“Iran was kept off, although Saudi Arabia — a country that unlike Iran, doesn’t allow women to drive –did get a “donor” seat on the new board.
This happened just days before Iranian officials arrested five female lawyers. Three were returning from abroad when they were detained at the airport in Tehran.
Maryam Kianersi, Sara Sabaghian and Maryam Karbasi were called a threat to national security and accused of “violating the Islamic Republic’s moral standards while outside Iran.”