For more than 40 years women in Iran have been facing discrimination and oppression by this regime in all facets of their lives.  They have been rubbed of their most basic rights, degraded and humiliated. 

Most recently is the systematic deliberate poisoning of schoolgirls in many schools in Iran.  According to many news agencies, over the past 3 months, hundreds of cases of respiratory distress have been reported among Iranian schoolgirls.

Even some of the regime's officials believe that the attacks are a deliberate attempt to force the closure of girls' schools.

The poisonings come more than 5 months into protests that have spread across Iran over the death in custody of 22-year old Mahsa Amini after her arrest for an alleged violation of the country's strict dress code for women. 

NBC news today suggested that " poisoning of schoolgirls in Iran seems to be an act of revenge for protesting".