all great points. I had remembered the Khomeini bit from a discussion in one of my classes this past December, and the fact checking I tried to do on various websites seemed to confirm that, but it is more than possible that I got this wrong or mixed up names somewhere – I’m a student with an interest in Iran and the situation there, but by no means an expert.

I didn’t mean to stereotype in anyway that it is difficult to be Iranian. I’m sure it is no more diffcult to identify as Iranian than it is to identify as American, English, French, you name it.

What I meant to imply was that the fact that there are any areas where women have to worry about being arrested for dressing in the way they wish is an injustice. And in Iran, there are quite a few of those areas.

For the facts about women marrying young, I consulted an article from Women’s eNews, that I remember – I’ll try to dig up the link and post it on here.

And agreed – no government is perfect. But we can all strive to make every government a hospitable environment for women of all ages, I think we can agree on that!

Becka

Khomeini has been dead for quite a while. He is not a supporter of Ahmadinejad, because there was no Ahmadinejad to support when Khomeini was alive and being the figurehead for the Islamic (which is only sometimes referred to as the Iranian) Revolution.

You also spew many stereotypes about how hard it is to be Iranian. I have friends and family there, and in most areas people are no arrested for showing their ankles (or their arms, actually), plenty of women attend college, and marriage at such a young age rarely happens- families want their children educated. This type of marriage takes place in more rural areas.

The current Supreme Leader is Khamenei.

Also, who’s to say a theocracy is bad? Sure, there are some negative aspects, but every government has something wrong with it.