WOMEN IN IRAN | IMGpapers 1980

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What has happened recently in fran on question women?

The issue of women's rights has been polarised around question of the veil. Khomeini made a speech about the corruption from the Shah's regime which still existed in government departments. He tributed this to the fact that there was not true Islam in Iran and that employees He did not actually mention the veil but in the minds of his followers it was clear enough.

There is a strong popular feeling corruption because of the Shah's regime. Not wearing the veil has been made a symbol of that corruption. ATTACKS on women's rights have been a prominent feature of the Khomeini regime in Iran. These attacks have sharpened over recent months, there has been a new willingness by Iranian women to protest against such measures as the imposition Continuing a series of articles on women in the Third World', we talked to Azar Tabari, a prominent activist in the Iranian women's movement, who was Many feminists have argued of that WCHE under the Shah. How you reply to this? the Well women's situation women may have been better, DUIL that doesn't. anything. Women made some gains the Shah at- because capitalism developing and there expand skills - and this extended to So capitalism. This wullell. limits capitalism. doesn't mean we want to return to the Shah: it means that we have to have a third road neither Khomeini nor the Shah.

In other words it shows the need for a strong fight for needs of women revolution, doesn't it? has happened to the women's movement?

Before and after the International Women's demonstrations all women's groups emerged mainly attached to one political organisation or another. And November 1979 the first unified congress of women was held to discuss family laws (on So polygamy and divorce).

While this congress did not, involve women factory workers it did involve a broad spectrum including teachers, nurses, and other state employees. It can't be dismissed because social composition. It was the beginnings of a movement the first of its kind in the Middle East probably. but OCCUPIED WEST BANK

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of the veil. In London recently.