10 October 2024
Women in Zimbabwe have hailed the Islamic Republic of Iran for advancing and promoting the rights of Iranian women as well as in their upliftment and empowerment.
Speaking during an interactive Cultural and Art exchange workshop, running under the theme: Bridging Cultures Through Knowledge and Art, that was held at Ale Muhammad Mosque in Harare this Thursday, the 10th October 2024, Zimbabwean women, who among them were literary writers, gender activists, media personalities and school teachers and learners, among others, all praised the Islamic Republic of Iran for uplifting and empowering the Iranian women as provided for by the new constitution that established the Islamic Republic of Iran following the victorious Islamic Revolution of 1979.
The workshop was jointly organized by the Cultural Centre of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Zimbabwe and Women Writers Support Network Africa.
The workshop was graced by Madam Mariam Sajadi, the representative for women in the Islamic Culture and Relations Organisation of Iran (ICRO) Dr Zahra Sadat Mirhashemi, the Dean in the Faculty of Theology at Alzahra university in Iran, and Madam Pavaneh Amirian, the Founder and Director of Panian Sewing Design and Handicrafts School.
Iranian women have unprecedently scaled up the ladder in all facets of the socio, political and economic spheres of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
In welcoming all the women who graced the workshop, the Cultural Counsellor at the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Zimbabwe, Mr Hamid Bakhtiyar said the interactive workshop was one way of enhancing the exchange of information and ideas between the Iranian and Zimbabwean women.
He said the exchange programme opens a new chapter in the enhancement of new relations between women from the two sisterly nations.
Mr Bakhtiyar said relations between Iran and Zimbabwe were very friendly and cordial.
