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Socialist Challenge TWO thousand angry and brave Iranian women protested against the imposition of the veil in Tehran last Saturday.
The women were angry because they had been ordered to wear ministries, national oil company and even in military establishments. wrath of islamic counter demonstrators, a large number of them men, and crying 'death of the foreign dolls'. vere dressed in black in monato servants The women, lost freedóm. 'Bani-Sadr, you must answer us!' they chanted 'If I have to wear the veil I shall resign', said a secretary from the commerce ministry.
Many civil servants had turned up to work clad in black to show their solidarity with the women's protest.
-wo revolutionary guards caused a fivehour delay on the flight from Zaheda in eastern Islamic dress in all the state radio and television, the brave because they faced the calling them 'whores' - in mourning for theli and 'drew order 'not to reveal their finery except to their husbands'. They are trying to portray the demand for free choice in dress as the left overs of American culture', inciting Islamic bands to assault women who choose.
They argue that these women are aspiring to an independence that preachings of the Koran. chador the protests of women, both veiled and unveiled, forced Khomeini to back down and say that the wearing of Islamic dress was optional'.
This time the battle will be harder. The abortive rescue attempt to free the hostages in the American Embassy has hardened the atfitude of the iranian people to western culture as a whole.
ing instructions from the radio station, the clergy their veils over their bosoms' in dare to dress as they contradicts the time there wàs a conflict over the Voice of America
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