Following a violent crackdown of women’s peaceful protests in Tehran, VOA Persian aired a program on discriminatory laws against women under the Islamic Republic regime, including a Q and A with callers from all over the world with Mahnaz Afkhami as its guest. Afkhami pointed out that Iranian women had never faced such violence or danger when fighting for their rights in the past 100 years. “What women demand is actually in complete contradiction with the basis on which legislation is currently done in Iran,” she noted.