Features include:

• Automatic transmission (naturally).
• Parking aids (I’m not quite sure what this could be.  Have they hidden a small boy in the trunk to pop out during tough parallel parking moments?  Complete with signaling flags?).
• A jack for changing tires without getting dirty (They make jacks like this?  If so, why limit them to the Iranians.  Hook a girl up, yo!)
• “Other features are proposed to make it easier for women when they are doing the family shopping or taking their children to school.” (Apparently it comes fully equipped with a nanny.)
• The car will come in a range of feminine colors and interior desinges.  (Because the world really needs more Mary Kay cars on the road.)

The BBC’s Jon Leyne quips in his article about the new car design, “If that suggests a degree of sexist stereotyping in Iranian society, it is, just possibly, true”.

Yes, possibly.

Not that we need any further evidence of the way women are inhumanely treated in many Arab societies:

Palestinian security forces confiscated the property the Society for the Care of the Mother and Child, after breaking into the office.

Suhad Shahin, the head of the society, said in a telephone call with Ma’an that “members of the Palestinian public intelligence forces presented [themselves]at the complex at 12:30 at night.”

Shahin said that everything in the office was confiscated, including furniture, computers, refrigerators with food stuff inside them.

The society uses the refrigerators and cooking equipment as a means of employment for women, they sell the food to earn money for women in need.

According to Shahin, even the pickles and turnovers that women from the society had made were confiscated by security forces.

Palestinian security source has not offered any comments about the incident.

The office of the society, in the De’bas building in central Tulkarem, in the north west West Bank.

They must have opened the door for these guys.