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The controversy is the latest flare-up in long-running tension over gender rights with men and women's groups against each other.

Rules like this exist across the Middle East, and women's groups have been working assiduously for decades to get them revoked.

French lawmakers voted Friday to slash tax on tampons and sanitary towels in a move that had initially been opposed by the government, infuriating women's groups.