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Women's rights in Iran
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From Wikipedia -- The women's rights movement in Iran has a very long and incredibly complex history. The modern movement first emerged around the turn of the 19th century, but really grew in the 1960s and 1970s in conjunction with civil rights movements worldwide. Under Sharia law in the 1960s and 1970s, they awarded women the right to vote, ended extra-judicial divorce, and put restrictions on polygamy. Despite their involvement in the Iranian Revolution of 1979, women rights regarding attire, employment, and segregation were curtailed by the government under Ayatollah Khomeni. The movement made small gains in the 1990s under Mohammed Khatami, who appointed women to positions in government, but since the rise of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2005, women's rights activists have been beaten, persecuted, imprisoned, and executed, and the government has desperately tried to squash the movement.
