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Me too movement in Iran
When the Persian translator Morteza Sayidi anonymously posted on Twitter in August 2020 his personal experiences of seducing and sexually exploiting women by ostensibly praising their beauty and physical appearance, he had little idea that he will be infamously remembered in modern Iran's history as the raison d'être for the start of #MeToo movement. Much to his surprise, the tweet was confronted with the scornful and despising posts from many of his victims, and the multi-threaded discussion forced him to quit the online social media platform. An era of outspokenness thus emerged, and women in the country started narrating their ignoble experiences at the workplace. A notable lead in this direction was taken by the journalist Sara Omatali, who painfully narrated her trauma in the hands of a well-known artist 14 years ago- in the summer of 2006. Sensing the widespread resentment over the everyday harassment women were facing, Tehran police chief General Hossein Rahimi extended an open invitation to women to register their grievances last year. Many women took the opportunity and placed on record the unhappy incidences they routinely faced before the authorities who treated them with utmost respect. At the central level, the Iranian Government gave cabinet approval to a legislation outlawing sexual violence and harassment of women at workplace. Although critics have pinpointed flaws in the proposed legislation such as ambiguity in the definition of sexual violence and exclusion of marital rape, the move is still being welcomed as a right step towards ameliorating the condition of working women in the country.

Source: Summarized from Urdu Wikipedia