The Pendulum Swing of Religion in Iran

During the 1979 revolution women's rights activists and socialists were a big part of that movement people of all ages and all genders went out on the streets in order to achieve social change. The Ayatollah and the Islamic Republic is not what everyone wanted but part of the reason for that was that the Shah had been so successful at quashing opposition because of his very close ties to the West western Moors social attitudes were conflated with the Shah. In Iranian tradition that also meant looking back on its patriarchal practices and its traditional customs one of those customs was wearing the veil. Now the veil has become a symbol of exactly the opposite of a new Iran that isn't as conservative as before you know.