Saturday, April 22, 2006

Summer in Iran

In the Pahlavi's era, when my grand pa was a young successful businessman in Mashhad, Reza Khan; king of Pahlavi; ordered that all women should take off their scarves and they should put on hats in order of protecting their heads against sun. at that time in Mashhad which is of the most religious cities of Iran, the mayor ordered all the businessmen to take participate in a party which was done for this case and they should bring their wives, and of course they shouldn't put on Hejab(one of the Islamic orders). Atlas ,after lots of discussions my grandfather take a worker's daughter to that party as his wife ,because he never wants to show his wife in public without Hejab.
100 years ago in Iran, a man ordered women to wear cloths as he wished and this obligation was very hard to be accepted and results into those conflicts which we all have read about them in history. But now after passing all these years again the history is repeating but in another type. This time the governors at the start of summer have threatened women that if they wear those so-called unsuitable cloths they will put them in prison. I don't want to mention if those cloths are good or bad, but I think it's exactly another version of Reza Khan's order which is repeating.

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