Forty years ago women marched against Ayatollah Khomeini and his regressive policies to bar women from several spheres of public life. How much has changed since then? Opinion | Massoumehtorfeh
left their jobs and took to the streets of Teheran on March 8 International Women’s Day to protest the imposition of Hijab laws by the leader of the revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
“Women should not go to their places of work naked,” said the ayatollah ordering women to wear a headscarf. On March 1 he banned women's participation in sports, on March 7 he barred women singers from appearing in public. Later mixed schools were closed, and then the Committee for the Prevention of Vice was formed to implement his orders.
I saw several women with blood pouring down their faces. But we stood our ground, confused and shocked as we reached the Prime Minister’s office to demand action.
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