The project was implemented by the Social Affairs Office of Interior Ministry in cooperation with the Participation Center of Women's Affairs affiliated to the Presidential Institute. According to the figures exposed through this national project 66 percent of Iranian women have been subjected to violence in their domestic life.
However, in a significant way the extent and different forms of domestic violence against women varies in diverse provinces of Iran.
As reported by Iranian Social Welfare Organization in 2005, in the first months of that year 8000 cases of domestic violence against women were reported meaning that each day officials were informed about 44 cases of such violence, although it can be said that it is quite possible that many other cases are never reported to official institutes and organizations.
An Iranian women's rights activist, Minou Mortazi Langaroudi explained about violence against women in Iran: "Our current society puts obstacles on the way of women's presence and participation in making key political, social, economic and cultural decisions supportive of women. Through character assassination and eliminating active and influential women from the civil and political scenes of the country, some are to diminish such roles played by the women in the society which is also a kind of violence against women. But as the Mahatma Gandhi had stated, whenever violence has occurred, someone has protested against it."
"The present Iranian rules do not provide the required security for women and the lack of the required security is a sort of violence. In Iran women do not play a role in decision-makings, policymaking and legislative acts and the problem is not resolved through the current centers established in ministries as well as councils for women and research offices."
But Fatemeh Rake'ei, the secretary of an association called Muslim Women Proponents of New Ideas opines differently on Iranian rules in respect to violence against women: "As I know among the Iranian laws none are promoting violence against women. Although we are the critics of some parts of enforced laws in the country, but it's notable that whatever happens in the society is not related to enforced law but it mostly lies in the wrong manner of upbringing in families and a traditional culture which promotes violence against women in the society with a superficial interpretation of religion."
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