Iran held an international congress called Women of Influence which apparently was a response to all-out pressures after ‘Women- Life- Freedom’ protests.
Report informs via Iran International that the wives of heads of state from Burkina Faso, Kyrgyzstan, Serbia, Guinea, Niger, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Syria, Turkmenistan, and Armenia attended the event hosted by President Ebrahim Raisi’s wife Jamileh Alamolhoda.
It was expected that the first ladies of the closest friends of the Islamic Republic, namely Russia, China, and Syria, or at least several ministers or parliamentarians of these countries would attend the congress, Rouydad 24 pointed out, but apparently the foreign ministry was not successful even with Iran’s close allies.
The non-attendance of the first ladies of important neighboring and Muslim countries confirms the crisis in Iran’s relations with its neighbors, the information says.
"Armenian prime minister’s wife attended the congress in a situation that Iran is engaged in a cold war with the Republic of Azerbaijan. So, the visit of the first lady of Armenia to Iran is more a message for Azerbaijan and its regional ally Turkiye than paying respect to the Islamic Republic," the article says.