The Complete Persepolis: The Islamic Revolution

Many countries, like Iran, have had something terrible and drastic happen to their country. Iran had the Islamic Revolution in 1979. The Islamic Revolution was a huge deal considering that men and women were treated poorly, they had lost their freedom, culture, and anything else they had left. Throughout the years, there has been a conflict between Iraq and Iran, leading to the cause of the end of the Islamic Revolution, but how it really ended was that since a new president was elected, he opposed censorship. Women still had to have their face covered but not as much. They were essentially rebelling towards the end of the revolution because they knew since no one could stop them if they had a huge group going against that the army couldn’t

Social issues have come a long way since 1979 but the main one is how men and women were treated. According to Satrapi, “The five days passed like wind and the cigarettes didn’t get the better of me. I got dressed, I packed my bag, I again put on my veil...and so much for my individual and social liberties… I needed so badly to go home” (245). What Satrapi meant by this is that she was stuck inside of a country with strict moral rules but when she was of age, she got sent away. Since she was out on her own, she willingly gave her freedom up to go back to her custom ways. Many people would question this but the girl wanted to go home to be with her parents and because she had to give up her freedom, she decided to go back to the place where she was treated poorly. Men and women in Iran were treated poorly enough to the point of the men getting beaten and if the women didn’t have their correct dress on, they were arrested, beaten, or

According to Iran Chamber Society (2016), “On 20 August 1988, a ceasefire was signed between Iran and Iraq. Both parties accepted UN Resolution 598.” What the Society means by this is that Iraq and Iran were fighting with one another trying to get rid of their oil expenses because all of the world's oil comes from those countries but one is better than the other. This is important because everyone wants power. Since the ceasefire, Iran has been content with Iraq, there has been some dispute between those two countries since 1988, of course, but nothing like the Islamic Revolution. When Mohammad Khatami was elected president and pursued political reform and opposed censorship, everything changed. Censorship was no longer an objective--women wouldn’t have to change the way they look, they could wear what they wanted (to an extent), but they no longer had to have their face covered. According to Satrapi, “In no time, the way people dressed became an ideological sign,, there were two kinds of women; the fundamentalist woman and the modern woman. You showed your opposition to the regime by letting a few strands of hair show. There were also two sorts of men; the fundamentalist man (beard and shirt hanging out), the progressive man (shaved with or without mustache and shirt tucked in. Islam is more or less against shaving” (75). What she means by this is that men and women had this code to go with but now, they don’t