http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=9003022405Ahmadinejad Stresses Women's Key Role in Iran's Progress
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday underlined women's major and unique role in the country's move towards further progress.
"The role played by women (in our society) is unique and exclusive and cannot be exchanged," Ahmadinejad said, addressing a conference dubbed 'Lady of Insightfulness' in Tehran on Monday, on the threshold of the national 'Women's (and Mothers') Day'.
He stressed the necessity for turning Iran into a role model in economic, social and cultural fields, and added that women play a significant role in Iran's move towards this goal.
"For this attainable dream to come true, the top role and responsibility once again lies on the shoulders of Iran's cultivated, courageous and courage-nurturing women," Ahmadinejad said.
He also blasted the West for mistreating women, saying that capitalist system is damaging the "reality and essence of women".
Also, Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei yesterday lambasted the western countries for their instrumental use of women, describing the West's wrong view about woman as the root cause of the different problems existing in the western families.
"In the wrong equation that the West has gradually induced and inspired in the different societies, the human being is divided into two parts; Men who are considered as beneficiaries and women who are exploited and used," Ayatollah Khamenei said on Sunday, addressing a large number of Iranian women on the threshold of the 'Women's Day' in Iran marking the birthday anniversary of Islam's number one woman Hazrat Fatema (AS), daughter of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), spouse of Shiite's first Imam and mother of Shiite Islam's second and third Imams.
Based on this very wrong view, if women in the West want to prove themselves as renowned personalities in the society, they should behave in a way that men, as the beneficiaries, like, and this insult is the biggest oppression and cruelty against women, Ayatollah Khamenei added.
