Can Iran achieve gender modernization without removing its theocracy?

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There has been a great struggle over the rights of women in Iran this move has created a battle ground between modernity and tradition forces in Iranian society and in its politics . The move entered a new phase in the Islamic republic in 1997 due to the emergence of a reformist movement . This issue of women rights brought a broader conflict over two Islamic issues which were one , the absolutist and legalistic Islam which emphasizes on duty and tolerates neither dissent nor consent of

br contemporary realities in life . The second is the pluralistic and the tolerant Islam which promotes values of democracy as well as human rights (Ziba , 37-53

According to (Ramin 15 , modernization can therefore be referred to as a process that societies go through and transforms their lives they are such as industrialization , urbanization and other social changes in people 's lives . It involves a standardized evolutionary pattern away from barbarism to high development and civilization levels in a society which makes a country more powerful and wealthier and its people free to exercise their rights and have high standards of living

For many years now , Iranian people have made all kinds of sacrifice and have suffered almost all kinds of injustices with the slight hope of having a better future for their homeland , children and people themselves but all in vain . The tyrannical regime ruling them is insensitive and is unwilling to help them even with the most basic needs and rights . People have been killed mercilessly , their little wealth stolen , denied their rights but even with the promised change of regime by Khomeini , the same cruelty on people especially women has continued and there seems to be no hope of reform or any achievement of gender modernization by the Iranian women . In this therefore , I Am going to discuss the plight of women and the struggle for modernization which seems to have hit a dead end

According to (Said 100 , theocratic laws have been used in Iran for a long time and they have affected the Iranian women for decades . The revolution which took place in 1979 in Iran gave birth to the theocratic rule in Iran and affected the women in a great way . The Islamic fundamentals have dominated women ' world and everything that comes with it they have taken their rights , rejected men and women as equals and have allowed men to topple over the women and beat them if necessary The theocratic laws are used even in current times and have continued to suppress women and deny them their rights as well as their freedom

After taking over the regime , Khomeini and other leaders betrayed the work of women who fought for revolution and humanity by implementing a system which crushed the system of gender apartheid . They further build a theocracy on the basis that women are inferior to men physically intellectually and morally . This move by the fundamentalists ' eclipsed possibility of equal participation by women in...