Iranian Revolution the catalyst for ‘tudung code’


  • Letters
  • Sunday, 13 Nov 2005

TRACING the beginning of the tudung issue, it can be safely deduced to have started in the early 1980s. The period was landmarked by the 1979 Iranian Revolution, which was also dubbed the Islamic Revolution. 

It forced the end of the Shah of Iran Mohamed Reza Pahlavi’s monarchy and replaced it with an Islamic Revolutionary Council with Ayatollah Khomeini ruling supreme. 

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