Iran's Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei met with hundreds of women and girls from across the country at Imam Khomeini Hussainiya in Tehran on December 3. The meeting comes days before the Mother's Day celebration on December 10 in the country. In the meeting, the leader emphasised women's independence, rights and dignity.

In a video that surfaced on social media, Ali Khamenei said, “Women, men are complementary partners in building civilisation, sharing equal dignity, unity." In the same speech, he also warned against adopting ‘Western cultural narratives’. As per a local media publication he shared, “In Islam, women possess independence, capability, identity, and opportunities for progress, while the capitalist outlook reduces women to subordination, strips them of dignity.”

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