Iran and Saudis’ Latest Power Struggle: Expanding Rights for Women
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Iran and Saudis’ Latest Power Struggle: Expanding Rights for Women
Saudi said that It will have perhaps an indirect effect on Iran to advance women’s rights,
because they don’t want to be seen as an oppressive government to women’s rights, especially in front of the international community.
Shahrzad Razaghi, a 24-year-old Tehran artist arrested in 2012 for not wearing her hijab properly, said the new enforcement policy "doesn’t mean I can go on the streets without a hijab."
And in Saudi Arabia, the granting of driving privileges to women, while seen as a quantum leap there, is a right long held by women in Iran, elsewhere in the Middle East and the rest of the world.
ll be continuing." While she was cautious about concluding
that the changes in Iran were related to the Saudi relaxation, she said each was obviously watching the other. that we’re hoping that what is going on in Saudi Arabia wi
Farideh Farhi, an Iranian scholar and professor of political science at the University of Hawaii, said she did
not expect the female-spectator issue to emerge in Iran again until the country hosts a major soccer match.
Suad Abu-Dayyeh said that I am sorry to say, we are in 2017 and we are still talking about wearing and not wearing,
Saudi said that It will have perhaps an indirect effect on Iran to advance women’s rights,
because they don’t want to be seen as an oppressive government to women’s rights, especially in front of the international community.
Shahrzad Razaghi, a 24-year-old Tehran artist arrested in 2012 for not wearing her hijab properly, said the new enforcement policy "doesn’t mean I can go on the streets without a hijab."
And in Saudi Arabia, the granting of driving privileges to women, while seen as a quantum leap there, is a right long held by women in Iran, elsewhere in the Middle East and the rest of the world.
ll be continuing." While she was cautious about concluding
that the changes in Iran were related to the Saudi relaxation, she said each was obviously watching the other. that we’re hoping that what is going on in Saudi Arabia wi
Farideh Farhi, an Iranian scholar and professor of political science at the University of Hawaii, said she did
not expect the female-spectator issue to emerge in Iran again until the country hosts a major soccer match.
Suad Abu-Dayyeh said that I am sorry to say, we are in 2017 and we are still talking about wearing and not wearing,