Generally speaking we could say that women had an active and significant presence in all the demonstrations and protests. Their presence was of a variety of forms. For example, some of them distributed brochures, some distributed Imam Khomeini’s statements, some hold a picture of Imam Khomeini and some welcomed demonstrators with water, tea, juice and sandwiches. One of their common and usual activities during revolutionary combats was their coming to roofs at nights and shouting “Allah-o Akbar” beside men.
ways of receiving news or formal information. They also used to hide cassettes containing political speeches or copy them and distribute them among revolutionary people. Generally, we could claim that women, through Islamic revolution and Imam Khomeini comprehensive leadership, got such high political insight that enemies of Islam and revolution lost their hopes to misguide them. They realized the nature of enemies’ tricks, entered the field of politics and fighting and made tyrant enemies to get out of the country.
"Proceedings of the First International Conference on Women and Islamic Awakening"Selected Papers
- Holding political meetings One of the important activities of women was political ones. Several revolutionary women, just like men, were tortured and martyred in the prisons of Pahlavi regimes. They hold political meeting at that time, actively participated in many political speeches in different cities and hence, increased their revolutionary and political awareness (Khalkhali, 2000: 78). Sometimes such meetings were held under the name of the religious mourns and meetings. They were informed about the time and place of demonstrations in these sessions and through common
- Sacrificing and generosity The number of women martyrs was not less than men martyrs. In addition to being present in dangerous scenes and being killed or injured there, they prepared their husbands and children to fight too.
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