Iran, 1941-1953: Tudeh, Mosaddegh, Oil, and the CIA-MI6 Coup
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The Iranian Communist Party and Women's Enfranchisement
In 1931, there's this law passed as part of legal centralization under Rezaofshah to that bans, you know, any form of communalist political organizing. The Iranian Communist Party is attempting these sort of initial labor-based organizing and strikes in the 1930s. So when the Tudid arrives in on the scene in 1941, in this moment of relative political openness, it has a couple of figures from this earlier moment are affiliated with it. It very quickly shifts to as part of its program a support for for women's enfranchisement, women's rights.
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