How to eradicate legal violence against Iranian Women

This is something about women's right that I translated it from persian to english

Writer's name: Hossein Shirazi July,31, 2007

How to eradicate legal violence against Iranian Women
Crime, trespassing other's right, drug addiction, divorce, scaping home, murder and suicide are not accidents that happen once in a while in our society. These events represent a violent society which is the product and result of poverty, unawareness and patriarchal culture and society. Violence is a sociological matter which jeopardizes the health of the society and in this cycle, children and women are the victims. Violence is the main mechanism to preserve the unequal power between man and woman and is the result of patriarchal structure of the society. This structure has its roots in all the organizations and social and cultural relations. It has been legalized and sustained through laws.Unadequate interpretations with the use of religion is the major barrier to adjudicate women's right. In this culture, humans are divided based on their sex and female sex is inferior. In order to further women's right, we should recognize different aspects of this culture and fight with it.
Legal barriers to eradicate violence against Iranian women:
After enduring lots of violence and brutality, when a woman asks for divorce she faces with discriminatory rules. Most of these women belong to the lower class of society and do not have any professional and financial supports. Law never supports women who are the subject of physical, mental and economical violence. Women want to have the right to ask for divorce but men have the monopolistic right to ask for it. Husbands have the right to divorce their wives whenever they want but when the desperate wives want to divorce their husband as a result of violence or polygamy, they have to give up alimony and pay for the cost of court and lawyers.
When women witness a crime scene, their testimony is considered as a half person. It means that two women's testimony is considered as one man's. So law abandons them.
Women want to be capable in economical and financial matters but they face with sex discrimination. Their husbands have the authority to control their professional choice.
One of the clearest examples of legal violence the justifiable homicide of a married woman who has sexual relation with another man. While polygamy is legal in Iran and law give legal right to men to have as many wives as they want. Children and women are the victims of this law.
So in order to lessen violence against women, we need to look for legal barriers and find solutions to modify rules.
Source: Aftab newspaper
www.aftab.ab

My opinion: I chose this article because I thought that the author is telling the truth and he is honest because he is writing about something that he sees in society. The problem is if you search in the Persian news and newspapers, they only talk about the problem which is women's doesn't have the right to do anything they want but they never talk about how we should solve this problem. A lot of people think that if America attacks Iran everything will be ok and that is totally untrue and stupid because if you think about Iraq's situation you will see that America made the situation even worse with raping and killing and they made Iraq an unsafe place to live, thats why people in Iraq live in fear. This is something that we should solve together by changing our way of thinking about women's right and equality and we should start with ourself and treat our wives and daughters in a acceptable way and after that maybe we can help other people to treat women better. This something that we should solve together and we can do it without government help. For example Iran's president wanted to fight against discrimination and he couldn't solve it and he made it even worse so we should solve this problem be elimination violence against women in Iran and that will be a giant leap to develop in the future.


Note: If you want the original persian source just ask me so I can send it to you because unfortunately I dont have the URL

Women's right in Iran

A lot of European and American countries are worried about women’s right in Iran.
They say that women don’t have freedom in Iran and they are under the pressure of the Iranian regime. Also a lot of people think that all of these pressures are because of the Islam and they say Islam limits women’s right and put them under the pressure but the question is Are this things true or not? .
These are some Iranian women’s problems:
1: Hijab(The Islamic veil worn by Muslim women, sometimes including a veil that covers the face except for the eyes)
2: The difference between the women’s and men’s death penalty in Iran
3: Not being allowed to go to some public places like stadium
4: Not being able to participate in sport and musical events
5: The right to get divorce in Iran is usually by men not by women
6: Sighe (Men have the right to have relationship with other women (friendship and sexual relationship) even if they are married or lets say bigamy is legal in Iran.
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And a lot of other things that I will go through it.

1: hijab
In Islam you have to wear a scarf because Islam wants women to be protected and that was true and fair enough many years ago in Arabic countries but in this modern world women are safe because of policemen and securities and sometimes young girls want to be fashionable and attractive. Nowadays women in Arabic countries have the right not to wear a scarf (except in Mecca city) but in Iran you have to wear a scarf.The reason is some political issues that has along story. Another important thing is that before the Islamic revolution(27 years ago) when we had a king women had a right to come out of their homes without wearing scarf however, a lot of people wore scarf because of their religion which was Islam.
We have studied in economics that if government makes something illegal people has more incentive to that thing just like in Iran which a lot of young girls don't like to have hijab.
I should say that this is a small part of the women's problem in Iran. There are more problems that they are even more important and we should be worried about that one's.