditional culture, honor and zeal.
For example, one of the most recent and most horrifying examples of these crimes was the premeditated murder of Mona Heydari by her husband. She was both the victim of a child marriage and the victim of an honor killing. She was beheaded first, and then her beheaded head was shown to the public.

All these facts show that the petrified government of the Islamic Republic promotes honor killing by passing its own anti-woman reactionary laws.

We, liberal and egalitarian women, strongly condemn these crimes against humanity, the massacre and murder of women. We call on the United Nations to get involved to stop these crimes against humanity and to eliminate full-fledged gender apartheid. Also ask for the unconditional release of humanitarian political prisoners.
More over, we, the liberal women and men of Iran, strongly urge the United Nations to assist us in the non-violent transition of power from the anti-woman Islamic regime of Iran and help us form a government with a democratic and secular constitution based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which enshrines gender equality, regardless of gender or belief, that can guarantee the rights of women in society.

Women's freedom is the freedom of society.

Long live March 8th
Long live freedom, Equality
Long live world peace
Narges Mansouri, human rights activist and
Signer of the statement of 14 women for the transition from the Islamic Republic

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