Their last day
Flashback: 1979 anti-hijab rally in Tehran, Iran, a day before theocratic regime forcibly and violently began imposing veil on women pic.twitter.com/IzSPSVjIqA
— Borzou Daragahi (@borzou) March 19, 2017
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Flashback: 1979 anti-hijab rally in Tehran, Iran, a day before theocratic regime forcibly and violently began imposing veil on women pic.twitter.com/IzSPSVjIqA
— Borzou Daragahi (@borzou) March 19, 2017
Most of those girls would be about my age. The Iran situation is one of my most powerful college memories. It makes me sad to think how I could walk around so free on my college campus, doing and thinking and saying what I pleased, while so many girls (young women) my age were being forced back into medieval times.
I guess Iranian Islamists can now smugly congratulate themselves on being on the right side of history. Both god AND history on their side!
But the day after that photo was taken, all those women were finally able to empower and express themselves by wearing the hijab.
THAT place was packed!
Did that help much?
In the 70s Iran’s Marxists/socialists allied themselves with the Mullahs/Islamists in an effort to overthrow the U.S.-backed Shah, their common enemy.
It worked, but within two years the Islamists had either murdered or forced into exile all of the Marxists.
Common enemies don’t necessarily make for a common cause.
Only the appearance of a common cause.
Iran’s Mullahs understood that.
Iran’s Marxists didn’t.