On June 12, 2005, several women’s NGOs staged a 6,000-woman sit-in in front of the University of Tehran, circulating a written declaration calling for the revision of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran. This action was supported by both religious and secular women’s groups and non-governmental organizations (NGOs)1; by Iranian poet Simin Behbahani, Nobel Prize winner and human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi, South African archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Islamic Students’ Association, and by individuals all over the world participating through social media. This peaceful action was met by a blockade by the police (Shekarloo 2005 in Sameh, Catherine: 2010, p.447).