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"It's hard to convey what it's like to be an Iranian right now," says Dorreh Khatibi-Hill, a Leeds-based women's rights activist and researcher who is in touch with family, friends and other anti-regime activists.

Poppy Taylor emerges from the novel’s flashbacks as a budding advocate for women’s rights.

Many Iranians are unhappy with the state of the economy, the lack of freedom of speech, women's rights, and minority rights.

In an interview with the BBC shortly after he took power, he said he believed in education for women and denied that he wanted to turn Syria into a version of Afghanistan - which has severely curtailed women's rights.

The declaration also guaranteed women's rights, freedom of expression and media freedom.