; 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, identified by the Secretary of the Treasury for gross violations of human rights; (2) Yasaman Aryani, her mother Monireh Arabshahi, and Mojgan Keshavarz, who were sentenced to serve five and a half 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; (3) human rights attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh, who was sentenced in 2019 to 38 years in prison and 148 lashes for providing legal defense services to women charged with not wearing a hijab; (4) Narges Mohammadi, a prominent rights advocate, who— (A) was arrested in November 2021 on the second anniversary of countrywide protests and is currently serving a 2-year sentence in prison; (B) was handed a further sentence of 15 months imprisonment for propaganda against the state