Iran Press/ Iran News: In an interview with Iranian media, Ensieh Khazali expounded on the First International Congress for Women of Influence that was held in Tehran on January 20, in which female guests, including wives of heads of state, ministers, vice presidents, and parliamentarians from Burkina Faso, Kyrgyzstan, Serbia, Guinea, Niger, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Syria, Turkmenistan, and Armenia attended.
"We can say that the western media's portrayal of Iranian women is vastly different from reality," she said answering the difference between the picture being painted by the western media about Iranian women and the reality.
"Their portrayal of Iranian women is that of a deprived, under-pressure woman who has no effective activity, while Iranian women have contributed greatly to scientific, health, and environmental development as well as entrepreneurship," she noted.
"In support of my words, foreign guests who attended the International Congress for Women of Influence said that what they were seeing here was totally different from what they had previously heard," the Vice President highlighted, adding: "For instance, one guest from Japan said Iranian women were more advanced than Japanese women."
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