Since the Islamic Revolution in Iran, the parliament has drastically changed the status of women and abolished laws protecting the rights of children (especially girls).

Parliamentarians in Iran have passed a bill which lowers the minimum age of marriage from 18 to just 9 and includes a clause that allows a man to marry his adopted daughter and while she is as young as 13 years.

The religious regime in Iran violates women's rights on a regular basis, but no one in the West seems to care.

The United Nations, the European Union and even the media ignore the mass protest of women in Iran who have recently begun to rebel against the strict religious laws that require all women to wear a veil in public.

According to estimates as many as 220,000 children aged between 10 and 14 are married in Iran,

This is a clear violation of human rights. Western countries must impose more sanctions against the Iranian religious regime.