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Woman in Iran
This is a general study of the situation of women in Iran during different periods. It maintains that the situation of women is, to a large extent, related to men seeking to prove their superiority over them by drawing on religious texts and, hence, seek God's support to achieve their end. This is best seen in Quran verses about women and in later interpretations, and how later religious leaders tried to justify the lower position of women as ordered by God himself.
There is also a direct relationship between the amount of freedom women enjoy in all periods and the amount of power the religious leaders have. If the clergy are weak, women can enjoy freedom and, on the contrary, if the clergy are in power, women are restricted in their freedom of expression and in lifestyle.
During the 4th and the 3rd millennium BC, Iranian women possessed high status and comprised the most powerful group in the 5000-year-old Shahr-e Sukhteh (burnt city).
With the invasion of Iran by the Arabs and imposition of their religion, things changed for the Iranian women : they became constrained to the limits of the house and under the constant surveillance of men. They were regarded as minors and relegated with inferiors, slaves and lunatics. If once they ruled as queens of a vast empire, they have become subjects of a Shii clergy and are not allowed to choose their own clothing. Many of them, including their lawyers, have been arrested, whipped and put in prison because of not following the strict rules set by the clergy who claim to be representing God until the end of time.
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