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the conferences. But she listened to everything and tried not to get herself distraught or upset. With steady steps and determination, she continued her goals. In my life, she was the first
Iranian woman I have seen who never got tired of doing all she can to reach the goal she had in mind. I just hope that all the women of my homeland do not let the work of this respectable woman go away and that the foundation she had established will not break.
117:(Persian: The Patriotic Women), in the wake of the launch of classes for older women. The magazine was the official organ of the community that focused on women's issues and women's rights. Its owner was Madam Molouk Eskandari, and its first director was Mohtaram Eskandari. The magazine published eleven issues over three years (from 1923 to 1926) and attracted many liberal women.
192:'s. She had had the disease ever since childhood and also she was made fun of since her back was always bent. Even while ill, she continued her efforts for women's equality and advised the women in the Patriotic Women's Association not to leave a moment of their work for women and continue gaining women's rights.
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The late incident of losing
Mohtaram Eskandari, has depressed me so much that I cannot explain it, because I know the great efforts of this brave Iranian girl and I conceive her loss as a great misfortune. Yes, her sacrifices were admirable. I will never forget that they repeatedly condemned her at
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Constitutional Revolution for women, so in 1922, along with a number of leading women in Tehran, she established the Patriotic Women's Association. She lectured, administered the Association's magazine, and planned the community's marches. In one of
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There were books published in the name of the deceitful women, which, every day, the young newspaper sellers seized a large number of them and cried out loudly, the book of women's wickedness, the wickedness of women, the wicked women... So we decided that, on certain days, at ten o'clock in the
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Mohtaram's arrest by government officials. But this made her name to be well known among the people of Iran. She also founded a school for adult women and advertised for the use of national goods.
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Mohtaram was born in 1895 into a liberal, intellectually vibrant and politically active family in Tehran. Her father, Mohammad Ali Mirza
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As an adult, Eskandari suffered from a spinal cord injury, was teaching for some time, and served as the director of a state school for girls. Her dissatisfaction with the state of women's rights in Persia after the
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morning, some seven or eight women from our association gather in the Sepah Square, and every ten, fifteen, twenty seeds of those books were taken from the children and lighted on fire with the matches we had.
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were once hanged. When those kids asked for the money of the leaflets to be given to them, Mohtaram and the other liberal women mentioned to them that they will not receive any money.
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to remove the "Wicked Women" leaflets from the hands of the children there. They set the flyers on fire in the middle of the square, in the same exact place where the
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