; Whereas videos, images, and demonstrations have spread to social media platforms and are an important way for the voices of the Iranian people to be heard; Whereas internet monitoring groups have reported that the Iranian regime has— (1) caused near-total disruption of internet connectivity in parts of Iran and partial disruptions in city centers; and (2) blocked WhatsApp, Twitter, Telegram, Facebook, Instagram, and video games with chat functions; Whereas common protest chants include— (1) Women, life, and freedom! ; (2) Iranians die but will not be suppressed! ; and (3) Death to the dictator Ayatollah Ali Khamenei! ; Whereas the Iranian regime has a long history of structural and legal discrimination against women, including barriers for women seeking justice against domestic violence and criminal prohibitions against women singing or showing hair in public and studying certain technical subjects; Whereas the Iranian regime approved of depriving one social right or more for any woman who posts an unveiled picture of herself on social media, and, in August 2022, approved of enforcing mandatory hijab laws through facial recognition; Whereas, through misogynistic criminal statutes, the Iranian regime for decades has detained and engaged in the ongoing persecution of women, including— (1) Saba Kord Afshari, who was sentenced to 15 years in prison for posting videos to social media without a hijab and transferred into Ward 6 of the notorious Qarchak Women's Prison, which the Secretary of the Treasury has identified as a place at which gross violations of human rights take place; (2) Raheleh Ahmadi, mother of Afshari, who was sentenced to 2 years in prison for advocacy on behalf of Afshari; (3) Yasaman Aryani, her mother Monireh Arabshahi, and Mojgan Keshavarz, who were sentenced to between 16 and 23 years in prison for posting a video for International Women’s Day in 2019, during which they walked without headscarves through a metro train in Tehran, handing flowers to female passengers