Resistance is futile

[a_kleber]

Иран. 1980 год. Марш женщин против закона об обязательном ношении хиджаба в государственных учреждениях, на них с ножами нападают фанатики из пролетариев. Нечто аналогичное в последние месяцы происходило в Тунисе. Каждый марш за права или за светскость подвергается физическим аттакам люмпенов, проникнутых национально-исламисткой идеологией, которая в этих слоях наиболее популярна.

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1979 February 11 – Ayatollah Khomeini and his followers take power after the revolution.

1979 February 26 – Khomeini announces that the Family Protection Law (1967) is abrogated.

The state officially launches its cultural revolution, which involves the purging of all western influences from Iranian society. The Islamization of women’s status becomes the cornerstone of this program.

1979 March 3 – Khomeini announces that women cannot be judges

1979 March 6 – Khomeini announces that women are to wear hejab in the workplace.

1979 March 8 – Thousands of women demonstrate in the streets of Tehran against the state’s Islamic gender policy.

The protests are violently disbanded by radical Islamic forces, calling themselves Hezbollah (party of God). Although they were ultimately unsuccessful, these protests constitute the first civil society demand on the IRI.

1979 March 29 – Khomeini announces that beaches and sports events are to be gender segregated.

1979 April 1 – The Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) is proclaimed following a referendum.

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