Interview with Goli Ameri: On Women's Rights in Iran

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : During the beginning phases of the 1979 revolution, I was spending the summer in Iran.
60% : Women in Iran are educated and open-spirited.
59% : If we all take a minute and think about what's happening in Iran, we realize the incredible bravery of Iranian women.
58% : To me, this image felt a very telling portrait of the women in Iran: independent and brimming with life.
54% : When I served at the US State Department, the Institute for International Education gifted me a book, which showed that Iran in the 1970s had the largest number of foreign students in the United States.
51% : How often are we hearing this exact same refrain in videos coming out of Iran today?
47% : Women in Iran are fighters not just because they had to be, but because they expect more of themselves and those around them.
47% : Canada was the bravest; some in the European Union lagged, and the majority of nonaligned countries either abstained or voted against.
44% : People in Iran do not have these freedoms.
42% : The women in Iran would like to practice their religion independently and not have their lives dictated by others.
42% : Many other countries, because of their economic ties to Iran, will not vocalize or support just values.
38% : Many who have ever visited Iran have experienced their bullying, and many who live there experience it as a part of everyday life.
36% : When I served as a US Representative to the UN Commission on Human Rights and subsequently at the UN General Assembly, so many countries would not cast a censorious vote on the human rights record in Iran, because they had economic or other political ties to Iran.
35% : The unrest in Iran, just like any unfree society, is a simmering cauldron.
31% : As we closely follow the protests in Iran following the suspicious death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who was in the custody of Tehran's infamous "morality police," we turned to Goli Ameri, Vice Chair of our Board of Trustees.
30% : Some in the United States are wondering why we are backpedaling, and the women in Iran are wondering why they are stuck in quicksand.

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