White House(video 39:41) International Woman's Day Here and in Iran

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_ts1241 

Still, as the more sober event at the State Department drove home, International Women's Day is still an occasion of danger, rather then levity, in some parts of the world. In 2007, numerous men and women were beaten and arrested by government officials in Iran for merely planning to celebrate the holiday.

--Brett Michael Dykes is a regular contributor to Yahoo! News

http://www.rferl.org/content/How_Does_Iran_Celebrate_International_Womens_Day/1977828.html

March 08, 2010  The "Feminist School" website has reported that Iran's greatest living poet, Simin Behbahani, was banned this morning from leaving Tehran. Behbahani had been invited by the mayor of Paris to celebrate International Women's Day at a ceremony in Paris, where she was due to speak.

Behbahani has said that she had prepared a speech about feminism and a poem about women, but at the airport two security agents took her passport away, interrogated her for several hours, and then told her to pick up her passport at the revolutionary court.

In recent years a number of Iranian women's rights activists have been banned from leaving the country, including activist Narguess Mohammadi, lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, and others.

One prominent activist, Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani, has produced a video report about well-known women who have been banned from leaving Iran in recent months (link to the report, in Persian).

Here is the Video report by Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani mentioned above: