This photograph is in Iran in the 1970s, she couldn’t be wearing this outfit today, and she would need a Hijab.
Google 1970s Iran vs now. It’s an interesting contrast of how quickly societies can change; and some would argue, not towards the future but backwards.
The photo above was taken while Iran had a government that was friendly to the US.
The present day oppression of women is being done by the people that overthrew the US backed government. People chanting "Death to America" should be a clue that the oppressive government there today may not be on friendly terms with the US.
YSK: Iran's new incoming president, Masoud Pezeshkian, on the campaign trail presented as a moderate and said he would abolish Iran's morality police, so the era of enforced Hijab might be coming to an end. He assumes office on the 30th and I expect there will be an internal struggle between his admin and established power over the issue, but since the morality police were a focal point of the last major protests there's a lot of popular support for abolishing or at least reforming them.
I"m not up to date on Iranian politics but wouldn't the supreme leader essentially say "yeah, no...we're not doing that" and that would be the end of it? or are they more like a monarchy type figure.
Totally uninformed atheist here but curious... does the jihad hijab requirement also persist indoors in ones own home? Are women required to wear it even when they are in their own homes? When is it acceptable to remove it?
I met this older, cool hippie lady at my old apartment building. She was always wearing the cool hippy style and was a very free spirit. She told me that she got the F out of Iran during the revolution. She hates going back to visit Iran cause she has to wear the head covering and be accompanied by a man, etc. She used to show me a bunch of pics similar to this one, of her and her young friends partying and enjoying life before the religious assholes ruined it all.
Wasn't there a video years ago where an young Iranian women schooled reporters when they hit her with this propaganda? This was the period far more intense political repression and violence against the public than the Islamic Republic. You could be beaten in public for wearing the hijab at this time.
So a beating in public is worse than a beating in public, going to jail, or being killed? Sure is a good thing that hasn't happened since the Islamic Republic took over, amiright?
Wuzzat? The previous Iranian government was a corrupt monarchy set up by USA-UK because of oil? Nonsense! When the did the USA and UK ever orchestrate a coup to set up a friendly government for their own profit? That's totally NOT something they did back in 1953, no sir!
National liberation is a prerequisite for socialist liberation. Marx correctly observed this back in his own day, and directed socialists to support struggles against the British Empire even if the leaders of those struggles weren't socialist. Nowadays we support national liberation from the American Empire for much the same reasons, even if those revolutions and their leaders aren't perfect.
Highly recommended read: Persepolis. It's a comic book style autobiography of Marjane Satrapi, an Iranian woman who grew up around that time, was sent to France after the 1979 revolution and later returned.
This picture exists to sell the libs on how amazing the coup was the West did in Iran in 1953 called Operation Ajax. They overthrew the Iranian democratic government and install a liberal "king" as leader
It was a few liberal elites in the capital enjoying their riches by selling their country out.
The average population of Iran looked nothing like this image.
Nobody ever posts the “Here’s a teenage boy who has been beaten bloody by the Shah’s secret police” photo from the 1970s
Probably because the contrast is what makes it eye-catching, whereas "Secret police are the same in Iran now as they were in Iran in the 1970s" presents very little contrast.
Neither do we get the “Meet the PhD student who graduated without a penny of debt” from the 2020s.
... that's the norm in most countries that don't bear the abbreviation "USA".
Next time, don’t depose a democratically elected president at the behest British Petroleum, just because said president is too left wing and would rather like to keep his country’s oil wealth.
Also, don’t install an unpopular monarch in that left wing president’s place.
Finally, don’t continue to support said monarch such that his unpopularity inspires a fundamentalist counterrevolution.
Add in some having your settler colonial entity in the region be best buddies with that monarch, help train his intelligence and army, which then made tens of thousands of people "disappear".
Bonus points for then framing it, as the counterrevolution being motivated by antisemitism, instead of hating the supporters of their former opressor.
U.S. and British intelligence agencies help elements in the Iranian military overthrow Iran’s prime minister, Mohammed Mossadeq. This follows Mossadeq’s nationalization of the Britain-owned Anglo-Persian Oil Company, which led London to impose an oil embargo on Iran. The coup brings back to power the Western-friendly monarchy, headed by Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Deeply unpopular among much of the population, the shah relies on U.S. support to remain in power until his overthrow in 1979.
Then
The shah flees amid widespread civil unrest and eventually travels to the United States for cancer treatment. Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, a Shiite cleric who opposed the shah’s Westernization of Iran, returns to the country after fourteen years in exile. Khomeini takes power as the supreme leader in December, turning Iran from a pro-West monarchy to a vehemently anti-West Islamic theocracy. Khomeini says Iran will try to “export” its revolution to its neighbors. In 1985, the militant group Hezbollah emerges in Lebanon and pledges allegiance to Khomeini.
one of my closest friends from high school has an iranian mom. mom and sister never wore hijabs, though only in the states. when they visited iran they did. but at the end of they day, they're people just like anyone else who has fanatical religious psychos trying to control everything
The Soviets moreso than the US in the case of Afghanistan.
The country actually received substantial modernization aid from both, but eventually went through a series of coups that culminated in the Soviet invasion of the country and the rise of the mujaheddin.
It's ironic Christian nationalists hate Muslims and Sharia law, yet are doing everything they can to emulate the worst parts of Islamic theocratic rulers
You should also remember to put this in context. This picture was almost certainly taken in a city. The urban population in Iran at that time was educated, secular(ish), liberal, and pretty cosmopolitan. The rural population, however, was mostly none of those things. Religious fundamentalism was always a thing and the hijab was common.
The CIA-backed coup and the Shah’s evil government sowed the seeds for the Islamic revolution but those seeds had some seriously fertile soil in which to grow.
This picture was almost certainly taken in a city. The urban population in Iran at that time was educated, secular(ish), liberal, and pretty cosmopolitan. The rural population, however, was mostly none of those things. Religious fundamentalism was always a thing and the hijab was common.
Or look at the literacy rates. At the time of the revolution, so past when this photo was taken, less than 40% of Iranians could read and write. And let's not mention The Celebration of the 2,500th Anniversary of the Founding of the Persian Empire by the Western puppet ruler, spending millions and millions on a tent city for foreign dignitaries in the desert plains, while his subjects were living in abject poverty without access to education or health care. Let's just look at the mini skirt in the photo and wonder at the enlightenment of those days and the backwardness of today, when the literacy rate has more than doubled in 40 years for example. But they have hijab, therefore the society has obviously regressed. That's the measure for how advanced a society is, the length of the skirts of the few who are well off.
Cool. Uganda also nearly doubled their literacy rates in the same period. As did India. As did Algeria. As did Morocco.
It's almost like the increase in literacy is a function of the spread and adoption of modern technology, and not that the theocratic shitheads are better than the monarchist shitheads. But hey, I'm sure Iran's current budget doesn't go towards pointless displays of power that do nothing to alleviate the suffering of the people.