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Here are some images showing what life was like for Iranian women before the institution of clerical rule, and how it has changed since.
- What Happened Next
It is five years since Iranian Masih Alinejad started a...
- The Plane Journey That Set Iran's Revolution in Motion
The ferocity that Ayatollah Khomeini brought back with him...
- Facing Jail Sentence for Removing My Veil
Since the Iranian revolution in 1979, women have been forced...
- What Happened Next
14 paź 2022 · The collection of pictures — which were taken in the 1960s and 1970s and featured in magazines and publications — reveals how much culture, fashion, and women’s freedom have changed in Iran.
10 gru 2015 · It might seem unbelievable today, but Iranian women of the time before the Islamic Revolution also took a modern approach when it came to 70s fashion. They would dress up just like their Western counterparts and would even show some skin.
21 wrz 2023 · Just eight years before the Iranian revolution, Iranian women take part in celebrations to mark the 2,500th anniversary of the founding of the Persian Empire. Now Iranian women must wear hijabs.
13 paź 2022 · Moreover, many Iranian women lost the right to continue their education or return to work, allegedly for following an “inappropriate dress code,” even before the Islamic Revolution, as supporters of the Revolution tracked down information about women’s pre-1979 lifestyles.
22 lis 2022 · Thousands have taken to the streets across the country in recent weeks, their outrage sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman who died in custody in September...
Getty Images. On 16 September 2022 Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman from Saqqez in Iran’s Kurdistan Province, died in a Tehran hospital. Three days earlier she had been arrested by Iran’s Guidance Patrol, or ‘morality police’, for wearing her hijab ‘improperly’ and fell into a coma after she was beaten inside the police van taking ...
