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Source: http://www.nypost.com/seven/04262009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/the_women_iran_fears_166249.htm
The Women Who Terrify Iran's Mullahs
[New York Post] Amir Taheri - For months, Iran's state-owned media have been whipping up frenzy about alleged plots to topple the regime. Last week, an Iranian court sentenced Roxana Saberi, 31, a former Miss North Dakota who has been in Tehran for years working as a journalist, to eight years in prison as a devious "spy" helping the American "Great Satan" undermine the Islamic Republic. The Khomeinist regime has always regarded women as one of its three worst enemies, the other two being Jews and Americans. Since last January, scores of women fighting for women's rights have been arrested and sentenced to varying terms of imprisonment. Among the women in prison are the leaders of the "one million signatures" campaign for an end to gender apartheid in Iran. Some 30,000 women are in prison in Iran today, held on charges of anti-Islamic activities and/or violations of the notorious Islamic dress code.