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he explained. ""They can make the case that if they didn't

he surprised his supporters by confessing

former vice president to Mohammad Khatami

the United States). ""His filmi [the person who brought him

to name just a few -- won't be surprised to learn that it is often the

a place where countless young Iranian men lost their virginity. Like many

Tehran's notorious red-light district was known as Shahr-e

informal economies and illicit networks become more

women who stray from the sanctity of their marriages do so at

and it doesn't need to be officially registered.

keeping all of Iranians' other demands for social

the hijab is often considered one of the Islamic Republic's three

but any discussion of abolishing the veil

the women of Iran's younger generation have

Iran's first post-revolutionary president

women's hair is itself seen as seditious and

women have been prohibited from showing off their beauty in order to attract

but as an existential threat to the regime itself.

who has remained loyal to Khomeini's vision for Iran

Khomeini was succeeded by the current supreme leader