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Article: On the Path of Persian History : The Islamic Republic of Iran may impose its will on a reluctant population, but this does not deny its glorious past as one of the greatest empires history has known.
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- The World and I
- Article date:
- December 1, 2001
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Bundled up from top to toe, all female passengers put on head scarves before leaving the aircraft. We arrived in Tehran at 3:00 a.m., but the law of the Islamic Republic of Iran demands that women be completely and shapelessly covered up at all times in public, even if it's pitch black outside, with only the hands and face showing.
As I pulled the voluminous scarf down over my face, I wondered what the great men who came, conquered, and settled here would have thought, seeing women masquerading as black tents, or wearing long, loose coats, to spare the men from temptation.
Thus properly attired, we traveled in a comfortable, air-conditioned bus to see ...