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| What was it like this month, 31 years ago? If you are Iranian and old enough or a foreigner who lived and travelled in Iran before the revolution, what do you remember about the old days? | |||||||||
 Mell Mell Post Count: 13894 Msg: #1 273 days ago, February 27th 2009 |  In February 1978, Tehran had nightclubs and dancing and girls-about-town who dressed as fashionably as their counterparts in Europe. A year later, the Shah had fled from his Peacock Throne; Iran was reborn as an Islamic Republic and women, many of whom supported the overthrow, were waking up to find their lives drastically changed. Not only obliged to cover up from head to toe, and banned from singing or performing in public to conform with Ayatollah Khomeini's narrow interpretation of Sharia law, they were also, as Shirin Ebadi, Nobel prize winner and Iran's first woman judge, found to her cost, sidelined from senior jobs. Women, "too emotional", were no longer employed as judges.  Lipstick revolution: Iran's women are taking on the mullahs Number of Users: 1 | Number of Posts: 1 | |||||||
