Some of these pictures (like the one in the bottom left) were taken before the US toppled the democratically elected government of Mozadegh and the installation of the Shah. Other pictures show tourists (middle left) or show elites attending university (top left, middle right). And I can’t recall where I saw this, but those 2 photographs might have been staged for a university brochure as well.
The comments are based though, saying this was before the CIA toppled the democratically elected government or that only a tiny minority lived like this.
This was Iran under the Shah regime that USA put in place after coup-ing Mossadegh. The women being shown do belong to the upper class minority though which is why their attire is Western.
No, it was simply the fashion at the time. (I am an Iranian from a AT BEST low-to-middle class family) The religious nuts did keep to their old attire, but a lot of people took up the new fashion trends. Except for the abhorrent backwardness of the 1980s and early to mid 1990s (peak of IR power), the same still applies to this day.
Thanks. I looked up photographs from Iran in the 60s and what you said seems correct.
‘Fuck Iran, they don’t let me objectify their women’
Looks like your comment attracted the attention of some coomer downvoters
Female literacy/ higher education or the right to wear short shorts so western men can play pocket pool. Which is freedom, who is to say?
Weren’t girls’ schools getting gassed just last year?
That was the idf a minute ago.
I wish someone had come and freed the west from hideous 1970s fashion. Now we’ve all got to live with photos of mom and dad in bellbottoms and polyester.
Cool, now do Afghanistan before the Mujahedeen
Legs = freedom apparently
Iran, before the CIA propped up a far right theocracy.
The top 1% of Iran. How very representative.
Under the monarchy, women were forbidden from wearing traditional religious garb and would be stripped of it and beaten in public, because the shah wanted the country to appear more Western to appeal to chauvanists (like the people you find on
). After the ban ended, a stigma remained and women who dressed traditionally were assumed to be poor and uneducated.They never post similar pictures from Afghanistan
Kabul was extremely progressive by Middle East standards before the collapse of the communist government and the take over of fundamentalists armed by the US.
Weird how liberals never look at how that happened.
Never ask a liberal how the theocratic Islamic fundamentalist bloc came to power in Iran, or who gave them the funding and weapons to do so.
All to coup the monarchist who himself was put in power by a coup…
Get ready for the non-stop posting of this kind of thing
not pictured: SAVAK torture dungeons
Now that they mention it, this would be a good time for me to educate you all on Iran. Thanks, Reddit!
Like clockwork, it’s always the same picture too.
It also conveniently appeared on my feed despite not being subscribed to the community. What a coincidence!
