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Women wearing skirts and short dresses, PHOTOS that show how much Iran has changed in less than 50 years

2025-06-24 11:41:31Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

Women wearing skirts and short dresses, PHOTOS that show how much Iran has

Women wearing short skirts and dresses that cling to the back of their bodies, families shopping in stores and skiers enjoying the snow. These are some of the photographs published in foreign media showing Iran before the 1979 revolution.

The images reveal how much the country has changed in less than 50 years. This was the easier side of life in Iran before the revolution, followed by the oppressive regime.

Under the rule of King Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who was an ally of Britain and the United States, the hijab was banned because it 'oppressed women'.

In the 1960s and 1970s, many women in Iran joined the workforce and mixed freely with men. At the time, actresses who were later banned from performing posed in short skirts for magazines, while locals were photographed skiing or wearing swimsuits.

The Daily Mail writes that the women's rights movement in Iran flourished after Reza Shah Pahlavi became King. In addition to banning the hijab, he gave women the right to vote.

The Family Protection Act gave women greater rights, such as allowing divorce and prohibiting marriage under the age of 15.

Under the Shah's rule, Iranians enjoyed the luxury of new colleges, universities, and libraries. High schools were free for all, and financial support was provided to university students.

The Shah also pushed the country to adopt Western-oriented secular modernization, allowing a degree of cultural freedom.

However, there was also widespread censorship in the country, and Reza Shah Pahlavi suppressed political dissent. The crackdown on communists and Islamists also led to the imprisonment and torture of many of them.

With his liberalizing reforms and harsh treatment of his political opponents, the Shah made enemies of traditionalists in the country.

These factors, along with the perception of Reza Shah Pahlavi as a US puppet and economic insecurity, culminated in the overthrow of the monarchy in 1979.

The Shah, who was suffering from cancer, fled Iran and was replaced by the hard-line Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

Ayatollah Khomeini, who had been living in exile in France, returned and announced the creation of an Islamic republic. As a result, the women's rights movement quickly regressed.

Wearing the hijab was enforced, many of the rights they had been granted were taken away, and Iran's female education minister, Farokhroo Parsa, was executed by firing squad.

Under Khomeini's rule, Amnesty International estimated that the number of executions carried out in Iran was greater than in the rest of the world combined.

A woman who was caught wearing lipstick in the northern city of Tabriz was reportedly whipped 101 times.

In the days following the revolution, students who supported Khomeini attacked the American Embassy in Tehran and took 66 of its staff hostage for 444 days.

Popular anger against the US had its roots in the 1953 CIA-organized coup, which overthrew Iran's elected prime minister and cemented the Shah's power.

After Khomeini's death in 1989, there was no let-up in the suppression of Western lifestyles.

Today, newspapers are censored, protests are aggressively suppressed, and women have no legal protection against domestic violence or sexual harassment.

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