Rls.220bn Allocated to War Veterans' Wives

September 26, 2002 - 0:0
TEHRAN -- Behrouzi, family affairs' advisor in Janbazan Foundation and the secretary of Hazrat Zeinab community said, " Rls.220 billion have been allocated to the wives of veterans, with fifty percent and more injuries, the wives of 25-percent chemical and mental veterans as well. On the anniversary of Hazrat Zeinab departure, Behrouzi expressing her condolence on this occasion, said, " Zeinab (SA) is unique model for the world's women, who has been trained in the Islamic school."

She went on to say that women as mothers and social educators, play the principle role in constructing the country.

"Women patiently tolerated difficulties, and played a full-scale role in fulfilling the stability and resistance of the eight-year sacred defense, and still they do so, " she stated. Referring to the problems veterans' families are dealing with, she concluded," Majlis approved the bill of nursing right for veterans' wives as an important step in supporting veterans' families."