Posted on 06/13/2009 12:20:40 AM PDT by StilettoRaksha
Regardless of whether their preferred candidate ends up winning Friday's enthusiastic presidential election in Iran, women have emerged as a force to be reckoned with in the country's politics.
Women have long been a potent force in Iran, and have come out to vote for other candidates in the past – in 1997, for example, 40 per cent of the voters who supported another reform candidate, Mohammad Khatami, were women – but observers this year say that never before have women played such a major part in an election.
The two pro-reform candidates – Mir-Hossein Mousavi and cleric Mehdi Karoubi – said they would seek to enhance the role of women in the conservative Islamic state if they were elected president.
(Excerpt) Read more at theglobeandmail.com ...
Re-emerge, if anything.
As I posted in the previous thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2270924/posts?page=2#2
Iranian women had once all these things they now struggle to reclaim.
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