5 days in 1979
“ There was no question in our minds that this was the first step to suppress us and we should stand up to it as both women and as revolutionaries.” Said Haideh Daragahi, a lecturer at Tehran University in 1979. During the Iranian Revolution of 1978-9, women stood shoulder-to-shoulder with men, and toe-to-toe against the Shah’s regime in mass demonstrations and on the barricades. The revolution stood for democracy, liberty and equality against a dictatorship that had been installed in a military coup in 1953. It was a moment of hope for progressives, the organised left, the workers’ movement...