The comments are based though, saying this was before the CIA toppled the democratically elected government or that only a tiny minority lived like this.
This was Iran under the Shah regime that USA put in place after coup-ing Mossadegh. The women being shown do belong to the upper class minority though which is why their attire is Western.
No, it was simply the fashion at the time. (I am an Iranian from a AT BEST low-to-middle class family) The religious nuts did keep to their old attire, but a lot of people took up the new fashion trends. Except for the abhorrent backwardness of the 1980s and early to mid 1990s (peak of IR power), the same still applies to this day.
Like clockwork, it’s always the same picture too.
‘Fuck Iran, they don’t let me objectify their women’
Iran, before the CIA propped up a far right theocracy.
Female literacy/ higher education or the right to wear short shorts so western men can play pocket pool. Which is freedom, who is to say?
