Iranian Women’s Uprising, Mahnaz Matin, Apr 14, 2013
Mahnaz Matin and Naser Mohajer
On March 6, 1979, only a few weeks after assuming political power, Ayatollah Khomeini pronounced “… women must be clothed according to religious standards.” Offended and outraged by the Ayatollah’s decree and its domineering manner, thousands of women defiantly poured into the streets of Tehran on March 8, 1979 chanting slogans such as “In the dawn of freedom, there is an absence of freedom” and “We didn’t make a revolution to go backwards.” This first resistance movement against the Iranian Islamic theocracy, as well as the international movement in solidarity with secular Iranian women, is documented in detail and analyzed in depth by Mahnaz Matin and Nasser Mohajer in a two-volume book, just published by Noghteh Books.