Author: Mateo Mohammad Farzaneh
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Iranian Women and Gender in the Iran-Iraq War
When in 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini led the Islamic Revolution, opposition to the Shah united most of Khomeini’s followers. While Khomeini spoke of an Islamic democracy and insisted he had little interest in personal power, he left to his followers’ imagination what might come next. As he and his clerical allies consolidated power, resistance among…