The Battle Iranian Women Are Winning
The mandatory veiling of women was once a pillar of the Islamic Republic. Now it’s almost gone.
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With Iran’s theocracy under strain, a new history shows that its rise was mainly a stroke of bad luck.
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Afghan migrants never had it easy in Iran. Now they’re being expelled en masse.
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