Ahmadinejad aide calls for more women's rights
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's closest aide has called for more rights for Iran's "oppressed" women, the latest controversial comments from a man who has become the lightning rod for divisions in the ruling elite.
"Women have been oppressed and treated unjustly in our society in the past and this oppression still exists," Esfandiar Rahim-Mashaie, the president's chief of staff, was quoted as saying by Iranian newspapers on Wednesday. (Reuters)
