Sources familiar with the Tehran municipality announced that, to the satisfaction of the new mayor, Alireza Zakani, the female managers at the head of the city administration have been replaced by male managers or forced to resign.
It is said that some mayors of the 22nd district have fired some female managers under the pretext of new ideas governing the Tehran municipality and the city council, or have pressured them to reduce their posts to experts if they do not resign. It was reported that 4 to 5 female managers have been fired in some areas and districts, and one of them is the public relations manager of District 5 Municipality.
Mehdi Chamran, the chairman of the Tehran City Council, in response to a question about the fact that some female and middle managers of the municipality have been told to resign in recent days, what is your opinion in this regard, said: “Such a thing is not true.” Of course, there may be exceptions, but there is no law in this regard, so this is a lie.
In a similar move, Taliban terrorists in Kabul Municipality told Afghan women to stay home. In the short time since the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Women’s Affairs has been removed from the cabinet and replaced by the Ministry of Invitation, Guidance, Enjoining the Good and Forbidding the Evil. Similarly, there is a restriction on female students in universities and schools. The Taliban Ministry of Higher Education has said it will not allow mixed education for girls and boys. Elementary school girls are allowed to go to school, but there is no words on the status of the students higher than the grade sixth yet.
