WOMEN are holding a meeting today to discuss the Iranian regime's treatment of women.

The meeting, entitled “women led resistance against misogynist mullahs” will be held between 2.30pm and 5pm at St Michael's Church, Golders Green.

Women have been central to ongoing protests against the regime, both here and in Iran.

A hunger strike last year outside the American Embassy to urge the US to protect their families in Camp Ashraf in Iraq was female-led and the president elect of Iran's “government in exile”, Maryam Rajavi is also a woman.

This reflects decades of the Shahs' rule where females in general became more educated and gained higher positions in society.

However since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, women in Iran say they have found their independence curtailed and are not considered equal to men in some areas such as rights to inheritance and the value of their testimony in court.