There are several positive results with the campaign.
Before looking at the regime, we have to look at where we stood and where we stand now. Iranian civil society was not organized. Iranian civil society and political movements have often been based around particular individuals whose existence made the group survive. They are sometimes charismatic and sometimes not. They were easy targets for the regime because all it took was to take the head of an organization and everything would fall apart. Organizations didn't have experience and didn't really work together.
The campaign has taught Iranian civil society that if you put your egos aside and you work together for the same goal, you are much stronger and much less vulnerable to repression. Because one person is arrested but there are 15 others all over the place. There are two people in the Kurdish areas and two others are there. There are no big leaders.
And the campaign is issue-focused. So the campaign has talked to a lot of Iranians. Now a lot of people know about the campaign, and it has tentacles all over Iran. That is why they repressed it. They didn't care much about the campaign before all the women's rights activism, but because it has become organized and because it's effective, they go after them. So once they are effective and they talk and people know about it, the leadership and reformers or other people within the leadership have to listen. Even if nothing happens, they know this is a demand and this demand is serious.
Ahmadinejad's government introduced a draft law that was changing the little gains that Iranian women had made in terms of divorce and child custody, and there was such an uproar from these women's rights activitists and from everyone that they took it back. I think this is a first. So there have been successes, although they are small successes. But the success for us, at this point, is that these movements survive. They survive and thrive, and that is the success. That is when you know the government will retreat.