Reuters September 10: Film explores Iran's women

Iranian video artist Shirin Neshat presents her first feature film about women's lack of freedom and growing political involvement in 1953 at the Venice Film Festival.

She said the story had strong parallels with the situation today.

"Women Without Men" chronicles the intertwining lives of four women at the time of the U.S. and British-backed coup which reinstated the Shah to power.

Neshat, whose film is in competition at the Venice film festival, said that the battles for democracy and women's rights in Iran went hand-in-hand.

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U.S Imperialism & monorchs had installed Fascist islamist-radical religious crap everywhere in the world, to rott peoples mind to point of no return. Mosadak was killed by the west to insure following of oil & destroy progressive leftist idiology.by installing the shah & later of crapalla khomini who worked with the CIA-Israel to destroy Iran-iraq-Middle east & everything around them.