Ista Village: A Rural Community Women Can’t Visit

 Dr. Hossein Asgari, who has talked to villagers first-hand, says the lifestyle of the locals

Banning of hijab as an example of cultural-colonization

  Almost six months before Reza Khan Pahlavi banned hijab for Iranian women on January 8 1936, an important and related event took place in Iran known as the "Goharshad Mosque uprising" on July 13 1935.