Iranian Women: Are They Covering Up?

Sep 1996
Iranian women worshippers kiss the Ayatollah Khomeini's holy shrine but many admit to suffering under Islamic law.

'Islamic laws for women have more to do with male politics than the benefit they bring to our society's morals'. But times are changing, and young couples can now be seen on Park benches together - once unthinkable. Will attitudes soften yet further?

Produced by ABC Australia
Distributed by Journeyman Pictures

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[ehajar]

This video is very old !!! you should go to Iran now and check how girls dress up in public !!

[LittleRubberSquare]

That is just awful :S As a woman, I am so glad I don't live there. And ashamed that some women actually feels okay with it. The dresscode etc I knew about but Its SO awful that you can't leave the country without your mans permission. I would feel like I was someone else's property. Also that you can't get a good job even though you are very educated. Makes me so angry.. wtf?! Its like how blacks were treated once ... .. "women racism"..

[ameetis1]

This is an old clip; nowadays, 67% of university students are women, and half of physicians are women. By the way, the best female inventors of the world are residing in Iran.

[jubinliam]

@dottttttttta  Carter did....

[rouz444]

Iran, I am impress!

[pliok0tsambur]

@ehajar well yeah, are you blind, it says 1996....

and a headscarf and long sleeves and pants, by the way, also means covering up...not so extreme but still lack of choice...

[nashride]

This video has a lot of misleading narrarator.

[coilzard]

i'm surprised there is no civilized society in which people don't wear clothes.. it is a proof that some alien or God came down to all of us and told us to wear them..

[James66881]

that clip is so old and now in iran all things different.