In a religiously conservative town near the city of Isfahan, women at a private party were abducted last month and gang raped at knife point. One week later, a female university student was attacked and raped by unknown assailants on the heavily-guarded campus in Masshad, a holy city. In both cases, officials accused the victims of not wearing the hijab or headscarf in the proper fashion and general un-Islamic conduct.
BBC - These high-profile cases and the derogatory comments made by Iranian authorities have outraged women’s rights groups who have long complained of the increasingly high rate of sexual harassment. As the stories dominate newspaper headlines, a political and public debate is raging about the reasons for the apparent rise in sexual crimes in the Islamic state and how to prevent and punish them.
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