Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has called for greater role for women in society and underscored the need for the enlightenment of the world public opinion about Islam's sublime views on women, Press TV reports on Thursday.
At a Wednesday meeting with hundreds of scholars and academicians in the Iranian capital, Tehran, the Leader underlined the need for women's more active role, saying, “Efforts should thus be made to maintain the capacities for the presence and role of women in society.”
Ayatollah Khamenei praised the Iranian women's role during the 1979 Islamic revolution, the eight-year Iran-Iraq war and the post-war era, and described their capacities as “outstanding and irreplaceable.”
The Leader emphasized that in terms of human status in Islam, men and women are both treated as “totally equal,” noting, "Islam considers the issue of gender as a secondary issue."
