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Promises

Kamangir | June 26, 2006 | Category Iran

 

During the protests which lead to the revolution, thirty years ago, the Islamic groups were only representing a fraction of the crowd. So, even a month after the revolution Etellat quotes Talaghani, one of the leaders of the Islamic movement, saying “there is no mandate regarding the covering”. Below it quotes the general prosecutor mentioning “those who attack non-covered women are against the revolution” and reports that some of them are arrested.
After Ahmadinejad took power he frequently expressed his ideas about the Iranian women and their invaluable contributions to the society. He seemed to be opposed to the idea that women are the sources of immodesty. However, it seems that beneath these popular gestures the pace of actions is entirely different. Persian sources are talking about a new bill about the women who work for the government (see). Talking about the details of their cloths, it seems to have nothing in common with the open-minded picture which is given inside Iran from the president. Pictures are from here (see).

Reader's Comments

  1. Mahi | June 26th, 2006 at 9:01 pm

    Interesting!!!I didn’t know about the change in Hejab policy of Mollas repablic!!

  2. ByronB | June 27th, 2006 at 5:52 am

    All dictators are like this - they hide their true ambitions and aims until they are sure they have enough power.

    Life is a series of compronises because everyone has different views, so you can’t please everyone at the same time.

    To make females wear veils because males can’t control themselves seems to me now quite a ludicrous attitude, but it isn’t that many years since the Victorians in England regarded a woman showing more than an ankle below her dress to be of dubious virtue!

  3. Arash | June 27th, 2006 at 10:04 am

    Mahi,
    You are most welcome.

  4. Arash | June 27th, 2006 at 10:05 am

    Byronb,
    I didn’t know that!

  5. Anonymous | June 27th, 2006 at 5:41 pm

    Islam did not invent the veiling of women… it there in the Jewish scriptures and In the Old Testament, exposing a woman’s head is considered a shameful… but with time women’s dress has evolved… but it wasn’t so long ago… that you wouldn’t dream of going to church without a hat… even today for instance… the queen of England would never been seen hatless in a church… but hey its the 21 century maybe it time that Iranian women took off their veils and wore pretty hats to go to a mosque

  6. Arash | June 29th, 2006 at 2:12 pm

    I doubt if many Iranian women would think twice for taking out Hijab. The problem is that they really can’t afford being beaten up.

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