More than 80 per cent of the victims of domestic violence are women.
This was announced by Fariba Derakhshan-Nia, a Welfare Organization official, on Tuesday, July 18, 2017.
She added, “Social issues have no official support in the country, so there must be a complex of social organizations who would provide the grounds to reduce such harms.” (The state-run IRNA news agency – July 18, 2017)