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"We will not allow anyone to jeopardize our national security." These were the words of Hossein Rahimi, commander of the Greater Tehran’s State Security Force (SSF) when speaking about women who drop their veil in public in Iran. He added: “Women who take off their veils in the streets is against the laws of the Islamic Republic and Police will deal with such unlawfulness.” Rahimi stressed that the SSF will be “tougher” on women who break the norms and added: “From now on, female police agents will deal with them and there will be a tougher treatment.” (State-run news agencies, February 27, 2018)
The State Security Force had previously announced, “According to paragraph 2 of Article 639, encouraging people to shun the veil is punishable by 1 to 10-year prison sentence. This sentence cannot be transformed to other forms of punishment.”


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Yesterday Sat. March 3, Iranian-Canadians gathered in front of the Parliament Hill and across from Prime Minister's office, supporting the Iranian opposition for a democratic change in Iran and in solidarity with the Iranian people's protests.







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Two young women were arrested on Thursday, March 1, as they were trying to enter Tehran’s Azadi Stadium to watch the football game between Iran’s top teams, Persepolis and Esteghlal. On the same day, the State Security Force announced that 35 women had attempted to enter Azadi Stadium to watch the game but were prevented and led to another place! In another act of protest, the associations supporting women in Tehran boycotted the game in solidarity with women and in protest to the ban on women’s entry to stadiums. The Iranian regime has barred women from attending football games since the Iranian Revolution in 1979. According to BBC news, the women caught sneaking into the stadium were trying to attend a particularly significant game, one being watched by the most powerful man in world football, Fifa's boss. When a journalist asked Mr Infantino a question about when the ban against women might be lifted, he sound was faded down, and the interview abruptly taken off the air.


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According to the Iranian resistance March 2, On Thursday, March
1, on the verge of Nowruz , the Iranian New Year, workers and employees of the Ahvaz National Steel Group gathered in front of the goveronate of the city on the tenth day of their strike. They are asking for their three month delayed salary, insurance premium, and end-of-year bonus. They are deprived of medical services because they have not received their insurance premiums. The protests and strikes of the workers have spread to other cities, such as, Baneh, Piranshahr, Isfahan, Haft Tapeh, Tehran, Alborz Markazi, Khomeini Shahr, Andimeshk, Bafgh, Orumiyeh, Assalouyeh, Haftgel, Nayriz, Shiraz, Bushehr, Shushtar, Dezful, including the looted people of the Arman Vahdat Institute, Padideh Institude, in Ahvaz, Tehran, Mashhad, and Malayer.


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Five nursing students, including two young women, have been deprived of continuing their education for one year at the Medical School of Tehran’s Melli University aka Beheshti. The secretary of the student Central Council at the Medical School of Beheshti University announced on February 28, that five students had been deprived of education. Four students were deprived for one year, and himself, for two years. They are being punished for organizing a protest.