The Association of the Women of the Islamic Republic (Persian: جمعیت زنان جمهوری اسلامی, Jam’iat-e Zanan-e Jomhouri-e Islami) is an Iranian reformist political party.
[3] The secretary general of the society has been Zahra Mostafavi, a daughter of Ayatollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
[1] In December 1987 it established a committee to combat "bad hejab" (i.e. insufficiently modest covering of women's hair and heads), holding a rally of `Vanguards of Chastity` (tali'eh-daran-e `efaf) and setting up subcommittees to conduct research on "Western cultural penetration" and "ways to counter Western cultural banality.
[1] The party’s main objective was to improve women’s rights in Iran and various international conferences for this aim were organized by the group.
[1] Notable members besides Zahra Mostafavi include Fatemeh Karroubi, wife of Mehdi Karroubi; Marzie Hadidchi (Dabbagh), the "only woman to be a commander in the Corps of the Revolutionary Guards"; and Zahra Rahnavard, the former president of Alzahra University (and wife of Mir Hossein Mousavi).