Marandi did well.

Interesting that Western elite apologists like Piers above always pick up the shield of feminism when other arguments fall broken.

When Gaddafi took power in Libya only 15% of the female population even attended primary school. Gaddafi went on to boost female literacy from one of the lowest to one of the highest in the region and indeed by the time he was deposed and murdered by the west in 2011, more than half of Libyan university students were female.

It's notable though that this didn't stop the western media campaign against him. In fact one of the main propaganda weapons they pushed was the outright lie that he was giving out Viagra to soldiers for a "mass rape campaign" against his enemies.

Now, in the brave new post Gaddafi world of slavery violence and kidnap brought into being by the west, the UNHR report on Libya states there are: "...Alarming levels of violence against women".

Well, who would have guessed?