-
The Women’s Rights Movement has opened up an unlikely new front – the Islamic Republic of Iran
[This article was originally published in UEA’s official student newspaper, Concrete.] The Women’s Rights Movement is ongoing globally, but one country it has historically struggled to make headway in is Iran. Up to 1979, Iran was ruled by an absolute monarchy under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. The Islamic Revolution of 1979 then transformed Iran into…