Women in Iran committing suicide

A shocking number of young mothers and pregnant women are among the women who have committed suicide in Iran in recent months, according to the findings of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).

Some 14 Iranian women and girls committed suicide since the beginning of the Persian New Year on March 21, 2019.

The upward trend in the suicides of women indicates the excessive pressures on women and girls in Iran.

Hopelessness, depression, anxiety and sense of insecurity accompanied by a feeling of



humiliation are considered as the main reasons leading women and girls to physically eliminate themselves.

The rate of women’s suicide in Iran is the highest in the Middle East.

The stats on suicides in Iran are not transparent and are usually not published in the press. For example, in the period spanning from March 2017 to February 2018, NCRI collected 75 reports of women committing suicide.

According to a social pathologist, woman’s suicide rate in Iran increased by 66 percent during a five-year period.