There are elected women holding high government offices in Iran.
There are de-juro Islamic dress code but two in three women are ignoring it.
You can see them dressing the way Europeans do and if they are stopped by the police they claim they are Christian or Jewish or Communist. That basically means case closed and they go.
The portrayal of Iranian society in media is heavily distorted to say the least.
They are extraordinary free by Middle Eastern standards.
Go compare to Saudi Arabia.
“but succeeding only in fooling former president Jimmy Carter’s administration,”
Like that was hard to do.
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