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The women chanted protests against the attempts to limit their rights, such as "We didn't have a revolution to go backwards". One protestor recalled "There was no question in our mind that this is the first step to suppress us and we should stand up to it – both as women [and] as revolutionaries." Another slogan chanted were “In the dawn of freedom, there is an absence of freedom.”
International Women’s Day Protests in Tehran, 1979
The women chanted protests against the attempts to limit their rights, such as "We didn't have a revolution to go backwards". One protestor recalled "There was no question in our mind that this is the first step to suppress us and we should stand up to it – both as women [and] as revolutionaries." Another slogan chanted were “In the dawn of freedom, there is an absence of freedom.”